Help:Tagging
From Old Bailey Wiki
Categories are an important part of the site - and they're created by you, by 'tagging' your pages.
If you've used sites like Del.icio.us or Flickr, you'll be familiar with the idea of 'tagging' items with keywords (or short descriptive phrases). This assigns them informal user-generated categories: for example, see the del.icio.us page for items tagged 'c18th'.
Once pages are tagged, they can be grouped together with pages with similar content, on Category pages. The wiki automatically generates an index of all the pages tagged with that particular category: this makes it much easier to navigate around the site and to find related information - so it's well worth taking a few moments to add them to your contributions!
In particular we strongly recommend that whenever you write a page about a person who appears in any trial reports or Ordinary's Accounts, you tag the page with the unique reference number from the database. This appears in a highlighted box at the top of a trial or OA - trial reference numbers start with t and OAs start with oa. The advantage of doing this is that it will facilitate the creation of a direct link from that text to the page you've written, making your page a valuable supplementary resource for users of the site.
If you've found any errors in our transcripts, the best way to bring these to our attention is to tag your page with Corrections. Please check the Corrections category page for our guidelines on contributing corrections.
Beyond this, you can use whatever category tags you think are relevant to your page (you are not limited to any existing set of tags), and there's no limit on the number of categories you can add to a page.
There are two ways to tag a page with categories.
- After saving your wiki page, use the 'Add Categories' box at the bottom of the page. You can add multiple categories at once here - simply separate each one with a comma. (However, if you want a category name to contain commas, you will have to use the second, manual markup method.)
- Directly insert the Category markup in the wiki page code, by adding it to the text at the very bottom of the page text. This is quite simple (and similar in format to wikilinks):
[[Category:category name]]
A warning: unlike wikilinks, however, you cannot mark up categories 'inline' (ie, by inserting the category markup around text in the main body of your page). The wiki will "cleverly" extract these to display them neatly at the bottom when you save the page, leaving a gap in the text! You have to add on the category markup at the bottom of the page.
You can also create sub-categories by using the same method: Simply go to the Category page that you want to turn into a sub-category and tag it with the category you want it to be a sub-category of.
