Hello,
Josh Gay (w:user:Joshuagay) is currently working at CK12 on developing dozens of CC-BY math and science books for high-school and late primary students. Their current books are all English texts. They are also working with a small group to translate some of them into Spanish.
* CK12 would like to make these works available to Wikibooks (they already are in one sense, but in another they're only directly exportable as PDFs).
They use a cutsomized mediawiki for their internal platform, with Semantic MediaWiki, a second custom-made math parser-function for better math rendering, &c. So there are some minor hurdles to be overcome before the underlying wikitexts can be shared directly.
* Josh is looking for help with their translation process, particularly into Spanish, and would like to work with some Spanish Wikibooks editors and others to design a friendly toolset and process to make translation easier. (hopefully this process will be available to wikibooks in general, and will make translation easier all around)
Feel free to discuss here or get in touch with Josh directly (copied here) if you can help with import or translation.
Cheers, Sam.
Ironically, not too long ago I discovered CK-12's web site and began the process of bringing them in to English Wikibooks, since the licensing is compatible and we could use some complete books at Wikibooks. I've been alternating that with general maintenance, but if it'd be easier to translate from English Wikibooks to Spanish Wikibooks than from the English-language PDFs to Spanish Wikibooks, I can make it a higher priority to get the conversion from PDF to wikitext done.
This is the portal I made for them: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/CK-12_Books
I'm afraid that I cannot help with language translation, however.
Sincerely,
Aaron Adrignola
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
Josh Gay (w:user:Joshuagay) is currently working at CK12 on developing dozens of CC-BY math and science books for high-school and late primary students. Their current books are all English texts. They are also working with a small group to translate some of them into Spanish.
- CK12 would like to make these works available to Wikibooks (they
already are in one sense, but in another they're only directly exportable as PDFs).
They use a cutsomized mediawiki for their internal platform, with Semantic MediaWiki, a second custom-made math parser-function for better math rendering, &c. So there are some minor hurdles to be overcome before the underlying wikitexts can be shared directly.
- Josh is looking for help with their translation process,
particularly into Spanish, and would like to work with some Spanish Wikibooks editors and others to design a friendly toolset and process to make translation easier. (hopefully this process will be available to wikibooks in general, and will make translation easier all around)
Feel free to discuss here or get in touch with Josh directly (copied here) if you can help with import or translation.
Cheers, Sam.
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