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Nupedia's Proposed Category Scheme
The following is an initial, unelaborate category scheme. There will be editorial review groups corresponding to all categories but the super-categories (such as "Foundational Disciplines") below. See the end of this page for further comments on this category scheme.
FOUNDATIONAL DISCIPLINES
PHILOSOPHY AND LOGIC
MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
NATURAL SCIENCES
PHYSICS
CHEMISTRY
ASTRONOMY
EARTH SCIENCES
BIOLOGY
BOTANY
ZOOLOGY
SOCIAL SCIENCES
PSYCHOLOGY
LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGES
ANTHROPOLOGY
ARCHAEOLOGY
SOCIOLOGY
POLITICAL SCIENCE
GEOGRAPHY
ECONOMICS
HISTORY
HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA
APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
HEALTH SCIENCES
THE LAW
PUBLIC AFFAIRS
EDUCATION
ENGINEERING
ARCHITECTURE
URBAN PLANNING
TRANSPORTATION
AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY
COMPUTERS
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE
COMMUNICATION
LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES
CULTURE
CLASSICS
CRITICAL THEORY
LITERATURE
VISUAL ARTS AND DESIGN
PAINTING
SCULPTURE
PERFORMING ARTS
THEATER AND DRAMA
DANCE
MUSIC
FILM
RELIGION
RECREATION
SPORTS
GAMES
HOBBIES
TOURISM
The foregoing is a proposal for the breakdown of top-level categories within Nupedia. The primary purpose of this category scheme is to organize Nupedia editorial groups, not Nupedia articles. We might, however, follow this same scheme (or something like it) in organizing Nupedia articles.
You might observe that very many categories overlap to some degree, and a few categories overlap considerably. For example, this is particularly the case with Classics, which of course overlaps with History, Philosophy, and Poetry. Nonetheless, for purposes of this category scheme, there is no reason why we should not put the same articles into multiple categories, rather than denying the importance or usefulness of well-accepted categories of scholarship such as, indeed, Classics.
You might also note that we have prised out certain categories, e.g., Zoology and Botany, as subcategories of top-level categories (e.g., biology). The reason is that, in any standard desk encyclopedia, Biology, Geography, and Arts and Literature make up the bulk of entries. Of course, Nupedia aims to be much larger than a standard desk encyclopedia, but we want to begin by building up the contents that one would expect from a standard desk encyclopedia.
We will be establishing editorial subgroups of these groups usually
after the top-level group is functional (i.e., has an editor and two peer
reviewers; see the policy statement for
details).