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How To Make Categories

2007-10-29T12:52:49Z

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To create categories it takes only a few simple lines of code, but in the end it adds a good amount of usability and organization to any wiki.

Categories help greatly to keep the wiki organized as well as providing pre-generated indexes for the various pages in a category, this basically makes a "master page" of all the items in that category sorted by name, which is great for a quick search through all related items in a wiki.

For example, let's say we are adding some pages for various items from a quest, by simply adding the QuestItem category to the bottom of the page, we are adding the item to the QuestItem index generated by the wiki, which makes it incredibly easy for a user to search for all QuestItems at once to locate another related item instead of searching for it directly.

To accomplish the example in this case we need only add the following code to the bottom of the previously mentioned quest item page:

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<code><nowiki>[[Category:QuestItem]]</nowiki></code>
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Using the example above you should be able to categorize your entries into the wiki (within reason) where the items can be grouped. Good examples of items that should be categorized when entered into the wiki would be weapons, npcs, magical items, wands, orbs, maces.

Basically any item that will likely belong to a group of items that will have multiple entries in the wiki, if you're adding something that likely has a lot of related or similar items you should consider if creating a category for it would be helpful / necessary. Don't be afraid to try out categories, if something becomes redundant or unnecessary it is much easier to clean up useless categories then to sort through tons of related entries and categorize them after the fact.

How To Make Redirects

2007-10-29T12:52:28Z

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This may serve as some help to those of you who are unsure of how to create redirects (i.e: when someone searches for "alch" and there exists a page for Alchemy they will see a page does not exist page, however you can create a page that redirects a search for "alch" to the Alchemy page.

[[Image:redirect1.gif|right|thumb|500px| Example search result for "alch"]]

To accomplish this, first you would search for "alch", then you would choose create this page.

You would then add the following code to the "alch" page:

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<code><nowiki>#Redirect [[Alchemy]]</nowiki></code>
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Now whenever a user searched for the term "alch" they would get the Alchemy page instead.

This has many, many practical uses and serves to make navigating a good wiki much more streamlined, so when you create a page that has common abbreviations, consider redirecting those abbreviations to your intended content page.

How to make catagories

2007-10-29T12:51:28Z

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#Redirect [[How_to_make_categories]]

How To Make Categories

2007-10-29T12:49:26Z

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To create categories it takes only a few simple lines of code, but in the end it adds a good amount of usability and organization to any wiki.

Categories help greatly to keep the wiki organized as well as providing pre-generated indexes for the various pages in a category, this basically makes a "master page" of all the items in that category sorted by name, which is great for a quick search through all related items in a wiki.

For example, let's say we are adding some pages for various items from a quest, by simply adding the QuestItem category to the bottom of the page, we are adding the item to the QuestItem index generated by the wiki, which makes it incredibly easy for a user to search for all QuestItems at once to locate another related item instead of searching for it directly.

To accomplish the example in this case we need only add the following code to the bottom of the previously mentioned quest item page:

----
<nowiki>[[Category:QuestItem]]</nowiki>
----

Using the example above you should be able to categorize your entries into the wiki (within reason) where the items can be grouped. Good examples of items that should be categorized when entered into the wiki would be weapons, npcs, magical items, wands, orbs, maces.

Basically any item that will likely belong to a group of items that will have multiple entries in the wiki, if you're adding something that likely has a lot of related or similar items you should consider if creating a category for it would be helpful / necessary. Don't be afraid to try out categories, if something becomes redundant or unnecessary it is much easier to clean up useless categories then to sort through tons of related entries and categorize them after the fact.

How To Make Categories

2007-10-29T12:48:43Z

152.78.125.41: New page: To create categories it takes only a few simple lines of code, but in the end it adds a good amount of usability and organization to any wiki. Categories help greatly to keep the wiki org...

To create categories it takes only a few simple lines of code, but in the end it adds a good amount of usability and organization to any wiki.

Categories help greatly to keep the wiki organized as well as providing pre-generated indexes for the various pages in a category, this basically makes a "master page" of all the items in that category sorted by name, which is great for a quick search through all related items in a wiki.

For example, let's say we are adding some pages for various items from a quest, by simply adding the QuestItem category to the bottom of the page, we are adding the item to the QuestItem index generated by the wiki, which makes it incredibly easy for a user to search for all QuestItems at once to locate another related item instead of searching for it directly.

To accomplish the example in this case we need only add the following code to the bottom of the previously mentioned quest item page:

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<code>Category:QuestItem

You would of course enclose this statement in [[ ]] tags, but doing so in this example would not show up properly</code>
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Using the example above you should be able to categorize your entries into the wiki (within reason) where the items can be grouped. Good examples of items that should be categorized when entered into the wiki would be weapons, npcs, magical items, wands, orbs, maces.

Basically any item that will likely belong to a group of items that will have multiple entries in the wiki, if you're adding something that likely has a lot of related or similar items you should consider if creating a category for it would be helpful / necessary. Don't be afraid to try out categories, if something becomes redundant or unnecessary it is much easier to clean up useless categories then to sort through tons of related entries and categorize them after the fact.

Help:Contents

2007-10-29T12:46:31Z

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== Wiki Editing ==

*[[How_to_make_redirects | How To Make Redirects]] - Brief overview of how to redirect various search terms to another chosen content page
*[[How_to_make_links | How To Make Links]] - Brief overview of how to make links and using "complex" links to change the link text for actual link paths
*[[How_to_make_categories | How To Make Categories]] - Brief overview of how to make catagories to help index / maintain groups of pages in the wiki