Category for Each/All Cemeteries?

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Does G2G allow a new (added) Category for each and every cemetery that any/all users which to add?  It would seem to me that WikiTree will be overrun with Cemeteries in the not too distant future.  Am I missing something?

Why wouldn't all cemeteries fall under a single category: Cemetery or Find-A-Grave?
in Policy and Style by Barney Banks G2G2 (2.9k points)
retagged by Ellen Smith

2 Answers

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Hi Barney,

Categories are hierarchical in nature. That helps tremendously with organization. The top level category for Cemeteries is here:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Cemeteries

You can drill down to various sub-levels of categories. It's organized by geography.

No, WikiTree won't be overrun with categories. It might seem overwhelming to people if we had to write it out by hand. But that is what a computer database is for. It can handle millions of records without a problem.

 And yes, it's important to have a category for each cemetery because it is such an important genealogical tool.
by Eric Weddington G2G6 Pilot (518k points)
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We do have a one page view of all "cemetery" categories available if that is what you are trying to find.

It is compiled each week by Aleš through data dumps, and typically takes just over a minute to load on a fast connection. It does not include "others" (cemetery categories without the word cemetery in them) but that can be loaded via another report page. In total, we are looking at well over 75,000 cemeteries, not including their parent categories that link them to other categories (such as locations).

Why wouldn't all cemeteries fall under a single category: Cemetery or Find-A-Grave?

First and foremost, we are not Find a Grave :) We do not follow their methods, their structure, their naming conventions, etc. There is a write-up from the Cemeterist Project's 2020 Newsletter that will explain this in more detail.

Second, a single category page can only display 200 subcategories per page. Let's assume 75,000 categories, then that would be over 375 pages (75,000 ÷ 200) someone would need to navigate through. Even if using the Alphabetical picker to quick jump through the list, we are talking an average of 14 pages per letter (375 ÷ 26).

by Steven Harris G2G6 Pilot (742k points)
I hope Ales report includes all categories that use the cemteries infobox, regardless of the name in the category.  If it searches only for the word cemetery in the name, then it will be incomplete/  So Cemetery in name or uses cemetery infobox.

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