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This is the procedure I'm using to work through wiki pages to make them easier to index and find. This also creates a series of categories and sub-categories, which is an essential tool in MediaWiki.

Concepts

• Each page should be in at least one category.
• Each category should be a sub-category to another, with only a few master categories.
• Page names need to including spaces, following MediaWiki/Wikipedia best practice (search doesn't like CamelCase; better for l10n; natural, descriptive language titles are the best practice from Mw/Wikipedia; easier to remember; less exclusive knowledge required to understand title. Must manually re-link, redirect is automatic.)

Procedure

1. Take the next page in Special:Uncategorizedpages.
2. If the page name is CamelCase or is very undescriptive, use the #Page renaming procedure.
3. Once the name is established/confirmed, add the page to one or more categories
   • Use the Category:What is and Category:How to categories to good effect.
   • If it is in any way useful documentation, add it to Category:Documentation or as part of a sub-category collection that is gathered in the docs category.
4. Create description text for all new categories
5. Add new categories to super-categories by putting [[Category:Super category name]] in the content for the sub-category.
6. Keep creating categories and descriptions until you get to the master category, creating and adding a description when necessary.
7. Go back to the start.

Page renaming procedure

1. Use the link for What links here to establish a list of pages or redirects that need to be fixed with the new name.
   • Yes, this is manual, sorry.
   • However, when you move the page, there is an automatic creation of a redirect. You must fix any incoming redirects to not be double redirects, as per MW best practice (cf. Special:DoubleRedirects.)
2. Use the link to Move the page, filling in the new name and a reason for the renaming
   • Seek natural language, descriptive titles that are easy to l10n.
   • Pages should not be in Articial/Nested/Directories. These are not search or information friendly; they require understanding of an informational hierarchy to find information. MediaWiki prefers a flat series of individually named articles. Categories are the tool for creating an integrated info hierarchy.