First time posting to this mailList. I'm having some difficulty sorting through the extensive MediaWiki online docs. (Particularly because my question is about a keyword that is on every page - Category.) I recently started as a Contributor on a MediaWiki driven site about a software tool. To leverage my "newbie" contributor status, I'm trying to log my difficulties coming up to speed in Contributing.  (Once I'm experienced enough to write pages about overcoming impediments to using MediaWiki, I will have lost the qualification to write those pages!) At the moment, I'm building a scratchpad page with a manual collection of links to pages/Categories of most use to becoming a competent Wiki Contributor. After I become competent with MediaWiki, this will probably be made a new Category, those paged will be tagged, & the scratchpad page will be recyled for my next target.

Unfortunately, as I explore Category pages on our site, I find many that are cluttered with subcategory listings of Translated pages and multiple listings in the main Category . With many languages supported, the default language pages are buried among Translated variants. Is there a good MediaWiki tutorial on the correct way do Categories so that Translated pages don't clutter the listings? Hopefully the method allows users of a Language to suppress listing the unTranslated page when Translated version exists --- but also lists the Not-Yet-Translated pages. Thanks in advance, Brian