wiki - Creating a category hierarchy in a MediaWiki environment -

wiki - Creating a category hierarchy in a MediaWiki environment -

background:

i work big collaboration centralizes lot of documentation in wiki structure. have passing familiarity wiki-markup , can create simple pages links, etc.

one major deficiency of collaboration's wiki (based on mediawiki architecture) there little organization or cross-linkage.

i'm attempting introduce hierarchical category construction wiki, such pages broken downwards categories, providing means of interlinking information.

i know can add together [[category:thiscategory]] tag page source, , special category page organizes other pages category automatically generated. major advantage of method of linking pages 1 gets access related pages free (so long tagged), without requiring direct cross linkage between pages explicitly.

question:

i'm wondering, there efficient way create root-category node of kind, instead of linking other pages, links categories? allow wiki cross-linked without major overhauls, , require page author provide general category tags additional pages might wish add.

you can utilize special page special:categories show list of categories on wiki.

but if want improve structure, think should create hierarchical construction categories (like wikipedia starting category:contents). way, users able navigate not articles in same category, able similar categories.

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