User:LaMizzy/Category Overhaul

Current Structure

 ♥  = Disregarded
 ↵  = Proposal Covered
 Χ  = Scrapped

•  ♥ Category:Organization : Top Level Category Candidate
  •  ↵ Category:Site administration
  •  ↵ Category:Community
  •  ↵ Category:Help
  •  ↵ Category:Hidden_categories
    •  ↵ Category:BlogListingPage : system backend category, must have
    •  ♥ Category:Browse : Top Level Category Candidate
      •  ♥ Category:Content : Top Level User Content Category Candidate
        •  ↵ Category:Article_stubs : Stub-marked pages
        •  ↵ Category:Articles_for_rewrite : Rewrite-marked pages
      •  ↵ Category:Files : system default, file's top level
        •  ↵ Category:Images
          •  ↵ Category:Icons
          •  Χ Category:Images_Misc : redundant
          •  ↵ Category:Screenshots
        •  ↵ Category:Videos
      •  ↵ Category:Main : To Be Expanded...21 game specific subcategories...
      •  ♥ Category:Organization : Looping Category, Top Level Category!
    •  ↵ Category:Formatting_templates
    •  ↵ Category:Pages_with_broken_file_links
      •  ↵ Category:Mbox_templates
    •  ↵ Category:Utility templates
    •  ↵ Category:Wikipedia_pages_with_incorrect_protection_templates
    •  Χ Category:Wikipedia_protected_templates : redundant with Special:ProtectedPages
  •  ↵ Category:Site_maintenance
    •  ♥ Category:Article_stubs : repeating category
    •  ♥ Category:Articles_for_rewrite : repeating category
    •  ↵ Category:Candidates_for_deletion
    •  ↵ Category:Candidates for speedy deletion
    •  ↵ Category:Disambiguations
    •  Χ Category:New pages : serve no purpose
    •  ↵ Category:Obsolete pages
  •  ↵ Category:Policy
  •  ↵ Category:Templates
    •  ↵ Category:Template_documentation
    •  ↵ Category:Article management templates
    •  Χ Category:Category templates : serve no purpose. members can be re-categorized to other
    •  ↵ Category:General wiki templates : redundant. members can be re-categorized to other
    •  ↵ Category:Image wiki templates
    •  ↵ Category:Infobox templates
    •  ↵ Category:Language templates
    •  ♥ Category:Mbox templates : repeating category
    •  ↵ Category:Navigation templates
    •  Χ Category:Navigational boxes : redundant
    •  ♥ Category:Utility templates : repeating category
    •  ↵ Category:Wikipedia formatting and function templates

Proposed Structure

✔ = Completed
Note: Categories listed in ( ) bracket are proposed renaming categories
Note: Category_Portal - page to be updated...

• ✔ Category:MediaWiki : Top Most Level Category
  • ✔ Category:Community : Information for Users on User roles and Communication
  • ✔ Category:Files : Information on all Files
    • ✔ Category:Images : merge in Category:Images Misc
      • ✔ Category:Icons
      • ✔ Category:Screenshots
    • ✔ Category:Videos
  • ✔ Category:Help : Instructions, How-To, etc...
  • ✔ Category:Hidden Category : purpose to be defined... (Category:Hidden categories)
    • ✔ Category:BlogListingPage : system backend category, must have
  • ✔ Category:Policy : Information on all Policies
  • Category:RimWorld : Information on all Game Specifics details to be expanded (Category:Main)
  • Category:Site Administrator : Information for Administrators on Administration roles (Category:Site administration)
  • Category:Site Maintenance : current tools to be reviewed and refined (Category:Site maintenance)
    • Category:Page Broken : Broken-marked pages. merge in Category:Pages with broken file links, Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates
    • ✔ Category:Page Deletion : Deletion-marked pages (Category:Candidates_for_deletion)
    • Category:Page Disambiguation : Disambiguous-marked pages (Category:Disambiguations)
    • ✔ Category:Page Obsolete : Obsolete-marked pages (Category:Obsolete pages)
    • Category:Page Rewrite : Rewrite-marked pages (Category:Articles_for_rewrite)
    • Category:Page Speedy Deletion : Speedy-Deletion-marked pages (Category:Candidates for speedy deletion)
    • ✔ Category:Page Stub : Stub-marked pages (Category:Article stubs)
  • Category:Templates : Information on all Templates details to be expanded
    • Category:Template Documentation : Collection of Template's Documentations (Category:Template documentation)
    • Category:Template Formatting : Collection of Templates for Formatting. merge in Category:Wikipedia formatting and function templates (Category:Formatting templates)
    • Category:Template Image : Collection of Templates for Images. Currently mainly for licensing (Category:Image wiki templates)
    • Category:Template Infobox : Collection of Templates for Infobox. merge in Category:Article management templates (Category:Infobox templates)
      • Category:Template Mbox : a style of infobox (Category:Mbox templates)
    • Category:Template Language : Collection of Templates for Languages and Translations. Currently not used, but can be setup first (Category:Language templates)
    • Category:Template Navigation : Collection of Templates for Navigations. merge in Category:Navigational boxes (Category:Navigation templates)
    • Category:Template Utility : Collection of Templates of Utility. merge in Category:General wiki templates (Category:Utility templates)

Log

• 19:36, 3 October 2015 (UTC) : completed updating Template:Stub
• 11:04, 3 October 2015 (UTC) : completed setting up Category:Site Maintenance and its basic structure
• 11:04, 3 October 2015 (UTC) : completed updating Template:T, Template:T/piece, Template:Delete, and Template:Obsolete
• 21:34, 1 October 2015 (UTC) : completed setting up MediaWiki and its first level connection
• 21:34, 1 October 2015 (UTC) : Category:Hidden Category may need to be removed, as it is using magic word __HIDDENCAT__