Reading13—YE SIQI

1. Summary

Wikipedia's categorization is very helpful for users to browse.The central goal of the category system is to provide navigational links to Wikipedia pages in a hierarchy of categories which readers, knowing essential—defining—characteristics of a topic, can browse and quickly find sets of pages on topics that are defined by those characteristics.Categories are not the only means of enabling users to browse sets of related pages. Other tools which may be used instead of or alongside categories in particular instances include lists and navigation boxes.

Every Wikipedia page should belong to at least one category, except for talk pages, redirects, and user pages, which may optionally be placed in categories where appropriate. Each categorized page should be placed in all of the most specific categories to which it logically belongs. 

An article should be categorised under the most specific branch in the category tree possible, without duplication in parent categories above it. The categorization of articles must be verifiable and must be neutral.The definition characteristics of article topic are the core of article categorization.A defined feature is a feature that is commonly and consistently referenced by a reliable source when describing a topic.

Categories are organized as overlapping "trees", formed by creating links between inter-related categories. Any category may contain subcategories, and it is possible for a category to be a subcategory of more than one "parent" category.


2. Interesting point

Wikipedia management is divided into two categories, administrative categories and content categories.

Administrative categories, intended for use by editors or by automated tools, based on features of the current state of articles, or used to categorize non-article pages.

Content categories, intended as part of the encyclopedia, to help readers find articles, based on features of the subjects of those articles.

Administrative categories include stub categories , maintenance categories, WikiProject and assessment categories, and categories of pages in non-article namespaces.

In maintenance categories and other administrative categories, pages may be included regardless of type.


3. Discussion

How should we use sorting keys correctly?

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