[Foundation-l] Re: Cleaning up Wikibooks

Fri Nov 25 23:46:12 UTC 2005

On 11/25/05, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> Anthere wrote:
> > The cookbook : I had a long time fight with Gentgeen, when he started
> > moving all (or nearly all recipees) away from en.Wikipedia. I tried
> > desperatly to keep them in Wikipedia, but most were moved nevertheless I
> > think. I did not oppose recipees being in Wikibooks, but simply, maybe
> > because french, I consider many recipees are "cultural", so have their
> > place in an encyclopedia.
>
> I agree with Anthere that recipes can quite properly go into the
> encyclopedia, but this is a battle we lost a long time ago.
>
> To my knowledge, there is no one supporting the idea that the cookbook
> should be removed from wikibooks.
>
Is there anyone supporting the idea that Wikibooks should be limited
to textbooks?  I'm sure there are some, though I can't think of
anyone.