On 7/5/06, Eric R. Meyers ermeyers@adelphia.net wrote:
I didn't actually expect negativity towards what I believe will be a good thing.
Apoligies you arived in the middle of a seperate discussion that has had some side effects.
The immediate first impressions have brought reactions about copyright and trademark violations, but I'm not here to steal. I'm here to use and emulate a very good thing.
Most of the stuff is free content so stealing outside some very narrow areas would be somewhat tricky.
I absolutely agree with you that part of the solution will be a multitude of references to Wikibooks, but another part of it will likely be Wikipedia-like encyclopedic topical references, and the other Wikimedia components, which I will be investigating tonight.
Why would a completely new project be "unlikely to work too well?"
Problems with finding an editorbase. The foundation doesn't have much in the way of a history of doing single issue projects. there appears to be a general bias against them amoung the various wikimedia editor bases since they tend to duplicat the work of either wikipedia or wikibooks.
What is it that you are seeing that will limit me to just using Wikibooks?
Thanks,
Eric
Setting up a new type of project within the foundation is a slow process. You best bet is probably either to stick with the articles on wikipedia and wikibooks or to start your own project on one of the various free wiki hosts or your own server.