Categorization and sorting

Overview

Over the past month I have chewed through all of the uncategorized pages and given them a category whether it be a real category or filed under Category:Requires Updating through the update tag, etc. Now that everything has been somewhat categorized, I've started looking at the category structure itself and am starting to realize that various sections has good structure, others don't, and for the most part there isn't any correlation to each other or "super tree" so to speak which shows how all of the categories in the wiki are put together.

• Example of some good category structure: Category:Order of Battle
• Example of some not so good category structure: Category:Ship Classes (one of mine, none the less)

Plan of Attack

1. Decide upon what the upper level or over-arching categories should be
2. Map out some of the current category structure in place
3. Start matching up various categories and subcategories together
4. Map out a top-to-bottom category tree
5. Fix those categories and pages which need to be edited to fit to category tree

Category Tree

January Proposal

See proposals at Talk:Main Page.

Heavy's Proposal

I'm not sure if categories IC and OOC would be effective or possibly even worthwhile categories if a large number of pages have both elements to them. The best bet for those pages may be to have a discernable IC/OOC split within the page itself (headings or such) while leave categorization to more of a location or unit grouping.

Another area where there may be a lot of overlap and double categorization would be things like units and squadrons. Dragon Squadron for example could be categorized as: Squadron, VSG, RgF, etc. as it does fit in all of those categories.

Proposed Tree: Category:Main Category:General Help Category:Wiki Editing Category:Communication Category:Terminology Category:Modes of Communication Etc. Category:Wiki Maintenance Category:Requires Updating Category:Requires Confirmation Category:Candidates for deletion Category:Candidates for merging Category:Rebel Squadrons Category:Units Category:Executive Category:Executive Positions For pages like RSFC, RSXO, etc. Category:Unit Positions For pages like CO and XO. Category:Executive Offices Category:Council of Justice Category:Department of External Affairs Category:Clubs Category:Allies Category:Historical Office Category:Internet Office Category:Logistics Office Category:TacOps Category:Interactive Tours of Duty Category:Fleet and Group ITODs Category:RgF ITOD Missions Category:VSG ITOD Missions Category:Division and Wing ITODs Category:Squadron ITODs Specific Projects, i.e. Craft Database, ITOD Mapping Project Category:Medals Office Category:Operations Office Category:Activity Category:Competition Category:Training Office Category:Academy Beginner's Path Category:Groups (Using Bylaws Update terminology currently under vote) Category:Vigilance Starfighter Group Category:VSG ITOD Missions Category:VSG Tour 1 Category:Dragon Squadron Category:Allegiance Battle Group Category:Retired Groups and Fleets Category:Renegade Fleet Category:RgF ITOD Missions Category:Dragon Squadron Category:Intrepid Battle Group Category:Divisions and Wings Category:Righteous Indignation Division Category:Squadrons Category:Dragon Squadron Category:Order of Battle Category:Current Assignment Category:Greeop Defense Force Category:Historical Assignments Category:Minos Investigation Group Category:Subterrel Strike Force Category:Enemy Fleets Category:Zodiac Assault Fleet (RgF Tour 4) Category:Ship Class Category:Imperial Star Destroyers Category:Victory Star Destroyers Category:Calamari Cruisers Category:Nebulon-B Frigates Category:Corellian Corvettes Category:Ship Design This category would be for listing pages like Imperial I-class Star Destroyer Category:Membership Category:Ranks Category:People Category:Characters Category:Personal Ships Category:Personal Notepads Category:Projects and Proposals Category:Old Projects and Proposals

Built so far: Main General Help Communication Modes of Communication Communication Program IRC Communication Website Terminology Wiki Editing Wiki Maintenance Requires Updating Requires Confirmation Candidates for deletion Candidates for merging Rebel Squadrons Units Executive Executive Offices Historical Office Internet Office Logistics Office Medals Office Training Office Retired Executive Offices Executive Positions Retired Executive Positions Unit Positions Groups Retired Groups and Fleets Aurora Force Backlash Wing Crusader Fleet Intrepid Battle Group Renegade Fleet Defense Operations Wing Guardian Wing Scorpian Wing Retribution Fleet Storm Wing Vanguard Fleet Allegiance Battle Group Patriot Starfighter Group Crusader Wing Hope Wing Valor Wing Redemption Fleet Vigilance Starfighter Group Divisions and Wings Retired Divisions and Wings Backlash Wing Crusader Wing Defense Operations Wing Guardian Wing Hope Wing Scorpion Wing Valor Wing Squadrons Retired Squadrons Order of Battle Active Task Force Disbanded Task Force Ally Task Force Imperial Task Force Enemy Task Force Ship Class Assassin-class Corvette Assault-class Frigate CR90 Corellian Corvette DP-20 Gunship Dreadnaught-class heavy cruiser EF76-B Nebulon-class escort frigate EF76-B2 Nebulon-class escort frigate Immobilizer 418-class heavy cruiser Imperial-class Star Destroyer MC80 Star Cruiser SF01-C Nebulon-class strike frigate Strike-class medium cruiser Victory-class Star Destroyer Membership Ranks People Characters Personal Notepads Personal Ships

External Links

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryTree
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category