on 4/10/07 1:19 PM, Earle Martin at wikipedia@downlode.org wrote:
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... esAndTopics , followed by http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_category_schemes and its associated talk page.
Earle,
Thank you very much for this.
Marc