Cosmoteer Wiki:Categorization

This page describes what categories are, how and when to use them, also providing a handy list of categories to select from.

What is a category?

Learn about categories on MediaWiki: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Categories

Things to take away from that article and in general:

• Categories are meant to group pages by certain criteria. This serves various needs, but mainly:
  • Creating a hierarchy of pages. Makes navigation and discovery of pages much easier.
  • Grouping pages by meaning and purpose. Helps find related things.
  • Automation. Various external utilities might have options to work with pages in certain categories. More categories make interacting with the wiki easier.
• Categories live in Category namespace. Thus, all categories must start with Category:.
• Naming is important. The name for a category should reflect its exact purpose, and be unambiguous. it also should follow sentence case: only the first word of a sentence and proper nouns are capitalized, with the rest of the words in lowercase.
• Categories appear at the bottom of a page. This is also true for when editing and previewing a page.
• Categories can be added using templates. Templates that add categories can be found in Category:Templates populating categories.

List of categories

Cosmoteer Wiki is the top-level category. It holds every other category there is.

Main categories are:

• Templates - contains templates https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Templates
• Modules - contains Lua modules https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto
• Maintenance - contains things that need attention from maintainers. So many things to fix, ranging from stubs (empty pages and sections), to pretty specialized things like pages with incomplete histories.

More categories can be discovered by navigating those described above, but there are other ways:

• By selecting Category namespace on Special:AllPages.

• Search category on Special:SpecialPages - there are a bunch of pages that allow to look at categories in different light.
• Use the wiki's search with Category namespace selected.

Creating a category

A category is created the same way a page is, but with Category:written before its name - this is a namespace prefix.

https://cosmoteer.wiki.gg/wiki/Category:Category_name

Replace Category_name with the name for your category and press Enter.

This will open a non-existing page, which you can create (assuming the category doesn't exist already).

Give your category a description and save the page.

Any page you add to your new category will appear on the category page.

Adding a category to a page

▶ In VisualEditor

Press in the editor toolbar → Categories.

Add your category under the Categories, then press Apply changes.

▶ In source editor

Markup for adding categories is [[Category:Category name]], where Category name is your category name.

Linking to a category

▶ In VisualEditor

Same as for anything else - create a link and put Category:Your category name into the address.

▶ In source editor

To link to a category, write [[:Category:Category name]]. Notice the colon symbol at the start - this creates a link instead of adding a page to a category.

▶ With Templates

There are a few templates that help with linking:

• {{cat}} just creates a link to a category.
• {{catt}} creates a link, but omits [[Category:]] part. This one also supports custom link text.

Category cheatsheet

This section contains a list of question you need to ask yourself when trying to figure out the categories to add.

Since there are a gazillion categories to pick from, don't be hard on yourself for forgetting or not understanding.

For a page

Stub

This section is currently empty.

Feel free to start it!

For a template

Work in Progress

This section is currently work-in-progress. Some things may not be up-to-date or documented at all.

Feel free to contribute to make it better!

Section	Question	Question 2	Question 3	Question 4	Answer			Link to a template that adds that category
					No	Maybe	Yes
IMAGES	Produces an image or images?						Category:Image templates
	Is a image license template?						Category:Image license templates
TEMPLATES	Should be used only inside other templates? Meaning inside them and not on documentation pages.						Category:Templates for use with templates	{{Template for use with templates}}
	Should be used only only on category pages?
	Should be used only only on module pages?
UNKNOWN	Used to flag content in some way?						Category:Cleanup templates
WIKITEXT	Used to substitute a character or a sequence?						Category:Character-substitution templates

For a module

Stub

This section is currently empty.

Feel free to start it!