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Help:Textbook planning Archive

[edit] Name of the project

• "Open Textbook Project" -- http://www.opentextbook.org - Karl Wick
• "Free Textbook Project" --
• "Wikimedia Textbooks" -- Kpjas
• "Wikipedia Textbooks" --
• "Wikibooks" (mav owns the urls and plans to transfer them to Wikimedia) -- mav, Toby Bartels, Kpjas, LouI, LittleDan, Thomas, Dhum Dhum
• "Wikitext" -- Toby Bartels,

The URL could also be http://wikibooks.wikimedia.org/ (owned by the Foundation already). -- Toby Bartels 08:14 27 Jul 2003 (UTC)

We should avoid entering the philosophical debate between "open" and "free" in our name. -- Toby Bartels 08:14 27 Jul 2003 (UTC)

We should continue the tradition of having "wiki" in our name since that is what defines us the most - even more than the free license. --mav 19:44 28 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I agree completely with that one. Dhum Dhum 20:11 5 Aug 2003 (UTC)

We should not limit ourselves to being a textbook-only shop - all non-fiction books should be allowed. --mav 19:44 28 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Or even fiction books, that would be interesting LittleDan

If you are talking about stuff like Huck Finn with annotation and wikified words going to encyclopedia articles, then yes. But we should not be in the business of creating our own fictional worlds. That is a different project. --mav 17:24 1 Aug 2003 (UTC)