Ryan,
What do you think about the idea of creating categories? I have done so on my user page and at Upper Park Road as an example. It could be a fairly big job to catch up with putting all the articles already created in categories, however I think it might be worth it. For example there will be a
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Category:Bidwell Park
and perhaps organizing categories like
etcetera.
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Hi Greg. Categories have never really been in standard use on DavisWiki or even other wikispot wikis as far as I know. Coming from a MoinMoin background where categories are useful (and the base of WikiSpot used to be MoinMoin), I may be willing to give this a try but I have certain reservations. There are plans at WikiSpot (iirc) to enable "tagging" of pages which is similar to categories but more flexible so this may end up being deprecated in favor of that. But again, no other wikis on wikispot has really utilized this so I don't know how stable this feature is. Categories may get unwieldy, and be hard to maintain if people forget about them. Which means they can be misleading. It is often quite enough fun just making sure I'm linking to the right pages in-text — now this would mean finding the right categories. So I'm not really convinced we should do this. Yes, it can better organize information but I worry it'll become a monster unless we have small number of memorable and standard categories that we never expand upon without good reason. If tags make it in Wikispot, then I don't think we'll have to worry about that since tags in web 2.0 format seem to work well in large numbers
A few notes: when bulleting text, please always put a space before the asterisk. Then two spaces behind it if you need another level, etc. Welcome aboard, by the way. Oh, note that we do have a Wanted Pages which is kind of in the web 2.0 format — we don't really need a Needed Pages category. That process could create orphans, if we filled those in first before finding a good place to link them. But if it helps you contribute to the wiki, that's great. Have a Merry Christmas!
