Proposal for Kenya Regional Categories

Question

The recent addition of the Kenya Project to the Global Project has highlighted the need to create a formal categorization process for Kenya. As such, a draft proposal is being submitted to G2G for comment.

In accordance with the WikiTree process for Proposing Category Structures, the following proposal is submitted to the G2G community for Initial Review.

Please review the proposal here: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Kenya_Category_Proposal

Thanks in advance for your input and comments.

Eric

Kenya Project Coordinator

Answer 1

Thank you Eric. The proposal looks good.

One small suggestion for the space page. The angle bracket notation makes sense in generic category descriptions like

[[Category: <Place>, <County>]]

where <Place> and <County> are stand-ins. However, for the numerous real example categories mentioned, it is confusing and does not reflect what the categories will actually be called. In those cases it would be better if the angle brackets were removed, for example replacing

[[Category: <Nyeri County>, <Kenya>]]

by

[[Category: Nyeri County, Kenya]]

Comments

For some reason, when I remove those brackets, nothing appears, just a big blank space. I had noticed this when first creating the Free Space page. I assumed that without the brackets WT looks for the real category and not finding it inserts nothing? I just tried it again and got the same result: a blank area where I had entered [[Category: Nyeri County, Kenya]]. A bug?

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Try

[[:Category: Nyeri County, Kenya]]

with an extra colon near the front.

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Or if that doesn't do what you want,

<nowiki>[[Category: Nyeri County, Kenya]]</nowiki>

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I used the <nowiki> trick

Answer 2

Thank you for your work on this, Eric.

Answer 3

That looks nice and logical to me, good work!