[Textbook-l] Dual-licensed wikibooks

[mike.lifeguard]

Oh, how I would love to do that. You're right, though: inertia and tradition
make that more-or-less impossible at this point. That said, the software is
good enough that we can make it work. We have several successful books,
right? So it's not impossible.

I think the best option on the software side will be to put some community
effort into getting a grant (or some other source of funds) and hiring a
developer to do work for the Wikibooks projects specifically, since there
seem to be no current paid or volunteer developer interested in doing work
on these issues. Or we can continue to hope they will become interested :D

Mike

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:textbook-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of adam hyde
Sent: August 17, 2008 7:12 PM
To: Wikimedia textbook discussion
Subject: Re: [Textbook-l] Dual-licensed wikibooks

can i suggest something I know will be fruitless and i apologise
knowingly in advance but i feel a little compelled to suggest it
anyway...mediawiki might not be the right technology for wikibooks...i
would think it might be a bit sane to actually address this issue, even
just on the 'what if' level... i understand the institutional and legacy
issues however it might be an interesting academic excercise to consider
_not_ bending mediawiki to solve something when it is clearly not
designed for book content...instead take the issue through a technical
'needs' process and look for technical solutions that suit these
needs...



adam