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WP:CATP

This project has been set up to help manage the categories of Wikipedia and improve them. The goal is to categorize all articles in a way that is consistent with the guidelines at Wikipedia:Categorization.

Discussions about categorization policy happen at Wikipedia talk:Categorization. That page is also the place for solving specific issues related to category organization.

To delete, merge, or rename categories, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion.

Please direct all talk to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Categories if you would like to help or comment on the project.

There is a task force that puts uncategorized articles into categories.

Contents

Current projects

Please list any categorization projects you are planning or are in the process of working on. Include your name and date and describe what you are/will be doing. See also: Category:Wikipedia categories in need of attention

updated: Dbiel (Talk) 21:36, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
Finished genera lists, moved on to species lists. – Tirkfltalk 10:28, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Current discussions

Please list any pages where discussions about categorization are taking place. Please date the entry and add your name.

Participants

If you would like to take part then add your signature here using ~~~~ and a description of any areas you may be interested in.

Members may add the {{User WP Categories}} userbox:

This user is a member of WikiProject Categories.

...or the {{User WikiProject Categories}} userbox:

Cat This user is part of WikiProject Categories, which aims to improve article categorization on Wikipedia.
  1. Greg Robson 21:31, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC) Project founder
  2. Urthogie 03:31, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
  3. Pioneer-12 22:58, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  4. Circeus 03:08, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC) Mostly as a constant and unrelented categorist. I'll be glad to help assisting regularizing categorization.
  5. smoddy 30 June 2005 20:50 (UTC) I plan to tackle cricket's abomination, but would be happy to go further afield. smoddy 30 June 2005 20:50 (UTC)
  6. Quinobi 30 June 2005 20:58 (UTC) |top down, ad hoc bottom up any way that works!
  7. Radiant_ July 7, 2005 13:46 (UTC)
  8. Who 08:32, 15 July 2005 (UTC) Overall categorization schemas. I started with all image, X-Men and comics categories. Now for the rest of the tangled web. :)
  9. Maurreen (talk) 15:40, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
  10. Splash 21:52, 5 August 2005 (UTC) I meant to sign here ages ago.
  11. Barista | a/k/a マイケル | T/C 08:37, 14 August 2005 (UTC) - Did you know Wikipedia has over 68,000 categories. I hope to pare down some of the redundant and/or underpopulated catgories.
  12. Noakesey 12:58, 21 August 2005 (UTC) Beginner who's obsessed with organising other people's information!
  13. siafu 04:03, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
  14. Carcharoth 22:18, 8 September 2005 (UTC) Currently working on Category:Disasters which was a disaster but is looking better now. Still learning, but would appreciate any comments.
  15. Hiding talk 19:21, 10 September 2005 (UTC) Probably in helping to standardise, although any other areas I could be useful, let me know.
  16. Mushroom 17:22, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
  17. Ze miguel 10:24, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
  18. Paul 02:14, 10 December 2005 (UTC) Classifying information is my drug.
  19. Quaque 00:18, 25 December 2005 (UTC) There are a large amount of uncategorized articles out there. I hope to help reduce these.
  20. Jake 04:57, 27 December 2005 (UTC) I started with Category:Computing, and just kept following links... working on Category:American people and Category:Ancient Romans now... try to get as much as possible across the board subsorted
  21. Suryoyo 00:16, 30 December 2005 (UTC) - Im more interested on history of middleeast.
  22. __earth 16:08, 2 January 2006 (UTC) - Taking up everything that falls under Category:Southeast Asia. Wish me luck because it's huge!
  23. Semiconscious 11 January 2006 - Putting empty categories up for deletion, standardizing category names and descriptions, etc.
