On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 10:24:36AM +0200, Florian Snow wrote:
Johannes Zarl-Zierl jzarl@fsfe.org writes:
It is up to you to decide which categories to use. Pages don't have to belong to any category...
It's been a while since I had time to update the wiki, but if a page does not fit into a category, shouldn't we find a new category? Otherwise, there will be tons of pages again at some point that are hard to find because they cannot be seen in overview pages for a category you would expect them in. At least in the beginning, we said each page should belong to at least one category. Has this changed or am I misremembering it?
your mixing up Categories with tose-we-have-no-consistent-name-for. The Namespaces/Sections.
We can always make up new namespaces if required, e.g. as we did with HowTos, but we shouldn't have too many small ones, a Misc Section should serve indexing and ordering purpose if in doubt.
Categories on the other hand, those things that are linked to at the bottom of an article, are free fire for Wiki authors. A look at http://wiki.fsfe.org/Category _should_ prevent conflicts, but I expect that CareTakes will need to tidy this up from time to time.