Florence Devouard wrote:
I, for one, think it is great to work on better
defining the mission of
Wikibooks. I have one question though, do you know if the definition
worked upon is generally shared with other wikibooks people ? Are they
other wikibooks that have worked on such a definition, and where the
outcome differs widely from yours ?
ant
At last count 18 people supported it and 7 people objected to it. As
others have already said, some disagree on limiting English Wikibooks to
just textbooks, how much emphases on textbooks be be given, whether or
not it should be a policy or guideline and some have concerns on the
clarity of the proposal.
There is quite a difference from English Wikibooks' current version and
the German version. Google's German to English translation of the German
Wikibooks version:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fde.wikibooks.org%2Fwik…
There have been previous proposals on English Wikibooks to redefine the
current policy as well, before they were merged together:
http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Wikibooks:What_is_Wikibooks/Unsta…
http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Wikibooks:What_is_Wikibooks/Unsta…
http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Wikibooks:What_is_Wikibooks/Unsta…
that AFAIK, were abandoned before ever getting to the point of seeking
input from the community to accept or reject them.
--darklama