Re: [Foundation-l] Rethinking brands

darklama wrote:
> 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

The way I see it, Wikibooks goes beyond textbooks. But that is my 
perception.

Anyway, it is annoying if all languages do not have the same definition 
of the project :-(