Categories and SubPages as it pertains to the Wiki Playbook

[Andrew Sayers]

Hi Matthew,

Sorry for the delayed reply - I wanted to read up on templates etc. 
before responding, as your post gave me some good ideas.

First, I'm ashamed to admit that I've been mentally tuning out the 
"choose a page template" options in the "create a new page" page, 
thinking they were just more similar page names.  I would be more likely 
to see them if they were of the form "Template:Foo".  That's another 
issue for another day though.

My interest in this discussion is more about the "how" than the "what", 
so my answers about content will be a bit half-hearted I'm afraid.

Your analysis is almost right, except that I propose to include the 
category page itself in all pages in the category, and to use sub-pages 
as landing pages.  I've now updated the category concept so that 
category pages redirect to the relevant landing page, which I hope is an 
acceptable compromise.

To unpack the problem a bit, a perfect version of my proposal would 
satisfy all of the following conditions:

  1. Category names in [[FindPage]] make sense
  2. Page authors only have to add one simple thing to their page
  3. [[CategoryFoo]] is a landing page for everything in category foo

I can satisfy conditions [1] and [2] by asking page authors to include this:

	----
	<<Include(Category/Foo/Bar)>>

Or I can satisfy [2] and [3] by asking page authors to include this:

	----
	<<Include(Category/Foo/Bar:Footer)>>

Or I can satisfy [1] and [3] like this:

	<<Include(Category/Foo/Bar)>>
	----
	Category/Foo/Bar

But I can't think of a way to satisfy all three conditions at once. 
Given that category creators are likely to more skilled than readers or 
page authors, and categories will be created less often, I chose [1] and 
[2].  As I said above, I hope that using a #redirect to send users who 
visit [[Category/Foo/Bar]] to [[Category/Foo/Bar/CategoryInfo:About]] 
will be a good enough compromise.

Based on your suggestion, I've now created a page that would become 
[[CategoryTemplate]].  As to manpower and complexity, I defer to Marc 
(and everyone else) - I'm too close to the issue to judge difficulty per 
page, and too far from the content to judge the number of pages.

	- Andrew

[1]https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WikiSandBox/CategoryConcept/TemplateCategory?action=show