[WikiEN-l] Re: Historian: origin of apparent "policy" re recipesand how-tos?

Tue May 11 17:54:22 UTC 2004

Timwi wrote:

> KNOTT, T wrote:
>
>>> If so many people want them, why not make a new project -- 
>>> WikiHowto? Either that, or extend the scope of Wikibooks slightly.
>>
>> It's within the scope of wikibooks.
>
> In what way? I can see there's a cookbook on Wikibooks, so if I wanted 
> to write a recipe I guess I would add it there, but what if I want to 
> write just a single howto on something I found out (say, how to 
> install something in Linux)? 

A Wikipedia article is fine for that.  I believe that Jimbo expressed 
himself on that vision back in the times when Larry was still around.

Ec