Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories/Current subprojects

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Contents 1 Current projects 1.1 Categorization policy 1.2 Finding uncategorized articles 1.3 Cleaning the category system 1.4 Table of Contents schemes 1.5 Cross-referencing projects 1.6 Content-specific guidelines 1.7 Useful Tools 1.8 Organizing it all

[edit] Current projects

The main project is Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories. Its sub-projects are listed below. Volunteers to these projects are very welcome.

[edit] Categorization policy

• Wikipedia talk:Categorization is where categorization policy is discussed
• Wikipedia talk:Categories for deletion is for discussions related to policy about deleting categories.

[edit] Finding uncategorized articles

• Wikipedia:Auto-categorization lists pages that need categorization which have been pre-sorted by topic.
• Category:Underpopulated categories
• Special:Uncategorizedpages displays an alphabetical list of pages that are not categorized. It is cached (which means it may be slightly out of date) and is not editable. Discuss on Wikipedia talk:Special:Uncategorizedpages.
• Wikipedia:People by year/Reports/No other categories
• Wikipedia:List of lists/uncategorized

[edit] Cleaning the category system

• Wikipedia:Category deletion policy lists the rules, in particular the case of a category corresponding to a template.
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Deletion covers important related deletion templates.
• Wikipedia:Categories for deletion list categories that need renaming or deleting.
• Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/resolved has a number of interesting precedents for naming conventions.
• Category:Wikipedia categories in need of attention lists specific categories that need organizing.
• Category:Orphaned categories lists categories that have no parents. These shouldn't exist.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories is a coordination point for systematic cleanup and standards.

[edit] Table of Contents schemes

There are various attempts to create a "Table of Contents" for Wikipedia. "Top-level" categories of this type are themselves added to Category:Categories. Other schemes are listed at Wikipedia:Category schemes. The pages and categories listed generally require updating, organizing, and consolidation.

[edit] Cross-referencing projects

• Category:Years - A chronological cross-referencing project
• Category:Sources - Aims to organize information about reference sources. Spawned from Wikipedia talk:Forum for Encyclopedic Standards#Source_category

[edit] Content-specific guidelines

• Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/resolved has a number of interesting precedents for naming conventions.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life - Organisms by species
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft/Categories
• Category talk:Academic institutions for guidelines on colleges and universities

[edit] Useful Tools

Category Tree and Category Scan

[edit] Organizing it all

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tasks	People	Topic	Projects	Portals
top	Wikipedians	interests	WikiProject	Portals
current	WikiProject Community	Community	Community articles by quality	Portal:community
proposed	WikiProject Sociology	Sociology	Sociology articles by quality	Portal:Sociology