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Category Sortkeys[edit]
Key | Usage | Abstract Categories | Class Categories | Meta Categories | Object Categories | Reasoning |
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Example parent categories: | Geography | Mountains | Mountains by country | Mont Blanc | ||
criterium
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Subordinate meta-categories where the content of this category is devided according to a specific criterium | Geography by country | Mountains by country | Mountains by country by height | ![]() |
Sorted at the very beginning. |
!criterium
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Meta-meta-categories where subordinate meta categories are sorted by the same criterium | ![]() |
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Mountains by season by country | ![]() |
Sorted just below the previous block. |
#presentation
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Subcategories concerning the way the topic is presented, like “Views of X”, “Videos of X”, “X in art”... | Geography in art | Videos of mountains | Views of mountains by country | Maps of Mont Blanc | A way of categorizing which is totally different from and additional to the normal category hierarchy, thus before the other special sortkeys. |
$award
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Subcategories with Highlighted content | Valued images of Geography | Featured pictures of Mountains | Quality images of mountains by country | Featured pictures of Mont Blanc | These media are very valued by the community, thus the $. ![]() |
%part
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Subcategories which cover only a defined part of the objects, like doors of houses, leaves of plants... | ![]() |
Summit crosses | Summit crosses by country | ![]() |
The % symbolizes the fact that only a part of the objects is covered. |
&aspect
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Subcategories which include an additional aspect to the category scope | ![]() |
Mountains with snow | Mountains at sunrise by country | ![]() |
The & symbolizes the addition of a special aspect. |
*special kind
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Subcategories which limit the topic to a special kind of objects | ![]() |
Inselbergs | Inselbergs by country | ![]() |
The * symbol is already widely used for such cases. |
+location
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Subcategories which limit the topic to a specific geographical area, if not collected in their own “by location” metacategory | Geography of Switzerland | Mountains of Austria | Mountains of Europe by country | Mont Blanc in France | Think of the + as the cross to mark a location on a map. |
>relation
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Subcategories which are tightly related but nevertheless lead away from the actual topic, like views from a mountain, products of a company... | ![]() |
Views from mountains | Views from mountains by country | Views from Mont Blanc | Since it leads the user away from the actual topic, it's good that it's after most other special sortkeys. Also the > symbolizes the arrow pointing away from the topic. |
@number
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Subcategories naturally dividing the topic into subtopics, but with a non-alphabetic sort order, for example by season, by month... | ![]() |
Mountains in summer | Mountains in summer by country | Mont Blanc in April | The @ gets sorted directly before A-Z, so it's ordered exactly where alphabetically sorted entries would be located. |
A-Z
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Subcategories naturally dividing the topic into subtopics, with an alphabetic sort order | Geographical modeling | Mont Blanc | Mountains of Italy | Geology of Mont Blanc | The natural sorting of subcategories. |
~
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Subcategories outside the topical category tree, linking to technical features of Commons like templates, gallery pages, meta categories | Geography templates | Categories by mountain | ![]() |
Gallery pages of Mont Blanc | Doesn't actually contain media but other stuff, so mostly uninteresting for the average user. |
Note the examples are only there to help understanding. Some categories are in fact not direct subcategories, but some levels lower, and some categories don't even exist.