I came across an Article in Wikipedia that needed categorization. The Article is a biography of a person in a field I am unfamiliar with.
Question: where do I go to get a list of all the Categories in Wikipedia?
Marc Riddell
[[Special:Categories]]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Categories
On 26/12/06, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
I came across an Article in Wikipedia that needed categorization. The Article is a biography of a person in a field I am unfamiliar with.
Question: where do I go to get a list of all the Categories in Wikipedia?
Marc Riddell _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
Thank you. However, the problem in this case is, the Article I want to categorize is of a mining engineer. When I went to the Category:Engineers, I got a list of Articles of persons in Wikipedia who are categorized as such. When I clicked on the subcategories, all I got was the word 'loading' and nothing more - so I am back where I started.
Marc
From: "NSLE (Wikipedia)" nsle.wikipedia@gmail.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 21:25:37 +0800 To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Categories
[[Special:Categories]]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Categories
On 26/12/06, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
I came across an Article in Wikipedia that needed categorization. The Article is a biography of a person in a field I am unfamiliar with.
Question: where do I go to get a list of all the Categories in Wikipedia?
Marc Riddell _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
On 12/27/06, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
I came across an Article in Wikipedia that needed categorization. The Article is a biography of a person in a field I am unfamiliar with.
Question: where do I go to get a list of all the Categories in Wikipedia?
[[Wikipedia:Categorical index]] is a good place to start.
Since it's a biography [[Category:People]] will probably be useful; you can start with finding an appropriate category for the person based on their occupation, that is [[Category:People by occupation]] and the various subcategories.
Marc Riddell wrote:
I came across an Article in Wikipedia that needed categorization. The Article is a biography of a person in a field I am unfamiliar with.
Question: where do I go to get a list of all the Categories in Wikipedia?
Others have answered that specific question, but if you don't want to go rooting around trying to figure out the right category for an article on a topic you're not familiar with what you can do instead is just toss it into an overly-generic one such as [[Category:People]] or [[Category:Engineers]]. Eventually someone else will notice it and perhaps know of a more appropriate subcategory to shuffle it off into.
As a concrete example, I've been dumping articles on musical groups into [[Category:Musical groups]] for at least a year (whenever I stumble across one at random) and have never had any complaints. I also sometimes add a plain old {{stub}} tag and let the stub-sorters worry about the specifics.
From: Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 03:22:50 -0700 To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Categories
Marc Riddell wrote:
I came across an Article in Wikipedia that needed categorization. The Article is a biography of a person in a field I am unfamiliar with.
Question: where do I go to get a list of all the Categories in Wikipedia?
Others have answered that specific question, but if you don't want to go rooting around trying to figure out the right category for an article on a topic you're not familiar with what you can do instead is just toss it into an overly-generic one such as [[Category:People]] or [[Category:Engineers]]. Eventually someone else will notice it and perhaps know of a more appropriate subcategory to shuffle it off into.
As a concrete example, I've been dumping articles on musical groups into [[Category:Musical groups]] for at least a year (whenever I stumble across one at random) and have never had any complaints. I also sometimes add a plain old {{stub}} tag and let the stub-sorters worry about the specifics.
Thanks. Actually I usually try to do it intuitively - as in 'there are so many Categories in Wikipedia it would make sense that' etc. I add it, if it comes up blue in preview, terrific; if not, I punt. But placing generic categories in an Article is better than nothing; and, when I've come across other Articles with broad Categories, the subject of which I am familiar, I'm happy to add more specific ones. It all works out.
Thanks again for your input.
Marc
WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l