Thread:Luxartisan/@comment-5785681-20190427162340/@comment-5785681-20190429024230

Personal "wish list" for reorganizing:

--Change Cateogory:Product to Category:Merch (just bc that's the term kids use these days). --Eliminate these categories: Music by/No Anime Info/No Char History/No Char Rel/Rename Project/& Replace Project since these pages should now be stubs which is how new editors are directed to find pages needing editing. --Redo Top Navigation --Create a Table of Contents OR add all pages to Category:Content (I prefer the former and volunteer to do so). --Song titles being given a Track No. somewhere as part of their page name. --Eliminating superfluous categories that don't add critical knowledge to the wiki (to be decided).

Note: I don't believe every single page should be a category, so could we discuss minimizing the current list? That, to me, is why we have both "All Categories" and "All Pages" available to admins. Not all pages are meant to be categories. I'm not opposed to making either of those lists available for public viewing.

I think this covers the basics. When we decide on a change I can amend the document until it's finalized. Then we go to work. It took me awhile to grasp the concept of creating subcategories because it's like building a Russian nesting doll, but I think we can manage it or help each other out. Basically, the top level cat is a cat unto itself and only itself. The 2nd level cat is a cat unto itself and the one above and so on down the line adding layers above. In the end, it leads to pages with both parent category and baby categories (if any) visible on its page. It's not all-encompassing for cross-referencing and, to some, that's a drawback since it won't include every category that is mentioned on the page. (e.g. A page about Samezuka Academy might just include "Schools" and "Locations" as parent cats but not "Swimming" or a character's name.)

If you want to take a look at a simple example, there's one here. You can see the icons for the trending pages of the category, along with the alpha listing of all pages in that top level cat (Technology) which includes all the subcats that fall under that top cat and no categories listed at the bottom of the page because it is a top level category. It could have itself as a category, if so desired, but we chose not to do that. The system has advantages and disadvantages, like any system but overall, it keeps the list of categories to a minimum and pages broad.

The other system is to simplify what we already have in place by elminating excessive/unnecessary categories and keep just the categories we, as a group, deem vital. That, alone, would improve organization.

Well, it's been a long day and I'm going to hit Tumblr for a bit and then to sleep. G'night. Angelle aka Luxartisan 02:42, April 29, 2019 (UTC)