User blog:Mattkballinger/Making progress

We're nearing 60 entries now. In under two full months, that's more than one entry a day! Cool.

Most of the city pages have been created and contain lists of city council members, and many have information on other staffers and more. Several high-profile personalities have their own pages -- some even have photos. The county jail facilities also have pages now. I think there's even one landfill lurking in here.

A challenge and a suggestion
I've been trying to use the category feature because I think that may be one of the most useful features of this style guide. (More on that below.) But it has presented an organizational challenge: what to call the categories.

For cities and communities, I've settled on the region followed by the word "communities." E.g., Newport Beach will show up in the "Coastal Orange County communities" category, as will Huntington Beach, Seal Beach, Laguna Beach and so on. I chose the word "communties" because "cities" didn't seem inclusive enough. For instance, where would Sunset Beach fall? Or Capistrano Beach? Or Pelican Point? Newport Coast? Corona del Mar? "Communities" leaves room for all of those, which are not cities but are certainly part of Coastal Orange County. Likewise with Coto de Caza, Dove Canyon, Las Flores or Rancho Mission Viejo in the "South Orange County communities" category. (Nota bene: The community categories are these: North Orange County, Central Orange County, South Orange County, and Coastal Orange County. Let me know if you think that organization needs amending or additions.)

Check out all the categories, "communities" and otherwise, here: http://voiceofocstyle.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Categories.

Which brings me to the challenge. Some of the categories are being phased out (e.g, "North Orange County city"), but it occurs to me that one in particular needs to be phased in in a big way: "Style guide."

The "Style guide" category will prove quite useful, I think. Every entry -- I can't think of any exceptions at this point -- should have the "Style guide" category added to it. If you see an entry without the "Style guide" category, please add it. (Thanks!) That way, we can go to the "Style guide" category if we're just doing a quick lookup and want to see an alphabetical list of terms. I foresee that being most helpful.

Next on the agenda, adding entries for hospitals and colleges ...

Mattkballinger 05:18, July 21, 2010 (UTC)