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== Using categories == | |||
Always use as few categories as possible. Categories are a place in a structure rather than tags. Putting each page in a lot of categories will put a lot of of pages in each category. There is in particular no need to put a page in both a category and then in each category above that category. | |||
Please see advice in [[Help:Your first article#Categories]] and maybe also [[Help:categories]]. | |||
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Welcome to the Village Pump. This page is used to discuss the technical issues, operations and guidelines of the FlightGear wiki.
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New Portal: Embedded or Hardware (02/2020)
Suggestion: Dedicated portal for articles relating to embedded/hardware topics (which would be in line with numerous threads on the forum, as well as existing articles on the wiki). - Hooray (talk) 11:59, 17 February 2020 (EST)
- That is slightly less complicated than you might think. What you would do is to create a new page with the prefix
Portal:and a suitable name, say for example Portal:Hardware development, Portal:Cockpit hardware or Portal:DIY cockpit hardware, or maybe Portal:Hardware if you would also like to see commercial hardware there, and then copy and modify the content from a similar portal.
- Hint: There is actually not a portal namespace, it is just a prefix. The portal pages are actually in the main namespaces, and thus function just like any other article page on the wiki.
- Though I think your Portal:Embedded might be more diffuse than Portal:Hardware for people that do not know what embedded software
is, I have still added it to the main page and added Category:Portals to it. It will get more use if people can find it. :-P
Using categories
Always use as few categories as possible. Categories are a place in a structure rather than tags. Putting each page in a lot of categories will put a lot of of pages in each category. There is in particular no need to put a page in both a category and then in each category above that category.
Please see advice in Help:Your first article#Categories and maybe also Help:categories.