I know category requests are on hold at the moment.
Recently, I requested a category “Genshin Impact” for all the Genshin Impact articles we have. We do not have enough articles for this to be part of the category tree, but I anticipate that we will eventually get to a point where there are many Genshin Impact guides on the site.
For this reason, I suppose that we should have a maintenance category called “Work in progress” where we have categories that have too few articles to be part of the category tree, but still a lot of related articles to help readers. Because we are still figuring out the ideal way to do categorization to help readers and editors find what we are looking for, this could be a good way to start. When a category is marked as “work in progress”, it should not be visible to anyone (deindexed and hidden from member pages) except editors. Once a category is populated enough, staff could add it to the main category tree.
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Eric
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Heya, Aasim. I applaud the continued flow of ideas! However, I think that would actually be contrary to the category strategy that has already been announced. As you may recall, we’re actually working on reducing the number of categories because we’ve found that having such a huge category structure can be a lot of work to maintain and may not actually help readers find the articles they are looking for. We’re shifting articles into higher level categories. I assume Genshin Impact is a video game of some sort, so rather than create a specific Genship Impact category, this would fit much better in a video games category. By shifting to this mindset, it actually already addresses your concerns about there not being enough articles for a specific category (i.e. it would be a moot point, because the article would go into a higher level category).
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Maybe… instead of categories like these… we have a “Guide:” namespace where we list articles related to a video game? I know we have a few staff guides for stuff like Windows and Mac, but having a Guide: namespace means that we could have our own custom guides that anyone can add related articles to. Thoughts?
Also, @Eric
: I think it was a mistake to close the Genshin Impact subcategory request. I did not duplicate this topic in the Village Pump; rather, I suggested that a Genshin Impact subcategory be created. We already have subcategories related to major video games. If we have 20 or 30 articles all on Genshin Impact, we should definitely reconsider having that thread. Can you reopen that thread and maybe edit out the part where I talk about “work in progress category”?
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As I described above, we’re shifting to higher level categories and not creating deep level, hyper-specific categories, such as for a specific game. That, coupled with the fact that category requests are on hold, means it’s pretty safe to assume we won’t be adding this specific category.
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Yeah. I think this would just add to the overflow of categories. Some are just too specific and theres only like three articles in them.
I think that, maybe, for groups of articles like this, where we probably don’t want categories for them, but it could be a good idea to group them together to make them all easy to find in one place, we could perhaps create something like the new Tech Help page
for them. Obviously, if there are only 3 articles on a topic, then we would not create these pages. But, if there’s something like 20 to 50 articles on a topic, then I think that could warrant a page like the Tech Help page. It would require making it possible for contributors to create these pages though, either through special formatting in article text, or through some other method. But I think that it could be something to look into, assuming that this new experiment goes well.
Yep. That was what I was thinking. Maybe this could be the first use of the “content model” system that was introduced recently into MediaWiki. To tell the parser to treat this like a list of articles as part of a guide rather than a good ol Project: page.
