Re: Website for Wikibookians

Hi Andrew,

Perhaps you could explain a bit better the rationale behind this. It
might also build up interest among those who haven't realised what the
benefits of these tools would be.

On 12/10/07, Andrew Whitworth <[email protected]> wrote:
> The email aliasing is perhaps the biggest point of attraction for me,
> but blogging would be a big help too.

Why?

> Our community has voted once
> before to not allow blogging on-wiki,

How about just aggregating posts from various blogs.

> *Ability to host personal information, including images, which are not
> freely-licensed

What would this be for?

> *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)

Can this not be done on the same server with the same hostname, but
off-wiki (e.g. wikibooks.org/tools/)?

Cheers,
Martin