Karl,
I am honored to hear from you, and very, every interested in the idea of
collaborating w/ Wikipedia.
Here's my main reaction/thoughts so far.....
When we decided to try the open textbook thing, one of the first places we
looked was Wikipedia. However, as I've poked around the site for mature,
usable textbooks (like state-adoption quality), I haven't been able to find
any. Also, it seems overall like the inertia behind wiki-textbooks has sort
of stalled as of late (as evidenced by how long it took my posts to get
through, and how little traffic there is on this alias in general).
I don't mean to be a pessimist at all....and please know that these things I
describe are in no way non-starters for me/us....but I would love to hear
from some of you if my impressions are correct, and if they are, what
explanations you may have as to the slowdown in momentum (this would be most
helpful of all).
Top of mind for me/us is having this project succeed--we feel like the world
needs high quality, low cost textbooks. Again, I can think of a million
good reasons to go w/ Wikipedia.....I just want to understand a little more,
and ultimately we will want to go with whatever infrastructure/community
will lead us to this end. We'd love it to be Wikipedia.
John Dehlin
Oslo Outreach Director
http://oslo.usu.edu
On 11/24/04 2:46 PM, "Karl Wick" <karlwick(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
John,
I just got the emails that you included to the Wikibooks
mailing list. As the founder of Wikibooks, I would be
excited and honored if you chose to include the site in
your plans.
Karl
--- John Dehlin <john.dehlin(a)usu.edu> wrote:
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