On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Lennart Guldbrandsson wikihannibal@gmail.com wrote:

Right now we in the Bookshelf Project are preparing a number of booklets and brochures and you are welcome to participate in the work. We look forward to any comments you may have to any of our deliverables:

http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf_Project#Deliverables

[Also cross-posting from Foundation to English Wikipedia list]

I'll just add my voice to this.

At the moment participation on this project is low. The materials that are developed in Bookshelf will likely be the first time students and professionals see something from us in print form.

Now, there is a wonderful person taking a lead role in this project. I am certainly not going to question their wonderfulness. Their wonderfulness is not in doubt, as evidenced by their patient treatment of some of my more snotty moments.

However, bless them, I draw the conclusion that their first language is not English. I hope I need hardly press the point that this presents something of a problem when generating readable, professional literature for an English audience (albeit that the intention is to translate the materials later).

I will try to mitigate issues arising from this. But there's more material than I can handle. And, in any case, some of the literature is aimed at audiences I know little about (such as marketing professionals).

So please do come and investigate the Bookshelf project.