[Foundation-l] Cleaning up Wikibooks (was Re: Incubator Wiki for New Wikimedia Projects)

[Robert Scott Horning]

Delirium wrote:

> Robert Scott Horning wrote:
>
>> The big deal right now is that if we follow this general policy to 
>> its ultimate conclusion, about half of the current content on 
>> Wikibooks needs to be removed somehow.  Of particular note is the 
>> Computer Gaming Guides bookshelf, which are not precisely textbooks 
>> but are an interesting sub-community on Wikibooks.
>
>
> Since I'm peripherally involved with a Game Studies PhD program (not 
> my field, but I work with people who are in it), I thought I would 
> point out that what constitutes a "textbook" is not very narrowly 
> defined.
>
> Who decided Wikibooks was for textbooks anyway?  This was never the 
> intent.
>
> -Mark

Jimbo.  It is hard to tell him no, he is wrong, especially when he was 
so specific on the topic.

-- 
Robert Scott Horning