The resulting work will be welcome at Wikibooks. But I'm unclear why you can't have someone getting paid to write content on a Wikimedia wiki? One of our bureaucrats Whiteknight is currently doing this as part of his employment for the Perl Foundation: http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Wikibooks:Reading_room/ General&oldid=1390269#Editing_Grant While there could conceivably be problems in doing so, we couldn't find any in this case. I'd be interested whether that would also be true of having John write about using Wikipedia in an educational context. I suppose if the WMF is paying him then they could be considered a publisher instead of a service provider, however I would think that can be easily taken care of in the contract, no? -Mike ----Erik Möller wronte:---- The guide won't be directly developed on a Wikimedia wiki to avoid an icky paying-for-content situation, but once it's ready we'll publicize it widely and hope it'll find a home on Wikibooks or elsewhere for future development. For those who want to get a first glimpse behind the scenes, John is working on at it at <howto.pediapress.com>. He is happy to collaborate, but it's his baby and he'll build it however he wishes. ---- Mike.lifeguard mikelifeguard(a)fastmail.fm