This issue has not yet come up in any textbook. However, my
hope is that, on occasion, Wikibooks could be home to
textbooks advocating a certain point of view. In cases such
as these, the POV of the book could be explained in a
mission statement at the beginning of the book. That way a
creationist textbook could be written and prepared on the
site by and for creationists.
My tendency is that rather than regulate freedom in this
sense, let the books fend for themselves. If enough people
think that they have merit, they contribute to the book and
it advances. If not, then the book just sits there.
I'd like to at least keep the door open and deal with it as
it comes up instead of outright outlawing it from the
start.
Karl
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Sanford,
Would it be feasible to take the work done on the US
Constitution and Government and/or US History books and
adapt it to fit the CA state standards in place of the
World History Project ?
Um, congrats or condolances on your new governor, depending
on your opinion.
Karl
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Please, lets not include each others email addresses in the
body of any email when we respond.
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It looked like Magnus developed a way to do annotation of
texts. Is that feature usable now ? Or does there need to
be a wiki software upgrade ?
I could use it in my ochem book, and certainly in the
not-annotated annotated texts.
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LDan wrote:
>Cool! Thanks, Brion. Is it possible to do the same for
>http://www.wikiquote.org/ ?
He would have if he had access to the admin interface to manage those domain
names. Only Jason and Jimbo have the username and password info for those
domains so far.
--mav
So its hardware upgrades that have been taking the site
down so much lately ? Its nice that the intrest is growing
in wikidom but a pain to have a slow or unavailable wiki.
Time to get your monetary donations in. I made my first one
already thru Paypal to clear out some dollars I had
languishing there. I think its the power users who will be
ponying up the cash more than the casual readers ..
together we can make a difference.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Strohmann [mailto:Thomas.Strohmann@colorado.edu]
Sent: 09 October 2003 09:05
To: textbook-l(a)Wikipedia.org
Subject: [Textbook-l] 3 months of wikibooks - some ideas...
Hello,
>Also, we could use our 3 month 'anniversary' to make some more
advertisement.
Whilst I'm normally all for advertising. I wonder if it's a good idea to do
it now, what with the hardware upgrades slowing everything down. When we do
get new people, we don't want them put off by everything going at a snails
pace. (perhaps it's just me though, maybe others haven't found it difficult
to connect etc over the past few days ?)
Theresa
Hello,
On October 10, Wikibooks will be 3 months old. I was thinking that we could
take this as an occasion to write up a first 'quarter report'. It is truly
amazing to see how much has been done by volunteer work only and in that short
amount of time: 1 book relatively complete and dozens of other really cool
multimedia books in development!
Also, we could use our 3 month 'anniversary' to make some more advertisement -
for example by placing a 'Wikibooks Celebrates' link on the Wikipedia main
page. For Wikibooks holds the same principle as for every Wiki: the more
people we get involved, the better the project will become.
Cheers,
Thomas