Help:Categories

A category is a group of pages with similar topics. You can add a category link to any page, and it will automatically be listed on a category page with other similarly linked pages. Categories are useful in giving structure to a wiki's pages and helping readers move around the wiki.

Adding a category

 * A page appears in a category when a Category link is added to that individual page. You cannot add pages to a category from the category's listing page.


 * From the page: At the end of the article, you can add a category without going into edit mode. Just click "Add category" and type in a category and press enter. After you have entered one category, you can type another, or save your additions.
 * Adding_category.png


 * While editing: At the end of the edit box is a separate section for adding and editing categories; it works in the same way as the article page box.
 * Adding_category_edit_mode.png

Using categories

 * If the category you add doesn't exist yet, you need to create the page manually, because it won't be created automatically. You should give it a parent category or two.
 * If you want to exclude some categories from appearing, admins can add it to MediaWiki:Categoryblacklist
 * For easy administration of the wiki, it may be desirable to have some categories hidden by default, so that only administrators see them. In order to do that, you need to add  on the category page.
 * All categories that are not hidden will appear at the bottom of an article page, in a Categories box.
 * You can see a list of all currently used categories for any Wikia at its Special:Categories page.

Next pages

 * Learn how to create Templates
 * Learn how to create Infoboxes
 * Learn how to create Tables


 * Ask other users on the Wikia Forum

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Advanced reading

 * Special:CategoryTree is an alternate way to display the contents of a category. The extension also adds the ability to expand subcategories on a category page, allowing you to see further subcategories. It can be transcluded in other pages. See MediaWiki for details.
 * Wikimedia's Meta-Wiki's help page on categories for detailed information on categories.

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