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)