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Relationships

The relationships between categories and pages provide some structure for content in the Wiki, which will be useful as the Wiki matures with more content, or becomes a repository for additional research projects. The typical relationship between categories or categories and pages is a parent-child relationship, although in some instances a page or category will have multiple parents. A parent is a page or category with at least one child. A child is a page or category that includes the [[Category:something]] tag. Below is an explanation of the relationship between different levels of content.

1. Group of categories (eg: Internal strategies, External strategies). These are top-level groupings, and for this project these categories have no parents. This level can be thought of as Parts of a report.
2. Category - items at this second level have a parent (a level 1 group of categories) and at least two "children" outcome (eg: Operations planning)
3. Outcome or result is a category that describes a desired outcome for which a transit agency would employ strategies. Content at this level has at least one parent and two children. While content at this level will usually take the form of a category, it can take the form of a page if the content for none of the children strategies is (or is anticipated to be) long enough to warrant its own strategy page.
4. Strategy - a strategy usually takes the form of a page. This page includes:

• • • an introduction to the concept covered in the page that gives the intelligent but unfamiliar reader context
    • an overview of the benefits and drawbacks involved with pursuing the strategy, including how the strategy can help an agency in pursuit of any desired parent outcome or result , but also any adverse effects the strategy may have on other strategies, aspects of transit service delivery, or stakeholders
    • examples of the strategy in action
    • further reading for those interested in learning more, including academic literature and case studies, with link to content or DOI/library page. Each item linked in further reading should include at a minimum of two sentences that inform the reader's decision to follow or not follow the link.

1. Sub-page - When some content provided on a strategy page would be too narrowly-focused or detailed for the typical reader, this additional information should be linked in a sub-page. A sub-page differs from a strategy page in that it is not a strategy in-and-of itself (and therefore does not have a [[category:whatever]] tag, and it usually only linked by a parent page.

Page titles

Please

• use active voice
• use simple language
• avoid prepositions
• avoid redundancy when possible (eg: transit, bus, rail)