Suggested category changes - please comment
- Note: to display category links, use a colon before the word category, e.g. [[:Category:Energy]].
- Category:Food and Agriculture - if we keep with this combination, we need to move to Category:Food and agriculture. But don't move until we decide on consensus what we want the category to be. Then Food needs to be made a redirect. --Chriswaterguy · talk 20:35, 30 March 2007 (PDT)
- Category:Power and energy - merge into Category:Energy. Any objections? --Chriswaterguy · talk 08:50, 2 April 2007 (PDT)
- Category:Alternative building - alternative is a problematic term, too hard to define. Category:Buildings or Category:Architecture? (I like buildings - simple and clear.) I think Category:Sustainable bildings is unnecessary as sustainability, like appropriate technology, describes most things on the site. --Chriswaterguy · talk 04:47, 3 April 2007 (PDT)
- I like Category:Construction, but whatever we go with we should probably keep Alternative building as a page instead of just a redirect. This page could list some definitions of Alternative building and then prominently link to the main Category. The reason is that potential visitors should be able to Google Alternative building and find us. Another possible solution would be to figure out how to add Meta tag description to pages (so we could put alternative building in as part of the description of Category:Construction or Category:building), and hope the search engines find it. --Lonny 09:30, 16 April 2007 (PDT)
Category guideline
- See also the discussion on this topic at User talk:Lonny#Photovoltaics how-to?
I think we should readdress our category policy/norms. Any thoughts on the following policy?
- Categories include a brief text introduction to the category, including a link boxes to more information from wikipedia or other partners.
- In the text is an automatic [[{{PAGENAME}} basics]] that links to a much more detailed page.
- In the text is an section for links to more detailed pages such as [[{{PAGENAME}} calculations]]
- Subcategories and articles are prominently displayed and mentioned.
- It may be time to explore Semantic Mediawiki so that we could automatically generate sections such as =={{PAGENAME}} Organizations==
These are just some starting ideas... and maybe portals are a better place to focus our energy, in which case some of this applies to our portal policies. --Lonny 16:05, 22 April 2007 (PDT)
- I like this suggestion. I've always been a bit troubled with having extensive content on a category page, even if I couldn't articulate my concerns. I didn't follow the Semantic link above yet, but will do so in a moment. This discussion of category code changes and mediawiki seems like a good time to mention (possibly remention?) the ability that is now present in Wikipedia category pages, where subcategories may be expanded by clicking on a plus sign. Very cool for viewing the category tree. --CurtB 16:12, 22 April 2007 (PDT)
- I like the change in approach, and would like to finalize and implement this soon.
- Re the Semantic Mediawiki - that sounds fantastic. I'm not sure of the details of what you're trying to do, but we definitely should explore this. --Chriswaterguy · talk 18:54, 6 May 2007 (PDT)