Teachers' Guide to Skolelinux / Re: Wikibooks as Platform for Newdriftbook etc.?
13 months later, this request deserves yet another try ;)
http://wiki.debian.org/WikiBooks
Abstract: I plan to publish a Teachers' Guide to Skolelinux (or
something similar) as Wikibook.
Hoping there is plenty of teaching staff on this list, I expect your
subscription...
Kindly
Ralf
Am Sonntag 13 November 2005 17:00 schrieb RalfGesellensetter:
> Dear List,
>
> at Linuxtag Karlsruhe, I attended the keynotes held by Jimmy Wales,
> founder of Wikipedia. There it was where he not only announced a
> cooperation between Wikimedia and KDE, but also addressed the problem
> that pupils of lower ages wouldn't understand most of the articles of
> Wikipedia.
>
> At this very point he introduced Wikibooks.org as sister project of
> Wikipedia. It is devised to host books of all kinds. Those can be
> edited in Wikipedia manner and also be translated
> (internationalised). A good example is a cooking book:
>
> http://no.wikibooks.org/wiki/Kokeboka in Norsk
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook in English
> http://fi.wikibooks.org/wiki/Keittokirja in Finnish
> ...
>
> I believe that this platform could serve us in two apspects
> - infrastructure for shared editing and internationalisation
> - presence and publicity: as there is not too many wikibooks,
> it will make people aware of Skolelinux/Debian-Edu
>
> I should mention, that all Wikibooks are under GFDL and that
> education is their major concern. Thus it attracts mainly our target
> group: teachers like me ;)
>
> The only limitation I could see might be missing exchange capabilities
> with XML/Docbook. I learned that there are Docbook export filters for
> Wikimedia, but I don't know as for import...
>
> Please comment on this
> Regards
> Ralf.
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