Help:Categories



What is a category?
A category is a software feature of MediaWiki that provides automatic indexes, that are useful as table of contents. Together with links and templates they can structure a project and aid navigation.



How can I categorize pages?
Any page can be put in a category by editing the page and adding a link to the category. Just type [[Category:]], and put the name of the category between the colon and the brackets.
 * Category:Category name

Categories can be used to create sub-sections within a wiki, since categorising your pages can distinguish them from other topics on the same wiki.

Pages can belong to more than one category, by putting multiple category tags.



How can I redirect a category into another category?
Do not attempt to redirect a category. This will not work correctly. What you can do is add a notice (Template:Category redirect) to ask users to change to another category anything that is or might be in the category concerned. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Category_redirect for discussion.



Where can I see the currently used categories?
You can see currently used categories for each Wikia at Special:Categories.



Where can I learn more about categories?
See Wikimedia's Meta-Wiki's help page on categories for detailed information on categories.

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