On 8/21/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
There are several distinct uses of categories: a) To allow human readers to browse related articles b) To organise articles for future distribution, publishing etc c) To assist quality control, such as labelling articles that need cleanup etc d) To assow bots to work some kind of magic.
Surprised that you didn't name this one, since it is one of the more useful human oriented ones (and a primary application for the living people cat):
e) Produce a filtered recent changes feed (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&ta...)