Minecraft Wiki:Projects/Categorization

This is a wiki project that aims to organize the wiki through the power of categorization. Editors who have an interest in keeping the wiki organized in the background using the category system should add their name to the participant list below and then either look for tasks in the to-do list or discuss ideas for categories and category trees.

Why?
Discuss the usefulness of this project on the talk page.

Categories are a very useful way to navigate the wiki outside of articles. They assist in finding topics of a similar type or nature, not unlike navigation boxes. For example, if a user reads about the Quiver and wants to find other removed content, they could check a category like Category:Removed. Not only this, but it also helps in the maintenance of the wiki itself by categorizing all articles with some form of needed maintenance such as deletion requests. It also keeps templates and other useful resources grouped and categorized for editors to easily find and use.

Who's involved

 * Gnu32 15:45, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
 * -- Wynthyst [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png|19px ]] talk  19:33, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
 * IKJames 20:42, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Aims

 * Organize the wiki's category tree into a clear structure of article categories
 * Find articles of a related nature and categorize them with relevant and useful categories
 * Propose a standard or guidelines for category creation and usage
 * Organize all the maintenance-related content for Minepedia and group them, ie. Navbox templates

Category guidelines

 * The tree should start from the root category Category:Main and split into primary categories. These primary categories should have no pages in them if possible, just categories.
 * Categories should be created under the following checklist:
 * Is it a subject matter worth categorizing by interest? e.g. Category:Custom server
 * If it's a category for categories or templates, will it be too micromanaged? e.g. Category:Nav templates instead of Category:Box templates
 * Does a similar category already exist? e.g. Category:Licensing templates instead of Category:Licenses
 * Categories should be properly cased; No Camel Casing except where appropriate. e.g. "Employees of Mojang"
 * When categorizing pages on a different namespace to main (e.g. Template:, Help:, Talk: etc..) EXCEPT for Categories, make sure you define the first parameter of the category link as the correct sorting letter. e.g. To categorize Template:Stub in Category:Infobox templates, you must use the code

To-do
Propose new tasks on the talk page.
 * Create Category:Maintenance and recategorize all the maintenance categories (ie. Category:Pending deletion) there
 * --Gnu32 15:45, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Create a category tree for templates

Current Category Tree

 * Category:Main
 * Category:Blocks (0)
 * Category:Community (0)
 * Category:Conjecture (0)
 * Category:Crafting (0)
 * Category:Custom server (0)
 * Category:Custom software (1)
 * Category:Decorations (0)
 * Category:Development (0)
 * Category:Disambiguation pages (0)
 * Category:Environment (1)
 * Category:Events (3)
 * Category:Mojang Related Events (0)
 * Category:Past Events (0)
 * Category:Upcoming Events (0)
 * Category:Food (0)
 * Category:Game terms (0)
 * Category:Gameplay (2)
 * Category:Game Modes
 * Category:Skin Images
 * Category:Geography (0) Merge with Environment
 * Category:Guides (0)
 * Category:Inventory Icons (0)
 * Category:Items (3)
 * Category:Food
 * Category:Tools
 * Category:Weapons
 * Category:Mechanics (0)
 * Category:Minepedia (15)
 * Category:Crafting Animations (0)
 * Category:Crafting Grid Input Images (0)
 * Category:Crafting Grid Output Images (0)
 * Category:Furnace Grid Fuel Images (0)
 * Category:Furnace Grid Input Images (0)
 * Category:Furnace Grid Output Images (0)
 * Category:Grid numbers (0)
 * Category:Help (0)
 * Category:Maintenance (8)
 * Category:Dead (0)
 * Category:Pages Pending Deletion (0)
 * Category:Pages Pending Merging (0)
 * Category:Pages Pending Moving (3)
 * Category:Pages Pending Splitting (0)
 * Category:Picture needs brightening (0)
 * Category:Stub (0)
 * Category:Work in progress (0)
 * Category:Outdated (0)
 * Category:Redstone Wire Images (0)
 * Category:Template documentation (0)
 * Category:Templates (1)
 * Category:Nav Templates (0)
 * Category:Translations (0)
 * Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates (0)
 * Category:Mob (0)
 * Category:Mojang AB (0)
 * Category:Ore (0)
 * Category:Plants (0)
 * Category:Projects (0)
 * Category:Redstone (0)
 * Category:Server (1)
 * Category:Custom server
 * Category:Silly (0)
 * Category:Skins (1)
 * Category:Skin Images
 * Category:Suggestions (0)
 * Category:Tools (0)
 * Category:UI (0)
 * Category:Useless (0)
 * Category:Users (1)
 * Category:Version (0)

Proposed changes
Category:Main
 * Category:Archives
 * Category:Blocks
 * Category:Liquids
 * Category:Manufactured blocks
 * Category:Mechanisms
 * Category:Natural blocks
 * Category:Nether blocks
 * Category:Non-Solid blocks
 * Category:Ore
 * Category:Planned blocks
 * Category:Plants
 * Category:Removed blocks
 * Category:Utility blocks
 * Category:Crafting
 * Category:Disambiguation pages
 * Category:Environment
 * Category:Time and Light
 * Category:Matter
 * Category:Removed environments
 * Category:Space
 * Category:Sound
 * Category:Guides
 * Category:Minecraft
 * Category:Development
 * Category:Events
 * Category:Mojang events
 * Category:Past events
 * Category:Upcoming events
 * Category:History
 * Category:Game changing
 * Category:Game help
 * Category:UI
 * Category:Game play
 * Category:Mechanics
 * Category:Game modes
 * Category:Game terms
 * Category:Help
 * Category:Images
 * Category:Crafting images
 * Category:Crafting animations
 * Category:Crafting grid input images
 * Category:Crafting grid output images
 * Category:Furnace grid images
 * Category:Furnace grid fuel images
 * Category:Furnace grid input images
 * Category:Furnace grid output images
 * Category:Grid number images
 * Category:Icons
 * Category:Licensed images
 * Category:Creative Commons images
 * Category:Copyrighted images
 * Category:Copyleft images
 * Category:GFDL images
 * Category:Public domain images
 * Category:Redstone wire images
 * Category:Screenshots
 * Category:Skin images
 * Category:User images
 * Category:Items
 * Category:Decorations
 * Category:Food
 * Category:Ore
 * Category:Plants
 * Category:Raw Materials
 * Category:Removed items
 * Category:Tools
 * Category:Vehicles
 * Category:Weapons
 * Category:Wool Dyes
 * Category:Maintenance
 * Category:Dead
 * Category:Pending deletion
 * Category:Pending merge
 * Category:Pending move
 * Category:Pending split
 * Category:Image update needed
 * Category:Images violating copyright
 * Category:Stub
 * Category:Work in progress
 * Category:Mob
 * Category:Passive mob
 * Category:Neutral mob
 * Category:Aggressive mob
 * Category:Unused mob
 * Category:Removed mob
 * Category:Mojang AB
 * Category:Outdated
 * Category:Projects
 * Category:Templates
 * Category:Formatting templates
 * Category:Image templates
 * Category:Infobox templates
 * Category:Licensing templates
 * Category:Nav templates
 * Category:Notice templates
 * Category:Template documentation
 * Category:User templates
 * Category:Third party
 * Category:Custom server
 * Category:Custom software
 * Category:Mods
 * Category:Translations
 * Category:Users
 * Category:Users humor Previously Silly