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This is Ryan "CGamesPlay" Patterson. I am the channel contact for #allegro's presence on freenode, and manage the Allegro IRC bot. I am also responsible for MinorHack.

Move the various help pages into the help namespace, including the Manual of Style.
Switch the Allegro Wiki:Manual of Style to use subpages.
Deal with the wanted pages.

Recategorization of the Allegro Wiki

At the time of writing (CGamesPlay 15:11, August 2, 2007 (UTC)), the Allegro Wiki is categorized like this:

• Allegro Wiki
  • Allegro
    • Allegro Hack Day
    • Allegro Competitions
      • Speedhack
    • Allegro Developers
    • Allegro tutorials
    • AllegroGL tutorials
  • AllegroGL
    • AllegroGL tutorials
  • Architectures
  • Articles about graphics
    • Articles by graphics dimensions
      • 2D graphics
  • IRC
    • IRC Logs
  • OpenGL
    • OpenGL tutorials
  • Tutorials
    • Allegro tutorials
    • OpenGL tutorials
  • Websites
    • Allegro.cc
  • Manual of Style
  • Pixelate
  • Redirects
  • Templates
  • Vfd

The categories have been created in a disorganized manner as the wiki grew from 0 pages, however it's time that we stepped back and examined our taxonomy to neaten it. I am making the following changes to the category system:

• Rename Category:Allegro Wiki to Category:Categories - this mirrors the Wikipedia scheme.
• Move Category:Manual of Style, Category:Redirects, Category:Templates, and Category:Vfd into Category:Wiki - Chunks "implementation-related" categories together.
• Remove categories Category:Articles about graphics, Category:Articles by graphics dimension, and Category:2D graphics - These are far too specific for the wiki in its current state. When the wiki reaches a point that it needs this level of specification, we can add it then.
• Remove article HomePages - This sort of page is inappropriate, and the individual links can be placed on the user's pages.
• Remove Category:Websites - This does not merit its own category.
• Create Category:Community, adding Category:Allegro.cc and Category:IRC Logs - This chunks community-related topics together, not differentiating based on medium.
• Remove Category:IRC - These articles would be better-suited in Category:Community.
• Remove Category:Allegro Developers and Shawn Hargereaves - Nothing against Shawn, but until someone writes a proper article about him, we don't need the line-long summary.
• Remove Category:Speedhack - This does not merit its own category.
• Add Category:Allegro development - All of the NewAPI articles fit into here.
• Remove Category:Architectures - These articles are better suited in Category:Allegro development
• Remove Category:OpenGL - The only article in this category is an AllegroGL article.
• Remove Category:Tutorials - All tutorials are in Category:Allegro tutorials

After these changes, the Allegro Wiki will be categorized like this:

• Categories
  • Articles
    • Allegro
      • Allegro competitions
      • Allegro development
        • Allegro Hack Day
      • Allegro tutorials
        • AllegroGL tutorials
    • AllegroGL
      • AllegroGL tutorials
    • Community
      • Allegro.cc
      • IRC Logs
    • Pixelate
  • Wiki
    • Manual of Style
    • Redirects
    • Templates
    • Vfd

External Links

• http://cgamesplay.com/ - CGamesPlay's web site.