Hi,
I have a request, with the blessing of Jimbo Wales, to open
up a subdomain on WP for the exclusive development of open
content textbooks. The subdomain name
http://textbook.wikipedia.org has been suggested .. Jimmy
told me to send an email to this group so that someone
could do the under-the-hood work to get it going ... Thank
you very much !!
Karl
[
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Karlwick]
Jimmy Wales wrote:
Write to wikitech-l, and pass along my endorsement of the
idea.
I'm personally (a) clueless about how to do this, and
fearful of
breaking something and (b) totally swamped. Brion is
taking a week
or two off, as I recall, so technical stuff isn't being
handled with
the usual diligence.
This will happen, yes, but it will take a couple of weeks I
bet.
Karl Wick wrote:
Hey Jimbo,
I am very excited to hear that !
Is there a way to open up a spot on WP for this
development, at least for now ?
(Mav suggested
http://textbook.wikipedia.org ).
> Karl
Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)bomis.com> wrote:
> Well, I'm with you 100% on this.
Karl Wick wrote:
Hey Jimbo,
I dont have a big group of people who have
expressed
interest but there are a couple. Mav told me that there
were already plans to eventually build textbooks from WP
materials, but that there should be a consensus on its
name
before he buys a separate domain name.
> A user named April also has her own science textbook
Wiki
set up on a personal site hidden away somewhere but
she
has
some pretty specific goals which are going to keep it
pretty independant of the WP project.
> I think there may be some people out there who would
work
and contribute to a textbook project even tho they
might
not be interested in an encyclopedia ... anyways there
are
some differences between the two that make it a
separate
beast although related.
> People spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars to
purchase
textbooks that contain nothing more than public
domain
material that would as well or better presented in
hypertext, and I'm eager to start work on it ....
Sorry, dont want to chew your ear off.
Karl
Jimbo Wales wrote:
As far as
I'm concerned, yes. I saw a thread on the
mailing list, but I haven't read
it yet. Are people
generally on board with the concept?
Karl Wick wrote:
Hi Jimbo,
> I was wondering what I could to to get a subdomain
opened
up on Wikipedia for the development of textbooks.
I've
got
a physics book I am writing that I would like to
donate
as
well as some ideas for an organic chemistry book.
Thanks,
Karl
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