In a message dated 2/27/2011 12:26:22 PM Pacific Standard Time, dger...@gmail.com writes:
> The scope was supposedly textbooks - how-to books. > The problem I see with free books is just that you really need something that says... this is WHY you, the contributor would put in this amount of effort here. With Wikipedia, I can contribute a word here, a sentence there, parse some grammar over there, fix a bad phrasing, add a source... all to seven articles and call it a day. A book takes an awful lot of effort. And then I give it away free to the world. Sorry I'm just not seeing that. Some has been some effort on Knol to create books and collections. The books are not official but the collections are an official tool, even if the results are not. So on Wikibooks for example, I could create my own How-To Home Repair, and collect *chapters* contributed by a dozen people into a *book*. So what we should have created it not Wikibooks with which to start, but Wiki...How or WikiChapter or something small, that a person could actually accomplish. I suppose... maybe I'm just rambling. But just the name Wikibooks doesn't sound to me like How To, it sounds like 150 to 1000 pages on an overarching topic of some kind. W _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l