Categories (a.k.a. tags) are vital for organising our wiki.
There is a
page in the documentation that explains how to use categories, but it's quite confusing for first-time wiki users, so here's (hopefully) the long and short of it.
For any page you create in any wikigroup, you should add tags at the bottom to aid with referencing and linking.
Example: Vincent Carmichael is a minor NPC. You can see from his
profile? that he is Dracovarian thief. Let's say I want to see how many Bonded Summoners there are: I could easily click on the tag at the bottom of his page to see not only NPCs but any page on the wiki that shares the
[[!Bonded Summoners]] tag.
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Creating Categories
There is a list of premade tags here. Please check them to see if the tag you want already exists and the linguistic standards.
If a tag does not yet exist, you can easily add a new one just by putting it in to your page the same way as an existing one. Saving your article as a draft will automatically create that tag and its corresponding page.
Most tags are plural (eg. [[!NPCs]] instead of [[!NPC]]) but certain words are grammatically exempt from this requirement (eg. [[!Bondeds]] just does not make sense so the singular [[!Bonded]] is more appropriate).
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), but if you wanted to create a page that links only to a particular family, you would add their surname to the tag (eg. [[!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 does not only 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.
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 or they will show up as simple links and may be ignored by the Category script.
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[[!NPCs]]
[[!Family Taskel]]
[[!Criminals]]
| [[!NPCs]] [[!Family Taskel]] [[!Criminals]]
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Tags by Letter
Alphabetical Tags