Oh my gosh, THAT'S how you use that? I've always wondered!
Can't say for sure. This tool insinuates that categories should have a hierarchical order, as it tries to display them in a
tree. On the other hand, that would imply that there's always at least one category listed as being an
uncategorized category. (That likely was the case with our "Browse" category, until
KenoSarawa made it a subcategory of itself.)
When you look at the
list of categories, you'll note that there's a bunch of them that came pre-installed by Wikia when our wiki was set up. I'ld suggest to be
very careful with major changes to
those, as they might play an important role in meta-administration that we just have not yet heard of ...
I'll try to clean those up today... In my view, I assumed "Comic" was sort of like our "meta" category, it's thing about the webcomic SSSS as it exists on the internet; The "World" category is a little strange, because, like - how I had originally envisioned it, it would be something to describe things that aren't characters or locations or any other category. Mostly terminology-related things like The Rash and Skalds and Cleansers. I'm not entire sure how it became the top-level category though.
Eeeeehh ... I guess I'll better triage the existing categories per their
origin right now ...
... uuuugghhhh, it seems that not all categories
implied by Wikias defaults have an actual
description provided as well, so that the first user to later add
that gets listed as "creating" the category.
I'll have to grab some random other recent Wikias and
compare the categories to nail that ...
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Apparent Wikia-default categories:
Blog posts (*), Browse (*)(**), Forums (*), General wiki templates, Help (*), Help desk (*), Template documentation (*), Templates (*), Watercooler (*).
(*) confirmed by version history; (**) edited
Note: All these categories
except "General wiki templates" and the self-inclusion of "Browse" are organized in a hierarchy with "Browse" being the top.
The categories "Article management templates" and "Article stubs" are implied by KenoSarawas "Stub" template, which is used in the "Old Gods" (by KenoSarawa) and "Rønne" (by me) pages.
Categories apparently outright created by KenoSarawa:
Comic, Content.
Genuine categories to classify topics are:
Characters, Countries, Creatures, Locations, Professions, Technology.
The rest:
Meta (Solovei), Navigation templates (implied by KenoSarawa, edited+expanded by me), Spoiler templates (me), "Story, Plot Points, Artwork" (me).
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Alright,
proposal:- Undo the edit on "Browse" so as to restore the Wikia default categories.
- Keep the genuine topical and all template-related categories (those are rather well-defined, even the ones from the "Stub" template).
- Clean up the wannabe Übercategories (Comic, Content, Meta, "Story, Plot Points, Artwork"), replacing them with clearly defined ones (***), then make those subcategories of "Browse".
(***) I don't care much whether that's
one global "Content" or a triptych of "Comic content"/"Comic meta"/"Real world and fandom", as long as it's clear which
one to put a page/topic into.
