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All About Categories

Categories (aka tags) are incredibly useful for organising our wiki without us overusing the groups. For instance, in the NPCs group, we have [[!Criminals]] and [[!Religious]] figures, while in the Creatures group we have [[!Monsters]] and [[!Pets]], but that's an awful lot of pages to look through, so I've broken them down into smaller sections with the use of categories.

For any page you create in any wikigroup, you should add tags at the bottom of the page to aid with referencing and linking.

For instance, if I create a profile for a NPC called Vincent Carmichael, I'd do so in the NPCs group because that's where character profiles go. However, I would also add tags at the bottom of the profile that would make it easier for me to find his page later and to cross-reference him from within other groups and categories.

Since Vincent Carmichael is a thief, I'd add the [[!Criminals]] tag to his profile, and as he also is bonded to a dragon I'd add the [[!Bonded Summoners]], [[!Summoners]] and [[!Bonded]] tags. I'd also add the [[!Bonded]] and [[!Bonded Dragon]] tags to his dragon's profile so she was just as easy to cross-reference — making it very simple to look up all the Bonded Summoners and all the Bonded Dragons, or even just those NPCs in a Bonded relationship.

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Creating Categories

You aren't just limited to the premade categories, you can easily add new ones just by putting the tag (with proper capitalisation) in a Category markup, like [[!Religious]] or [[!Legends]], at the bottom of a page. Doing so will render the tag as a link to that category's page (which in turn lists all the other pages using that tag), as well as posting the tag in a "Tags" box at the bottom of the page you're working on (see the bottom of this page).

Please try to make tags in the plural where possible (eg. [[!NPCs]] or [[!Criminals]] as opposed to [[!NPC]] or [[!Criminal]]. Each category will (eventually) contain multiple pages, so using the plural just makes more sense.

Certain words are grammatically exempt from this requirement. For instance, a [[!Bondeds]] category wouldn't make much linguistic sense so [[!Bonded]] would be more appropriate, as would [[!Grassland]] rather than [[!Grasslands]]. Similarly, family tags and other organisational groups wouldn't be plural either, since they're collecting all the members of a single family or group together (ie, you'd use [[!Family Taskel]] rather than [[!Families Taskel]]).

Customising Tags

You can also customise existing tags by adding a prefix or suffix. For instance, the [[!Families]] tag will list all the families in Elysia (that have been written up, at any rate), but if you wanted to create a page that links only to a particular family, you'd add their surname to the tag like so: [[!Family Taskel]]. That link will then take you to a page that lists all the other members of the Taskel family, which is very handy for larger families with a lot of members.

Of course, this customisation doesn't just apply to families. You can customise any category that has become unwieldy by itself or that you feel needs a subsection.

Think carefully if a new tag is necessary before you create one. Sometimes they're just not needed.

Making Tags Work

Tags must be on a separate line for them to be pulled into the "Tags" box at the bottom of a page. For instance:

[[!NPCs]]
[[!Family Taskel]]
[[!Criminals]]

not:

Otherwise, they'll show up as simple links and may be ignored by the indexes.

List of Categories

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