Categories can be created to keep one page name from clashing with another. In this respect, categories are like MediaWiki namespaces, but better and more useful. Unfortunately, they are not much like traditional categories. Your best option for categories at the present time is to use tags instead.
Wikidot combines namespaces and categories in an unusual but useful way. As with namespaces, the category is part of the url. For example :
[[[category:page]]]
Listing Pages by Category
Pages can be listed by category using the ListPages Module (preferred) and the Pages module.
Built-in Categories
Default
Default is the base "category". It requires no stub. This page's url is category, so it's in the default category.
System
The system category is used for general wiki use, such as listing all pages system:list-all-pages.
- There are other pages in the system category, please list them.
Forum
The forum category is used for… you guessed it… the built in wiki forum.
- forum:start is the forum index.
- forum:recent-posts lists the recent posts of your forum. It uses a module to do this.
- there are probably others
Admin
The admin category is used for admin pages, of which there is only one :
- admin:manage, the site manager
Themes by Category
Known Problems
One Category Only
Because the category is really a namespace, it limits your page to only one category. As a workaround, you can use tags.
Categories Cannot Be Nested
Because there is no category page to edit, categories cannot be nested. Instead, the pages in a category can only be listed in one big list.
Categories are Automatically Created
Whenever a url contains a namespace format with a colon, the category is automatically created. Unfortunately, while this does save time, it causes you to have to pipe link pages with a colon.
This is not so much of a problem if you lack pages with colons in their name.
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