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Re: Free High School Science Texts: possible collaboration with Wikibooks |
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Thu, 2 Sep 2004 15:52:09 +0100 |
Dear Mark,
Thank you for your reply. I've put a note about this on Wikibooks to
see what the regular editors there think. Hopefully there will be a
collaboration page there soon. I'll let you know where it is once it
exists.
Regards,
Angela.
Angela Beesley
Wikimedia Foundation
http://wikimediafoundation.org/
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 23:37:39 +0000, Mark Horner <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Angela
>
> Another idea just occurred to me. Perhaps we could have a page listed
> relatively prominently on wikibooks that lists the sections we need help
> with. Then either the content could be uploaded and we could pull it off
> and incorporate it or it could be sent to us and will be included when
> we upload our drafts onto wikibooks.
>
> What do you think?
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Mark
>
> Angela_ wrote:
> > Dear Mark,
> >
> > Free High School Science Texts looks a really interesting project. I
> > was wondering if you were aware of Wikibooks
> > (http://en.wikibooks.org/)? This is a project to develop free
> > textbooks, manuals and other texts under the Gnu Free Documentation
> > Licence. The project is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, which are
> > also responsible for the encyclopedia, Wikipedia
> > (http://en.wikipedia.org). We currently have over 120 textbooks in
> > various stages of development and would welcome some sort of
> > collaboration with your own textbooks project.
> >
> > Wikibooks is created using a wiki, meaning anyone can edit the site.
> > For some examples of the content created by our users, see
> > http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Physics_Study_Guide. There are more links
> > you might find relevant at
> > http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Science_bookshelf.
> >
> > We are particularly interested in finding ways of distributing our
> > content, so perhaps this is something we might be able to collaborate
> > with you on.
> >
> > I look forward to hearing from you.
> >
> > Angela.
> >
> > Angela Beesley
> >
> > Board of Trustees
> > Wikimedia Foundation
> > http://wikimediafoundation.org/
> >
>
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