Hi everyone,
This Friday's office hours will feature Mike Godwin, the Wikimedia
Foundation's Legal Counsel. If you don't know Mike Godwin, you can
read about him at <http://enwp.org/Mike_Godwin>.
Office hours this Friday are from 2230 to 2330 UTC (3:30PM to 4:30PM
PDT). Mike will also be taking the following Thursday from 1600 to
1700 UTC (9:00AM to 10:00AM PDT).
The IRC channel that will be hosting Mike's conversation will be
#wikimedia-office on the Freenode network. If you do not have an IRC
client, you can always access Freenode by going to
http://webchat.freenode.net/, typing in the nickname of your choice and
choosing wikimedia-office as the channel. You may be prompted to click
through a security warning. Go ahead.
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Cary Bass
Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
Hello all,
Because Progit (progit.org) is not freely licensed (the license
forbids commercial use), and contributing to it is unnecessarily
difficult, I have begun working on a textbook about Git on Wikibooks,
and I've reserved space for a chapter on Gerrit:
http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Git/Gerrit_Code_Review&action=edi…
If anyone would like to help with that chapter, or the larger Git
textbook, I'd be happy to help you along as you get comfortable with
Wikibooks. You can email me privately (I think you can see my email
address), or you can leave me a message on the wiki:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User_talk:Mike.lifeguard
Cheers,
-Mike
This is response I tried to send to the foundation-l and than
foundation-l-owner without any success. Someone on foundation-l
suggested this discussion take place on textbook-l anyways. I have
no idea if Pharos is subscribed or reads the archives though.
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Pharos wrote:
> A multilingual Wikibooks would be valuable to the extent that it would
> focus on smaller languages which don't have their own language project
> yet.
> This makes perhaps more sense with Wikibooks than other projects
> because each "book" is relatively autonomous and of significant
> educational value in its own right, and even if someone were to donate
> a textbook in a rather obscure language I don't think that we should
> turn such a gift away.
> Thanks,
> Pharos
Exactly, we shouldn't turn people and textbooks away. I think this
project can help with that.
People willing to translate textbooks have been turned away at times
too. I think this project can help with that as well.
Some instruction manuals and how-to guides include multiple translations
as a single work. We shouldn't turn away people willing to provide free
alternatives here either. These books are autonomous too.
I know some people are concerned that Multilingual Wikibooks' focus
overlaps too much with existing projects. I think this can be managed
by turning away:
* Source text previously published by an author. Thats Wikisource.
* Translations of source text. Thats Old Wikisource
* Original writing that is within the scope of an existing Wikibooks
project and it is not intended to become an autonomous work in two or
more languages. This applies to finished translations as well.
* Research not previously published. Thats Wikiversity.
Thanks,
darklama