Help:Categories
From IT frameworks
Categories are used to organise articles in a logical system, to provide a better overview.
How to categorize an article
Categorizing an article is simply performed by editing it to include one or more category declarations. For instance, to add the article Change Manager to the "Change Management" category, you would edit the article and add the line [[Category:Change Management]] at the bottom. Unlike lists, categories are updated automatically, and you don't have to edit the category to add an article to it.
When adding an article to a category, or creating categories, one should be careful to use the correct categories and subcategories. Horizontal categorization, directly below, refers to placing an article in the correct category while vertical categorization refers to placing an article in the correct subcategory.
When assigning an article into categories, try to be thorough in a "horizontal" sense. The topic may be associated with several different IT frameworks. You might need to poke around the category hierarchy a bit to find the right place. Try searching for articles similar to the article you are categorizing to get ideas or to find the most appropriate place.
How to create subcategories
Subcategories may be created by putting [[Category:parent_category_name]] onto the page that you would like to make into a subcategory. This may seem counterintuitive, because you edit the subcategory page rather than the parent category page.
Let's say that you wanted to make the category called ITIL into a subcategory of the category called IT frameworks.
- Step 1 - Go to the page called [[Category:ITIL]], and click edit this page.
- Step 2 - Place the text [[Category:IT frameworks]] within the body of the [[Category:ITIL]] article, and save.
- Finished! ITIL is now a subcategory of IT frameworks, and [[Category:ITIL]] will be visible on [[Category:IT frameworks]].
