[Wikimedia-l] "How Wikipedia Works" on Wikibooks

[Samuel Klein]

Thank you Phoebe and Charles!  I started adding and wikifying the
tables of contents.

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Asaf Bartov <abartov at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> This is very wonderful!  I'll try to pitch in.
>
>    A.
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 1:51 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm pleased to announce that Charles Matthews and I re-licensed the text of
>> our book "How Wikipedia Works", and the text is now in Wikibooks:
>> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/How_Wikipedia_Works
>>
>> I'd like to issue an open invitation to help format and update the book. We
>> published HWW in 2008, and while many of the chapters hold up today, others
>> (especially those dealing with specific templates, etc) do not.
>>
>> In addition, there's a lot of additional new material to cover. For
>> instance:
>> * When the VisualEditor is stable, there should be a chapter about using
>> the VE, followed up with more advanced chapters about wikitext
>> * The education program and GLAM projects were just getting going when we
>> published, and it would be nice to have a full chapter about these (since
>> in my experience many of the readers of the book have been educators)
>> * I'd love to see full chapters about each of the sister projects; I didn't
>> have the space in the printed book or the expertise to write these
>> originally, but covering all of Wikimedia was always part of my ideal book.
>>
>> Also, the figures are not in Wikibooks. While I will work on uploading the
>> originals (it will be slow), I don't have all of them in a good format, and
>> most of the screenshot-type figures need to be redone anyway. I'd love help
>> with this.
>>
>> Of course, one of my great joys about the printed book was that it was so
>> nicely produced; the publisher, No Starch Press, did a fantastic job of
>> layout and the book itself is quite high-quality. For those who want that,
>> the print book is still available for purchase; but making the Wikibooks
>> text pretty should also be a goal (the current text was cut & pasted, so
>> there's a lot of formatting that needs to be cleaned up).
>>
>> I know this has been a long time coming; that's my fault! This has been a
>> side project for us for many years, and I was happy to recently find some
>> time to work on it again. It's my hope that the book is still useful, and
>> that we can make it more useful still for the future. (There's also a new
>> website for the book at http://howwikipediaworks.net).
>>
>> best,
>> phoebe
>>
>>
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