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

[Chris Lee]

This also fits into the Wikisource scope; you could use the PDF with
the ProofreadPage
<http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Help:Proofread>system. In contrast to the
Wikibooks version, this would match the original published version of the
book.




On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> <at>
> >> gmail.com *
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