Thank you Phoebe and Charles! I started adding and wikifying the tables of contents.
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Asaf Bartov <abar...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > This is very wonderful! I'll try to pitch in. > > A. > > > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 1:51 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm pleased to announce that Charles Matthews and I re-licensed the text of >> our book "How Wikipedia Works", and the text is now in Wikibooks: >> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/How_Wikipedia_Works >> >> I'd like to issue an open invitation to help format and update the book. We >> published HWW in 2008, and while many of the chapters hold up today, others >> (especially those dealing with specific templates, etc) do not. >> >> In addition, there's a lot of additional new material to cover. For >> instance: >> * When the VisualEditor is stable, there should be a chapter about using >> the VE, followed up with more advanced chapters about wikitext >> * The education program and GLAM projects were just getting going when we >> published, and it would be nice to have a full chapter about these (since >> in my experience many of the readers of the book have been educators) >> * I'd love to see full chapters about each of the sister projects; I didn't >> have the space in the printed book or the expertise to write these >> originally, but covering all of Wikimedia was always part of my ideal book. >> >> Also, the figures are not in Wikibooks. While I will work on uploading the >> originals (it will be slow), I don't have all of them in a good format, and >> most of the screenshot-type figures need to be redone anyway. I'd love help >> with this. >> >> Of course, one of my great joys about the printed book was that it was so >> nicely produced; the publisher, No Starch Press, did a fantastic job of >> layout and the book itself is quite high-quality. For those who want that, >> the print book is still available for purchase; but making the Wikibooks >> text pretty should also be a goal (the current text was cut & pasted, so >> there's a lot of formatting that needs to be cleaned up). >> >> I know this has been a long time coming; that's my fault! This has been a >> side project for us for many years, and I was happy to recently find some >> time to work on it again. It's my hope that the book is still useful, and >> that we can make it more useful still for the future. (There's also a new >> website for the book at http://howwikipediaworks.net). >> >> best, >> phoebe >> >> >> -- >> * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers <at> >> gmail.com * >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list >> Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > -- > Asaf Bartov > Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org> > > Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the > sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! > https://donate.wikimedia.org > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>