--- Robert Scott Horning <robert_horning(a)netzero.net> wrote:
Which brings back to the original point. Should
Wikibooks be the
Wikimedia incubator project instead?
No. It should be what it was founded to be: A place to develop non-fiction
books such as textbooks or manuals that have an instructional intent and are
meant to be read cover to cover or at least in some similar sequence.
Wikijunior is a clear example of how Wikibooks is being used as
an incubator for new project ideas.
Wikijunior is a set of books that fit the above criteria I laid out. It is
special in regards to its name, funding behind it, and the fact that approved
snapshots will be placed at
wikijunior.org. But development-wise it is just
another wiki book (with its own set of contributors who work to make the whole
thing consistent - just like any other wiki book).
Wikibooks is available right now and has that
internal support to deal
with projects like Wikijunior, and frankly almost everything else on the
new project proposal page with just a few exceptions.
Only those projects that can be presented as coherent books. A set of articles,
dictionary definitions, or quote pages, does not a coherent book make.
Wikibooks is the place to create instructional books that are intended to be
read cover to cover or in some similar sequence. A good Wikibook should be much
more than a collection of pages on related topics (yep - many current Wikibooks
are just that, but those are not completed books).
-- mav
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