I'm a little disappointed by the decision myself, but I can't say that I was surprised by it. I don't think anybody should have been surprised that a project with only a half-dozen "active" members, or a project that could go for months at a time without a single edit would eventually be closed. If anything, we should be disappointed by the members of that project who resisted a voluntary merger on several occasions. I saw that the members there would rather their content be trapped on a small, under-staffed and under-advertised project instead of moving it to a larger project where it would get more legitimate attention and exposure. I offered my own time on several occasions to do the content transfer, and was always met with resistance. I know other Wikibookians offered help as well, with similar results. So don't be disappointed that the content was not saved at the last possible moment. Be disappointed that we had months where we could have been moving it and nobody made the effort. Be disappointed that everybody in the whole wiki-world knew that Simple English Wikibooks was not a viable project, except the "community" of people who worked there and should have known best. Be disappointed that the people who were supposed to be the caretakers of that content chose to let it get deleted rather than have it moved someplace safe and active. --Andrew Whitworth On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Aaron Adrignola <aaron.adrignola(a)gmail.com> wrote:

I assume that one can reopen the bug @ https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22103 with queries &c;. Microchip08 (SEWB sysop) -----Original Message----- From: textbook-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:textbook-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Martin Swift Sent: 24 February 2010 04:27 PM To: Wikimedia textbook discussion Subject: Re: [Textbook-l] Simple English Wikibooks Deletion Comrads, On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 07:07:03AM -0600, Aaron Adrignola wrote: I'm similarly very disappointed that Simple was deleted. There was some good content there and several Wikibookians had spent a fair amount of time looking through it. I'm furthermore surprised that no-one contacted Wikibooks as I thought it was well known that we had expressed our interest. Whom do we contact to try to retrieve the content? Sincerely, Martin Swift _______________________________________________ Textbook-l mailing list Textbook-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/textbook-l

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Mike.lifeguard &lt;mike.lifeguard(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: As I said on Meta-Wiki, it's not: <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum#Simple_English_Wikibooks_Deletion> -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023