[Textbook-l] Website for Wikibookians

[mike.lifeguard]

At this point, anyone who asks can probably be considered "established" (and
I'm not kidding) But yes, this could be very useful, if only for email
aliasing and the IRC client. I also like the idea of hosting WB-specific
tools, though I don't think we currently have any.
How would this be paid for, though?
-Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Whitworth [mailto:wknight8111 at gmail.com] 
Sent: December 4, 2007 12:14 PM
To: Wikimedia textbook discussion
Subject: [Textbook-l] Website for Wikibookians

Wikinews has wikinewsie.org, and wikipedians have wikipedian.org, so I
was thinking maybe it's high-time we had a wikibookian.org for the
members of wikibooks. It would be a site where established
wikibookians (of course, there would be a need to define
"established") could have a variety of services offered:

*Blog hosting (especially blogs about wikibooks, books,
writing/editing/authoring, education, etc)
*Email aliasing (username at wikibookian.org)
*Posts of news and announcements
*Ability to host personal information, including images, which are not
freely-licensed
*Embedded IRC client with access to #Wikibooks, #cvn-wb-en, and
#en.wikibooks
*Applets and other tools specific to wikibooks (similar to the
toolserver, but primarily for wikibooks)

There are lots of things that we could do with such a domain for the
benefit of our members. I've taken the liberty of reserving the domain
name wikibookian.org to help protect it from squatters. What do people
think of this?

--Andrew Whitworth