# What categories would you like to see at Galaxy Help?
**URL:** https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/what-categories-would-you-like-to-see-at-galaxy-help/94
**Category:** Site Feedback
**Tags:** qiime2
**Created:** [December 3, 2018, 9:24pm UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/what-categories-would-you-like-to-see-at-galaxy-help/94 "2018-12-03T21:24:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@jennaj](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/jennaj)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2018, 9:24pm UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/what-categories-would-you-like-to-see-at-galaxy-help/94/1 "2018-12-03T21:24:45Z")
Category suggestions: open discussion, share your ideas!
- Can be for top-level, nested, or both
- Promote particular tags?
- Beyond Q&A: dedicated spaces for discussing scientific methods; specific tools; data resources; Galaxy functionality; shared resources; news; server updates; your-favorite-galaxy-topics…
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### Author:  [@shiltemann](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/shiltemann)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2018, 1:14pm UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/what-categories-would-you-like-to-see-at-galaxy-help/94/2 "2018-12-04T13:14:08Z")
Maybe we could have a topic for training materials, possibly with subcategory per training topic? Also would like to see one for Metagenomics (and perhaps subcategories for the big tool suites, mothur and qiime) 👍
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### Author:  [@marten](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/marten)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2018, 3:24pm UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/what-categories-would-you-like-to-see-at-galaxy-help/94/3 "2018-12-04T15:24:29Z")
The major thing to consider is categories vs tags. Tags offer you quick searching of related topics ([https://help.galaxyproject.org/tags/admin](https://help.galaxyproject.org/tags/admin)) already, if you want more then categories will get you pinned topics and additional settings like hierarchy, color, security, logo, topic templates, and tag subsets.
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### Author:  [@jennaj](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/jennaj)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2018, 5:36pm UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/what-categories-would-you-like-to-see-at-galaxy-help/94/4 "2018-12-04T17:36:11Z")
> [@shiltemann](#):
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> Maybe we could have a topic for training materials, possibly with subcategory per training topic? Also would like to see one for Metagenomics (and perhaps subcategories for the big tool suites, mothur and qiime) 👍
Really like this idea, would be an incredibly helpful resource (easy to navigate, consolidated knowledge, etc)
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### Author:  [@hexylena](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/hexylena)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2018, 7:32pm UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/what-categories-would-you-like-to-see-at-galaxy-help/94/5 "2018-12-04T19:32:22Z")
I’d like a category for usegalaxy.\* and tags for Main/EU/AU
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### Author:  [@shiltemann](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/shiltemann)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2018, 7:52pm UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/what-categories-would-you-like-to-see-at-galaxy-help/94/6 "2018-12-04T19:52:46Z")
ah, gotcha 🙂 Then probably better to have a category for training and within that use tags for the different training topics. And similarly maybe a “tool support” category, and tags for tools/suites within there.
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### Author:  [@tnabtaf](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/tnabtaf)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2018, 11:33pm UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/what-categories-would-you-like-to-see-at-galaxy-help/94/7 "2018-12-07T23:33:11Z")
I appreciate @marten’s distinction between categories and tags. I think Tags are cheap and plentiful while categories should be few and precious. Here’s a first proposal
**Categories**
- `Use` (or Using or Usage or …)
- Posts about how to use Galaxy
- `Admin`
- Posts about how to run a Galaxy Server
- `Training` §
- Questions about training materials and using Galaxy for Training
- `News` § (or Announcements or …)
- Almost everything that I post. :- )
- `Site Feedback`
- Already have this one. Discussions about how this help site works
- `Uncategorized`
- Really, sometimes it’s hard to know where to put things. Have this be the default.
And then I get less certain. Should we also have
- `Dev`
- Discussions about Galaxy code. It’s usually `Admin`s doing code…
- `Tool Wrapping` (or Resource Definition or … _but not `Tools`_)
- Discussions about wrapping tools, data sources, visualizations… Will there be enough questions to justify this, or should it be heaped under `Dev` or `Admin`?
§ _What about news items that are about training? I dunno!_
**Tags**
New tags can (currently) be created by anyone who has made a few posts. However, even if tags are a free for all, we can probably come up with some best practices. Some suggestions.
- Have a standard tag prefix (or suffix) for the [different platforms](https://galaxyproject.org/use/) for using galaxy (for example: `use-pl-grid`, `use-galaxy-org`, `use-galaxy-eu`, `use-jetstream`, `use-phenomenal` …)
- I don’t think tool tags need a naming convention, and _I’m ambivalent if we even need them_. The text will almost always contain the name of the tool, and thus search without tags will find it.
