Categorize a VisiHow Article

5 Parts:

Checking the Available Categories

Knowing Which Tag to Use for Your Category

Adding a Category to Your Article

Tips and Tricks

Comments

To keep everything organized and easy to find on VisiHow, all of our articles need to be categorized. If a user doesn't know exactly what to search for, then our categories will help them find articles related to their interests.

Categories are also useful for people casually browsing the site. If we haven't categorized an article, it will only be searchable and won't appear in any relevant category. Read through the article below to learn how to categorize your own How To Wikis.

Before you can add your article into a category, you need to find the most relevant one for your topic. Writers cannot add their own categories, so if you feel none of our categories are applicable, talk to an admin for their guidance on adding a new category or recommending the most appropriate one for your article.

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   View the VisiHow categories here

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   Some categories also have subcategories

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   Just open up your chosen category to check if there are subcategories relevant to your article.

   

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So that VisiHow knows where to put the article, it will need a small piece of wiki code to identify the category.

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   Take a look at any article on VisiHow

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   Mouse over the last category in the trail at the top left and you will see the category tag.

   

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   So in the example given, the tag is "Category:Gaming"

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   Always make sure that you are getting your tag from the last category or subcategory shown in the trail.

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   Convert your tag to MediaWiki code

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   So that the back end of VisiHow will understand your tag, you need to convert it to code. For our example, we would use [[Category:Gaming]]

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   Use the same format for any category, substituting "Gaming" for your chosen category.

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Once you have settled on the relevant category, you will need to tag your article to let it sit inside that category.

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   Tagging through the guided editor

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   Adding the code anywhere in your article will assign it to the correct category. This can be right after the intro, or at the bottom of the article.
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