Jimmy Wales wrote:
I don't consider that individual projects were
"inspired to inherit them".
Wikipedia was never the "Wikipedia Textbook project".
--Jimbo
That was an honest typo. Wikibooks was originallly at
http://textbooks.wikipedia.com/ (a no longer valid URL, BTW) and it was
called the "Wikipedia Textbook Project", at least based on some very
dated pages I've seen.
Still, I would have to agree with Garrett that many of the policies on
Wikibooks were inherited from Wikipedia... some so much that the name
"Wikipedia" remained for as long as two years on some of the pages. I
don't know of any that remain like that, but it was an issue in the
past. And Wikibooks has things from Wikipedia like the VfD pages that
Wikipedia no longer does. In addition, we are debating things like fair
use policies due in part because of inherited philosophies on that topic
as well.
But at the same time, Wikibooks certainly has chartered an independent
course from Wikipedia on many policies.
--Robert Horning