On 4 Sep 2002, at 9:45, Krzysztof P. Jasiutowicz wrote:
There was a notion of teaming up groups of Wikipedians around some areas of Wikipedia content - operating systems, unix, punk rock or the Roman Empire.
They should have some infrastructure (namespace ? mailing list ?) to rely on in order to coordinate, review and discuss. Not to mention do some planning and quality assurance.
Another useful side-effect of having such a system could be that these groups could combine together a collection of articles on that topic, put an introduction in and release it as an ebook.
So we could get a series of "The Wikipedia guide to XXXX" ebooks, which we could distribute around to the various ebook sites as well as sites which deal with related topics, that way the wikipedia articles would get a much wider audience and attract people to the wikipedia project.
Imran