[Foundation-l] Wikistandards (was Requests for new Wiki projects)

[kylelutze]

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I'm not sure wikibooks is the best place to start, but a wikistandards
site is definitely something I'm interested in. There's only a couple of
problems I see with it. As it is a wiki, and some of these standards are
rather important, if somebody puts some false info into a standard, and
people start using it while most others are using the correct one, this
could lead to problems. The other is copyright infringements being made
easily because some fool decides to post standards to a closed source
project(I don't know if there is an easy legal way around this).

Kyle

Daniel Mayer wrote:
| --- Robert Scott Horning <robert_horning at netzero.net> wrote:
|
|>Originally I proposed this in its own seperate domain, but to start with
|>I'd love to simply make this a sub-project on wikibooks, with the
|>near-term interest of making it a seperate sub-domain of wikibooks.
|> That wasn't my idea, but now that I've seen what and how things are put
|>together here I think this is a more logical approach.  It really isn't
|>a bunch of textbooks, as is the original focus of wikibooks, but it is a
|>bunch of book-like things that are organized in a very similar approach.
|
|
| Don't give up so easily. :)
|
| What I really don't like are subject-specific ideas for projects
(different
| subjects can be handled through internal WikiProjects). You, however,
implied a
| general approach which I liked the sound of (a wiki devoted to all
different
| types of standards).
|
| That may be a viable concept - it may not. But there is nothing wrong with
| proving the concept on Wikibooks if that project's format and goals fit
| well-enough -  could make for a series of nice books/booklets. You may
also
| find that there is no need for a separate project.
|
| -- mav
|
|
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