Editing Categories

'''Categories''' were introduced to [[MediaWiki]] in version 1.3.0 released in 2004.

<tt>Categories are basically automatic '''two-way hyperlinks''' where when you add a page to a category by adding <nowiki>[[Category:SomeCategory]]</nowiki> to the bottom of the page a link is created to the category from the article '''and''' to the article from the category, thus it is a two-way hyperlink.</tt>

Categories may be nested i.e. they may contain sub-categories.

Main ways to input categories into articles is to be through using short templates which take care of including the article in all the required categories. Also we will draw in at least 40,000 [[companies]]' datas from [[DBpedia]] datasets or ontologies.

Very related things include [[templates]], [[MediaWiki/Extensions]] and [[MediaWiki/Widgets]].

Other uses may rise. ''For more reading on this proceed to the [[meta:Help:Category|Meta-Wikipedias user guide to Categories]]''

== use in [[Consumerium itself]] ==

[[Special:Categories]] lists all that are presently in use in [[this wiki]] [[itself]].

Preliminary plans are to use categories in [[Research Wiki pilot]] for at least [[Product Group]]s.  Representing each of these as Categories may enable grouping of [[product]]s and [[product substitution]] suggestions.   It may help [[Campaign]]s (to determine that one doesn't accidentally vote for more then one campaign in each campaign category.  Products will be tied to a Product Group category as precise as possible, probably by identifying what [[service]]s they provide, i.e. all products are bundles of services.

=== current categories: ===

*[[mediawiki]] pages that are required or imposed by use of [[mediawiki]] software
*[[deprecated]] pages are those that no longer play any role in the current design model

===Proposed categories===
*[[POV]] pages are those that seem to express a particular group [[point of view]], e.g. [[sysopism]], [[feminism]], [[communism]], and may be named with a term used only by the believers in those terms, e.g. only [[sysopist]]s believe in any "[[virtual community]]"
*[[trollist]] pages take the [[NTPOV]] and usually question ideological or technologist assumptions, and may [[bite you on the leg]] for believing [[groupthink]] of other POVs

=== categories aren't namespaces ===

Categories should not be confused with [[namespace]]s.  There are seven namespaces used in [[Consumerium itself]]:
*[[main namespace]] for terms that have one definition across all of the other namespaces, i.e. the space that has the [[Main Page]] in it
*[[Talk:main namespace]] to discuss the main namespace
*[[Special:namespace]] defined by [[mediawiki]]
*[[Consumerium:namespace]] for [[Consumerium Governance Organization]] decisions/policies that affect how main name space grows and changes, e.g. how [[troll-friendly]] it must be
*[[Develop:namespace]] for all development decisions and terminology including hardware and integration of software, extremely [[troll-friendly]]
*[[Research:namespace]] for actual information about companies, products and claims about these
*[[Publish:namespace]] for things the CGO actually has published under its own liability

== See also: ==
* [[MediaWiki/Extensions]]
* [[Templates]]
* [[MediaWiki/Widgets]]
* [[Namespaces]]

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