Cunnan talk:Categorization - Revision history

Tiff at 03:46, 30 December 2004

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			[[:Category:Kingdoms (historical)]] does sound better, but we'll only ever truly describe a fraction of what that category could encompass. [[:Category:Period]] could mean far too many things other than what you mean.

			As for links on the main page going straight to the category - that may skip a lot of the content we already have. Maybe just one link to "we have categories" which liks to the categories page?
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Conrad Leviston at 10:52, 29 December 2004

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			How about [[:Category:Kingdoms (historical)]]?

			[[User:Conrad Leviston\|Conrad Leviston]] 04:52, 29 Dec 2004 (CST)

Tobin at 05:33, 29 December 2004

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	And to make the categories more useful, should some of them should be easier to find from the front page?		And to make the categories more useful, should some of them should be easier to find from the front page?
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			[[:Category:Kingdoms (medieval)]] does seem strange. Perhaps [[:Category:Kingdoms (period)]]? The best possible solution would be to put kingdoms into [[:Category:Kingdoms]] and [[:Category:Period]] and automatically have a Period + Kingdom category created but the software doesn't support this (though I'd imagine it might one day).

			Perhaps the 'main' link for each topic on the main page should go to the appropriate category?

			[[User:Tobin\|Tobin]]

Tiff at 04:41, 29 December 2004

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	We would of course have to go back and recategorize some pages but there isn't any need to rush and we now have automatically generated lists of what needs to be changed. :) - [[User:Tobin\|Tobin]] 16:22, 28 Dec 2004 (CST)		We would of course have to go back and recategorize some pages but there isn't any need to rush and we now have automatically generated lists of what needs to be changed. :) - [[User:Tobin\|Tobin]] 16:22, 28 Dec 2004 (CST)

			Sounds good. Since we can have muliple categories, I was just getting all the sca groups (branches, guilds, households, everything) together initially in one big category, of which several obvious categories would encompass sections of this mega category.
			And we mustn't forget there are some modern non-sca reneactment groups that get a mention in this wiki.

			Also I feel kinda funny going [[Kingdoms (medieval)]] knowing that some might be in china, or renaisance, or clasical kingdoms. Should we be calling the roman's medieval? In english history medieval is post anglo saxon, pre tudor, i believe. ie approx 12-14thC
			But what tag do we use instead? - ancient (that means earlier), historical (well so are kindoms of the early 20th C), etc?

			And to make the categories more useful, should some of them should be easier to find from the front page?
			[[User:Tiff\|Tiff]]

Tobin: category naming

2004-12-28T22:22:04Z

category naming

New page

I've been thinking about the way we name categories and it seems to me that we should use the same naming scheme as for ordinary pages. So rather that having [[:Category:SCA kingdoms]] and [[:Category:Modern kingdoms]] we would have [[:Category:Kingdoms (SCA)]] and [[:Category:Kingdoms (modern)]]. This would also allow us to use some 'tricks' when editing such as writing <nowiki>[[:Category:Kingdoms (SCA)|]]</nowiki> and getting [[:Category:Kingdoms (SCA)|Kingdoms]].

We would of course have to go back and recategorize some pages but there isn't any need to rush and we now have automatically generated lists of what needs to be changed. :) - [[User:Tobin|Tobin]] 16:22, 28 Dec 2004 (CST)