Since the upgrade, I made a big effort to improve the navigation in EaglePedia and now that the coding changes are completed spent some time going through EaglePedia to see how well things have improved. The answer is that it is still difficult to locate articles and files in EaglePedia - mostly because things are unused or uncategorized. It would be very helpful if the uploaders/article authors could review the list of unused and uncategorized files and add categories and link them into an article (even if that article is just a short summary.)

An unused file is a file that has been uploaded and hasn't been linked into an article. For true images (JPEG, GIF or PNG) this means there is no article that contains the embedding reference (for example) [[Image:MyImage.jpg]] to display it. For non-image files (PDF or DOC) this means there is no article that references it using (for example) [[Media:MySpecification.pdf]]

You can find a list of unused files (and the name of the user who uploaded it) here: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/eagle/EaglePedia/index.php/Special:Unusedimag...

Files should also be categorized when uploaded. This means that when the file is uploaded you should add the category it falls into. This which should normally be the same category as the article that will reference or embed it. Before you upload a file you should probably browse the project categories (now shown on the front page of EaglePedia) and locate the appropriate category. When you are at the file upload screen add the category into the summary by typing in [[Category:This Category]]

To see a list of uncategorized files go to: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/eagle/EaglePedia/index.php/Special:Uncategori...

To categorize a file that is already uploaded without uploading another copy click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the description page, and then add the category information as shown above.

Thanks in advance!

73,

Emily

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