What is a category?
A category is a Reverse Index to related Wiki pages. Instead of a category page containing forward links to pages of that category, page authors can put a reference to one or more categories on their pages. By clicking on the title of a category page, Wiki will list the pages referenced to that category.
For instance:
Someone adds the category title 'CategoryComicBooks' at the bottom of a page. When someone clicks the link to that category, they are taken to that category's page. That page may or may not have a more detailed description of what pages it applies to (wiki users are, of course, encouraged to provide those descriptions), but in any case, if the title of that page is then clicked, Wiki will provide a list of all pages having that category's link in them.
To see a list of all categories, click the title of this page. To view the list of categories in alphabetical order, click the LikePages link at the bottom of this page or try c2.com 
. What follows on this page is a list of some categories grouped by subject.
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Some easy rules for editing this page:
create a category only when that category is really needed (be picky)
create concise descriptions (as few words as possible)
create useful descriptions (don't merely repeat the category name)
keep everything in alphabetical order
only after dealing with all the Back Links (hundreds, sometimes thousands) do you delete or rename a category
only when it really makes sense do you put entries into multiple sections
WIKI CATEGORIES REGROUPED BY SUBJECT
Computing
General:
Category Fuzzy -- theory and implementation of All Things Fuzzy
Category Information Management -- includes library science concerns?
Category Internet -- Internet, net, web, information superhighway, etc.
Category Linux -- the Linux operating system
Category Messaging Services -- technology to link up applications and application services
Category Microsoft -- Number 1 player in the computing field
Category Agent Oriented -- Agent-Oriented Programming, systems and methodology.
Category Unix -- the UNIX operating system
Category Palm Os -- The Palm OS operating system --> being replaced with the more inclusive Category Handheld
Category Web Design -- web design, web programming, usability, etc.
Software Development & Programming General:
Category Adopting Xp -- adopting Extreme Programming
Category Analysis -- software analysis
Category Architecture -- software architectural issues/types, apparently excluding computing hardware architecture issues (as indicated by the text describing the category; for the excluded aspects, please see Category Computer Architecture). Also please note that this category may contain discussions related to computer-based electronic device architecture, where the software is a component of, but not the totality of, the product under consideration.
Category Case Study -- case studies of software project experiences
Category Components -- component-based programming
Category Configuration Management -- configuration Management Tool
Category Cpp Templates -- software templates
Category Crc Cards -- using cards in software development
Category Definition -- see also Category Glossary
Category Design Issues -- design issues (software, so far)
Category Modelling Laws And Principles -- software modeling laws and principles
Category Open Source -- All things related to the principles, processes, and business decisions surrounding Open Source
Category Orientation -- a taxonomy of sub and sub-sub categories covering various levels/orientations in software development
Coding Concerns:
Category Collections -- data collections (arrays, etc.)
Category Ide -- Integrated Development Environments
Someone please help categorizing list in Structured Query Language, I have added Sql Coding Style to this new category -- dl Sep04 and Delete When Cooked
Distributed Computing:
Category Ejb -- Enterprise Java Beans
Category Distributed Computing
Category Concurrency threading, synchronization, locking, wait-free algorithms, etc.
Programming Languages:
Category Algol -- "Algol-like" languages, including Wirth Languages (Wijngarten's woebegone wizard! There was a separate category for "C#", but not for "Algol-like" languages!?)
Category Cee -- C
Category Cee Sharp -- C#
Category Common Lisp -- a Lisp dialect
Category Cpp -- C++
Category Boost -- Boost Libraries for C++
Category Cpp Templates -- C++ Templates
Category Java Script -- JavaScript/JScript and ECMAScript
Category Language Feature -- features of programming languages
Category Pascal -- Pascal family of Wirth Languages, including "Pascal-like" languages
Category Pli -- descendants of PL/I, arguably including SQL
Category Python -- Python and Jython
Category Scheme -- another Lisp dialect
Special Purpose Languages:
Category Tex -- TeX text formatting language
Category Thelop -- Language Oriented Programming & LOP language
Category Xml -- XML text formatting language
Technical stuff
General:
Category Computer Architecture -- for software issues more akin to software design, please see the unsymmetrically named Category Architecture.
