Category talk:Women-related WikiProjects

Q: re: abc (Red/Green)

Why does Wikiproject:Women in Green appear under "G", while "Wikiproject:Women in Red is under "W"? -- Cl3phact0 (talk) 11:31, 8 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Cl3phact0: Category:WikiProject Women in Green contains [[Category:Women-related WikiProjects|Green]]. The |Green is a sort key that tells Wikipedia to sort this category under "Green" instead of "Women".

If you were to edit Category:WikiProject Women in Red to change [[Category:Women-related WikiProjects]] to [[Category:Women-related WikiProjects|Red]] it would be sorted under "Red" instead of "Women". GoingBatty (talk) 15:09, 8 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, yes, of course! Thank you, GoingBatty.

When one enters the editor, an ominous message appears warning:

"To list a page in this category, do not edit this category page. Instead, edit the page you want to list. Either add [[Category:WikiProject Women in Red]] at the bottom of the page, or if this is a maintenance category, then there may be a template that populates it. See FAQ/Categorization for details."

If that weren't enough to make a still (relatively) inexperienced editor take pause, the complexity and density of the template that fills the screen (let alone the countless hours that must be invested in its creation and maintenance) surely is. In short, I wasn't able to, ehem, sort-out how to access the relevant part of the wikitext in the correct location to even find the cats or their sort keys. I think I might be able now.

What prompted my question (apart from the obvious inconsistency) is that I actually got tripped-up by this – thinking WiG was missing from the cat Category:Women-related WikiProjects and adding Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Green to the top-level here in the process (harmless but perhaps redundant).

Apart from absorbing the technical info above (valuable, again thanks): in this case, would it be desirable to have Red sort under R (per Green), or the other way around? (I'm also a bit of a consistency freak, obviously.)

-- Cl3phact0 (talk) 16:07, 8 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Cl3phact0: Looks like there are more categories that have sort keys than not, so I added/fixed sort keys for the rest, including having Red sort under R. GoingBatty (talk) 16:18, 8 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, that's much clearer. Well done! Thank you. (I'll study how you did that too.) -- Cl3phact0 (talk) 16:26, 8 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@GoingBatty: If you have time for one last question, I'm wondering if there is a "proper" way to highlight the quote that I lifed from the warning message (i.e., "To list a page...) akin to the way you used "code" and "nowiki" above to render the background grey and indicate actual wikitext usage? -- Cl3phact0 (talk) 16:43, 8 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Cl3phact0: You could try using {{blockquote}}, like this:

To list a page in this category, do not edit this category page. Instead, edit the page you want to list. Either add [[Category:Women-related WikiProjects]] at the bottom of the page, or if this is a maintenance category, then there may be a template that populates it. See FAQ/Categorization for details.

Hope this helps! GoingBatty (talk) 16:50, 8 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That's what I was looking for, yes, perfetto... thank you. -- Cl3phact0 (talk) 17:21, 8 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]