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Current projects

These are current Categorization projects. Volunteers to these projects are very welcome. Please list only the main page of the category and not subcategories (For example, list World War II, but not World War II people, etc.) Please also list categorization-related WikiProjects as appropriate.

Top-Level/TOC Categories

Currently there are three top level categories:

  1. Category:Dewey Decimal Classification
  2. Category:Fundamental
  3. Category:Main page

Somebody else added Category:Dewey Decimal Classification to Category:Categories, so, following the instructions there, I have mentioned it here. Brianjd 09:31, 2004 Dec 19 (UTC)

I added to the top level category, because it is the fundamental classification scheme used in all the libraries across the world. I think that makes it a more than valid way of classifying wikipedia. I suppose as an additional point, Wikipedia's policy is NPOV, and since from a philosophical point of view reality can be categorised in many different ways, Wikipedia should not advocate a single category system. :ChrisG 13:00, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
This lists the top-level categories currently used in Wikipedia. (emphasis added)
Being NPOV doesn't mean that we have to use the same category scheme as everyone else ("all the libraries", anyway). Brianjd 07:07, 2004 Dec 22 (UTC)

That someone else is ChrisG (talk). I have left a note on their user talk page. Brianjd 12:58, 2004 Dec 19 (UTC)

See also Category talk:Fundamental and Wikipedia:Category schemes

See also these lists that existed before the category system:

Orphaned categories

See Category:Orphaned categories.

Unwanted categories

See Wikipedia:Categories for deletion.

Category cleanup

See Wikipedia:Category cleanup.

Special:Uncategorizedpages

The cached list displays the first 1000 entries. Some of the years that filled it up have now been categorized. See Wikipedia talk:Special:Uncategorizedpages.

There are two specialized lists:

Auto-categorization

The easiest way to classify articles is when they have been pre-sorted by topic by a script. See Wikipedia:Auto-categorization.

Category:Nature

... more being added

Category:Business

Category:Computer science

(Also see: #Category:Technology, specifcally Category:Computers)

Category:Mathematics

Category:Human

Category:Human societies

Category:Social sciences
Category:Culture
Category:Sports
Category:Philosophy

Category:Reference

Category:Lists

(see Wikipedia:List of lists/uncategorized )

User:Docu

Category:People

Cimon (shall be doing it with my trusty IP:)

Category:Geography

Category:Countries

Category:Technology

Category:Architecture

Category:Academia

Category:Sources

Coming out of the Wikipedia_talk:Forum_for_Encyclopedic_Standards#Source_category] discussion. Basically going to try and organise all the material about reference sources in some sort of logical fashion. Months of work ahead obviously; but the idea would be to make it a useful way of navigating Wikipedia. :ChrisG 10:21, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Merge lists to categories

A proposed project to merge redundant lists to categories. Proposal, rationale, and project information is available at that page. Philwelch 23:39, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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