Re: Fwd: Proposal: LiteratePrograms.org as WikimediaProject

Hello Erik, this looks like a great idea. I would need to look more into 
literateprograms to see what kinds of materials they have, but alot of what 
I have seen already seems like it would be a great fit at wikibooks. I am 
not sure whether it would work well at wikisource, but i'm no expert on that 
project.

Much of this information could possibly qualify as an "annotated text", with 
the code being the "text" and the rest being the annotations. Otherwise, we 
have dozens and dozens of books on computer programming languages, and even 
some general books on algorithms, and this material might do well being 
merged into those locations.

If these people wanted to have their own books, that would be fine too, an 
algorithms's book with heavy use of example source code would be 
significantly different enough from our current books to warrant a new book 
(or even a set of new books, depending on partitioning).

--Andrew Whitworth (Whiteknight)



>From: "Erik Moeller" <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: Wikimedia textbook discussion <[email protected]>
>To: "discussion list for Wikisource,the free library" 
><[email protected]>, "Wikimedia textbook discussion" 
><[email protected]>
>Subject: [Textbook-l] Fwd: Proposal: LiteratePrograms.org as 
>WikimediaProject
>Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 05:08:22 +0200
>
>I wonder what the folks on Wikisource and Wikibooks think about this
>proposition .. I haven't received any feedback on it on foundation-l.
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: Erik Moeller <[email protected]>
>Date: Apr 27, 2007 3:13 PM
>Subject: Proposal: LiteratePrograms.org as Wikimedia Project
>To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <[email protected]>
>
>
>I would like to propose (as a community member) that
>
>http://en.literateprograms.org/
>
>be merged into the Wikimedia Foundation family of projects. I have
>spoken with the founder of LiteratePrograms, Derrick Coetzee, and he
>would agree to such a merger.
>
>LP documents computer program source code with in-line explanations
>beyond simple source comments. Using a special extension, all code
>belonging to an example program can be downloaded as a package with
>ease. It is, in my opinion, ideally positioned to become a wonderful
>learning resource for budding programmers in any programming language.
>
>The structure of LP is fundamentally different from any existing
>Wikimedia project. Yet, it is an educational project with great value.
>LP currently uses the MIT/X11 license, which is similar to CC-BY, but
>more suitable for source code; I believe this makes sense as these
>snippets are typically so small that they should not be encumbered
>further with copyleft.
>
>WMF would be able to give the project sustainable hosting and exposure
>to a vast community. What do you think? If there is no consensus, I'd
>be willing to organize a community poll as we did for other projects,
>but I really see very little that speaks against LP becoming part of
>the WMF project family.
>--
>Peace & Love,
>Erik
>
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>
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>
>
>--
>Peace & Love,
>Erik
>
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