Categories
Categories were introduced to MediaWiki in version 1.3.0 which is not currently running here.
You can see all current categories here
Categories are basically automatic two-way hyperlinks where when you add a page to a category by adding [[Category:SomeCategory]] 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.
Categories may be nested ie. they may contain sub-categories.
Preliminary plans are to use categories in Research Wiki pilot for at least Product Groups where product groups are represented as Categories (to enable grouping of products and product substitution suggestions) and Campaigns (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.
Other uses may rise.
For more reading on this proceed to the Meta-Wikipedias user guide to Categories
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 sysopists 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