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

Sat Nov 19 02:54:35 UTC 2005

Robert Scott Horning wrote:

>> Who decided Wikibooks was for textbooks anyway?  This was never the 
>> intent.
>
>
> Jimbo.  It is hard to tell him no, he is wrong, especially when he was 
> so specific on the topic.

Well, since the Cookbook is one of the oldest Wikibooks, I don't think 
anyone can honestly claim to be surprised that Wikibooks has things 
other than textbooks.  The "Wikibooks:About" page has even for *years* 
said: "Wikibooks is a collection of open content textbooks, manuals, and 
other texts".

Chopping off "manuals, and other texts" and making it textbooks-only 
would be quite a radical change, and I see no compelling reason to do so.

-Mark