Re: Website for Wikibookians

From my outside-of-Wikibooks perspective, this sounds like a great
idea for the Wikibookians. :-)

On Dec 4, 2007 11:13 AM, Andrew Whitworth <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>
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