[Wikipedia-l] wikinotes

Sat Dec 13 02:15:01 UTC 2003

Magnus Manske wrote:

> GreenMountain wrote:
>
>> I am sure that most of you have have heard of cliffnotes or the newer 
>> sparknotes. These are study guides for books.  (Especially usefull 
>> for old literature where the plot is confusing.  I would like to 
>> volunteer to start a "wikinotes," which summarizes the the contents 
>> of classic literature that users are likely to read in school.  I 
>> think this would not be a part of wikibooks though, as it is entirely 
>> different. 
>
> I like it, but how is that so different from wikibooks? Start a page 
> "Wikinotes:Hamlet" there. Or "Wikinotes:Shakespeare", if they're 
> really brief summaries 

Wikibooks is still very young.  We should make sure that we fully grasp 
its potential before spinning off another project.  In some of these 
cases a simple Wikipedia article may be adequate.

Ec