On 10/04/07, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86(a)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?AboutCateg…
, followed by
http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_category_schemes
and its associated talk page.
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Earle Martin
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