Dear Wikibooks Community,
We potentially have some very talented and professional
experts who might be interested in donating their time to
develop the book started at World History Project, which I
have renamed the COSTP World History Project and am moving
to a new space on Wikibooks so it can be dedicated to the
California standards only, and the person who has been
making modifications to the original World History Project
can continue to do so without my interference.
I propose that we allow these experts the option of having
sysop status and to be able to protect the pages that they
work on while the book is in development. They were
bothered by the change in standards from the CA standards
to the AP standards, a change implemented by a member of
the community. These guys were so ticked off that at the
moment they are not willing to continue (that is, start)
but I think that if we offer them the concession of
riskless non-editable pages that they might be willing to
still consider the project.
This would be a special situation and concession for these
guys to encourage them to be the guinea pigs for other
professionals who will later be willing to donate their
time to develop professional-level textbooks. Maybe the
next people will be willing to do the development in the
full open wiki, but I see this as a baby step in that
direction, and better to have them working with this
special concession than run off the first organized,
professional volunteers.
Thank you,
Karl
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