On Monday 23 November 2009 18:01:38 Schneelocke wrote: > Hello Anne, > > > Thanks for answering, Schnee > > You're quite welcome! > > > So when I click on it, I see a page that lists all the pages in the > > category, with an empty edit panel. What is it expecting me to add to > > that page? Is there some documentation other than Help:Category? I'm > > still studying that, but so far haven't found anything that explains > > this. I thought it was just the dynamically created list. > > Categories are dynamically created lists, yes, but they're still pages > as well, and you can add content to them just like you would to any > other page. > > For example, take Category:Mathematics on the English Wikipedia[1]; > there is a list of sub-categories on that page, as well as a list of > articles, but there's also some text above that, a link to the > Mathematics portal and a link to the Wikimedia Commons for media files > related to mathematics, and - last not least - a number of category > links for categories that the Mathematics category is a sub-category > of, such as Category:Logic, Category:Structure and others. > > What you put on a category page is really up to you, but making a > category part of another category is pretty standard, I think, and > helps establish a hierarchy of categories. > > I'm not sure if there's any further documentation, but the English > Wikipedia's project page on categorization[2] might be helpful, > although chances are parts of it will be specific to Wikipedia. > > 1. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Category%3AMathematics > 2. > https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikipedia%3ACategorization > Thanks for all that. It's going to be very useful, I think. For the moment I've just added a very short description of the intention of that category. I'll add more information when either reading more docs prompts, or when my attempts at setting logical categories develop further. Now I know there is no specific purpose there, I can develop it as seems best at the time.
Thanks again Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
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