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This project has been set up to help manage the categories of Wikipedia and improve them. The goal is to categorize all articles in a way that is consistent with the guidelines at Wikipedia:Categorization.

Discussions about categorization policy happen at Wikipedia talk:Categorization. That page is also the place for solving specific issues related to category organization.

To delete, merge, or rename categories, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion.

Please direct all talk to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Categories if you would like to help or comment on the project.

There is a task force that puts uncategorized articles into categories.

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[edit] Current projects

Please list any categorization projects you are planning or are in the process of working on. Include your name and date and describe what you are/will be doing. See also: Category:Wikipedia categories in need of attention

updated: Dbiel (Talk) 04:56, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
Finished genera lists, moved on to species lists. – Tirkfltalk 10:28, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Current discussions

Please list any pages where discussions about categorization are taking place. Please date the entry and add your name.

[edit] Participants

If you would like to take part then add your signature here using ~~~~ and a description of any areas you may be interested in.

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  1. Greg Robson 21:31, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC) Project founder
  2. Urthogie 03:31, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
  3. Pioneer-12 22:58, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  4. Circeus 03:08, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC) Mostly as a constant and unrelented categorist. I'll be glad to help assisting regularizing categorization.
  5. smoddy 30 June 2005 20:50 (UTC) I plan to tackle cricket's abomination, but would be happy to go further afield. smoddy 30 June 2005 20:50 (UTC)
  6. Quinobi 30 June 2005 20:58 (UTC) |top down, ad hoc bottom up any way that works!
  7. Radiant_>|< July 7, 2005 13:46 (UTC)
  8. ∞Who?¿? 08:32, 15 July 2005 (UTC) Overall categorization schemas. I started with all image, X-Men and comics categories. Now for the rest of the tangled web. :)
  9. Maurreen (talk) 15:40, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
  10. Splash 21:52, 5 August 2005 (UTC) I meant to sign here ages ago.
  11. Barista | a/k/a マイケル | T/C 08:37, 14 August 2005 (UTC) - Did you know Wikipedia has over 68,000 categories. I hope to pare down some of the redundant and/or underpopulated catgories.
  12. Noakesey 12:58, 21 August 2005 (UTC) Beginner who's obsessed with organising other people's information!
  13. siafu 04:03, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
  14. Carcharoth 22:18, 8 September 2005 (UTC) Currently working on Category:Disasters which was a disaster but is looking better now. Still learning, but would appreciate any comments.
  15. Hiding talk 19:21, 10 September 2005 (UTC) Probably in helping to standardise, although any other areas I could be useful, let me know.
  16. Mushroom 17:22, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
  17. Ze miguel 10:24, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
  18. Paul 02:14, 10 December 2005 (UTC) Classifying information is my drug.
  19. Quaque 00:18, 25 December 2005 (UTC) There are a large amount of uncategorized articles out there. I hope to help reduce these.
  20. Jake 04:57, 27 December 2005 (UTC) I started with Category:Computing, and just kept following links... working on Category:American people and Category:Ancient Romans now... try to get as much as possible across the board subsorted
  21. Suryoyo 00:16, 30 December 2005 (UTC) - Im more interested on history of middleeast.
  22. __earth 16:08, 2 January 2006 (UTC) - Taking up everything that falls under Category:Southeast Asia. Wish me luck because it's huge!
  23. Semiconscious 11 January 2006 - Putting empty categories up for deletion, standardizing category names and descriptions, etc.
  24. Peter McGinley 12:02, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
  25. Crystallina 06:25, 29 January 2006 (UTC) - Mainly been doing music-related articles, although I'd be glad to branch out.
  26. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 11:28, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
  27. Waggers 16:21, 14 February 2006 (UTC) - I've been adding categories to uncategorized articles for a little while; I'll continue to do this, but I'm also interested in cleanup
  28. bmills 16:51, 14 February 2006 (UTC) — Fixing Category:Computer science and related categories (crossover with WP:COMPSCI).
  29. Kbdank71 18:58, 14 February 2006 (UTC) Mainly working cleanup on WP:CFD.
  30. Waitak 14:17, 17 February 2006 (UTC) Category:Underutilized crops and related.
  31. Samuel Wantman 07:58, 9 March 2006 (UTC). Mainly work on categorization and classification policy.
  32. Adding cats to articles without cats Where (talk) 01:36, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
  33. --WilliamThweatt 21:18, 23 March 2006 (UTC)Been working on organizing the Languages categories. Starting to sort, tag and organize AustroAsiatic Languages.
