I started Wiki World mailing list/project and I would like to announce
its existence here. The full announcement you may find at
[http://millosh.wordpress.com/wiki-world/wiki-world-announcement/].
As this is a semi-generic email, I am sorry for semi-doubling emails
into your mail boxes :) I think that this is enough important to tell
it to the separate wiki projects, as well as to the communities which
are interested in wiki concept -- because not all of people follow all
mailing lists.
A couple of days ago I found one very interesting book on Wikibooks:
Wiki science ([http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wiki_Science]). One of the
main goals of the list/project is to develop scientific discussion
about wiki concept, philosophy, even about future predictions of
wikis. I think that this particular book is very related to the aims
of the list.
Also, Wiki World aim is to make communication between similar projects
better. There are similar projects to Wikibooks, like wikiHow is
([http://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page]) and it is possible to make
efforts more efficient if some place for discussion between similar
projects exist.
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If you want to support this effort, please add a link to the mailing
list ([http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiworld]) at
appropriate place on your project (if you have such one). Optionally,
you may add a link to the wiki ([http://www.ibiblio.org/wikiworld/]).
And, of course, if you want to talk, please, join the list. If you
want to help in the initial project managing, please contact me
(millosh(a)gmail.com).
Wiki World is the project which goal is to make a place where people
would be able to talk about everything about wiki and wikis. The
central place of thw Wiki World is its mailing list
([http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiworld]). Wiki is used
just for gathering ideas and relevant material, while in the most of
cases it is better to use other wikis (and blogs) for writing and Wiki
World wiki just for adding a link.
For details about Wiki World, please, read Wiki World FAQ
([http://www.ibiblio.org/wikiworld/index.php/Wiki_World:FAQ]).
May be worth following up? Author wants an option to easily be able to
donate his books to Wikibooks after a certain date (when the copyright
reverts to being his).
http://www.screaming-penguin.com/node/7215
cheers
Brianna
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They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment:
http://modernthings.org/
Hello Wikibooks,
I went to Wikimania recently and met Adam Hyde from FLOSS Manuals.
http://flossmanuals.net/ FLOSS Manuals is run by a not-for-profit org
based in the Netherlands. Their motto is "free manuals for free
software" and they write documentation for free/libre open source
software packages using TWiki. Some differences in their approach
compared to Wikibooks:
* Twiki has a 'publish' mechanism - so the 'read' version of a manual
is probably not the latest revision. When they feel a chapter has
become reasonably stable, that 'publish' that version so it goes live.
* They aim their manuals at absolute newbies (check out how detailed
their 'install' instructions are to see what I mean).
* they more or less write for print - that means no links.
So I think they have different enough goals that there is enough space
for both projects to coexist peacefully. :)
They are a very new group, but have got one manual into working
condition - for Audacity, the audio editing software.
http://en.flossmanuals.net/audacity/ Adam brought a print copy along
to Wikimania and I was really impressed by it. There is just something
cool about having something *tangible* in your hands. Especially for
people who do not take to technology like fish to water -- so probably
unlike a good many Wikimedians.
I was also impressed because I know a lot of Wikimedians use Audacity
to create speech files for Wiktionary, or spoken articles for
Wikipedia. (I don't know if there are any spoken books, but it could
happen. :)) So it strikes me that there is good potential for
collaboration here.
I hope to do some work to try and develop a book that would be useful
for images on Commons, ie GIMP+Inkscape.
BTW at the moment their license is GPL, but they are discussing what
license to use on the mailing list. Also, as they have relatively few
contributors for each book, I believe it would be quite easy to get
relicensing permission for GFDL if one so desired.
Anyway I just thought I would let you guys know about this group, if
you didn't already, and maybe think about some interesting ways we
could collaborate with them. I would be interested to hear what people
think.
cheers,
Brianna
user:pfctdayelise
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They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment:
http://modernthings.org/