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Wikibooks News: Categories Are Doing Great
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News from and about en.wikibooks.org, an online open-content free textbook website. Saturday, May 16, 2009. Categories Are Doing Great. Thanks to users like [ User:Adrignola. And others, sorry for those I didn't mention), the Wikibooks category system is much cleaner and more usable now then it ever has been in my recollection. Also, if you active Darklamas new Color Coded Categories. Gadget (which is deceptively simple), you'll get a great category browsing experience. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Wikibooks News: Wikimedia NY Meeting
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News from and about en.wikibooks.org, an online open-content free textbook website. Sunday, May 10, 2009. Wikimedia is having a meeting at Columbia University on Sunday May 17. Here's the announcement that was sent out on the mailinglist:. Come one, come all! Our next meeting for Wikimedia NYC is Sunday May 17 at Columbia University. This is a meeting for volunteers to the projects of the non-profit. Wikimedia Foundation, and everyone else too, who has ever looked at. We'd be glad to try to answer them.
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Wikibooks News: Wikibooks First!
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News from and about en.wikibooks.org, an online open-content free textbook website. Monday, May 18, 2009. I got a great email today from Cbrown1023. He did a Google search. And a result from Wikibooks. Appeared first, even before any results from Wikipedia! What's funny is that it's not on a topic that I would consider to be a particular strength of our collection. My next point of interest is to wonder why Cbrown1023 was searching for information about nuclear war? May 19, 2009 at 10:44 AM. Its just the...
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Wikibooks News: May 2009
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News from and about en.wikibooks.org, an online open-content free textbook website. Thursday, May 21, 2009. The results of the Wikimedia licensing vote. Have been made public today. From Robert Rohde on foundation-l:. The licensing update poll has been tallied. Yes, I am in favor of this change" : 13242 (75.8%). No, I am opposed to this change" : 1829 (10.5%). I do not have an opinion on this change" : 2391 (13.7%). Total ballots cast and certified: 17462. Wikimedia licensing terms updated and terms of u...
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Wikibooks News: January 2009
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News from and about en.wikibooks.org, an online open-content free textbook website. Friday, January 30, 2009. I mentioned this issue on the wiki a while back, but haven't made any kind of public announcement about it until now. I was selected to receive a "Perl 6 Microgrant" to write a book on Wikibooks about the new programming language "Perl 6". There are two free-culture projects that I participate in regularly. One is Wikibooks. The other is an open-source software project called Parrot. This happens...
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Wikibooks News: March 2009
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News from and about en.wikibooks.org, an online open-content free textbook website. Monday, March 23, 2009. Are you a Wikibookian? If so, there's an interesting survey in progress right now that's attempting to gather information about Wikibookians and the demographics of the Wikibooks project. If you're interested and have 10 spare minutes, your input would be much appreciated:. Http:/ easstudents.cw.unisa. Links to this post. Monday, March 16, 2009. Did you know that Wikibooks has a store on CafePress.
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Wikibooks News: Licensing Vote Results
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News from and about en.wikibooks.org, an online open-content free textbook website. Thursday, May 21, 2009. The results of the Wikimedia licensing vote. Have been made public today. From Robert Rohde on foundation-l:. The licensing update poll has been tallied. Yes, I am in favor of this change" : 13242 (75.8%). No, I am opposed to this change" : 1829 (10.5%). I do not have an opinion on this change" : 2391 (13.7%). Total ballots cast and certified: 17462. Wikimedia licensing terms updated and terms of u...
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Wikibooks News: February 2009
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News from and about en.wikibooks.org, an online open-content free textbook website. Monday, February 23, 2009. There was good representation from fr.wikibooks and de.wikibooks. We talked about several issues that seem to be affecting all Wikibooks projects, and didn't talk about issues that were restricted to en.wikibooks only. We all generally agreed that holding such meetings more regularly would be a good thing. Some of the issues we talked about were:. I would like to try to schedule a similar meetin...
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Wikibooks News: California Open Textbook Initiative
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News from and about en.wikibooks.org, an online open-content free textbook website. Sunday, May 10, 2009. California Open Textbook Initiative. I don't know if other people have heard about this one yet: California is pursuing open textbooks to help cut costs. I would be interested to hear if anybody knows anything about this California textbook project, and if there is anything that the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikibooks can do to get involved. I think we have a great infrastructure set up and a grea...
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Wikibooks News: April 2009
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News from and about en.wikibooks.org, an online open-content free textbook website. Tuesday, April 28, 2009. Thinking about project mergers. In idle conversation tonight we started talking about the idea of merging projects. I know it's certainly not a very popular topic, a lot of people have staked out their territories and don't like to think that their "home" project is going to get merged into a larger project and lose it's individual charm and character. On WB we receive book donations on occasion, ...