Using Categories
Overview
Categories allow related pages to be grouped together easily. For example, if you have pages A, B, C and D, you could link A to B, C and D, and link B to A, C and D, and link C to A, B and D, and link D to A, B and C... or you could link A to category X, B to category X, C to category X and D to category X. The more related pages in a category, the better this works.
Categorizing a new page
- First, see if there is an existing category for the page
- If so, create a link to the category. For example, this page is about using the wiki, so it belongs in the Wiki category:
[[Category:Wiki]]
Creating a new category
Linking to a category page =
Categories allow you to perform automatic indexing of a number of pages in an alphabetical index listed under the Category page. To start a Category page:
Type title=Category:Category Name instead of just typing a title as above. For example, http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Category:Water . Then, if you embed the construction:
on any page, that page will be listed in an alphabetical index under your category page. This tool is very useful for indexing a large number of related pages, without having to link to all these pages.