Skyrim Main Quest Overhaul Wiki:Organization

This page is to outline how the wiki is (or will be) organized. If you are unsure how to categorize something, you will probably find this information useful. Besides that, this page is intended to help Administrators.

Think of the wiki not as a wiki. Think of it as a business that generates content. How is such a business organized? Now, the Category:Browse is the business, the umbrella of the wiki.
 * Creating content, which is the primary task.
 * Organizational support, to increase efficiency in creating content.
 * Technical support, to also increase efficiency.

Categories
Categories are for easy navigation between similar subjects or a different way of browsing or searching. Categories marked with a | are pending ideas, not yet implemented.

Content Categories
The following is a list of all the "Content" categories:
 * Content - All the content on the wiki.
 * Books - A list of all the books added or edited by SMQO.
 * Characters - A list of all the characters added or edited by SMQO. This category is added automatically when using the SkyrimNPCs template.
 * Characters by Gender - A list of all the characters, sorted by Gender. Gender categories are added automatically when using the SkyrimNPCs template.
 * Males - A list of all the male characters added or edited by SMQO.
 * Females - A list of all the female characters added or edited by SMQO.
 * Characters by Race - A list of all the characters, sorted by Race. Race categories are added automatically when using the SkyrimNPCs template.
 * Altmer - A list of all the Altmer characters added or edited by SMQO.
 * Argonians - A list of all the Argonian characters added or edited by SMQO.
 * Bosmer - A list of all the Bosmer characters added or edited by SMQO.
 * Bretons - A list of all the Breton characters added or edited by SMQO.
 * Dunmer - A list of all the Dunmer characters added or edited by SMQO.
 * Imperials - A list of all the Imperial characters added or edited by SMQO.
 * Khajiit - A list of all the Khajiit characters added or edited by SMQO.
 * Nords - A list of all the Nord characters added or edited by SMQO.
 * Orcs - A list of all the Orc (Orsimer) characters added or edited by SMQO.
 * Redguards - A list of all the Redguard characters added or edited by SMQO.
 * Characters by Faction - All the characters, sorted by faction.
 * Blades - A list of all Blades members, including recruitable.
 * Greybeards - A list of all the Greybeards members.
 * Thalmor - A list of all Thalmor members.
 * Characters by Service - A list of all the characters, sorted by service. Inspired by The Elder Scrolls Wiki.
 * Alchemists - A list of all the characters providing alchemy services.
 * Blacksmiths - A list of all the characters providing blacksmith services.
 * Followers - A list of all the characters that are able to follow the PC.
 * Merchants - A list of all the characters that sell items.
 * Skill Trainers - A list of all the characters that train a certain skill.
 * Spell Merchants - A list of all the characters that sell spells.
 * Dead characters - A list of all dead characters added by SMQO. Those characters won't show up in game, they are used in stories only.
 * Followers - A list of all the followers added or edited by SMQO.
 * Factions - A list of all the Factions added or edited in SMQO.
 * Characters by Faction - All the characters, sorted by faction.
 * Items - A list of all the items added or edited by SMQO.
 * Armors - A list of all the armors added or edited by SMQO. This category is added automatically when using the SkyrimArmors template. Subcategories for Armors might come later, when there are many armors.
 * Books - A list of all the books added or edited by SMQO. This category is added automatically when using the SkyrimBooks template. Books aren't in the Items category, this is for achievement reasons.
 * Consumables - A list of all the ingredients, foods and potions (including poisons) added or edited by SMQO.
 * Quest Items - A list of all the quest items added or edited by SMQO.
 * Weapons - A list of all the armors added or edited by SMQO. This category is added automatically when using the SkyrimWeapons template. Subcategories for Weapons might come later, when there are many weapons.
 * Locations - A list of all the locations added or edited by SMQO. This category is added automatically when using the SkyrimLocations template. Subcategories might come in the future.
 * Lore - A list of all the Lore articles.
 * Quests - A list of all the quests added or edited by SMQO.
 * Main Quests - A list of all the main quests added or edited by SMQO.
 * Side Quests - A list of all the side quests added or edited by SMQO.
 * Loyalty Quests - A list of all the loyalty quests added by SMQO.
 * More to come.

Organization Categories
This is how the organization side is categorized:
 * Organization - The base category for all organizational categories.
 * Help - A list of all SMQOWiki created help pages.
 * Policy - A list of all policy and guideline pages.
 * Sandbox - A list of all pages used to learn or test pages and templates.
 * Site maintenance - A list of everything needing attention in some sorts. This category is a good starting point for improving the wiki.
 * Candidates for deletion - A list of all the pages marked for deletion.
 * Disambiguations - A list of all disambiguation pages - navigational aids which list other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
 * Non-copyrighted files - A list of all files with no information about their Copyright.
 * Pages needing attention - A list of all pages needing attention.
 * Protected pages - Will be removed (use Special:ProtectedPages instead).
 * Image Needed - A list of all pages in need of an image.
 * Stub articles - A list of all the stub articles.
 * WIP articles - A list of all the Work In Progress articles.

Template Categories
This is how templates are categorizes. In general, nobody notices this, because it's behind the scenes. But still, it would be best to keep it clean and well organized for easier maintenance.
 * Templates - The base category for all templates.
 * Template documentation - A list of all the template documentation pages.
 * Article management templates - A list of all the templates solely involving article management. These templates often add some sort of notice to the page and they automatically add the page to a special category. For example: The stub template, adds a black bar to the page, telling people the article needs expanding and adds the article to "Stub articles" category.
 * Category templates - A list of all the templates used on categories. For instance, a template involving A-Z, 0-9 navigation for categories containing a massive amount of pages.
 * Copyright templates - A list of all the copyright templates. These can also be found under Image wiki templates.
 * General wiki templates - A list of all the default templates. Don't add any templates to this category.
 * Icon templates - A list of all icon related templates.
 * Image wiki templates - A list of all image related templates. This mostly contains all image licenses templates.
 * Infobox templates - A list of all infobox templates.
 * Layout templates - A list of all layout or preloadable templates.
 * Navigation templates - A list of all navigation templates.
 * Project templates - A list of all the project related templates. Projects are to collaborate on increasing the quality of certain pages. But for a small wiki like this, it might not be necessary. Time will tell.
 * Utility templates - A list of all utility templates. These are pretty much all the templates that don't really fit in other categories. So that means administrative templates, refactor templates (templates used by other templates so you only have to edit one template to update the whole bunch) and others.

File Categories
Files will be categorized different from what we have seen so far. Files exists mostly out of images: But images should be categorized different. Take an image about a book for example. The image should be added to the Images, because, after all, it's an image. Also, because this image is about a book, it should be in the Book images, which is a subcategory of both Images and Books. With correct use of the FileSummary template, categorization of files should happen automatically.
 * Files - Files on SQMO Wiki.
 * Images - Images on SMQO Wiki.
 * Icon images - A list of all icon images
 * Map icons - A list of all the map icons.
 * Userbox images - A list of all userbox images on this wiki. Those images shouldn't be present in the Image category, since they're (generally) not related to content.
 * Videos - Videos on SMQO Wiki.