- I think domain tags like `rna-seq`, `qc`, and `phage` are useful
- I think the combination of a `Training` category and a domain tag would work nicely
That’s my 23¢
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### Author:  [@tnabtaf](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/tnabtaf)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2018, 11:35pm UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/what-categories-would-you-like-to-see-at-galaxy-help/94/8 "2018-12-07T23:35:36Z")
Ok, I’m already less certain about the standard tag prefix for platform tags. I’m still in favor of using tags for platforms. Using categories for platforms just creates too many categories.
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### Author:  [@tnabtaf](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/tnabtaf)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2019, 6:26pm UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/what-categories-would-you-like-to-see-at-galaxy-help/94/9 "2019-02-25T18:26:08Z")
Hi All,
I’d like to get this settled and in use before our library of existing questions gets much bigger. Any thoughts on this?
I’m still a fan of the categories I nominated above. And I’m still less certain about the tags proposal.
Oh might Galaxy community: what say ye?
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### Author:  [@marten](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/marten)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2019, 11:29pm UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/what-categories-would-you-like-to-see-at-galaxy-help/94/10 "2019-02-25T23:29:05Z")
tbh I think it works as is. The only extra category I can imagine is [usegalaxy.org.au](http://usegalaxy.org.au) support, but that would be mostly empty atm. Admin tag works pretty good, and e.g. [https://help.galaxyproject.org/tags/dataset-collection](https://help.galaxyproject.org/tags/dataset-collection) is also used without top-\>down intervention. I do not see the benefit, but then, you are the expert.
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### Author:  [@jennaj](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/jennaj)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2019, 1:03am UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/what-categories-would-you-like-to-see-at-galaxy-help/94/11 "2019-02-26T01:03:17Z")
> [@marten](#):
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> [usegalaxy.org.au](http://usegalaxy.org.au) support
2nd this – would round things out.
What do you think @Slugger70 ?
The reasons why I would vote for **Admin** and **Training** as top-level categories is that would allow us to “pin” topics for each. Still keep the tags --work well for finding posts _across categories, in context_). Both of these have distinct resources, events, alt contacts points, and news. The most “repeated/cross-linked” content so far is about resources, and specifically, resources for these two areas. I would **lump Dev into Admin** – but that’s just me.
In short, add a few more categories + leverage pinned posts for key communications.
I’m on the fence about **News** as a distinct category – maybe a tag is better (and enough for searches). The Hub already has that. Instead, pin news per category when something important is going on. But … my mind can be changed either way about this one.
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### Author:  [@jennaj](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/jennaj)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2019, 1:07am UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/what-categories-would-you-like-to-see-at-galaxy-help/94/12 "2019-02-26T01:07:37Z")
> [@tnabtaf](#):
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> I’m still in favor of using tags for platforms. Using categories for platforms just creates too many categories.
Agree with this (if understanding correctly)… with the exception of the primary usegalaxy.\* servers – those as distinct categories definately helps.
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### Author:  [@Slugger70](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/Slugger70)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2019, 1:37am UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/what-categories-would-you-like-to-see-at-galaxy-help/94/13 "2019-02-26T01:37:39Z")
I like @tnabtaf’s categories and I think the tags will work great. I prefer Helena’s idea of one category for usegalaxy.\* support with tags for Main/EU/AU. We can even add tags to these ourselves to notify people of who should look at what (for usegalaxy…)
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### Author:  [@jennaj](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/jennaj)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2019, 2:57am UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/what-categories-would-you-like-to-see-at-galaxy-help/94/14 "2019-02-26T02:57:07Z")
> [@Slugger70](#):
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> I prefer Helena’s idea of one category for usegalaxy.\* support with tags for Main/EU/AU. We can even add tags to these ourselves to notify people of who should look at what (for usegalaxy…)
I’m willing to try this! ☀
In practical terms, about half the time the usegalaxy.\* category needs to be assigned or reassigned anyway…
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### Author:  [@marten](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/marten)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2019, 2:41pm UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/what-categories-would-you-like-to-see-at-galaxy-help/94/15 "2019-03-07T14:41:53Z")
> [@jennaj](#):
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> that would allow us to “pin” topics for each.
I like this idea. When used with linking directly to e.g. [usegalaxy.eu support - Galaxy Community Help](https://help.galaxyproject.org/c/usegalaxy-eu-support) it would create cleaner “subsites” for each group of interest.