[Foundation-l] Project Wikineur

[Gerard Meijssen]

Daniel Mayer wrote:

>>>Wikibooks was set up to be the home of textbooks. Not books, but
>>>Textbooks. Hence why wikpedia, wiktionary and wikiquote are not on
>>>wikibooks (other than historical accident). I really dont think it is
>>>fair to the wikibooks community, that we tell every new wikiproject to
>>>go set up on wikibooks. Its in risk of becoming the wikimedia dumping
>>>ground. 
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>While I created the Wikibooks name based on a combination of WikiWiki and
>textbooks, that project has never been only about textbooks. It is a place to
>build just about any non-fiction reference book with, and this is critical, a
>finite end size (if you want to explore a subject area in more detail than
>that, start other books). The 'finite' part excludes potentially huge or even
>practically infinitely-sized things such as a general quote book, dictionary,
>or encyclopedia. 
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>The very different formats for these other projects is also a reason for the
>separation; Modules in a wikibook need to be in in a hierarchy and should
>ideally be read in a particular sequence, while articles in Wikipedia and
>Wikiquote and entries at Wiktionary are anything but hierarchical and can be
>read in any order.  
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>True, the emphasis is on instructional-oriented material, but that is an
>*emphasis* to encourage the most-potentially positive aspect of the project. It
>is ''not'' an exclusionary principle. 
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>ambi wrote:
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>>We can always take Wikimedia in new directions, and I laud such
>>proposals, but I strongly despise these subject-specific works. They
>>have limited potential in terms of both readers and participation, are
>>much less likely to be successful, and would really be much better
>>suited to, say, setting up a MediaWiki installation on a business
>>website. Just because it is a wiki doesn't mean that it has to be
>>under the Wikimedia banner.
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>I agree with this statement 100% and can't think of a thing to add.
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>-- mav
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One way of dealing with this is by having it as a "Wikicities" project. 
If it pans out, it can always return into the wikimedia fold :) .
Thanks,
    Gerard