Not yet! I would like to have one, of course. Producing one will mean taking the HTML and converting it to MediaWiki syntax -- the files for the printed book were laid out in a design program, so it was difficult enough just getting the HTML produced (which is why there was a delay for the online version). We did draft the book in MW, but there were significant changes between the draft and the finished version.
I would have thought the HTML would render fine on-wiki? It doesn't always look pretty, but it usually works.
AGK
2008/10/2 phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com
Answers to questions:
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 4:50 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Phoebe, Charles, Ben, you've done a fantastic job. I'm still fascinated
by
the GFDL licensing aspect! Was it your aim from the start to make a GFDL-compatible version?
Yes, it was. We recognized that to comply with the letter *and* the spirit of the license when adapting help pages from Wikipedia, we needed to license the result under the GFDL; and we all wanted to produce a freely-licensed work regardless. The publisher, No Starch Press, was fantastic about being supportive of the license and accepting it, pretty much no questions asked. (And I learned a great deal about the GFDL in the process, including that despite our best efforts "how to reuse Wikipedia content properly" is still kind of a murky area. If any of the license-savvy contributors out there wanted to rewrite the onwiki help pages, it's an area that could use a *lot* of work).
Is there a wiki version?
Not yet! I would like to have one, of course. Producing one will mean taking the HTML and converting it to MediaWiki syntax -- the files for the printed book were laid out in a design program, so it was difficult enough just getting the HTML produced (which is why there was a delay for the online version). We did draft the book in MW, but there were significant changes between the draft and the finished version. Contact me off-list if you're interested in helping out with producing a wiki version.
best, -- Phoebe
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