Jimmy Wales wrote: In Oregon, USA a B.S. Degree in game development from a technical institute .... might be IIT but I am not certain ... is being advertised for a full four year degree available in three years of full time study on National Broadcast Television during primetime. The creator of Total Annihlation has announced a new "game" which is a three sided war game which allows various combinations of teams, solo players, computer controlled forces to interact at various scales from ant to global overview with land, sea, space, and air assets that interact as an accurate simulation. Big units can step on little units. Nukes have cumulative accurate effects on all units within primary blast radius and perhaps downwind. Artillery is accurately calculated ballistics. I am kind of looking forward to setting up Wikiversity's War College. It will be useful outreach for our engineers as they work with the military students and history departments to discern tactics and strategy from history; update it for proper time frames, and then simulate scenarios or run war game tournament to see who makes accurate predications and statments vs. who is hot air or misinformation specialists. Perhaps the Poly Sci or Wikinews folks might find some benefit in being able to verify or validate some of the Pentagon's vs. freedom fighters claims independently via forensic science (accurate physics vs. propaganda or cartoon physics). Considering that the U.S. Army uses an internally modified and supported version of DOOM for situational awareness training .... it is going to be hard to claim that guidelines regarding how to manage the economy and various scales of forces of the above while avoiding getting stepped on or nuked or bought out by bigger or smaller or other peoples or things are not educational at some level regarding some things. Outpost from Sierra and Lunar Command from Mallard are both improved versions of NASA simulations studying how to establish, maintain, expand and operate space science stations and setttlements. Chess is common in computer science classes and projects. Doom. U.S. Army. See above. There will obviously be courses in user interfaces, ergonomics, realtime processing, simulation modeling, etc. in the curriculum cited above for a B.S. in Game Engineering or Design. Perhaps it is time to modify the mission statement to match the site name or vice versa. What exactly is the point in restricting Wikibooks to tomes on trigonometry when it is faster and easier for a kid to program a turtle to circumnavigate a triangle drawn onscreen and then divide the timed duration of the task by the programmed speed of the turtle to arrive at the circumfrance. Further the same kid can throw away his calculus book by pouring water into a plastic form or 3d wire frame at a known rate and timing or programming each infinitesimal to have the same weight and couting the number of jelly beans that fit or the number of ants that wander through Wikipedia. How much does Wikipedia weigh in neutrinos Alice? I am kind of curious. How much do you think the rascals learn by checking to see if the walkthroughs actually work? It seems to me that the cheat codes that were available for Warcraft II might have had an adaptive quality related to the video drivers being used. I never sorted it though, we could always get our CAD sytems back online by replacing the corrupted dll's with the backup files so I did not worry about it much. The cheat codes allowed my office managers' kids to compete with me and my professionals effectively in after hour recreation. They seemed to be learning how to count their gold and assets. Kicked my ass a few times. Regards, lazyquasar

Erik Moeller <eloquence@...> writes: That name is occupied - http://wikitextbook.co.uk That would not help. The current scope of Wikibooks is already narrower then textbooks in general. We sometimes have visitors to the site post wondering why they cannot find public domain content such as Shakespeare. Users who associate Wikibooks with textbooks expect to find classical fiction at Wikibooks, like they find in United States high schools and universities. However, you will not find that at Wikibooks - you would have to go to our sister project Wikisource http://en.wikisource.org The other major restriction is that material at Wikibooks must have a neutral point of view. I will forward this idea to the [[Wikibooks:Staff lounge]] (the equivalent of the Scriptorium or beer parlour). Actually Jimmy Wales does not edit Wikibooks much (his user page does not even mention his role as President), and the project seems to have poor communication with the Wikimedia Foundation, meaning that the Foundation is unaware of situations at Wikibooks (both en.wikibooks and the other language editions). -- [[User:Kernigh]] http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:Kernigh