[Foundation-l] Wikibooks criticism by non-Wikimedian

Wed Dec 21 04:41:22 UTC 2005

I thought a very interesting and well-written (and sourced) blog entry 
by Ben Crowell, a pioneer in e-book publishing, would be interesting 
reading to the people on Foundation-l:

http://www.lightandmatter.com/article/infrastructure.html

It was also based in part on an interesting exchange I had with him on 
slashdot before he wrote this entry:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=170873&cid=14234478

I think that much of what Mr. Crowell has to say about Wikibooks and 
Wikipedia is a very valid critism, especially from somebody who is 
outside of Wikimedia projects trying to locate some gems of quality that 
may be useful.  It is also from somebody who has done more than just a 
casual glance at what we are doing here, and comes from somebody who has 
done what Wikibooks is claiming as an ultimate goal (but didn't use 
Wikibooks to accomplish the task).

-- 
Robert Scott Horning