User:TBurmeister (WMF)/Sandbox/Collections

This page gathers ideas and strategies around how to group technical documentation into meaningful units that facilitate browsing, discovery, and maintenance. In Q2 of FY22-23 we are investigating: "What strategies or tools have people used, considered or suggested to identify sets of related docs or divide up the content space?" This is part of work on phab:T313037.

How do we define the collections?
Different organizing principles currently exist, and others have been suggested in brainstorming sessions or other feedback channels. Documents are related to each other in multiple, varied ways:

Document metadata
Metadata can be embedded in a page name or added to a page in a variety of ways. People often use these different types of metadata to create connections between related content:

Navigation templates
Examples:


 * Template:Huggle/DocHeader
 * Template:Installation Guides
 * Template:OOUI
 * ..More examples

Some navigation templates group together pages that *mostly* share a hierarchy or namespace, but navigation templates usually include at least some pages that reside outside of the canonical page hierarchy or namespace for a given topic. Especially because namespaces exist to cover different facets of the same topic (like Help:, API:, and Manual:), navigation templates often serve to provide paths between these namespaces. For example: the VisualEditor navigation template includes links to pages following the page hierarchy pattern, but also.

Community suggestions and prior art

 * Add Tags to docs - like labels