  34. --Paleorthid 15:55, 5 April 2006 (UTC) Soil science categories. Developing schema is posted on soil science category talk page.
  35. —Viriditas | Talk 06:45, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
  36. ProveIt (talk) 21:08, 14 April 2006 (UTC) I've been working on the Uncategorized Categories list.
  37. --Vir 02:09, 30 April 2006 (UTC) I'm interested in general categorization schemes.
  38. Museumfreak 15:49, 16 May 2006 (UTC) Thought I'd add myself because I add cats to articles without cats and am doing cleanup and reworking of Category:Public Health
  39. JennyRad 15:52, 1 June 2006. Have been categorising cheeses and books and am looking at other categories to assist on.
  40. Epolk 17:51, 2 June 2006 (UTC) - I will categorize anything but I regularly patrol the Category:Government of the United States
  41. Recury 17:28, 7 June 2006 (UTC) Mostly Category:Auto racing right now, but will probably work on some of the other automobile-related and sports-related categories later where needed.
  42. Robert Moore 14:28 15 June 2006 (UTC) I usually work on articles or categories involving Dance music, bus transit systems, radio stations, TV show and TV stations.
  43. Brz7 | Brz7 20:54, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
  44. Zorblek (talk) 10:44, 25 June 2006 (UTC) I do miscellaneous categorizing, but I'm especially interested in making sure that categories are linked logically.
  45. SynergeticMaggot 19:19, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
  46. utcursch | talk
  47. User:DGG I'm trying to get various library and publishing topics into places that make sense.
  48. Jdclevenger 22:13, 30 September 2006 (UTC) General work, pretty random really. A strong interest in food articles.
  49. Daniel. 08:06, 19 October 2006 (UTC) General work, with strong interest in Anime, Manga and Comics.
  50. Hemlock Martinis 07:23, 15 November 2006 (UTC) - I'll be going through Category:Categories requiring diffusion and diffusing the articles in those categories. Current projects include Category:European Union and Category:Lists of office-holders.
  51. Fishal 15:39, 18 November 2006 (UTC): I guess I like categorizing things.
  52. TonyTheTiger I have just overhauled Category:Families. TonyTheTiger 17:07, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
  53. SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 03:24, 23 November 2006 (UTC) — Working heavily on fixing up the categorization of pool/billiards/snooker articles.
  54. —EdGl 01:59, 29 November 2006 (UTC) I categorize articles without a category.
  55. Delta Tango • Talk 13:03, 23 December 2006 (UTC) Always liked categorization, and will always continue categorizing.
  56. MChew 15:26, 23 December 2006 (UTC) Working on biographical categorization at present, but will always add as many categories as I feel suitable to non or under categorized articles
  57. Obina 10:15, 4 January 2007 (UTC) I am currently adding categories to articles - Very interesting as it often leads me to improving or sometimes proposing deletion.
  58. lquilter 23:07, 6 January 2007 (UTC) - Librarian; interested in categorization generally. Mostly working within people, legal topic, awards, fiction, and fictional works categories. ... Cleaning up sciences; also "Category:Establishments by year".
  59. Sue H. Ping 14:47, 7 January 2007 (UTC) Interested in helping clean out the backlog of articles that don't have categories
  60. Melanochromis 15:34, 16 January 2007 (UTC) Interested in cleaning up and maintaining fish and fishkeeping categories. Will also help with other subjects as needed.
  61. Lesnail 16:23, 20 January 2007 (UTC) Enjoys categorizing things.
  62. Elonka 22:16, 28 January 2007 (UTC) - Identification of uncategorized articles, and tagging them accordingly
  63. Stardust8212 02:09, 7 February 2007 (UTC) Working the uncategorized task force, specifically uncategorized people
  64. Richiar - categories and portals and their relationship with articles have been very confusing for me, so if I learn about them, I can help. Areas-design and organization of categories and their relationships to each other, articles and portals
  65. Flubeca 16:31, 19 February 2007 (UTC) - Since I was already helping with this. I thought "Why not add my name to the list?"
  66. SilkTork 13:23, 24 February 2007 (UTC) - I love it.
  67. WillyFourEyes 17:43, 9 March 2007 (UTC) I like categorization. I'm going to try and add categories to articles relating to video games and cartoons, my areas of "expertise".
  68. Lenoxus 16:30, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
  69. Bencherlite 02:42, 26 March 2007 (UTC) correct categorization of musicians, dealing with overcategorization of people
  70. Vinch 6:31, 4 April 2007 (IST)
  71. Tellyaddict 10:37, 7 April 2007 (UTC) Generally helping categorise articles via Category:Uncategorized pages.
  72. Kranar drogin 01:23, 9 April 2007 (UTC)Cleaning up Illinois-related categories for WikiProject Illinois.
  73. Suncloud 08:35, 15 April 2007 (UTC) Mainly loiter in Special:Uncategorizedpages where I try and categorise pages there, alongside dealing with (or highlighting) the other issues these, often new, pages have.
  74. Bu b0y2007 06:13, 20 April 2007 (UTC) (always willing to help and participate)
  75. Wizardman 02:18, 30 April 2007 (UTC)--I've done some work with cats before, I'm always available if needed.
  76. MFulvio I'm a librarian & a taxonomy manager-- so I'm both familiar with categorization and rather easily excited by it. I'd be delighted to help in this project. Mfulvio 18:41, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
