Daniel Ehrenberg wrote:
We should still keep our focus on making good
textbooks, even if that means deviating from the
standards in some cases. We should not delete or
summarize any existing content in accordance with the
framework.
That is what optional modules are for! :) We could have base distributions
of a book that are each in 100% compliance with different standards and
then have optional, more in depth, modules that can be added on top of
whatever base distribution an instructor chooses to use in the classroom.
Of course that does require WikiBook software functionality (which will
come - even if I have to learn PHP - do we have a textbook on that yet?).
Let's be realistic: probably no wikibooks will be
printed, and if one is printed, it will be a
highly-edited and non-wikified, and this won't happen
for a while. I think that the goal of Wikibooks
shouldn't be centered around things like the
High-school extentions book, the programming
tutorials, and other things aimed at informal
self-study.
Well it is a good thing that you are not the only person in the project
then! ;) Go ahead and work on the self study guides and other people will
be writting standards-compliant textbooks that will one day be "printed" on
digital paper (many of our textbooks will be maturing by the time digital
paper becomes popular, IMR - killing trees bad and transferring webpages to
dead tree book form requires a great deal of formatting).
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)