Category Tags

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What are categories?

• Categories are a way of arranging information so that related articles can be grouped together.
• You can create your own categories (see below) to group your pages together.

What are the advantages of categories?

• All articles within a category can also be displayed alphabetically to make it easier to find the article you are looking for.
• You can create your own categories to group your individual pages together around your classes, your research, etc. This is a kind of information "hub" that is a centralized portal for all the relevant information

How to create hubs?

• You create a 'hub' by placing category labels at the bottom of the page, and all pages with the same label are grouped together.
• To put an article in a category, you add [[category:CATEGORYNAME]] at the bottom of your article.
• For example, if this text is at the bottom of a page -- [[category:People]] -- then that page will be sorted with all the other "People" pages. If this text is at the bottom of a page -- [[category:Research]] -- then that page will be sorted with all the other "Research" pages.

Thus, you can create your own hub around anything -- you, your research, your classes, your journal articles -- by placing the labels at the bottom of the page.

The "hub" could be focused around: ⇒ a person                         (create a centralized hub around all your pages)         ⇒ a research topic               (create a portal for related links, conference posting, papers, etc.)         ⇒ a class                             (have each student create their own page and "hub" them together with category tags)         ⇒ a journal article                  (create a hub for your articles or everything relevant to a specific research article)