Categories

General

Categories help users to navigate the Clavis Wiki and thus to find relevant information; they also make the information more machine-readable as information on the collections and manuscripts can be extracted from the categories the respective pages are found in.

This page documents the categories used, and explains how to use them. Of course everyone is free to come up with new categories, but it would be nice to document major changes here. A few general remarks first:

• You can easily place any Clavis Wiki article in any category if you use Edit source and insert [[Category:Xyz]] (conventionally, at the bottom of am article), where „Xyz“ is the category in question. Once you save your changes, the page is in the relevant category, and a side menu (depending on your device, this may be on either side of or below the main article) will display all categories the page is in. Follow these links to find other pages in the same categories.
• For a list of all categories, see Special:Categories
• For a shorter overview of some of the most useful categories, see Some_Useful_Categories

Manuscripts

If you write or improve articles on manuscripts, please consider placing them in the relevant categories:

• Hurray, it's a manuscript!: All articles on manuscripts should be in the category, so first of all, insert [[Category:Manuscript]] in any manuscript description on this Wiki.
• Content: You can tag all manuscripts of a certain collection by placing them in the appropriate category. Use [[Category:Manuscript of XY]] where 'XY' is the Clavis key for the collection in question. See here for the list of keys. For collections not having a key (yet), you can use the full name as found in the page URL (so including "Collectio ..." in many cases).
• Date of origin: Use [[Category:Manuscript saec XII]] to tag manuscripts written in the twelfth century, and so on. More precise dates can and should be given in the description, the categories help to get an overview. If you cannot give a date, use [[Category Manuscript of which the date is unknown or missing]] instead.
• Place of origin: Every manuscript should be placed in precisely one category from this list of all categories for manuscript by region (e.g. [[Category:Manuscript from Southern Italy]]). You can also tag manuscripts by placing them in other categories [[Category:Manuscript from ...]] to add more specific information on the place of origin. If you cannot provide any region of origin, use [[Category:Manuscript of which the place of origin is unknown or missing]] instead.
• Holding institution: There are separate pages for all libraries and archives relevant to our project, and matching categories [[Category:Manuscript in ...]] which make it easy to group manuscript by holding institution, almost always public libraries and archives. Manuscripts in (smaller) private collections are lumped together in the [[Category:Manuscript in private collection]]. If the current whereabouts are completely unknown, use [[Category:Manuscript of which the current owner is unknown]]. For details, use the article itself.
• Is the manuscript digitized? If so, tag it by inserting [[Category:Digitized Manuscript]] in the description, or [[Category:Manuscript partly digitized]] if applicable. If you are sure a manuscript is not digitized, you can add [[Category:Manuscript not digitized]]. Adding a date for this finding ("not online in June 2023") can be useful. If a manuscript is not digitized but in your opinion really should be, add [[Category:Wishlist MSS Digitization]]! The article will then appear in the relevant wishlist Category:Wishlist MSS Digitization.
• Codicology and preservation status: Use [[Category:Fragment]], [[Category:Composite Manuscript]], [[Category:Codex discissus]], [[Category:Multi-Volume Manuscript]] to document basic codicological information, and mark destroyed manuscripts by [[Category:Manuscript no longer extant]].
• New? Manuscript descriptions should contain a reference to standard works, in particular Kéry's 1999 catalogue (digitized here) and the 2005 Clavis handbook (digitized here). You can cite them like this: {{Author|Fowler-Magerl}} p. {{FM|12}} and {{Author|Kéry}} pp. {{Kéry|123}}-124. Manuscripts not mentioned in these books should be placed in the respective categories [[Category:Manuscript not in Clavis handbook and/or [[Category:Manuscript not in Kéry]].

Collections

• Collection: Use [[Category:Canonical Collection]] and/or [[Category:Letter Collection]] in all articles on collections. As a result, the categories Category:Canonical Collection and Category:Letter Collection provide a quick and easy overview which collections already have an article in this Wiki.
• Key: For canonical collection, please also add [[Category:Collection Key is XY]] to provide the Clavis key (replacing, of course, "XY" by the respective key). This helps to link articles on collections to those on the manuscripts.
• Date: Use [[Category:Collection saec X]] to tag collections compiled in the tenth century, and so on. If in doubt, be generous (i.e. refer to both centuries if scholarship is uncertain which of it the collection emerged).
• Place of origin: You can add collections to geographical categories by adding a tag beginning ([[Category:Collection from ...]]). Every collection should be in one and only one regional category like "Northern France"; see the list of all categories for collections by region. For some collections, it is also possible to state the place of origin ("Paris"), and you can the articles to the respective category too. It is not necessary to place articles in more general categories unless it is really impossible to state a region of origin.
• The database entries are based on modern editions (i.e. more or less critical editions 19th/20th c.), early printed books (including Migne's Patrologia), or manuscripts. Use [[Category:Clavis entries based on modern edition]], [[Category:Clavis entries based on early printed books]], and [[Category:Clavis entries based on manuscript]]. If the collection is not (yet) in the database, use [[Category:Collection not in Clavis database]].
• Depending on size, use one of the following tags:
  • [[Category:very small (less than 100 canons) collection]]
  • [[Category:small (100 to 500 canons) collection]]
  • [[Category:medium (500 to 1000 canons) collection]]
  • [[Category:large (1000 to 2000 canons) collection]]
  • [[Category:very large (more than 2000 canons) collection]]
• Collections added to since the 2005 edition are "new": [[Category:New Collection]]
• See below how to flag articles lacking certain information.

Articles with issues

Some article may have issues you cannot fix at once. Use categories to make other users aware of the problem(s):

• Some descriptions refer to more than one collection in the database. Tagging these pages helps to improve the wiki: [[Category:Description that need to be split]].
• Information missing: [[Category:Collection taq is unknown/missing]] [[Category:Collection tpq is unknown/missing]] [[Category:Collection of which the date is unknown or missing]], [[Category:Collection of which the place of origin is unknown or missing]]. The same categories exist for manuscripts.
• All or most categories are missing: [[Category:Lacks categories]]. This works for articles on collections and articles.
• Something else is wrong (please say what in the discussion): [[Category:Article with known issues]]
• Use [[Category:Stub]] for articles which are very short, or only a first draft.

All these categories are in the category Category:Article with known issues; so if you are looking for articles that ned fixing, have a look there. In some cases, the articles can be improved without much effort.