This also fits into the Wikisource scope; you could use the PDF with the ProofreadPage <http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Help:Proofread>system. In contrast to the Wikibooks version, this would match the original published version of the book.
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> > wrote: > > This is very wonderful! I'll try to pitch in. > > > > A. > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 1:51 PM, phoebe ayers <[email protected]> > 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 > >> [email protected] > >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > >> <mailto:[email protected]?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 > > [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > -- > Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
