Creating and Adding to Categories
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General overview
A category is a list page which serves to classify topics; for example, the Category:Recipes is meant to hold the individual topics, such as Awrigh01's Basil Shrimp and Roblefko's Jalapeno Mustard.
Adding your page to categories
To add a page to a category, insert the link
[[Category:category name]]
to that page. For example, the category Category:Recipes includes all tests. To add Awrigh01's Basil Shrimp to this list, you would go to Awrigh01's Basil Shrimp's page and insert the link
into it (yes, include the double brackets).
Category page
A category page consists of:
- editable text
- list of subcategories; how many there are is also displayed; if there are no subcategories the header and count are not shown.
- list of pages in the category, excluding subcategories and images; the number of items in this list is called the number of articles; if there are none the header is shown anyway, and "There are 0 articles in this category."
To create a category page, you must add a colon in front of the Category tag when you set up the page-creation link, to prevent the software from thinking you merely want to add the page you are working from to the category:
[[:Category:Category name]]
Placing the above text on working page will create the link you can use to edit your category page.
Links to categories
You can create a link to a category page without adding the page to that category by using a colon before the word Category. Example: [[:Category:Recipes]] appears as Category:Recipes.
Existing categories
You can see currently used categories at Special:Categories. This list is quite long though so it's not recommended to browse through it when searching for a category.
