User talk:The Anome/categories
This is my talk page for my category project.
Here are some categories, in a very approximate tree structure. The aim is not to be comprehensive, or to be a formal taxonomy, but to be the start of an informal tagging scheme. It's a folk ontology!
This is roughly based on the indices on the Main Page, and the list of articles by category.
Note that:
- an article can have none, one, or more category tags
- a category can have none, one, or more category tags
- there is as yet no "top" to this scheme of category tags
- category tags are just a set: there is no meaning to their ordering or placing in an article
Some examples:
- Isaac Newton: tagged as person physics mathematics
- Hamlet: tagged as fictional person
- Yggdrasil: tagged as mythology fictional plant
- Dog: tagged as animal species
- physics: tagged as field_of_study science
- human anatomy: tagged as field_of_study medicine biology
Notice that this is really easy to hack: if we don't like the structure fictional person we can always auto-edit these to character by just scanning a load of articles.
We could also do tricks like sorting all names of people on surname, unless they were also tagged with normalsort: so Western names would sort by last name, and Chinese names could be sorted by first name.
Broad Categories
- person
- places
- time period
- animal (just the animalia)
- plant (just the plantae)
- profession
- field of study
Qualifiers
- fictional
- species
Internal clockwork
- normalsort
Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Philosophy
- astronomy
- biology
- anatomy
- chemistry
- organic chemistry
- earth science
- economics
- meteorology
- mathematics
- group theory
- statistics
- philosophy
- critical theory
- ethics
- logic
- medicine
- anatomy
- obstetrics
- sexology
- physics
- standards
Applied Arts and Sciences
- agriculture
- anomalous phenomena
- architecture
- business
- accountancy
- business law
- finance
- management
- marketing
- real estate
- communication
- cryptology
- computing
- Internet
- information technology
- software engineering
- domestic technology
- education
- engineering
- health science
- history of science and technology
- law
- criminal justice
- international law
- library and information sciences
- military technology and equipment
- space exploration
- technology
- electronics
- transportation
Social Sciences
- anthropology
- archaeology
- geography
- history
- military history
- linguistics
- cognitive science
- mythology
- politics
- psychology
- sociology
Culture
- art
- painting
- sculpture
- classics
- cooking
- dance
- entertainment
- games
- hobbies
- literature
- humor
- movies
- music
- opera
- recreation
- religion
- sport
- television
- theater
- tourism
- design