Help:Categories
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Here at ResearchID.org, academic fields are arranged and organized into categories. Feel free to add one (1) cool graphic to each category page. Upload the image and then put a link to it in the category page.
- Images that are covered by public domain, creative commons, or gnu licenses are highly encouraged.
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A Category page
A category page consists of:
- editable text
- list of subcategories; how many there are is also displayed; if there are no subcategories the header and count are not shown.
- list of pages in the category, excluding subcategories and images; the number of items in this list is called the number of articles; if there are none the header is shown anyway, and "There are 0 articles in this category."
- list of images with thumbnails (how many there are is not counted); the first 20 characters of the image name are shown, with dots if that is not the full name; also the file size is shown. As opposed to the second and third section, this section does not have subheaders per letter, it has not even a header itself and visually seems to fall under the header of the previous section "Articles in category ...", even though in counting the articles, images/image pages are not considered articles).
The items in the lists all link to the pages concerned; in the case of the images this applies both to the image itself and to the text below it (the name of the image).
The first and second list each have a header for each first character, dispensed with if there are no entries for a header.
Category usage
Every research article should be assigned to at least one related category.
Assigning a category
To assign a page to a specific category, use the following format:
[[Category:CategoryName]]
For example, if I want a page to be listed in the "Biology" category, in the page I would type:
[[Category:Biology]]
You can select them from the categories page or make a new category! (see below)
Make a new category
To make a new one, type in an unused name in the proper link format.
[[Category:NameofUnusedCategory]]
Subcategories
This section describes how you can make a category a subcategory of another category. This can be a little tricky, but try to stay with us here.
Adding a category tag to the editable space in a category page makes the edited category a subcategory of the tag's category.
For example, you could edit the category page of [[Category:Soccer]] and add the link [[Category:Sports]]. The 'Soccer' category would then be a subcategory of the 'Sports' category.
So, when you add a category link to a category page, in effect you are telling the wiki that "this category page that I am editing is a subcategory of the category that I am linking it to."
If you are having trouble with assigning sub-categories and are not able to complete the task, please let the site administrators know by making an entry on the ResearchID.org:Administrators page.
