The Wikidelphia Category System
Note: Wikidelphia is mostly an index to websites. A "Target" is the thing, process, website, article, (or whatever) to which the Wikidelphia entry points. Access to the Target is usually found in the form of a hypertext link at the top of the page, under the page name.
| Top Tag | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| About | What does the target write about or create media about?
○ This may be the same term as the target’s Issue. But a target can have an Issue without writing or producing media about it. | |
| Buys | What goods or services does the target buy? | |
| By | What organization or individual created or presented the target? | |
| Does | What does the target do? | |
| Frequency | How often does this happen? | ○ Periodicals or events will have a frequency—weekly, annual, etc. |
| Is | What kind of thing is this target? | ○ A business? A government agency? An artist? A document? A person? A video? |
| Issue | What, if anything, does the target advocate or do activism for? | |
| Makes | What does the target make? | |
| Sells | What does the target sell? | |
| Serves | Who does the target serve? | |
| Teaches | What does the target teach? | |
| Using | What special resource does the target use? | ○ Examples: Volunteers. Film or Video. |
| Where | Which neighborhood? | ○&enap;If a Where Category isn't a Philadelphia neighborhood or district, then either "County" or "PA" (occasionally "NJ") will appear in its name. |
- Each page in Wikidelphia can have as many tags as needed.
- Click a Top Tag to see a list of associated categories.
- The “Target” of a page may be the page itself, or a website, an organization, a person or anything else.
The Wikidelphia Category System is an information indexing concept devised by Stan Pokras for organizing the pages on Wikidelphia.