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.

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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