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- Formatting Templates
- Frequently Asked Questions
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- Page Types
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- The Big Picture
- The Credit Box
- Theory of Knowledge
- Video Tutorials
- Welcome to Salish Sea Restoration
- Wiki Markup Tutorial
See Technical Pages
Also see Platform Architecture
Categories answer basic questions about a page. Any category can be used to describe any page. All categories are in a hierarchy--Salmon is a category of Fish is a category of Biology is a category within Ecological Topics. You can use categories to generate automatic lists of pages with Dynamic Page Lists.
How do I categorize a page?
Editors can use the "Edit Source" link at the top of each page. Then add [[category:name]] to the top of the page content. When the page is saved this code becomes invisible, and the categories show as hyperlinks on the page footer.
Follow the Style Guide, and select a few of the best categories. Don’t overuse categories.
Place categories describe WHERE a page is about, and refers to ecological region, watershed, or landform--place categories are used on all page types.
Scale Categories
Scale categories describe the KIND OF PLACE, and is mostly used on Place pages.
Jurisdiction Categories
Jurisdictions are mostly about WHO'S POWER. They describe both the domain of General Purpose Governments and might describe the focus of some non-government workgroups. They are used to flag the Efforts of specific governments, as well as products or efforts focused on a specific governemnts domain. Compare to workgroup categories!
Describe WHAT--the subject of a Product, Effort or Topic page.
Describe tupes of Products
Describe WHAT KIND OF WORKGROUP is responsible for a page or is the subject of a page, usually applied to Effort Workgroup or Topic Pages.
Effort categories describe FOR WHAT PURPOSE?--the aim of an effort, the focus of a workgroup, or the kind of action described by a product.
Frequently Asked Questions About Categories
Editors can ask questions about categories here:
- How many categories should I select - select as many categories as is necessary to describe your page. Different Page Types suggest different categorizations to answer a set of questions: where, by whom, for what purpose, with what kind of product, in what jurisdication, about what topics, and at what scale, are typical questions answered by a set of categories.
- If I have a report on Salmon, should I select both Salmon and Fish? - No you only need to select the most appropriate category in a branch of categories. We can use queries to find pages of categories within categories.
