On 11/13/05, Stephen Forrest <stephen.forrest(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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== Somewhat dubious ==
[[Bartending]]
[[Cookbook]]
[[Guide to X11]]
[[Linux for Newbies]]
[[Mac OS X Tiger]]
[[Serial Programming:Modems and AT Commands]]
[[Programming XML]]
I don't deny that these are useful, but I don't think you're going to
find high-school or university courses in bartending, cooking, or in
very specific technologies. A university computer science curriculum
will have courses in operating systems, sure, but no one I've ever
heard of has courses in MacOS or Linux specifically.
I think these pages are useful, but I don't agree that they fit the
criteria of "textbook for a course at the early childhood,
kindergarten, elementary, junior high, high school, or university
level". However, I'd guess that community colleges would offer
courses in all of this stuff. Should "community college" be included
in the list as well?
These all seem clearly appropriate to Wikibooks to me (although I
don't claim to know the ins and outs of Wikibooks inclusion policy).
All of these "somewhat dubious" books are useful handbooks, and would
be used by many courses, if not high school/university ones. In fact,
one of my ideas for wikiversity (in whatever form it takes) is to
support these types of courses (including a MediaWiki developer
course) which could easily interface with these books. Or, of course,
if Wikiversity remains on Wikibooks, it could centre around *the
writing of these books*.
Cormac