  24. Peter McGinley 12:02, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
  25. Crystallina 06:25, 29 January 2006 (UTC) - Mainly been doing music-related articles, although I'd be glad to branch out.
  26. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 11:28, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
  27. Waggers 16:21, 14 February 2006 (UTC) - I've been adding categories to uncategorized articles for a little while; I'll continue to do this, but I'm also interested in cleanup
  28. bmills 16:51, 14 February 2006 (UTC) — Fixing Category:Computer science and related categories (crossover with WP:COMPSCI).
  29. Kbdank71 18:58, 14 February 2006 (UTC) Mainly working cleanup on WP:CFD.
  30. Waitak 14:17, 17 February 2006 (UTC) Category:Underutilized crops and related.
  31. Samuel Wantman 07:58, 9 March 2006 (UTC). Mainly work on categorization and classification policy.
  32. Adding cats to articles without cats 01:36, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
  33. --WilliamThweatt 21:18, 23 March 2006 (UTC)Been working on organizing the Languages categories. Starting to sort, tag and organize AustroAsiatic Languages.
  34. --Paleorthid 15:55, 5 April 2006 (UTC) Soil science categories. Developing schema is posted on soil science category talk page.
  35. —Viriditas | Talk 06:45, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
  36. ProveIt (talk) 21:08, 14 April 2006 (UTC) I've been working on the Uncategorized Categories list.
  37. --Vir 02:09, 30 April 2006 (UTC) I'm interested in general categorization schemes.
  38. Museumfreak 15:49, 16 May 2006 (UTC) Thought I'd add myself because I add cats to articles without cats and am doing cleanup and reworking of Category:Public Health
  39. JennyRad 15:52, 1 June 2006. Have been categorising cheeses and books and am looking at other categories to assist on.
  40. Epolk 17:51, 2 June 2006 (UTC) - I will categorize anything but I regularly patrol the Category:Government of the United States
  41. Recury 17:28, 7 June 2006 (UTC) Mostly Category:Auto racing right now, but will probably work on some of the other automobile-related and sports-related categories later where needed.
  42. Robert Moore 14:28 15 June 2006 (UTC) I usually work on articles or categories involving Dance music, bus transit systems, radio stations, TV show and TV stations.
  43. Brz7 | Brz7 20:54, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
  44. Zorblek (talk) 10:44, 25 June 2006 (UTC) I do miscellaneous categorizing, but I'm especially interested in making sure that categories are linked logically.
  45. SynergeticMaggot 19:19, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
  46. utcursch | talk
  47. User:DGG I'm trying to get various library and publishing topics into places that make sense.
  48. Jdclevenger 22:13, 30 September 2006 (UTC) General work, pretty random really. A strong interest in food articles.
  49. Daniel. 08:06, 19 October 2006 (UTC) General work, with strong interest in Anime, Manga and Comics.
  50. Hemlock Martinis 07:23, 15 November 2006 (UTC) - I'll be going through Category:Categories requiring diffusion and diffusing the articles in those categories. Current projects include Category:European Union and Category:Lists of office-holders.
  51. Fishal 15:39, 18 November 2006 (UTC): I guess I like categorizing things.
  52. TonyTheTiger I have just overhauled Category:Families. TonyTheTiger 17:07, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
  53. SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 03:24, 23 November 2006 (UTC) — Working heavily on fixing up the categorization of pool/billiards/snooker articles.
  54. 01:59, 29 November 2006 (UTC) I categorize articles without a category.
  55. Delta Tango • Talk 13:03, 23 December 2006 (UTC) Always liked categorization, and will always continue categorizing.
  56. MChew 15:26, 23 December 2006 (UTC) Working on biographical categorization at present, but will always add as many categories as I feel suitable to non or under categorized articles
  57. Obina 10:15, 4 January 2007 (UTC) I am currently adding categories to articles - Very interesting as it often leads me to improving or sometimes proposing deletion.
