I'm beginning a series of posts (maybe weekly) to inform on the use of our category hierarchy. Today's topic is Personal Categories, which are a great tool to use in your WikiTree activities.
Let's say you are researching profiles for a project or just for your own family research and you want to have a way to keep this organized. You can use personal categories to do it. Just decide what will work for your purposes, then create some categories.
Your top level personal category is [[Category:YourWikiID]], so mine is [[Category:Durbin-702]]. Go to your own profile page and add the category if you didn't already create one. The category will be red, but click that red link and enter the parent category into the category edit box.The parent category you should add is [[Category:Personal Categories]]. Then scroll down and save it. Now you have your personal category. Next you need to add subcategories, where you will add profiles and/or other subcategories.
The subcategories MUST start with your WikiTree ID in order to be your personal subcategories. One of mine is [[Category:Durbin-702 Needs Biography]]. If I just used [[Category:Needs Biography]] and gave it a parent of [[Category:Durbin-702]] then it would be for WikiTree-wide use, which is not what I want. I want to have a place for profiles I manage or otherwise care about, so that I know that "these profiles need a biography written."
I can use any names I like for sub-category names, but, as noted in Help:Category Names, "The only allowed characters are Letters in any alphabet, numbers, space, comma, dot, hyphen (only the normal one but not wide, ...), single quotation mark (as apostrophe but do not use apostrophe) and parentheses (in pair). There is also a colon in the name but must be used only following "Category:""
The subcategories should have a parent of [[Category:YourWikiID]]. The only profile that should have a parent category of [[Category:YourWikiID]] is your own! And only WikiTree members can have personal categories; other profiles may not.
If you find that you no longer need some of the personal subcategories, feel free to delete them. If you don't know how to do that, we can help with that:here.
Here is a screenshot of my personal category page:
More information is here: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Personal_Categories
If you have questions, just ask below!
:-)