Category Computer Company -- a basis for descriptions and references to the commercial enterprises responsible for hardware and software advances and setbacks in the computer industry.
Category Documentation -- all about writing for technical reasons
Category Glossary -- definitions of terms (see also Category Definition)
Category Hardware (awfully broad as a category)
Category Hierarchy -- discussing hierarchical structures
Category Real Time -- instrumentation, machine, medical diagnostics & treatment, etc.
Category Security -- computer security and authentication issues
Category Ytwok -- Y2k (Year 2000, the date bug thingy)
Patterns
General:
Category Refactoring -- improving a system internally without affecting interface
Specific:
Category Object Functional Patterns -- integrating a functional style in OOP
Entertainment
General:
Category Story -- stories: short stories, novelettes, novels, etc.
Category Sucks -- it sucks and here's why
Intellectual Stuff (Literature, History, Psychology, Philosophy, etc.)
General:
Category Book -- individual books
Category Books -- books in general, lists, stores, etc
Category Communication -- not about datacomm, but about personal communications
Category Education -- education, educating, learning, etc
Category Perpetual Argument -- 'passionate debates'
Category Society -- how best to live within and organize society
Category Tin Foil Hat -- crazy pseudo-intellectual stuff
Category Wisdom -- information on wisdom gathered from outside Wiki Community
Category World View -- pages with religious or philosophical content
Category Subjectivity And Relativism -- When you start to think that Laynes Law is perhaps all there is.
Language
General:
Category German -- for German speakers
Category Idiom -- words and phrases that take on a life of their own
Category Quote -- quotes
Category Natural Language -- languages, linguistics
For artificial languages devised for programming, see Category Programming Language (above) and the appropriate section listed below.
Miscellaneous Stuff
General:
Category City -- cities that have some relevance to programming
Category Collaboration -- ways for people to work together
Category Country -- direct links to pages about various countries
Category External Link -- pages mainly for non-wiki-wiki links
Category Magazine -- paper and electronic magazines
Category Maintenance -- maintenance, all kinds
Category Reference -- reference works
Category Table -- tables of useful information
Category Rant -- Discussions of pros and cons taken to some extremes. Usually entertaining, but ultimately tiring to the uninitiated.
People
General:
Category Author -- published authors
Category Dialogue -- the art of exchange, cooperation, and agreement (Failure Is Not An Option)
Category Home Page -- Wiki Wiki users' home pages
Category Interview -- interviews of people by people
Category Person -- people outstanding in their field [Note: this seems unnecessarily broad; can we split this up or somehow focus it a little better?]
Professional stuff
General:
Category Conference -- conferences, conventions, etc.
Category Employment -- how to get it, and where to get it
Category Group -- user groups
Category Knowledge -- knowledge management
Category Software Product -- entry for software products
Process, Quality, Methodology:
Category Process -- discussions on process, management, organization, and predictability of outcome
Category Quality -- quality assurance, control, teams, design, etc.
Category Metrics -- quality and productivity metrics
Wiki Wiki Web
General:
Category Voting -- how to poll wiki users, some pages on (off-wiki) voting
Category Wiki -- general Wiki Wiki issues
Category Wiki Engine Review -- Wiki engines and wiki farms
Category Wiki Progress -- how Wards Wiki is shaping up for the future
Category Wiki Tag -- tag marks applied to pages requiring some action to clear the tag
Wiki Wiki -- the word
Wiki Wiki Web -- the object
Indexes, etc:
Category Category -- you are here
Category Faq -- FAQ (frequently asked questions) pages
Category Home Page -- Wiki Wiki users' home pages
Category Index -- pages with indexes (lists of links)
Category Road Map -- things to explore (good for newbies)
Category Wiki Favorites -- Wiki Wiki Favorite pages
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