Hoi, Let us fist congratulate O'Reilley and John Broughton with their decision to make their work available to us. This is in my opinion excellent news. The question where this manual should be is not that straight forward. Wikipedia NEEDS better help text and this truly puts all this information where it is most needed; on the English language Wikipedia itself.
When you consider the usability of software, good documentation is definetly part of it. This justified that this book is on en.wp itself. The least it will do is spark attention on our documentation and how the book should be integrated in our project documentation. I can imagine that the book itself also gets its place on Wikibooks. The rationale behind that would be that it survives as a book. This book will need maintenance as does the help text but they are essentially two different things. Thanks, GerardM
2009/1/28 Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net
Hi all,
The author of Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, John Broughton, has just uploaded the book to Wikipedia under the GFDL, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual
My reaction when I spotted this was: great, but shouldn't this be on Wikibooks? Part of the author's response to this was that "the agreement between O'Reilly Media and the Wikimedia Foundation was that this would be at /Wikipedia/ ... [do] not remove it from this site without a /lot/ more discussion among a /lot/ of other people."
Did the WMF really make an agreement saying that the content should be on Wikipedia, rather than a WMF project or simply under a free license?
Does anyone want to weigh in with comments on this on the talk page?
Thanks, Mike Peel
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