Recategorizing pages HOWTO (English)

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This short HOWTO will explain how to move a page to a different category, and how to auto-create missing categories. Articles and categories used as examples in this article are not real. If you want to practice moving while reading this HOWTO, find a real page you want to move.

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About categories on ArchWiki

To find out more about ArchWiki categories:

  • You will find the ArchWiki category tree here.
  • A full list of categories is here.
  • A list of uncategorized categories is here.
  • A list of uncategorized articles is here.
  • A list of empty categories is here.

At the time of writing, there is a massive effort to restructure ArchWiki. Volunteers are needed to move articles from existing categories to new categories that fit into a proposed ArchWiki Category Tree.

Note: Categories that do not exist are auto-created. Please read this HOWTO carefully.
Note: Everything that is discussed in this article applies to categories themselves in quite the same way (i.e. categories can also be categorized).
Note: For each language, the category name should follow the format of: Title in native language (Native language name). For example:
  • Laptops (English)
  • Ordinateurs portatifs (Français)

Move a page into a different category

To move a page into a category, edit the page's [[Category: Some category]] line.

For example, let us move a fictional page "ArchWiki Tutorial (Serbian)" to an appropriate fictional category. (Moving to existing categories is basically the same as moving to non-existing categories.)

1. Edit the page's category line

Click "edit" at the top of the page. Find the following line at the beginning of the text:

[[Category: Help]]

change it to:

[[Category: ArchWiki Help (Serbian)]]

Save the page by clicking the "Save page" button just below the edit box.

2. Go to the new category page

After you have saved the page, you will see a "Category: ArchWiki Help (Serbian)" link at the bottom of the article. Click this link to go to the newly created category.

Edit the "Category: ArchWiki Help (Serbian)" category page and add the following line in the edit box:

[[Category: ArchWiki Tools (Serbian)]]

Save the category page. Again, you will see a link to the newly assigned category, "Category: ArchWiki Tools (Serbian)", at the bottom of the page. Click it.

3. Go to the new parent category page

Now you are in the "ArchWiki Tools (Serbian)" category. Let's say, for example, that this page already existed. Your job is done. If not, you have to add this page to an appropriate category by doing the same as in step 2, only the category name is different now.

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