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Vinismo currently doesn't use the category system commonly used in other MediaWiki websites such as Wikipedia. See Welcome, Wikipedians to understand our rationale for this restriction.
However, in the future we may add the category functionality to our wine guide - we're just waiting for good ideas on how to use them efficiently. In the meantime, here's some help on how categories work.
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To add an article to a category put the following at the end of the page you are editing: [[Category:{Name}]], where {Name} is the name of the category you want to add your page to. Any number of category tags may be added to the page - the page will be listed in all of them.
You can also specify an additional {Sort} parameter that dictates where the page will appear, alphabetically, within the category. This is achieved by using the following markup:
[[Category:{Name}|{Sort}]]
So for example, to add this page to the 'Help' category, you would use:
[[Category:Help|Categories]]
Other situations where you might want to use the sort parameter is when you have articles about people that are titled as FirstName LastName but within the category you want them listed as LastName, FirstName.
Another way to sort the article in the correct letter without the namespace is
[[Category:Help|{{PAGENAME}}]]
This is extremely helpful when using templates which include a category tag.
Note: the {sort} parameter does not affect how the page title is displayed within the category listing, just how it is ordered. In the above example, the link to this page will still be 'Help:Categories', and not 'Categories' as you might expect!
edit Linking to Category Pages
To create a link to a category page:
[[:Category:{name}]]
If you want to display alternate text for the link:
[[:Category:{name}|{alternate text}]]
edit Categorize Categories
Categories themselves and other uploaded files like Pictures can be categorized exactly like normal pages. It is useful to connect the article-categories with categories already in place to establish connections and hierarchies. To this end, after saving the article, follow the category links at the end of the page to see, if the category is already in place and if not, categorize them until you connect them with an existing category.
