I just discovered http://www.indiana.edu/%7Ehlw/index.html How Language Works (edition 3.0) by Michael Gasser. It's GFDL.
I guess if it was at Wikisource it would be in a more archivey way, whereas at Wikibooks you would hope people would continue to develop it... is that about right?
cheers Brianna
This is best for Wikibooks, I think. Are you offering to help bring it over? *nudge nudge*
This is definitely a textbook, and is also of the type that would benefit from being kept up-to-date. I notice the author has included links to Wikipedia in the appropriate places.
I don't want to say "this will be a project for me to do" because it won't (at least in the near future). But this should be a project for someone.
Mike
-----Original Message----- From: textbook-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:textbook-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Brianna Laugher Sent: June 12, 2008 10:36 PM To: Wikimedia textbook discussion Subject: [Textbook-l] GFDL licensed books better for Wikibooks orWikisource? (or nowhere?)
I just discovered http://www.indiana.edu/%7Ehlw/index.html How Language Works (edition 3.0) by Michael Gasser. It's GFDL.
I guess if it was at Wikisource it would be in a more archivey way, whereas at Wikibooks you would hope people would continue to develop it... is that about right?
cheers Brianna
Not sure I'd want to take on the whole thing, but here's a start: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/How_Language_Works
Cheers, Magnus
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 2:41 AM, mike.lifeguard mike.lifeguard@gmail.com wrote:
This is best for Wikibooks, I think. Are you offering to help bring it over? *nudge nudge*
This is definitely a textbook, and is also of the type that would benefit from being kept up-to-date. I notice the author has included links to Wikipedia in the appropriate places.
I don't want to say "this will be a project for me to do" because it won't (at least in the near future). But this should be a project for someone.
Mike
-----Original Message----- From: textbook-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:textbook-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Brianna Laugher Sent: June 12, 2008 10:36 PM To: Wikimedia textbook discussion Subject: [Textbook-l] GFDL licensed books better for Wikibooks orWikisource? (or nowhere?)
I just discovered http://www.indiana.edu/%7Ehlw/index.html How Language Works (edition 3.0) by Michael Gasser. It's GFDL.
I guess if it was at Wikisource it would be in a more archivey way, whereas at Wikibooks you would hope people would continue to develop it... is that about right?
cheers Brianna
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2008/6/13 Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com:
Not sure I'd want to take on the whole thing, but here's a start: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/How_Language_Works
Neat.
I think you should probably be careful to use the author's name in each edit summary whenever you do importing, though.
Brianna
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
I just discovered http://www.indiana.edu/%7Ehlw/index.html How Language Works (edition 3.0) by Michael Gasser. It's GFDL.
I guess if it was at Wikisource it would be in a more archivey way, whereas at Wikibooks you would hope people would continue to develop it... is that about right?
That's the difference as I understand it, although I don't believe that WS allows self-published books. That is, I think WS is more about archiving important texts, not about accumulating just any free text that that people write.
We probably all could use some clarification on the issue.
--Andrew Whitworth
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