Teflpedia:MultiCategorySearch

Special:MultiCategorySearch allows you to list only pages that belong to all of a set of categories you define. You can also exclude pages by category.

MultiCategorySearch is a MediaWiki Extension that Roger installed on Teflpedia in Oct 2012.

Roger is studying how to configure it to our best advantage.

Feedback
Please post your feedback here. How is MultiCategorySearch working or not working for you? What categories would you like added to the drop down menus? I need your input to develop this...

click [edit] at right and

...type here... Thanks!

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Category trees
We currently have about 120 categories. This number will grow larger as Teflpedia grows. To manage this large number we can create first level and second level categories to sort the categories into sub-categories.

Suggest top level categories
Please click [edit] at right and suggest top-level categories below:


 * Category:activities
 * _Please type more top-level category suggestions below_





Sub-categories
To make a category B a sub-category of a category A, put the category A's category tag into the category B's description page (by clicking category B's Edit tab, exactly like putting an article into category A).

A category can be a sub-category of more than one parent-category. No problem, if appropriate. For example, Category:Young learners can be a sub-category of Category:Writing, Category:Speaking, Category:Listening, Category:Reading and Category:Games. However, to avoid category loops, non of those categories should then be a sub-category of Category:Young learners. We need to choose our category tree structure carefully, to avoid category loops.

Trees in the Teflpedia forest
Think of each top-level category as a tree in the Teflpedia forest. The branches can intermingle and cross each other in the canopy but they should not grow in loops that will trap search results into perpetual loops that never end up in leaves. The leaves are the articles. A readers search to find articles he is looking for should be swift and sure, and not get trapped in loops.

Just prune loops when you find them.

Category loop
If you make a top-level category a sub-category of one of it's own sub-categories, you get a category loop. This in unhelpful. Please don't do it.