On 2/7/07, Martin Swift martin@swift.is wrote:
Yes, Wikibooks is an open forum for the collaboration to write quality educational material for public use. The problem is that the framework of the wiki as a tool for collaboration allows easy modification of any page to create a derived work which then becomes the new current version of that page at Wikibooks.
Basically, I see no way, under as free a license as your friend wants to use (and Wikibooks requires) to ensure that the current version contents of the book are mostly her original work.
Well, you can just protect the pages. I assume that sysops won't go willy-nilly editing them. Obviously then she won't be able to directly update it, but she could still use the equivalent of {{edit protected}}.
In my view, the best way for her to realise her objective, is to simply host the book herself somewhere on the web. That will ensure that she has editorial control of that copy at that location (though others may choose to modify it elsewhere -- e.g. on Wikibooks).
This has pitfalls with respect to readership volume. Basically, publishing it on Wikibooks will ensure that it reaches a comparatively large audience, through Wikipedia sister links if nothing else.