Jimmy Wales wrote:
I don't think it is sensible for chapters to be
directly involved in
publishing Wikireaders. This is a subtle point, but chapters may in
some cases be involved in trademark licensing issues (the Germans are,
for example) related to publishing, but this is a far cry from doing
publishing ourselves, either as a chapter or as the foundation.
Mmm. Even the de: DVDs are published by an outside commercial company,
who quite sensibly set up a structure so the usual de: volunteer editors
could do the work they needed while clearly also improving the encyclopedia.
Jimbo, has anyone sniffed around en: with a plan to do a DVD, in the
wake of the moderate success of the de: DVDs?
- d.