User talk:User4
Also when you have questions about editing add to your user talk page. It's better:) --Etenne 14:58, 27 February 2014 (GMT)
Please see: http://en.boywiki.org/wiki/Category_talk:Encyclopedia
Lets talk here. Use the user page just for discussing article content.
Some of this will become apparent to you as you get better at this video game:)
Connor set up the BoyWiki:Agora but I have never used it since no one ever wants to talk to me:)
I don't want to talk to you, I want to fuck mess with you a little, and get this place working. ;- )
I mean, I'm a "quick study" (have you noticed?) but for others trying to edit here, I can see them giving up pretty quickly. :- (
So, what's with the http://en.boywiki.org/wiki/Category_talk:Encyclopedia index? I don't want to waste my time (like it's so valuable, you know)
I have BoyWiki set up in zones. Therefore Acolyte Press is in Index > Entertainment > Literature > Publishing houses
So how come this page does not show up in:
https://en.boywiki.org/wiki/Category:Encyclopedia
It's in Category:Publishing houses
That come to something I was just about to tell you. When adding pages from Newgon, you need to edit the categories at the bottom of the page and add it to the correct BoyWiki category. Our categories are different than theirs. Once you have been doing this for a while, it will become second nature to you. A year and a half ago, I had never even seen a wiki before:)
--Etenne 14:52, 27 February 2014 (GMT)
Uh... uh... uh...
Etenne - folks come here without knowing much about the wiki. I seriously doubt that someone is going to search through all available categories when they want fast info. They will start with the encyclopedia. If they don't find what they are looking for, they will leave. I suggest that a way should be found that entries appear in the encyclopedia as well as in whatever minor category they also may belong in.
"Common sense is an uncommon commodity." -- some famous guy, maybe M. Twain
That's what the search function is for:) Everything can't be in one category. The bigger the wiki gets the more and more specialized each category gets. Ref: go look at how Wikipedia is set up.
We are not Wikipedia, with millions of articles. With luck, we will have a few thousand (and that's with a lot of luck!) I strongly feel we need a central index - people are not always smart enough to search correctly. You saw Kristofor's response? (Thanks for advising him.) He doesn't know how to search archive.org - the posts didn't "magically become available again when they weren't a month ago" - no, they were there all along. But I did the search correctly.
As for BoyWiki, please see: http://www.newgon.com/wiki/Category:Official_Encyclopedia ... with 360 pages. It is quite manageable - even if there were 2000 entries it still would be manageable. And clear, and easy. So could be BoyWiki, couldn't it?
"Redundancy provides for a variety of access, as well as merely being redundant." - Dept. of Redundancy Dept.
I don't have a problem if you want to add a category like that, so long as everything is organized. When the upgrade happens, we will be able to do more because we will have collapsible categories like Newgon.
--Etenne 16:03, 27 February 2014 (GMT)
Editing an article - easy! Adding an article - hmm, took me a minute to figure out. Adding a category - uh... I guess I could figure it out, but how about a hint? ;- )
at the bottom of an article you see [[Category:Category name]] that adds it to that category.
To make a New category you just add the [[Category: new category name]] to the bottom of a page ( then every page on BoyWiki that you want added to that category.) The new category will appear as a red link so you have to go to that page and hit save. All so add {{CH}} which adds the category header:)You add the category description in the same way as you would add text to a page.
--Etenne 16:20, 27 February 2014 (GMT)
