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Ok, I opted to use categories. Once I played with it a little, it all
came together.

Figured I would post this just in case it helps anyone else.

You place the category tag on the page that you are editing like so:

[[Category:My Category]]

This automatically creates the category.

Making subcategories involves making the "children" first, then the
"parent". You make one category the subcategory of another by placing
the category tag inside of that category's page.

So, when editing the page for "My Category", I would put
[[Category:Parent Category]]

to make "My Category" a subcat of "Parent Category".

This page:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Category

is pretty useful - I just needed some trial and error with it all.

Thanks folks!

Tom



On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 15:17, Tom Melendez wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> Thanks for the prompt responses to my questions about uploading and skins.
>
> Would someone mind explaining Categories and Namespaces?
>
> I'm trying to organize our documentation - which one should I use? It appears to me that I should be using Categories,
> is this correct?
>
> I found this page:
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Category
>
> which is pretty useful, but I'm confused at the first section: "How to add a category, and include a page in a category"
>
> I put that line in my page, and I can see that this category now shows up if I run Special:Categories, but
> I'm unclear as to how to put pages in this category. Do I just link to them like [[MyCategory:PageName]]
>
> Any help or tips would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
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===

You can find some more articles about categorization at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_categorization

-- Zigger

On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 16:54:07 -0500, Tom Melendez <tmelendez@bascom.com> wrote:
> Ok, I opted to use categories. Once I played with it a little, it all
> came together.
>
> Figured I would post this just in case it helps anyone else.
>
> You place the category tag on the page that you are editing like so:
>
> [[Category:My Category]]
>
> This automatically creates the category.
>
> Making subcategories involves making the "children" first, then the
> "parent". You make one category the subcategory of another by placing
> the category tag inside of that category's page.
>
> So, when editing the page for "My Category", I would put
> [[Category:Parent Category]]
>
> to make "My Category" a subcat of "Parent Category".
>
> This page:
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Category
>
> is pretty useful - I just needed some trial and error with it all.
>
> Thanks folks!
>
> Tom
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 15:17, Tom Melendez wrote:
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > Thanks for the prompt responses to my questions about uploading and skins.
> >
> > Would someone mind explaining Categories and Namespaces?
> >
> > I'm trying to organize our documentation - which one should I use? It appears to me that I should be using Categories,
> > is this correct?
> >
> > I found this page:
> >
> > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Category
> >
> > which is pretty useful, but I'm confused at the first section: "How to add a category, and include a page in a category"
> >
> > I put that line in my page, and I can see that this category now shows up if I run Special:Categories, but
> > I'm unclear as to how to put pages in this category. Do I just link to them like [[MyCategory:PageName]]
> >
> > Any help or tips would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Tom
> >
> > ______________________________________________________________________
> > _______________________________________________
> > MediaWiki-l mailing list
> > MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org
> > http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
> ===
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> MediaWiki-l mailing list
> MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org
> http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
>
>
>
>

Unless you have access to LocalSettings.php (which is doubtful, since
this is a WikiMedia site), you can't make your own namespace.

Like, you've already done, you should use categories.

Finally! A volunteer! ;)

On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 15:17:30 -0500, Tom Melendez <tmelendez@bascom.com> wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> Thanks for the prompt responses to my questions about uploading and skins.
>
> Would someone mind explaining Categories and Namespaces?
>
> I'm trying to organize our documentation - which one should I use? It appears to me that I should be using Categories,
> is this correct?
>
> I found this page:
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Category
>
> which is pretty useful, but I'm confused at the first section: "How to add a category, and include a page in a category"
>
> I put that line in my page, and I can see that this category now shows up if I run Special:Categories, but
> I'm unclear as to how to put pages in this category. Do I just link to them like [[MyCategory:PageName]]
>
> Any help or tips would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> MediaWiki-l mailing list
> MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org
> http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
>
>
>
>


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