[Foundation-l] Deletion of Wikibooks content by Jimbo
Delirium
delirium at hackish.org
Tue Nov 29 22:58:35 UTC 2005
Delirium wrote:
> I may be misremembering, but I don't recall an explicit and narrow
> requirement that Wikibooks be "educational" when it was set up, and
> certainly not "educational" in the narrow sense of "something that a
> university would teach". Of course textbooks were a major sort of
> book that people had in mind, but I don't recall anyone saying that
> *only* textbooks would be permitted (not to mention defining what
> constitutes a "textbook"!).
Some empirical evidence for this:
-- The "about" page has never said it is limited to
textbooks---textbooks are only one part of the list of things that
Wikibooks is for
-- Some of the earliest Wikibooks are non-textbook but informational
books, such as videogame walkthroughs
-Mark
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