Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories/Current subprojects
Current projects
These are current Categorization projects. Volunteers to these projects are very welcome.
Finding uncategorized articles
- Wikipedia:Auto-categorization lists pages that need categorization which have been pre-sorted by topic.
- Category:Underpopulated categories
- Special:Uncategorizedpages displays an alphabetical list of pages that are not categorized. It is cached (which means it may be slightly out of date) and is not editable. Discuss on Wikipedia talk:Special:Uncategorizedpages.
- Wikipedia:People by year/Reports/No other categories
- Wikipedia:List of lists/uncategorized
Cleaning the category system
- Category:Wikipedia categories in need of attention lists specific categories that need organizing.
- Category:Orphaned categories lists categories that have no parents. These shouldn't exist.
- Wikipedia:Categories for deletion list categories that need renaming or deleting.
- Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/resolved has a number of interesting precedents for naming conventions.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories is a coordination point for systematic cleanup and standards.
Table of Contents schemes
There are various attempts to create a "Table of Contents" for Wikipedia. "Top-level" categories of this type are themselves added to Category:Categories. Other schemes are listed at Wikipedia:Category schemes. The pages and categories listed generally require updating, organizing, and consolidation.
Cross-referencing projects
- Category:Years - A chronological cross-referencing projec
- Category:Sources - Aims to organize information about reference sources. Spawned from [[Wikipedia talk:Forum for Encyclopedic Standards#Source_category]
Content-specific guidelines
- Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/resolved has a number of interesting precedents for naming conventions.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life - Organisms by species
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft/Categories
- Category talk:Academic institutions for guidelines on colleges and universisites
Requests for comment
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)
A proposal to require admin approval to create new categories.