Re: [Textbook-l] Wikijunior News and Notes

From: "Randy Wilson" <xixtas(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: Wikimedia textbook discussion <textbook-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> To: textbook-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Textbook-l] Wikijunior News and Notes Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:03:43 -0500 I thought I'd send a message to this list for those who might be interested but do not monitor the Wikijunior front page or the Wikijunior talk page on Meta. Wikijunior has made a pretty good start on +/-14 non-fiction titles for children, and that's something that I think we at Wikijunior should be proud of. During the creation of those titles their have been lessons learned and ideas expressed. Wikijunior has some new guidelines proposed including one that redefines what kind of books can be produced under the Wikijunior umbrella. This proposed guideline can be found at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Wikijunior:What_is_Wikijunior . This proposed guideline along with the style guide at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior:Style_Guide and the new title policy at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior:New_Title_Policy . There is also a request for a Wikijunior namespace to be created within Wikibooks. The request is here: http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9283 . These changes represent a change of direction for Wikijunior and I hope all those who are interested will comment and participate. I think that a change of direction is wanted and needed by those working on the project and developing the content. I hope that these changes will lead to renewed interest and participation in the the idea of Wikijunior. Hopefully these changes will lead to renewed interest from people outside the Wikijunior Community and even greater participation from content developers than Wikijunior already enjoys. Thanks, Randy Wilson (Wikibooks editor xixtas) _______________________________________________ Textbook-l mailing list Textbook-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/textbook-l