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

To-do
Propose new tasks on the talk page.
 * Create Category:Maintenance and recategorize all the maintenance categories (ie. Category:Pages 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:Food (0)
 * Category:Game terms (0)
 * Category:Gameplay (2)
 * Category:Geography (0)
 * Category:Guides (0)
 * Category:Inventory Icons (0)
 * Category:Items (3)
 * 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:Mojang Related Events (0)
 * Category:Past Events (0)
 * Category:Upcoming Events (0)
 * 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:Mojang Specifications (0)
 * Category:Ore (0)
 * Category:Plants (0)
 * Category:Projects (0)
 * Category:Redstone (0)
 * Category:Server (1)
 * Category:Silly (0)
 * Category:Skins (1)
 * 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:Crafting
 * 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:Redstone Wire images
 * Category:Screenshots
 * Category:Maintenance
 * Category:Dead
 * Category:Pending deletion
 * Category:Pending merge
 * Category:Pending move
 * Category:Mojang Related events
 * Category:Past events
 * Category:Upcoming events
 * Category:Pending split
 * Category:Image update needed
 * Category:Stub
 * Category:Work in progress
 * Category:Projects
 * Category:Templates
 * Category:Infobox templates
 * Category:Licensing templates
 * Category:Nav templates
 * Category:Notice templates
 * Category:Template documentation
 * Cateogry:Third party
 * Category:Custom servers
 * Category:Custom software
 * Category:Mods