  58. lquilter 23:07, 6 January 2007 (UTC) - Librarian; interested in categorization generally. Mostly working within people, legal topic, awards, fiction, and fictional works categories. ... Cleaning up sciences; also "Category:Establishments by year".
  59. Sue H. Ping 14:47, 7 January 2007 (UTC) Interested in helping clean out the backlog of articles that don't have categories
  60. Melanochromis 15:34, 16 January 2007 (UTC) Interested in cleaning up and maintaining fish and fishkeeping categories. Will also help with other subjects as needed.
  61. Lesnail 16:23, 20 January 2007 (UTC) Enjoys categorizing things.
  62. Elonka 22:16, 28 January 2007 (UTC) - Identification of uncategorized articles, and tagging them accordingly
  63. Stardust8212 02:09, 7 February 2007 (UTC) Working the uncategorized task force, specifically uncategorized people
  64. Richiar - categories and portals and their relationship with articles have been very confusing for me, so if I learn about them, I can help. Areas-design and organization of categories and their relationships to each other, articles and portals
  65. Flubeca 16:31, 19 February 2007 (UTC) - Since I was already helping with this. I thought "Why not add my name to the list?"
  66. SilkTork 13:23, 24 February 2007 (UTC) - I love it.
  67. WillyFourEyes 17:43, 9 March 2007 (UTC) I like categorization. I'm going to try and add categories to articles relating to video games and cartoons, my areas of "expertise".
  68. Lenoxus 16:30, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
  69. Bencherlite 02:42, 26 March 2007 (UTC) correct categorization of musicians, dealing with overcategorization of people
  70. Vinch 6:31, 4 April 2007 (IST)
  71. 10:37, 7 April 2007 (UTC) Generally helping categorise articles via Category:Uncategorized pages.
  72. Kranar drogin 01:23, 9 April 2007 (UTC)Cleaning up Illinois-related categories for WikiProject Illinois.
  73. Suncloud 08:35, 15 April 2007 (UTC) Mainly loiter in Special:Uncategorizedpages where I try and categorise pages there, alongside dealing with (or highlighting) the other issues these, often new, pages have.
  74. Bu b0y2007 06:13, 20 April 2007 (UTC) (always willing to help and participate)
  75. Wizardman 02:18, 30 April 2007 (UTC)--I've done some work with cats before, I'm always available if needed.
  76. MFulvio I'm a librarian & a taxonomy manager-- so I'm both familiar with categorization and rather easily excited by it. I'd be delighted to help in this project. Mfulvio 18:41, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
  77. The Sunshine Man 14:25, 12 May 2007 (UTC) I regularly categorise articles via CAT:UNCAT.
  78. Wassermann 22:27, 16 May 2007 (UTC) -- I am interested in many categories, and I especially like to refine categories. I feel that categorization is by far the best way to organize Wikipedia at the deepest and the most basic level; they are certainly much more cleaner and efficient than lists.
  79. Werldwayd 06:54, 17 June 2007 (UTC) (I am very organized and am always willing to help in Wikipedia categories)
  80. 23:48, 20 June 2007 (UTC) – I want to help with uncategorized pages, and other categorization tasks
  81. Gary King 06:03, 24 June 2007 (UTC) I'm cleaning up uncategorized pages.
  82. Yamaka122 16:53, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
  83. Lord Sesshomaru 00:12, 29 June 2007 (UTC) Wish I had known about this WikiProject sooner. Glad to help whenever possible.
  84. Dbiel (Talk) 09:08, 3 July 2007 (UTC) would like to take a stab at the school related categories.
  85. CaveatLectorTalk 15:42, 9 July 2007 (UTC) Categories help organize Wikipedia in a way that aids navigation and therefore research. On that note, I'd like to work on making superfluous lists into more defined and useful categories.
  86. AchedDamiman All A-Z.
  87. Shruti14 22:12, 2 August 2007 (UTC) good WP
  88. T C U 03:30, 5 August 2007 (UTC) - As I do not have a general area to contribute to, it will just be a mixture of practically everything. Categories are essential but play a crucial role on Wikipedia. Plus, I did not realise until just recently that categorisation can be interesting and fun but not stressful at times.
  89. elmindreda 03:23, 16 August 2007 (UTC) - I categorise anything, but mostly people (using Special:Uncategorizedpages).
  90. Tirkfltalk 14:24, 20 August 2007 (UTC) - From time to time, when I feel like organising something, I do some categorising — mainly articles on people and science.
