[Foundation-l] Cleaning up Wikibooks (was Re: Incubator Wiki for New Wikimedia Projects)

Sat Nov 19 02:11:53 UTC 2005

Robert Scott Horning wrote:

> The big deal right now is that if we follow this general policy to its 
> ultimate conclusion, about half of the current content on Wikibooks 
> needs to be removed somehow.  Of particular note is the Computer 
> Gaming Guides bookshelf, which are not precisely textbooks but are an 
> interesting sub-community on Wikibooks.

Since I'm peripherally involved with a Game Studies PhD program (not my 
field, but I work with people who are in it), I thought I would point 
out that what constitutes a "textbook" is not very narrowly defined.

Who decided Wikibooks was for textbooks anyway?  This was never the intent.

-Mark