Version 123 of How do Wiki Categories work

Updated 2012-08-29 13:43:18 by LkpPo

Short answer: A page belongs to a category if and only if it contains a link to the main page of that category. Hence a "category link" goes the opposite direction of normal links: to list all pages in a category, you need to list those pages which reference the category page. This can be done by clicking on the category page title or on the References link at the bottom of the category page (the line below the edit this page link).

Some category pages also contain lists of important pages in those categories, but these lists are usually not exhaustive. Click on the page title to get the complete list of member pages.

Links that add a page to a category are usually put at the bottom of that page, but the mechanism which finds all references to a category page does not care about where the link is. Hence this page will show up as belonging to all the categories below, even though the Category Tcler's Wiki is the only one which makes sense.

The following is a list of categories (not automatically updated, so there could be some missing) with short descriptions:


Category Tcler's Wiki