Categories and sub categories
Posted by robsbots
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Categories and sub categories June 30, 2011 06:44PM |
Hi all.
I have had a quick look at the MediaWiki help wiki and it say's you can have categories and sub categories. You can also have a page beloning to more than one category. I would like to propose organising the Reprap wiki into categories and sub categories.
Each machine could have a category. The Medel, Prusa, Huxley etc.
This would be further split into print head, electronics etc. These could have more than one category and so link to more than one machine design for the "current print head" say.
You would also have a category for general interest. But not connected to a specific design.
An administration/organisation category.
A user category. This would contain all user input and be kept seperate from the main machine categories until a specific design was adopted by the "trunk" and then reclassified to the correct category.
All pages created by normal users would automaticly be placed in the user category. The forums could be used to call peoples attention to anything a user might be doing so this information would not be lost in the background. It would also mean the forum wad used for disscusion and the wiki for publication of information.
"Normal" users would not be able to create categories and would need to request a new category as needed.
These are just my thoughts on the subject
. There would need to be discussion on what categories where initially needed but the system should stay quite tidy when done. It should also be faily simple to maintain and navigate.
I am more than happy to have a crack at doing it
, but may need a little guidance from those in the know. I havn't been here long and havn't covered a quater of the site yet, but I keep finding gems of information in little back ally's and would love to shine some light on them and get them found more easily.
There seems to be loads of categories, most of which are under used or of little use at the present.
Let me know what you think. What categories we need and any thoughts on how to arrange them.
Regards
Rob
robsbots
I have had a quick look at the MediaWiki help wiki and it say's you can have categories and sub categories. You can also have a page beloning to more than one category. I would like to propose organising the Reprap wiki into categories and sub categories.
Each machine could have a category. The Medel, Prusa, Huxley etc.
This would be further split into print head, electronics etc. These could have more than one category and so link to more than one machine design for the "current print head" say.
You would also have a category for general interest. But not connected to a specific design.
An administration/organisation category.
A user category. This would contain all user input and be kept seperate from the main machine categories until a specific design was adopted by the "trunk" and then reclassified to the correct category.
All pages created by normal users would automaticly be placed in the user category. The forums could be used to call peoples attention to anything a user might be doing so this information would not be lost in the background. It would also mean the forum wad used for disscusion and the wiki for publication of information.
"Normal" users would not be able to create categories and would need to request a new category as needed.
These are just my thoughts on the subject
. There would need to be discussion on what categories where initially needed but the system should stay quite tidy when done. It should also be faily simple to maintain and navigate.I am more than happy to have a crack at doing it
, but may need a little guidance from those in the know. I havn't been here long and havn't covered a quater of the site yet, but I keep finding gems of information in little back ally's and would love to shine some light on them and get them found more easily.There seems to be loads of categories, most of which are under used or of little use at the present.
Let me know what you think. What categories we need and any thoughts on how to arrange them.
Regards
Rob
robsbots
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Re: Categories and sub categories July 06, 2011 02:41AM |
Hi all
Yes I have seen the categorys, but there seem to be lots, some are copies of others with slight name changes, some are under used. I was thinking that if category creation was mininalized and standardised the wiki would become more managable and would almost take care of its self.
A standard list of top categories would be required, then these could branch out to sub categories, but at the moment there seems to be to much "noise".
The top categories would need disscusion but once sorted it would be easier to categorize the uncategosied pages and easier to navigate the wiki and find all the juicy stuff.
I keep looking at the uncatogorized pages but where do you put them. Theres so many places they could go.
I would love to hit that list and sort everything but not really sure what goes where. There are just to many categories most of which could be culled but I feel a structure needs to be agreed before I go off half cocked and start moving stuff.
Just my thoughts.
Please agree, dissagree, flame etc below
Yes I have seen the categorys, but there seem to be lots, some are copies of others with slight name changes, some are under used. I was thinking that if category creation was mininalized and standardised the wiki would become more managable and would almost take care of its self.
A standard list of top categories would be required, then these could branch out to sub categories, but at the moment there seems to be to much "noise".
The top categories would need disscusion but once sorted it would be easier to categorize the uncategosied pages and easier to navigate the wiki and find all the juicy stuff.
I keep looking at the uncatogorized pages but where do you put them. Theres so many places they could go.
I would love to hit that list and sort everything but not really sure what goes where. There are just to many categories most of which could be culled but I feel a structure needs to be agreed before I go off half cocked and start moving stuff.
Just my thoughts.
Please agree, dissagree, flame etc below
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Re: Categories and sub categories August 06, 2011 04:03PM |
With the time I started to contribute more regularly to the wiki, and that helped me in the edition of our recent fablab's wiki.
Today I even reorganized the whole thing, adding categories and sub-categories (ok, only for 70ish pages here :p )
But since I like to keep things well organized, I may also participate at these efforts
Today I even reorganized the whole thing, adding categories and sub-categories (ok, only for 70ish pages here :p )
But since I like to keep things well organized, I may also participate at these efforts
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