--- Karl Wick <karlwick(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
I think that the textbook site would be better
organized
with each book falling into its own place on the
site. This
is what I mean:
http://wikibooks.org/Spanish/
http://wikibooks.org/French_4_Kids/
etc.
That way a page within the Spanish textbook could be
named
"Infinitives" and a page within any other language
textbook
could be named the same without conflict. I think
that in
the long run this will make naming simpler.
We would ideally also have the option to limit
searches to
one textbook at a time.
About interchangeable modules (that is, using one
module
for multiple textbooks): this solution may be
inideal
because the goals of each textbook are different and
editing a module for one book will sometimes make it
less
suited to other books. Even if I were to take my own
organic chemistry book and rearrange it I would have
to
rewrite many parts of it to make sure that
supporting ideas
arent being thown out there before they have been
properly
covered.
The advantage to reusing modules is that it saves a
little
bit of copying and pasting, right ? This is a
shortcut that
I think sets books up to be more on the generic side
than
tailored to suit. And when I use a textbook for
myself Id
rather have the whole thing tailored to suit.
Discuss amongst yourselves.
If this is implimented, it would also be convienent to
have certain names shortened, for example
wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Foo could change to
wikipedia.org/Wikipedia/Foo. It could be the same way
with images and talk pages. I think that would look a
lot better when writing down URLs, which does happen a
lot.
LDan
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