On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
This apparently was originally [[List of basic topics]] and its children, and the rename to Outlines was done by [[User:The Transhumanist]]. [[List of basic topics]] dates to 2001 and was started by Larry Sanger, so this is not a new thing.
I never assumed it was a new thing. And I don't assume that it actually started as the thing it has now become.
In 2001, there were no categories and most links would have been red. So, to some extend, it could have been a nice feature in a different namespace (another concept that did not exist in 2001).
Mathias