[Textbook-l] distinct books

Thu Aug 14 19:48:19 UTC 2003

--- Karl Wick <karlwick at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I think that the textbook site would be better
> organized
> with each book falling into its own place on the
> site. This
> is what I mean:
> 
> http://wikibooks.org/Spanish/
> 
> http://wikibooks.org/French_4_Kids/
> 
> etc.
> 
> That way a page within the Spanish textbook could be
> named
> "Infinitives" and a page within any other language
> textbook
> could be named the same without conflict. I think
> that in
> the long run this will make naming simpler.
> 
> We would ideally also have the option to limit
> searches to
> one textbook at a time. 
> 
> About interchangeable modules (that is, using one
> module
> for multiple textbooks): this solution may be
> inideal
> because the goals of each textbook are different and
> editing a module for one book will sometimes make it
> less
> suited to other books. Even if I were to take my own
> organic chemistry book and rearrange it I would have
> to
> rewrite many parts of it to make sure that
> supporting ideas
> arent being thown out there before they have been
> properly
> covered. 
> 
> The advantage to reusing modules is that it saves a
> little
> bit of copying and pasting, right ? This is a
> shortcut that
> I think sets books up to be more on the generic side
> than
> tailored to suit. And when I use a textbook for
> myself Id
> rather have the whole thing tailored to suit.
> 
> Discuss amongst yourselves.

If this is implimented, it would also be convienent to
have certain names shortened, for example
wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Foo could change to
wikipedia.org/Wikipedia/Foo. It could be the same way
with images and talk pages. I think that would look a
lot better when writing down URLs, which does happen a
lot.
LDan

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