Instructions for Creating Category Links in MediaWiki

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Contents 1 How to Assign an Article to Categories 1.1 Example: Review Category names 1.2 Example: Add a Category to your Article 1.3 Example: Add a Category to your Image

How to Assign an Article to Categories

Enable readers to locate your article by categorizing it

Example: Review Category names

1. One way to select a category is to visit the National Agriculture Library Thesaurus website.
2. Research topic of your article
3. Select category for your article

Example: Add a Category to your Article

1. Go to your article page
2. Click on edit
3. Go to bottom/end of article text
4. Click below article text
5. Type Category:category name
6. Select/highlight the category text
7. Go to toolbar and click the internal link (AB) button. (Double brackets will surround the category text.)
8. Add summary content
9. Save

Example: Add a Category to your Image

1. Using the Toolbox navigation, click on Special pages
2. Scroll down and click the link to Uncategorized images
3. Locate your image in the list, and click to view it
4. Click on edit
5. Go to bottom/end of text
6. Click below text
7. Type Category:category name
8. Select/Highlight the category text
9. Go to the toolbar and click the internal link (AB) button. (Double brackets will surround the category text.)
10. Add summary content
11. Save page