--- Anthony DiPierro <wikilegal(a)inbox.org> wrote:
I brought that up earlier, and I'm really not sure
what to make of it,
because Wikipedia certainly shouldn't be made a part of Wikibooks. I
can think of two possible reasons:
1) Wikibooks is for textbooks, and this should be narrowly construed
to mean classical textbooks, not to include any learning resources
such as encyclopedias.
2) Wikipedia is too big for Wikibooks (combined perhaps with the fact
that Mediawiki is not sophisticated enough to handle both of them
under a single project).
Both are true. Also, a collection of articles does not a book make. You can
bind them together and present them like a book, but they will never be
something that somebody is going to read cover to cover in sequence. Articles
are self-contained entities that stand perfectly well on their own. Pages or
even chapters in a book should be part a much larger self-contained work that
itself has a specific goal on where it wants to lead the reader.
-- mav
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