I'm going to summer camp for the next four weeks, so I won't be here on the list. Between now and then, I expect you'll either make many important policy decisions about the textbook, keep talking about for a long time but not do anything, or slowly abandon it. Since I'm hoping for the first one, here are my opinions on the textbook:

1. It should not require logins to work on it. We don't need more regulation, and I see no reason to change our current policy.

2. I haven't said this yet, but I think we should delete every page not listed on the structure page that is worthless or a stub, without discussion on votes for deletion.

3. A textbook should be DPOV, which is a subset of NPOV, but completely different than how NPOV is applied in the textbook. We should also have links to other online and Wikipedia references that show other POVs not represented in the book, or perhaps links to specially created resources for this.

4. From the start, we should be able to print out the whole textbook, cover to cover, complete with notices about copyrights and a cover and back. PDF or PS sound like good formats, or perhaps just a long HTML/CSS page? Once this is done, we should make that format accessable online so others can see how the finished product would look, but only downloaded, say, a chapter at a time, to decrease server load. -LDan

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