Hello Olga,

I wanted to create the page "EU Microsoft contracts". It did not work, so I created the wiki page under the Migrated (it was possible to create it there and it seemed ok, since it didn't fit in any other existing category).

Ok, I see your problem now. What you call a category is called a namespace in "our" terminology. Namespaces are mostly like folders in the filesystem. In MoinMoin categories are orthogonal to namespaces: a page always belongs to exactly one namespace[1], but can have any number of categories (those "Category/Foo" entries in the last line of the page.

[1] in your case, the root/global namespace.

Do you know how I can create pages which do not fall under any broader category, without having to create them under Migrated, for example?

When we reorganized the wiki this year, we decided not to have pages in the global namespace - formerly there have been many pages that had no real connection to anything else on the wiki. Now only the wiki admin can create global pages.

For your case, I see several options:

a) If the page documents "projects, campaigns and various public activities of the FSFE and its Fellows.", put it in the namespace "Activities" Eventually, all advocacy work should go here as well, but we didn't have time yet to reorganize the "Advocacy" namespace.

a1) If the page is background info regarding some project, reflect this in the wiki name. E.g. if you are planning a campaign "Free Government" that aims to reduce the influence of proprietary software companies on politics, and your page "EU Microsoft contracts" is for this campaign, you should call it:

Activities/FreeGovernment/EUMicrosoftContracts

Ideally, you would also create "Activities/FreeGovernment" and give some general information on the campaign and a link to the subpage.

b) Have the page as subpage to your local group page or to a Team page →This is good for pages that really have nowhere else to go. The advantage to having it in the global namespace is that one immediately knows who to contact if one has questions regarding the page (e.g. "is this still relevant?")

c) If really no namespace works for you, propose a new namespace and discuss it on wikicaretakers@

HTH, Johannes

Hi Johannes,

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?

Happy hacking! Florian