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.

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: 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.