User:Sandralpond/Sandbox2

Portals

 * Wikipedia Directory number of portals in Wikipedia.
 * Wikipedia Portal:Contents/Categories
 * Wikipedia Category:Portals
 * Wikipedia Category:Content_portals
 * Wikipedia Wikipedia:About Wikipedia stats

FamilySearch Wiki

 * History of FamilySearch Wiki Portals, I created the last 300 pages changed to Non-Portals.
 * Present Page Problems may be caused by misuse, misunderstanding, and plain lazy use of Categorization
 * The Category Tree is formed by Sub-categories (Lack of understanding among contributors). Some contributors either put the page in the largest category, no category, misspell the category or in a too specific category (Example the title of the page)
 * 1. Reasons for use of Categories
 * A One reason is to allow us to use the Search within the Wiki
 * B Next it help establish the Order of the Articles
 * 2. Background Beginning Levels of the Category in the Wiki FamilySearch Wiki maintenance Categories
 * 3. Category Tree in each main category (Use of Sub-categories)
 * A. Example: Category:Washington and Category:England
 * B. The order of articles starts on the Category:Contents and Etc.
 * 4. Organize the present Categories and subcategories.
 * A. Example: Category:Washington and Category:England
 * 5. Use of our Team and Other Volunteers to Organize the Work
 * A Use of the Localities &amp; Topics - Wiki Support (Google Doc) to assign areas to work on.
 * B. Steps to clean up the Categories.
 * 1 Start at the top level Category:Contents Work down through each level.
 * How to prevent future Problems? Some possible avenues
 * 1. Can we help create a way to organize a drop-down to select a category that would be required for each new page?
 * 2. Have a permanent Team to Keep the Categories clean.
 * 3. Other Options?

First Step

 * Compare the Topics found on the Following three pages to see what Topics need to exist on the main category page Category:Articles by topic.


 * Category:Articles by topic
 * Any Country Category Page Example:Category:England(I am doing this one)LaVera took Germany
 * The topic list on the left side of the State Page.
 * Bring a list of what is missing on the Category:Articles by topic to the Sept 24th meeting. Suggestion: You might want to use the State or County you have signed up for the Localities and Topic - Wiki Support

Second

 * We want to form a list of what categories need to be placed on the Category:Articles by topic page and decide what needs to be added, merge and/or delete from those Categories.
 * Our goal is the clean up the levels of the Wiki and to create a pattern to follow in the future to keep the Wiki Categories clean and very searchable.
 * Category:Articles by topic

Let's Compare
Look at the now and possible future


 * User:Sandralpond/Sandbox

Examples of Levels


 * User:Sandralpond/sandbox4

Ways we may go


 * User:Luccagenes/Sandbox/TestPage26

Many Categories We may want to alter


 * List of Categories