Categories

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This Venn diagram suggests how pages can be tagged by multiple overlapping categories depending on the information they contain.

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.

Salish Sea(13 C, 14 P, 4 F)
Admiralty Inlet(1 P)
East Sound(3 C, 9 P, 3 F)
Fraser Lowlands(1 C, 2 P, 1 F)
Gulf Islands(5 P)
Hood Canal(6 C, 43 P, 4 F)
Juan de Fuca(4 C, 10 P, 4 F)
San Juan Islands(8 P, 4 F)
South Puget Sound(4 C, 62 P, 17 F)
South Vancouver Island(1 C, 4 P)
Sunshine Coast(2 P)
West Sound(1 C, 8 P, 4 F)
Whidbey Basin(4 C, 27 P, 10 F)



Scale Categories

Scale categories describe the KIND OF PLACE, and is mostly used on Place pages.

Catchment Scale(20 C, 17 P)
Landform Scale(2 C, 113 P)
Regional Scale(10 C, 18 P)
Site Scale(7 P)
Unit Scale(1 P)



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!

Canada(1 C, 18 P)
British Columbia(1 C, 2 P)
USA(1 C, 55 P, 8 F)
Washington(10 C, 77 P, 9 F)

Describe WHAT--the subject of a Product, Effort or Topic page.

Anthropogenic Topics(4 C, 1 P)
Climate Change(1 C, 40 P, 18 F)
Infrastructure(6 C, 9 P)
Land Use(6 C, 60 P, 35 F)
Socioeconomics(9 C, 32 P, 31 F)
Biology(7 C, 49 P, 36 F)
Ecology(5 C, 1 P)
Geophysics(7 C, 37 P, 5 F)
Landform(7 C, 2 P, 1 F)



Describe tupes of Products

Dataset(1 C, 6 P)
Spatial Data(6 P)
Document(5 C, 158 P, 520 F)
Design(1 P, 1 F)
Presentation(35 F)
Standard(1 P, 3 F)
Synthesis(3 F)
Thesis-Dissertation(1 P, 3 F)
Graphic(3 C, 78 F)
Diagram(8 F)
Image(115 F)
Map(2 P, 91 F)
Website(35 P)
no subcategories

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.

Academic(1 C, 13 P)
Youth(3 P)
Federal(56 P, 10 F)
no subcategories
Local(4 C, 42 P, 5 F)
County(8 C, 2 P)
District(1 C, 1 P)
Municipality(1 C, 10 P)
Special District(13 P, 3 F)
no subcategories
Private(1 C, 23 P)
NGO(1 C, 72 P)
Provincial(2 P)
no subcategories
State(5 P)
no subcategories
Tribal(23 P, 1 F)
no subcategories



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.

Arts and Crafts(1 P)
Lessons(empty)
Monitoring(31 P, 53 F)
Research(49 P, 29 F)
Protection(2 C, 32 P, 27 F)
Acquisition(1 P)
Regulation(12 P, 6 F)
Restoration(3 C, 153 P, 156 F)
Beach Nourishment(empty)
Engineered Log Jams(2 P, 1 F)
Fish Passage(2 P)
Revegetation(7 P, 4 F)
Social Change(7 C)
Advocacy(2 P)
Coordination(53 P, 3 F)
Education(10 P, 2 F)
Funding(52 P, 18 F)
Legislation(5 P, 2 F)
Planning(78 P, 140 F)

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.