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| Newer page: | version 9 | Last edited on Wednesday, December 3, 2003 9:57:59 am | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
| Older page: | version 8 | Last edited on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 12:53:50 pm | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
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Categories should be neither too specific nor too broad; there's little value in having categories with three items in them, but there's also hardly a point to a category that lists half the universe's topics.
!! Linking to categories (READ THIS)
-The ramification of the previous paragraph is that in pages not belonging to a category, __you must not link__ to that category page by using its name. __Instead of writing !CategoryFoo you have to write !Category:Foo - note the extra colon.__ This creates a link to that category page without putting the linking page in its BackLinks. This also necessitates
that pages linking to a category but not part of it will cannot
be backlinked from the category.
+The ramification of the previous paragraph is that in pages not belonging to a category, __you must not link__ to that category page by using its name. __Instead of writing !CategoryFoo you have to write !Category:Foo - note the extra colon.__ This creates a link to that category page without putting the linking page in its BackLinks. This means
that pages linking to a category but not part of it will not
be backlinked from the category.
!!!Categories in this Wiki
Don't know where to start? You might like to browse pages on a particular topic. The following are all categories that exist within this WikiWikiWeb:
