Updating how categories are organized on Meta

Here is my categories tab

I didn’t use it yet really, but I already see a couple of issues:

  1. Wiki is OK because it shows all the subwikis.
  2. BUT Subwiki “index” links go to a category instead of the index topic (at least in the case of “Developer wiki”) which requires another click to access the one-shot resources where you can Ctrl+f.
  3. For some reason, the ¨Forum summaries" description is not showing in the News and Events page
  4. I choose to put News and Events > Announcements in my categories tab, but might as well revert to the default News and Events instead, since I’m interested in News and Events > Blog as well
  5. Community Building > Data & reporting definitely looks in the wrong place for me.
  6. Support does not show subcategories, which is detrimental when you try to get help on something specific
  7. For me “Data Reporting” belongs to Customization
  8. In Documentation, the index link is not readily available for Documentation > Site Management and Documentation > Developer Guides. You should use shorter descriptions such as the one for Documentation > Contributing so that the index link is clickable right away. Then be more verbose in the rest of the category description.
  9. The index links in documentation should point to the index topic, not the category (saves a click)
  10. In my categories tab I put all wikis, but I should customize and point to the wiki index topics instead to save a click.
  11. Is Dev a top category or should it be a subcategory of support? Then “solid dev knowledge” should be docs… Not sure here, but it seems a lot of Dev topics are support for developers. I would suggest moving Dev under support, muting it by default, and making a dedicated developer group unmuting that category.
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