Feminist SF Wiki:Organizing information
There are numerous ways to organize and make information available on the FSFwiki, using the MediaWiki software. Here we lay out the various methods we've developed or adapted so far and explain them.
- Search
- The search feature is a basic mediawiki software feature. It's not perfect. (more on search; link to help searching; info about case-sensitivity, variant spellings, etc.; use of google as substitute)
- Automatic indexes
- A to Z of all pages; see also categories
- Redirect pages
- creating redirect pages for some variant spellings that are not ambiguous
- Disambiguation pages
- creating pages for terms that are ambiguous
- Special indexes, directories, and hubs
- For topics of particular interest to the FSFwiki we are developing a limited number of special resources that combine navboxes, lists and indexes, and categories to gather together information on a particular topic. See:
- Encyclopedia of female characters (EFC)
- Index to queer women in SF (QW)
- Index to women of color in SF (WOC)
- Guide to oppressions and intersections in SF (GOI)
- Directory of female authors (DFW) (early development; please discuss
- See FSFwiki:Special resources project to propose new ones and discuss the ones currently being created.
- Lists
- Lists are pages on any topic whatsoever (appropriate to FSFwiki) that gather relevant information and link to it. They are incredibly flexible, and can include various ways of sorting, references, notes, aliases, pseudonyms, variant names, etc.
- Infoboxes
- Special boxes on pages that provide a standardized way of displaying basic information about the topic of that page. Can be combined with navboxes; this can be useful for series of works -- see., e.g., Sins of the Past, which includes a combined info-navbox for that TV episode.
- Navboxes (navigation boxes)
- Special boxes on a page that provide a standardized way of linking to related information. Can be combined with infoboxes; this can be useful for series of works -- see., e.g., Sins of the Past, which includes a combined info-navbox for that TV episode.
- Category system as tree
- See Category:Categories to browse category tree.
- Category system as keyword (tag)
- See Category:Tags to browse tags.