User talk:Vir/sandbox/feature index

Main categories of portal browse page

The main level categories on this hierarchical index of featured articles are informed by the portal category headings on the portal browse page of the English Wikipedia, in this order:

Art and Culture
Philosophy and Religion
History
Science and Mathematics
Society and People
Technology
Geography

A few of the subheads are worded slightly differently: Art instead of Art and Culture and Society instead of Society and people.

Also helpful to consider are the main categories of the featured article indexes for the French and German wikipedias:

Main page categories on the French Wikipedia

These 8 categories seem fairly distinct and comprehensive. They are on the first page of the French Wikipedia (not including the research and contact categories at the very top).

I like the balance in having 4 more practical categories and four more academic ones (though there are sub-categories of the academic in the practical ones).

Main page French Wikipedia category headings:

Arts
Vie quotidienne & loisirs
Société
Religions & croyances
Atlas de la Terre
Sciences humaines & sociales
Sciences exactes & naturelles
Technologies & sciences appliquées

My translation:

Arts
Everyday life & leisure
Society
Religions & beliefs
Atlas of the Earth
Social sciences & human sciences (Note: in U.S. English, we don't have the category human sciences -- it does not equal the humanities -- Philosophy and history end up here for French but literature and art history are in the arts.)
Natural sciences & mathematics
Applied sciences & technology

Playing with these, to reorder and reword a bit:

Arts
Everyday life & leisure
Geography
Religions & beliefs
Natural sciences & mathematics
Social sciences
Society
Technology & applied sciences

These are similar to the portal browse page categories of the English Wikipedia, listed at top above, with the notable abscence of Social Science and use of History instead of Everyday Life.

Current Main Categories on Feature Index Sandbox

I used the French Wikipedia main page categories to inform the sandbox index -- history on the top level here and a combination of everyday life/leisure and society being the differences. "Everyday Life" is awkward as a category head -- need something similar and shorter:

Art and Culture
Geography
History
Life and Society (or Everyday Life and Society or Living and Society)
Philosophy and Religion
(Natural?) Science and Mathematics
Social Sciences
Technology

And, having done this: It is basically the portal browse page with the addition of a social science category and Society and People is renamed ot Life/Living and Society.

Feeling near done with this.

Note - The above ends up being close to this: Wikipedia: List of basic topic lists http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_basic_topic_lists

Art and Culture
Geography
History
Mathematics and Abstractions
People
Philosophy and Religion
Physical sciences and Nature
Social sciences and Society
Technology

Encyclopedia Subject Categories

For comparison with Wikipedia main subject categories. Links from Gflores.

Britannica: http://www.britannica.com/eb/subject

Arts & Literature
The Earth & Geography
Health & Medicine
Philosophy & Religion
Sports & Recreation
Science & Mathematics
Life
Society
Technology
History

Encarta: http://encarta.msn.com/artcenter_0/Encyclopedia_Articles.html

Art, Language, & Literature  
Life Science  
History  
Geography  
Religion & Philosophy  
Physical Science & Technology  
Social Science  
Sports, Hobbies, & Pets  
Performing Arts

Propedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaedia

Matter and Energy 
Earth 
Life 
Humans 
Society 
Art 
Technology 
Religion 
History 
Knowledge