Talk:Wikitextbook.co.uk

• These are great textbooks, but why not just make them on Wikibooks, and just explicitly that all contributors must contribute based on the UK syllabus? -- user:zanimum
• The reason for starting a new site was the fact that we wanted a site that we could shape to specifically meet the needs to UK students and teachers. It was felt that this would be easier if a whole site was dedicated to UK students rather than having to sift around a large wikibooks site that wasn't designed for them. --Wikitextbook 18:28, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
• It is too bad that this couldn't have been dealt with by creating a UK-themed bookshelf at Wikibooks instead. There are seperate projects like Wikijunior and Wikiversity that have essentially their own user community, so this wouldn't have been that much of a difference. I'll try to integrate some links into Wikibooks from the content of this website. --Roberth 04:27, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
• I believe that the scope of Wikibooks should be global. As it is, lots of work remains undone at Wikibooks, and having a UK Wikibook would be un-necessary biased. The idea of Wikis I feel should be used for global collaboration. What specific kind of knowledge in Sciences, Maths and Computer Science should be different from the rest of the world?
• Who decided that all Wikibooks had to be global in scope and nature? Many Wikimedia projects have location-specific content and orentation, including Wikinews and Wikipedia. Wikipedia in particular has location-specific Wikiprojects. For example, b:Wikijunior Math is a proposed Wikibook that would deal with the mathmatics education that follows the curriculum guidelines for the U.S. State of California. It may be adapted to other locations at a later date, but it is being developed to work with a specific location in mind. b:University of Alberta Guide is another Wikibook that is clearly very specific for a particular location. b:FHSST Physics (to cite a nearly finished Wikibook) was developed following the high school physics curriculum for South Africa. I can find others examples, but it certainly is not against Wikibooks policy to have a book that is oriented toward a specific location. I'm mainly suggesting that if this is a serious proposal to get this project adopted by the Wikimedia Foundation rather than an attempt at advertising, you need to overcome the objection as to why it can't be dealt with in Wikibooks. I appreciate that as a seperate project you would have a smaller community to work with and make decisions specific to the needs of the content you are developing. The main point here, however, is what sort of contribution to the rest of the Wikimedia projects would this proposal have and why don't the existing Wikimedia projects effectively deal with the goals of your new project proposal. --Roberth 16:18, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

• I think it was a bad idea to de-centralise the uk textbooks. They could have formed a uk course bookshelf on wikibooks. --82.10.207.212 15:35, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

• • One problem many schools have with wikibook/pedia etc is that the ip address is blocked due to vandalism. Hopefully a site that is aimed just at them will reduce acts of vandalism. This appears to be the case to date. --Wikitextbook 03:06, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Not Free

• After some inspection, I decided that WikiTextbook is not free. To be more specific, WikiTextbook is gratis-free, but not libre-free. Unlike Wikimedia projects, WikiTextbook does not offer a license (such as the GNU Free Documentation License) that would allow me to copy content off the site, then modify it. --Kernigh 18:26, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
  • This is due to a problem with the set up of the site - it does have GNU Free Documentation License, however it is not displayed on every page at the moment. We hope to have this change very soon. --Wikitextbook 03:06, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
• This clearly does not merit its own project or domain. HOWEVER, it could be very useful as a book in Wikibooks. Pcu123456789 16:04, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
• Wikibooks does have a section now aimed specifically at gradeschool children called Wikistudy, that is broken down along country lines. Books specifically for UK school children can be created in this area. --Whiteknight 18:29, 28 June 2006 (UTC)