[Textbook-l] Re: [Intlwiki-l] original sources on Wikipedia

Sun Aug 31 22:38:37 UTC 2003

Daniel Mayer wrote:

>Targuin wrote:
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>>What does it take for things to HAPPEN around 
>>here? I've not seen any decent objections, and 
>>we all seem to agree on the fundamentals.
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>OK, I'll come out against having a separate Wikisource project since that is 
>part of the whole reason of having Wikibooks.
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I thought the purpose of Wikibooks was to create original, freely 
licensed (FDL) textbooks.

If annotated public domain works are within this mission, then great, 
start putting in them books! But it's a bit of a surprise to me, and 
probably to many others. Perhaps we need a clearer WikiMedia Project Map 
of some sort so the left hand knows what the right is doing. :)

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)