I'm looking for other people to express their opinions of the efficacy of using a wiki to create a book. I agree with Matthew, there is a need for controlled branching so there is an ability to carefully discuss alternative contributions.
Just to make sure you know what little I know about wikis, Matthew: You have added contents to User:Jadudm. Do you know you can make any number of pages connected to User:Jadudm as if User:Jadudm was a directory? As in, User:Jadudm/Textbook and User:Jadudm/Textbook/Forward. Those can be copies made at any revision level of the original, as in, User:Jadudm/Textbook/Forward/3605. All of this, of course, is using the basic wiki tools of Edit, ctl-A (for select all), Cancel, open new page, ctl-V (for paste), Save Page. Take a look at User:NeoPhyte_Rep for what I have done. As I tried to indicate, this is not meant to be insulting, just to illustrate that a wiki is not an irrevocably single stream of edits. _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
