Help:Categories

Categories are a way to group pages and make the wiki easier to navigate. They can be found at the bottom of the page.

Categories link together in a category tree, which you can view here: Special:CategoryTree. It is important to have categories so that pages can be grouped together; a lot of maintenance activities or bot usage relies on categories to organize pages or templates.

To add a category on a page, simply type. Our naming convention is to use sentence case for categories.

If you need to link to a category on a page without putting that page in that category - and this should be relatively rare - you can type Category:.

How to create a category
If you can't find a category that fits a page, feel free to ask an administrator - categories are useful, but they are more useful when they are apt. If you do need to create a category, make sure to link it in the structure. An unlinked category will show as a redlink, just as any other link. You may put one category in multiple other categories.

For example, when Exandria Unlimited: Calamity started, we created the category Category:Ring of Brass to group the PCs. We then put this in the categories Category:Adventuring parties and Category:Avalir.

Other useful links
We have HotCat enabled as a wiki extension; check out the documentation!