On 10/04/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
Perhaps we need to get back to a basic question: What was the original intention in creating the WP Category System? What was its original purpose?
The Wikipedia system followed from the WikiWikiWeb category system, which was developed in 1996 to categorize pages on that wiki. For historical context, see http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CategoriesDiscussion , and some of the pages linked from this archived page: http://web.archive.org/web/19961129234150/http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AboutCatego... , followed by http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_category_schemes and its associated talk page.