Category:Countries: Difference between revisions

A category is a page on this wiki that lists pages that contain similar information on a certain topic on OLPC that could be dealt with in different pages. The Category "Countries" e.g. lists pages with information about OLPC in different countries. The great thing about categories is that when you add following code somewhere in your page, that the software running this wiki recognizes that and will automatically put a link to your country page in a page where together with all other country pages.

Guidelines

1. If you work on a country page, please include a short paragraph in English at the top of each country page to direct readers to any English-language resources about your country project. After that, feel free to use your native language, as per details mentioned below.
2. What name to use? We use the ISO Short English Names of countries: Country pages should be in the form of [[OLPC shortEnglishName]]. Put your country name into shortEnglishName. See this page, Country_name for a list of "shortEnglishName".
3. Include the following: [[Category:Countries|shortEnglishName]]
   • the page will then be included in this category, and
   • be sorted by shortEnglishName (otherwise, it'll be under 'O'LPC...)
4. Use the Country box template near the top of your page. See the template page for instructions. This will give you the big information box and enter the country into the correct deployment and status sub-categories
5. Never use the page for only your own project or solely a private group instead of OLPC project in your country. A country page should be a general resource about OLPC itself in the country even if official OLPC project has not yet launched there.
6. Build a 'subcategory' for OLPC in your country then put all local resources rather than global things. Please regard this subcatgory as the local 'site' of the country and the above country page as homepage of the local site. (Please note that the 'translated' pages should be considered as global resources because they are only a 'language version' of a multilingual site.)
7. For the translated pages in this category, please make subpage of this 'Category:Countries' thus 'Category:Countries/lang-xx' then;
   • in 'Category:Countries/lang-xx' page itself, tag [[Category:Countries|xx]]. xx is a 2 letters language code in lower case. It acts as a subcategory.
   • in the tranlsated pages, tag [[Category:Countries/lang-xx]]. They are categorized into the subcategory for translated pages in main category.
8. Generic documents which are dedicated to a specific country would be tagged like this [[Category:Countries| ]](white space after pipe |) then they are listed first.
9. Now, in this category, we can get the following;
   • generic informational pages indexed top
   • all country pages sorted by country name
   • doorway to each country's local resources
   • translated pages grouped by language

See also

• Deployments