Thread:Thurstan/@comment-42607-20120402132959/@comment-294323-20120403020155

Categories seem to be quite counter-intuitive. The way it works:

(1) to put a page into Category XYZ, you code on the page (by convention, right at the bottom so that they are easy to find).

(2) to create the category, you just click on the link, and type in some descriptive text, perhaps including to display the instructions. You include this new category in some other category by include, for example, Category:Content at the end.

(3) If you want to create a link to a category, such as:
 * Click here to view the top level category

you code Category:Content or Category:Content (note the ":").

As for the question, "which categories to use?", that is a design decision. Do you want to include all Texas-related stuff (volunteer lists, queries, responses to queries, etc) in the same place? Then "Category:Texas" under "Category:USA" under "Category:Content" is probably the way to go. On the other hand, if you want seperate categories for different volunteers, you probably want "category:Texas volunteers". Note that there is a WIkipedia guideline which says something like "if you don't have at least half-a-dozen pages in a category, then you don't need that category". In other words, don't make your classification too find.

Thurstan 02:01, April 3, 2012 (UTC)