On 11/12/05, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com> wrote:
It is a blatant violation of the charter of Wikibooks
and takes the
project in a completely wrong direction. Wikibooks is not the place for
any random concept of a book that people may have. It is a place for
_textbooks_, and the defining rule needs to be the ability to point to a
specific course at the early childhood, kindergarten, elementary, junior
high, high school, or university level in which such a _textbook_ is
_currently_ used.
Are those truly the criteria? Then I suggest the whip should be
cracked soon on Wikibooks and these criteria enforced, for a quick
glance at the site (which I haven't paid much attention to before)
suggests that there are many, many projects there now which do not fit
them. I did a quick scan through "Random module" and "Recent
changes", and could find only a few projects which fit the cited
criteria.
== Clearly acceptable ==
[[A Neutral Look at Operating Systems]]
[[Consciousness studies]]
[[Radiation Oncology]]
[[Set Theory]]
[[Turkish]]
== Somewhat dubious ==
[[Bartending]]
[[Cookbook]]
[[Guide to X11]]
[[Linux for Newbies]]
[[Mac OS X Tiger]]
[[Serial Programming:Modems and AT Commands]]
[[Programming XML]]
I don't deny that these are useful, but I don't think you're going to
find high-school or university courses in bartending, cooking, or in
very specific technologies. A university computer science curriculum
will have courses in operating systems, sure, but no one I've ever
heard of has courses in MacOS or Linux specifically.
I think these pages are useful, but I don't agree that they fit the
criteria of "textbook for a course at the early childhood,
kindergarten, elementary, junior high, high school, or university
level". However, I'd guess that community colleges would offer
courses in all of this stuff. Should "community college" be included
in the list as well?
== Should be on Wikisource ==
[[SA NCS]]
[[The Tragedy of Macbeth]]
== Almost certainly unacceptable ==
[[Conplanet]]
[[Conworld]]
As far as I can see, everything in [[Category:Games]]
Everything in [[Category:Humor]]
[[Self-harm]]
There seem to be an absolutely huge number of game manuals of various
kinds (computer games, role-playing games, collectible card games),
which go into incredible detail: [[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]
even includes a guide on dating strategies for the game's romantic
subplot.
Steve