At this point, anyone who asks can probably be considered "established" (and I'm not kidding) But yes, this could be very useful, if only for email aliasing and the IRC client. I also like the idea of hosting WB-specific tools, though I don't think we currently have any. How would this be paid for, though? -Mike
-----Original Message----- From: Andrew Whitworth [mailto:wknight8111@gmail.com] Sent: December 4, 2007 12:14 PM To: Wikimedia textbook discussion Subject: [Textbook-l] Website for Wikibookians
Wikinews has wikinewsie.org, and wikipedians have wikipedian.org, so I was thinking maybe it's high-time we had a wikibookian.org for the members of wikibooks. It would be a site where established wikibookians (of course, there would be a need to define "established") could have a variety of services offered:
*Blog hosting (especially blogs about wikibooks, books, writing/editing/authoring, education, etc) *Email aliasing (username@wikibookian.org) *Posts of news and announcements *Ability to host personal information, including images, which are not freely-licensed *Embedded IRC client with access to #Wikibooks, #cvn-wb-en, and #en.wikibooks *Applets and other tools specific to wikibooks (similar to the toolserver, but primarily for wikibooks)
There are lots of things that we could do with such a domain for the benefit of our members. I've taken the liberty of reserving the domain name wikibookian.org to help protect it from squatters. What do people think of this?
--Andrew Whitworth