[WikiEN-l] How Wikipedia Works is online now

[Kevin Wong]

Thanks, I look foward to modifying it. Again, it should really be turned
into a Wiki by the WMF. That's a good idea. Having the Foundation make it as
a project for users to modify. A sort of guide to editing. However, the
greatest problem with this is that the rules might as well be changed
itself, which may confuse many.
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 12:56 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:

> Answers to questions:
>
> >> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 4:50 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > http://howwikipediaworks.com/
>
> > Phoebe, Charles, Ben, you've done a fantastic job. I'm still fascinated
> by
> > the GFDL licensing aspect! Was it your aim from the start to make a
> > GFDL-compatible version?
>
> Yes, it was. We recognized that to comply with the letter *and* the
> spirit of the license when adapting help pages from Wikipedia, we
> needed to license the result under the GFDL; and we all wanted to
> produce a freely-licensed work regardless. The publisher, No Starch
> Press, was fantastic about being supportive of the license and
> accepting it, pretty much no questions asked. (And I learned a great
> deal about the GFDL in the process, including that despite our best
> efforts "how to reuse Wikipedia content properly" is still kind of a
> murky area. If any of the license-savvy contributors out there wanted
> to rewrite the onwiki help pages, it's an area that could use a *lot*
> of work).
>
> > Is there a wiki version?
>
> Not yet! I would like to have one, of course. Producing one will mean
> taking the HTML and converting it to MediaWiki syntax -- the files for
> the printed book were laid out in a design program, so it was
> difficult enough just getting the HTML produced (which is why there
> was a delay for the online version). We did draft the book in MW, but
> there were significant changes between the draft and the finished
> version.
> Contact me off-list if you're interested in helping out with producing
> a wiki version.
>
> best,
> -- Phoebe
>
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