Introduction Pages
- Content Templates
- Create a New Page
- Create a New User Account
- Dynamic Page Lists
- Effort Page Format
- Formatting Templates
- Governance
- Landforms
- New Editor Resources
- Page Types
- Sandbox
- Social Contract
- Style Guide
- The Big Picture
- The Credit Box
- Theory of Knowledge
- Topic Page Format
- Video Tutorials
- Welcome To The Salish Sea
- Welcome to Salish Sea Restoration
- Wiki Markup Tutorial
Each page type as one or more native categories, but any category can be used to describe any page. All categories are also categorized into a hierarchy of categories--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. We are in the process of Developing a more intuitive approach to categorization editing forms.
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. Categories define the architecture of the wiki, and Organizing Pages are used to summarize the contents of one or more categories.
Place categories describe WHERE a page is about--where a group works, what a product is describing, where a place is located, or where an effort has occured.
Scale Categories
Scale categories describe HOW BIG a place is.
Jurisdiction Categories
The layers and branches of governments to describe all page types. These categories are represented with Workgroup pages. Many Products apply to a jurisdiction's boundaries. Jurisdictions and Places are different ways of chopping up the same landscape.
Describe the subject of Product, Effort or Topic pages.
Describe kinds of Products
Label Workgroup or Topic Pages as related to a kind of institution.
Effort categories describe THE PURPOSE of work--the aim of an effort, the focus of a workgroup, or the kind of action described by a product.
Frequently Asked Questions
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 of 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.
