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Welcome to the Projects reading room. On this page, Wikibookians can talk about subjects related to books, book projects, and other tasks here on Wikibooks that require discussion and organization.

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[edit] Using Wikibooks

I would like to get this book, which is like an instruction manual for new Wikibooks users, into better condition for printing. Eventually, I would like to be able to print copies of this book and distribute them to teachers and students, or other prospective Wikibookians. There are a few things that this book needs:

  1. More content. If everybody could write a few paragraphs about their "specialty", that would be great. There are lots of details to be added.
  2. Images. We need screenshots of the Wikibooks interface, showing some of the things we talk about in the book.
  3. Editing. Book needs copyediting and general improvements of what is already there.
  4. Reviewing. There are a lot of pages written, and they need to be reviewed for quality.

If we had a concerted community effort to do it, this book could probably be featured quality before 2009, and we could start getting copies printed. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 13:33, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] wikibooks - rubix cube

Please check the symbols in the steps of the rubix cube page. Unless it's some sort of ironic joke, that is.

Thanks, James

[edit] wikibooklets

This user likes wikibooklets for audiobooks and podcasts.

I'm working on the wikibook Spanish by Choice that accompanies some shows of the podcast SpanishPod and a Spanish audiobook for listening practice: Novelas Cortas. The longer I work on this, the more I'm convinced that the idea of wikibooks, or "wikibooklets", accompanying audiobooks and podcasts is quite powerful. There are many very good educational podcasts and audiobooks, which sometimes come with transcripts and additional images, tables, collections of links, and other textual material. While the majority of these podcasts and audiobooks might not be suitable for a wikibook for one or another reason, I think there are several podcasts that are excellent candidates for wikibooks. To give you an example, have a look at the German GrammarPod and the corresponding web page with transcripts and tables. (Note that I don't know whether the author of this particular podcast would be interested in licensing this material under the GFDL.)

Currently, I see three basic types of wikibooklets of this form:

  1. transcripts of educational podcasts or audiobooks
    • although the style is often more informal than in a traditional textbook, this type of material will usually qualify as a good candidate for a wikibook
    • example: German GrammarPod
  2. visual and textual materials accompanying educational podcasts or audiobooks
    • for example transcripts of lesson dialogues of podcasts or audiobooks for foreign language learning
    • other possible materials are: vocabulary lists, exercises, images, links to related material, etc.
    • example: Spanish by Choice/SpanishPod lessons
    • the problem with this type is that there is no continuous text; I think it depends on the amount of additional material and its educational value to determine whether it qualifies as a wikibook even if it has no continuous text (which is after all provided by the audiobook or podcast).
  3. annotated texts of audiobooks
    • annotated texts is one of the few areas where WikiSource and WikiBooks overlap
    • for listening and reading practice, annotated texts of audiobooks in foreign languages can have great educational value; again it depends on the amount of the additional material (the annotations, translations, exercises, etc.) whether this material qualifies as a wikibook
    • example: Spanish by Choice/Novelas Cortas

As I said, I'm currently working on the wikibook Spanish by Choice, which seems to follow this idea of a "wikibooklet", and I hope that it will illustrate the potential of "wikibooklets" and provide solutions to several practical problems. However, I would also be very interested in opinions and comments of other users about this idea. In particular, whether there are any related (wiki) projects (I'm only aware of the LibriVox site for public domain audiobooks). I would also be interested in any existing wikibooks, which are related to this idea. Also, would a new category "Wikibooklets" be a good idea? --Martin Kraus (talk) 13:23, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikistudy

During my work on the Categories I've came across this project (it's not really a Wikibook) and it says so "Wikistudy is the home to textbooks that are directed towards specific syllabi and academic exams" and it crosslinks pages (I've found at least 2) that are out of scope in dangling namespaces, I would put this project for a VFD vote but it seems to be of some usefulness probably not as a Wikibook but as a navigational aid. So I'm making this post so other Wikibookians can take the issue under consideration or the original maintainer gives a rational, is it obsolete as advanced on the project's talk page or is anyone willing to take up the job of maintaining this ? --Panic (talk) 03:08, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

I would consider this obsolete. This could be easily redone using an exams category and a Subject:Exams page. --darklama 14:50, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
Should probably be in the Wikibooks namespace and/or replaced as darklama describes.  — Mike.lifeguard | talk 01:24, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
Anyone up for the job ? or at least move that page to what seems a proper location (I'm happy with the suggestions so far). I can help to verify and rearrange the linked pages. --Panic (talk) 05:02, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Use the Source

I've made an undo that seemed needed and reworded it a bit to be more friendly and clear, this will probably no be consensual, the special problem here is that the author imparted a one sided view to the book so it somewhat violated the NPOV or what I think it pretends to defend in absolute terms, but this work is just in a gray area, see and say what you think of it.
We have already discussed the other issues involved several times, but I think the request made here is not abusive of the standing policies and guidelines and I and others have taken similar steps to refrain BeBold actions (if deletive, contrary to the scope of the book) or just to give a definition of an wanted state or structure for a work, this reduces destructive edits that can be generators of conflicts if options and approaches are not clearly stated and given a chance to discussion.
I make note that no one opposed the stated request since 2005 and that the Wikibookian that removed it did it anonymously, but I think this case is important to how we interpret the Wikibooks:Neutral point of view policy and what latitude we should give to it. --Panic (talk) 05:02, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] What change need at time in Education

Aoa What type of change in Education sector you want e.g. stystem,teacher mathods and syllabus. Please Show the exective summary

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