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{{resources for collaboration}} '''''Note: This page is not very active. See below for links to the active pages in this WikiProject. For current information about categorization, see: [[Wikipedia:Categorization]].''''' ==Current projects== The main project is '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories]]'''. Its sub-projects are listed below. Volunteers to these projects are very welcome. ===Categorization policy=== * [[Wikipedia talk:Categorization]] is where categorization policy is discussed * [[Wikipedia talk:Categories for discussion]] is for discussions related to policy about deleting, splitting or merging categories. ===Finding uncategorized articles=== * [[:Category:Uncategorized pages]] * [[Special:Uncategorizedpages]] displays an alphabetical list of pages that are not categorized. It is cached (which means it may be slightly out of date) and is not editable. Discuss on [[Wikipedia talk:Special:Uncategorizedpages]]. * [[Wikipedia:People by year/Reports/No other categories]] * [[Wikipedia:List of lists/uncategorized]] ===Cleaning the category system=== * [[Wikipedia:Category deletion policy]] lists the rules, in particular the case of a category corresponding to a template. * [[Wikipedia:Template messages/Deletion]] covers important related deletion templates. * [[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion]] list categories that need renaming, merging or deleting. * [[Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/resolved]] has a number of interesting precedents for naming conventions. * [[:Category:Wikipedia categories in need of attention]] lists specific categories that need organizing. * [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories]] is a coordination point for systematic cleanup and standards. ===Table of Contents schemes=== There are various attempts to create a "Table of Contents" for Wikipedia. "Top-level" categories of this type are themselves added to [[:Category:Wikipedia categories]]. Other schemes are listed at [[Wikipedia:Category schemes]]. The pages and categories listed generally require updating, organizing, and consolidation. ===Cross-referencing projects=== * [[:Category:Years]] - A chronological cross-referencing project * [[:Category:Sources]] - Aims to organize information about reference sources. Spawned from [[Wikipedia talk:Forum for Encyclopedic Standards#Source_category]] ===Content-specific guidelines=== * [[Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/resolved]] has a number of interesting precedents for naming conventions. *[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life]] - Organisms by species *[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities]] *[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft/Categories]] *[[Category talk:Academic institutions]] for guidelines on colleges and universities ===Useful Tools=== *[[Special:CategoryTree]] *[http://tools.wikimedia.de/~daniel/WikiSense/CategoryTree.php?&wikilang=en&wikifam=.wikipedia.org&m=c&cat=Fundamental Category Tree] *[http://tools.wikimedia.de/~daniel/WikiSense/CategoryIntersect.php Category Scan] ===Organizing it all=== *[[WP:CBTF]] ==Known category-related bugs== Please report new category-related bugs on [http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ bugzilla] and list them below. (Bugs higher than 1775 have not been checked) ===Redirects=== * [[bugzilla:491|Categories need piping feature to list by alternative name]] (to show redirects next to the articles they redirect to in categories, when appropriate) * [[bugzilla:927|Problem categorizing redirects]] ===Special:Categories=== * [[bugzilla:461|Link to Special:Categories should be customisable]] * [[bugzilla:844|Special:Categories should be paged by letter, like Special:Allpages]] ===Large categories=== * [[bugzilla:1058|Dealing with large categories]] * [[bugzilla:1212|On paged categories, article totals and subcat totals are incorrect]] * [[bugzilla:1211|Subcategory paging is not separate from article paging]] * [[bugzilla:1502|Table of contents for Categories]] ===Updating problems=== * [[bugzilla:939|changes to links in a template do not update 'links', 'categorylinks', etc for pages including it]] ===General=== * [[bugzilla:243|Add anchor tags to the headers used on category pages]] * [[bugzilla:337|Characters in category names]] * [[bugzilla:449|uncategorized pages report speedup hack]] * [[bugzilla:450|Categories need to be structured by namespace]] * [[bugzilla:516|Ability to filter user contributions by time (e.g. "January 2003") or category]] * [[bugzilla:835|syntax to transclude a page without the containing page inheriting categories, interlanguage links]] * [[bugzilla:900|Category page listings have unbalanced columns]] * [[bugzilla:931|automatic edit summary for categorizing pages]] * [[bugzilla:943|RSS feed for category updates]] * [[bugzilla:1029|Whitelist doesn't work correctly for categories]] * [[bugzilla:1106|Feature request: boolean search in categories]] * [[bugzilla:1119|Page move updates categories with sorting tweak]] * [[bugzilla:1289|Feature request: Category reverse sort by date]] * [[bugzilla:1701|Korean wikipedia's categories need new sectioning scheme]] * [[bugzilla:1710|Ability to watch all articles in a category]] * [[bugzilla:1745|can't edit the history versions of the categories!]] * [[bugzilla:1775|Request: parameters in categories]] ==See also== ;Browsing categories *[[Portal:Contents]] - A large navigation page that includes links to high-level categories *[[Special:CategoryTree]] - CategoryTree browser *[[Wikipedia:CatScan]] *[[Special:Categories]] - Lists all existing categories alphabetically. *[[:Category:Wikipedia categories]] - List of top-level categories. Requires this category be defined on the top of a tree. *[[:Category:Main topic classifications]] ;Maintenance *[[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion]] *[[Special:Uncategorizedpages]] *[[Special:Uncategorizedimages]] *[[Special:Uncategorizedcategories]] *[[Special:Unusedcategories]] *[[Special:Wantedcategories]] *[[Special:Mostlinkedcategories]] ;Other *[[Help:Category]] *[[Wikipedia:FAQ/Categorization]] *[[m:Categorization requirements]] (original guidelines for category proposals and implementations) *[[:Category:Knowledge representation]] - Material related to concept categorization. *[[Wikipedia:Category intersection]], proposal *[[s:EB1911:Classified table of contents β Introduction]] (Wikisource) Technique of categorization for the 1911 ''Britannica'' *[[Wikipedia:Categorization/Gender, race and sexuality]] *[[Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates]] *[[Wikipedia:Categorizing redirects]] [[Category:Wikipedia categorization|Categorization projects (current)]] [[Category:WikiProject Categories|Current subprojects]]
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