Re: Website for Wikibookians

At this point, anyone who asks can probably be considered "established" (and
I'm not kidding) But yes, this could be very useful, if only for email
aliasing and the IRC client. I also like the idea of hosting WB-specific
tools, though I don't think we currently have any.
How would this be paid for, though?
-Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Whitworth [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: December 4, 2007 12:14 PM
To: Wikimedia textbook discussion
Subject: [Textbook-l] Website for Wikibookians

Wikinews has wikinewsie.org, and wikipedians have wikipedian.org, so I
was thinking maybe it's high-time we had a wikibookian.org for the
members of wikibooks. It would be a site where established
wikibookians (of course, there would be a need to define
"established") could have a variety of services offered:

*Blog hosting (especially blogs about wikibooks, books,
writing/editing/authoring, education, etc)
*Email aliasing ([email protected])
*Posts of news and announcements
*Ability to host personal information, including images, which are not
freely-licensed
*Embedded IRC client with access to #Wikibooks, #cvn-wb-en, and
#en.wikibooks
*Applets and other tools specific to wikibooks (similar to the
toolserver, but primarily for wikibooks)

There are lots of things that we could do with such a domain for the
benefit of our members. I've taken the liberty of reserving the domain
name wikibookian.org to help protect it from squatters. What do people
think of this?

--Andrew Whitworth