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Last edit December 9, 2014
What is a category?

A category is a ReverseIndex to related Wiki pages. Instead of a category page containing forward links to pages of that category, page authors can put a reference to one or more categories on their pages. By clicking on the title of a category page, Wiki will list the pages referenced to that category.

For instance:

Someone adds the category title 'CategoryComicBooks' at the bottom of a page. When someone clicks the link to that category, they are taken to that category's page. That page may or may not have a more detailed description of what pages it applies to (wiki users are, of course, encouraged to provide those descriptions), but in any case, if the title of that page is then clicked, Wiki will provide a list of all pages having that category's link in them.

To see a list of all categories, click the title of this page. To view the list of categories in alphabetical order, click the LikePages link at the bottom of this page or try http:like?CategoryCategory. What follows on this page is a list of some categories grouped by subject.
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Some easy rules for editing this page:

  • create a category only when that category is really needed (be picky)
  • create concise descriptions (as few words as possible)
  • create useful descriptions (don't merely repeat the category name)
  • keep everything in alphabetical order
  • only after dealing with all the BackLinks (hundreds, sometimes thousands) do you delete or rename a category
  • only when it really makes sense do you put entries into multiple sections
WIKI CATEGORIES REGROUPED BY SUBJECT
Computing

General:
Software Development & Programming General: Coding Concerns: Distributed Computing: Programming Languages: Special Purpose Languages:
Technical stuff

General:
Patterns

General: Specific:
Entertainment

General:
Intellectual Stuff (Literature, History, Psychology, Philosophy, etc.)

General:
Language

General: For artificial languages devised for programming, see CategoryProgrammingLanguage (above) and the appropriate section listed below.
Miscellaneous Stuff

General:
People

General:
Professional stuff

General: Process, Quality, Methodology:
Wiki Wiki Web

General: Indexes, etc:
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See: WikiCategories, CategoriesDiscussion, HelpUsingCategories, FaqForCategories

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