  91. Cgingold 00:00, 24 September 2007 (UTC) I just discovered that this project exists, so I guess I may as well make it "official", seeing as I'm already doing a good deal of work in this area.
  92. MrBoo (talk, contribs) 14:00, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
  93. Kathleen.wright5 05:05, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
  94. Severa (!!!) 13:18, 18 October 2007 (UTC) I'm most interested in diffusing overpopulated categories and attempting to create navigable categorization schemes.
  95. Shinobigai(!!!) 15:18EST, 28 October 2007 ~~~~ IM interested in anime, martial arts, linguistics, Scifi, and aviation
  96. wooerfara3661 10:03, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
  97. Jon Ace 20:59, 7 November 2007 (UTC) Random categorizer
  98. Gueneverey (talk) 22:18, 18 November 2007 (UTC) I just found out this WikiProject exists, but I've been categorizing folk music related articles for some time now.
  99. / VANucks|12-9-2 04:31, 4 December 2007 (UTC) You won't believe how messed up it is, especially when you edit articles on consumer electronics...
  100. Doczilla (talk) 03:05, 12 January 2008 (UTC) A lot of CfDs.
  101. Grk1011 (talk) 23:04, 19 January 2008 (UTC) I like to categorize music related articles
  102. --JustJimDandy (talk) 19:06, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
  103. FeanorStar7 (talk) 00:03, 25 March 2008 (UTC) --primarily adding birth and death categories to bios; trying to be systematic; right now in the 1610s; also working on the uncategorized pages category
  104. – i123Pie biocontribs 18:05, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
  105. Rotovia (talk) 09:36, 9 April 2008 (UTC) Linking Australian articles, particually Australian poltical articles
  106. Megata Sanshiro (talk) 15:40, 13 April 2008 (UTC) sorting video game and video game company articles.
  107. Stepheng3 (talk) 20:50, 19 April 2008 (UTC) categorizing (or deleting) everything in Special:UncategorizedCategories except for Category:Contents.
  108. BillyMassie (talk)Billy Massie (talk) 05:22, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
  109. Mdebets (talk) 11:31, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
  110. --Wulf Isebrand (talk) 00:26, 12 May 2008 (UTC) I'm currently categorizing articles at Category:German-Americans and some other "Fooian-American" categories. Categories are an important aspect of Wikipedia and the best way to organize it.
  111. 21:28, 20 May 2008 (UTC) -- primarily related to the Nordic Countries, transport and business.
  112. --mrg3105 (comms) ♠♣ 22:31, 29 May 2008 (UTC) working in the Military History Project with (currently) a small area of Second World War
  113. TALK 17:05, 9 June 2008 (UTC) I have been working on categories off and on for some time. I try to find ungrouped subcategories that lack a overarching category, and place articles in more appropriate categories. I also try to reorganize categories to eliminate "endless do loops" in category tree structures, which include overcategorizing individual articles with nested categories. I mostly work on categories related to articles and topics I have knowledge in. However, I'm happy to assist in any area.  :)
  114. Shooke (talk) 19:01, 1 July 2008 (UTC) would be helpful because I've been working categorizing in other wikimedia projects, :D
  115. Dakinijones I've mostly been working over in spirituality/religion
  116. Mycroft7 (talk) 17:32, 4 July 2008 (UTC) I've mostly been sorting categories relating to New York City and Long Island.
  117. Skittleys (talk) 17:45, 7 July 2008 (UTC) I enjoy diffusing large categories and finding homes for uncategorized articles :) though I pretty much do anything I can.
  118. Anik Ghosh (talk) 17:39, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
  119. Victor Lopes (talk) 22:29, 5 October 2008 (UTC) I work for the Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories/uncategorized. I usually work populating categories and improving the categorization of articles about most topics.
  120. TwentiethApril1986 (want to talk?) 15:50, 10 October 2008 (UTC) Created Category:Number-one albums in the United Kingdom and currently populating it.

Useful pages

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