Minecraft Wiki talk:Projects/Categorization

Root category and the tree
Currently, the "root" category of the wiki is Category:Main. There are too many categories that start from here; what should be the "main" categories that start from the root? I think Category:Materials (which may go on into Category:Blocks and Category:Items), Category:Minepedia, Category:Gameplay, Category:Mojang and Category:Community would be good ones. --Gnu32 15:53, 11 February 2011 (UTC)


 * I propose that we start from scratch. I have listed the currently existing categories and proposed a possible reorganization to the category tree. Please look at the remaining categories on the current tree and determine how they would best fit into the new structure, if they fit at all. -- Wynthyst [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png|19px ]] talk  22:04, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

I am confused - and I am sure others are, too, because the article said "Why?" But never actually said "What?" I don't quite understand what to do. Do what you want to contact me to let me know of what to do. ~Zonty~

Categories
Well, this project has apparently been here a while, and if I'm not mistaken, it seems to have remained dormant since March. Maybe it's time for a new task? I know I just joined and don't have much say, but I rather like the new category tree that is in the main article, and perhaps now we should actually start the task of implementing it? Eearslya ( talk | contribs ) 23:43, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

Some observations
I've just joined this project, in response to an issue I came across with the categories that are being processed by the HESI Project. I'll keep adding to the list below as I go, but these are some oddities I have noticed about the categorization scheme here on the Minecraft Wiki. I may just not understand the reasoning behind these decisions, or it might be that a fresh set of eyes (even older eyes like mine) will shed new light on things. So here's my list. Feel free to add to it, or to reply to specific issues I have raised. &mdash; Augur &#x2710; 18:42, 30 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Why is Mechanisms a sub-category of Blocks? There are no pages tagged as Mechanisms, and it only contains a sub-category for Redstone circuits. Shouldn't they be under Redstone instead of under Mechanisms? This seems to be a large area of confusion, as there are both Mechanics and Mechanisms categories, both of which have Redstone circuits as a sub-category. What is going on here?
 * Here is what I understand the current tree structure to be, with respect to Redstone circuits.
 * Category confusion.png


 * Why is Sand an Entity as well as a Block?
 * Could we group the Entities better into sub-groups, as we have with the Mob sub-group?
 * The case of category names needs to be standardised. Just take a look at the sub-categories of the Templates category as an example. According to the Style Guide, "Article titles should be in sentence case, not title case, unless the phrases are proper nouns." Should this also apply to category names?
 * Could we conceivably get rid of the misnamed Archievement category? Or is that where achievements get archived?

Update project
If anyone is still interested in this project other than me, it could use an update. Currently it still advises a sort key from back when categories sorted by namespace, and it does not list much as to current tasks with the categorization. – KnightMiner  · talk 04:12, 5 January 2015 (UTC)