[WikiEN-l] [In the Press] Wired; science wikibooks; cult status; neologisms and recipes;

Sj 2.718281828 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 21 05:58:06 UTC 2005


FHSST, a community building free high-school science textbooks for
schools in Africa, last year got support and encouragement from the
Shuttleworth Foundation to migrate their existing work to Wikibooks. 
Their end-of-year update:
   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/fhsst-physics/2005-01/msg00000.html

Meanwhile WIRED prepares for Mr. Pink's upcoming feature on WP with a
quick note from Dan Terdiman...
   http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66210,00.html?tw=wn_14culthead

...WP is approaching cult status in Germany, with all the attention
that entails...
   http://www.nzz.ch/2005/01/14/em/page-articleCIOUU.html

...and remains a popular source for neologism descriptions:
http://www.webpronews.com/news/ebusinessnews/wpn-45-20050116GetFolksywithFolksonomies.html

Finally, here's what happens when you take 
  .4M pp  Wikipedia 
  1 vol  Wikibooks 
  17 CC  Weblogging
  3-5 outspoken women
  2 langues
  1 recent wikipedia-l recipe thread
and blend until smooth [in the fall]:

  http://itkitchen.info/2004/10/13/the-wikipedia-for-weblogging/

+sj+



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