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This is my talk page for my category project.

Here are some categories, in a very approximate tree structure. The aim is not to be comprehensive, or to be a formal taxonomy, but to be the start of an informal tagging scheme. It's a folk ontology!

This is roughly based on the indices on the Main Page, and the list of articles by category.

Note that:

  • an article can have none, one, or more category tags
  • a category can have none, one, or more category tags
  • there is as yet no "top" to this scheme of category tags
  • category tags are just a set: there is no meaning to their ordering or placing in an article

Some examples:

  • Isaac Newton: tagged as person physics mathematics
  • Hamlet: tagged as fictional person
  • Yggdrasil: tagged as mythology fictional plant
  • Dog: tagged as animal species
  • physics: tagged as field_of_study science
  • human anatomy: tagged as field_of_study medicine biology

Notice that this is really easy to hack: if we don't like the structure fictional person we can always auto-edit these to character by just scanning a load of articles.

We could also do tricks like sorting all names of people on surname, unless they were also tagged with normalsort: so Western names would sort by last name, and Chinese names could be sorted by first name.



Broad Categories

  • person
  • places
  • time period
  • animal (just the animalia)
  • plant (just the plantae)
  • profession
  • field of study

Qualifiers

  • fictional
  • species

Internal clockwork

  • normalsort

Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Philosophy

  • astronomy
  • biology
    • anatomy
  • chemistry
    • organic chemistry
  • earth science
  • economics
    • meteorology
  • mathematics
    • group theory
    • statistics
  • philosophy
    • critical theory
    • ethics
    • logic
  • medicine
    • anatomy
    • obstetrics
    • sexology
  • physics
  • standards

Applied Arts and Sciences

  • agriculture
  • anomalous phenomena
  • architecture
  • business
    • accountancy
    • business law
    • finance
    • management
    • marketing
    • real estate
  • communication
    • cryptology
  • computing
    • Internet
    • information technology
    • software engineering
  • domestic technology
  • education
  • engineering
  • health science
  • history of science and technology
  • law
    • criminal justice
    • international law
  • library and information sciences
  • military technology and equipment
  • space exploration
  • technology
    • electronics
    • transportation

Social Sciences

  • anthropology
  • archaeology
  • geography
  • history
    • military history
  • linguistics
  • cognitive science
  • mythology
  • politics
  • psychology
  • sociology

Culture

  • art
    • painting
    • sculpture
  • classics
  • cooking
  • dance
  • entertainment
  • games
  • hobbies
  • literature
  • humor
  • movies
  • music
    • opera
  • recreation
  • religion
  • sport
  • television
  • theater
  • tourism
  • design