  77. The Sunshine Man 14:25, 12 May 2007 (UTC) I regularly categorise articles via CAT:UNCAT.
  78. Wassermann 22:27, 16 May 2007 (UTC) -- I am interested in many categories, and I especially like to refine categories. I feel that categorization is by far the best way to organize Wikipedia at the deepest and the most basic level; they are certainly much more cleaner and efficient than lists.
  79. Werldwayd 06:54, 17 June 2007 (UTC) (I am very organized and am always willing to help in Wikipedia categories)
  80. Psychless 23:48, 20 June 2007 (UTC) – I want to help with uncategorized pages, and other categorization tasks
  81. Gary King 06:03, 24 June 2007 (UTC) I'm cleaning up uncategorized pages.
  82. Yamaka122 16:53, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
  83. Lord Sesshomaru 00:12, 29 June 2007 (UTC) Wish I had known about this WikiProject sooner. Glad to help whenever possible.
  84. Dbiel (Talk) 09:08, 3 July 2007 (UTC) would like to take a stab at the school related categories.
  85. CaveatLectorTalk 15:42, 9 July 2007 (UTC) Categories help organize Wikipedia in a way that aids navigation and therefore research. On that note, I'd like to work on making superfluous lists into more defined and useful categories.
  86. AchedDamiman All A-Z.
  87. Shruti14 22:12, 2 August 2007 (UTC) good WP
  88. Acs4b T C U 03:30, 5 August 2007 (UTC) - As I do not have a general area to contribute to, it will just be a mixture of practically everything. Categories are essential but play a crucial role on Wikipedia. Plus, I did not realise until just recently that categorisation can be interesting and fun but not stressful at times.
  89. elmindreda 03:23, 16 August 2007 (UTC) - I categorise anything, but mostly people (using Special:Uncategorizedpages).
  90. Tirkfltalk 14:24, 20 August 2007 (UTC) - From time to time, when I feel like organising something, I do some categorising — mainly articles on people and science.
  91. Cgingold 00:00, 24 September 2007 (UTC) I just discovered that this project exists, so I guess I may as well make it "official", seeing as I'm already doing a good deal of work in this area.
  92. MrBoo (talk, contribs) 14:00, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
  93. Kathleen.wright5 05:05, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
  94. Severa (!!!) 13:18, 18 October 2007 (UTC) I'm most interested in diffusing overpopulated categories and attempting to create navigable categorization schemes.
  95. Shinobigai(!!!) 15:18EST, 28 October 2007 ~~~~ IM interested in anime, martial arts, linguistics, Scifi, and aviation
  96. wooerfara3661 10:03, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
  97. Jon Ace 20:59, 7 November 2007 (UTC) Random categorizer
  98. Gueneverey (talk) 22:18, 18 November 2007 (UTC) I just found out this WikiProject exists, but I've been categorizing folk music related articles for some time now.
  99. Jw21/PenaltyKillah VANucks|12-9-2 04:31, 4 December 2007 (UTC) You won't believe how messed up it is, especially when you edit articles on consumer electronics...
  100. Doczilla (talk) 03:05, 12 January 2008 (UTC) A lot of CfDs.
  101. Grk1011 (talk) 23:04, 19 January 2008 (UTC) I like to categorize music related articles
  102. --JustJimDandy (talk) 19:06, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
  103. FeanorStar7 (talk) 00:03, 25 March 2008 (UTC) --primarily adding birth and death categories to bios; trying to be systematic; right now in the 1610s; also working on the uncategorized pages category
  104. – i123Pie biocontribs 18:05, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
  105. Rotovia (talk) 09:36, 9 April 2008 (UTC) Linking Australian articles, particually Australian poltical articles
  106. Megata Sanshiro (talk) 15:40, 13 April 2008 (UTC) sorting video game and video game company articles.
  107. Stepheng3 (talk) 20:50, 19 April 2008 (UTC) categorizing (or deleting) everything in Special:UncategorizedCategories except for Category:Contents.
  108. BillyMassie (talk)Billy Massie (talk) 05:22, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
  109. Mdebets (talk) 11:31, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
  110. --Wulf Isebrand (talk) 00:26, 12 May 2008 (UTC) I'm currently categorizing articles at Category:German-Americans and some other "Fooian-American" categories. Categories are an important aspect of Wikipedia and the best way to organize it.
  111. Arsenikk (talk) 21:28, 20 May 2008 (UTC) -- primarily related to the Nordic Countries, transport and business.
  112. --mrg3105 (comms) ♠♥♦♣ 22:31, 29 May 2008 (UTC) working in the Military History Project with (currently) a small area of Second World War
  113. THE FOUNDERS INTENT TALK 17:05, 9 June 2008 (UTC) I have been working on categories off and on for some time. I try to find ungrouped subcategories that lack a overarching category, and place articles in more appropriate categories. I also try to reorganize categories to eliminate "endless do loops" in category tree structures, which include overcategorizing individual articles with nested categories. I mostly work on categories related to articles and topics I have knowledge in. However, I'm happy to assist in any area.  :)

[edit] Useful pages

Feel free to add sub-categories and new links to those pages that you believe will assist those helping with this project.