Re: [Foundation-l] Rethinking brands

Florence Devouard wrote:
> I, for one, think it is great to work on better defining the mission of 
> Wikibooks. I have one question though, do you know if the definition 
> worked upon is generally shared with other wikibooks people ? Are they 
> other wikibooks that have worked on such a definition, and where the 
> outcome differs widely from yours ?
> 
> ant

At last count 18 people supported it and 7 people objected to it. As 
others have already said, some disagree on limiting English Wikibooks to 
just textbooks, how much emphases on textbooks be be given, whether or 
not it should be a policy or guideline and some have concerns on the 
clarity of the proposal.

There is quite a difference from English Wikibooks' current version and 
the German version. Google's German to English translation of the German 
Wikibooks version:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fde.wikibooks.org%2Fwiki%2FHilfe%3AWas_Wikibooks_ist&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8

There have been previous proposals on English Wikibooks to redefine the 
current policy as well, before they were merged together:
http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Wikibooks:What_is_Wikibooks/Unstable&oldid=600961
http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Wikibooks:What_is_Wikibooks/Unstable&oldid=665481
http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Wikibooks:What_is_Wikibooks/Unstable&oldid=665488

that AFAIK, were abandoned before ever getting to the point of seeking 
input from the community to accept or reject them.

--darklama