MediaWiki Book
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i have been approached quite a few times about writing a book, and that has always been in the back of my head. This is why i set up WX initally, to document best practice and provide shared knowledge.
like sven said, this would have to be discussed in different levels: beginning, intermedate, advanced.
i think there is room for a few books possibly:
- MW as Enterprise tool
- MW as CMS
- best MW practices
- and of course, Semantic Wiki
Main Questions To answer
- are these Textbooks? General?
- who writes what?
- serializing
- locking this down
- who is the audience (market research)
- what is already out there (I can fill this in later)
- how to supplement a printed book with online content/trainings.
- basis for Consulting/Training
- how to get paid/royalties/etc
- how to do a brain dump and organization/editing here without it being pirated. etc.
ramifications of this: (considering everyone who contributes)....it wouldn't be fair for me just to make the dough, but it wouldn't be fair for me to do all the work to publish either.... --Phalseid 11:54, 4 July 2008 (NZST)
- Aran's perspective: A lot of the knowledge of those books would come from the work I've put in to wiki organisation, but that's no different from including information you've learned from mediawiki.org and the mediawiki code and from wikipedia. I think the way profits of such a project would be shared would come down to the time people actually spend collaborating on the content of the book and on discussion and administration specifically for the book. If people log the time they spend on their various threads of work, then the issue of dividing profits is easily solved whenever it arises. --nad 14:02, 4 July 2008 (NZST)
One issue is that books on mediaWiki soon get outdated as it is such a dynamic project, however the general underlying concepts are still there. One idea is to include sections that tie together mediaWiki with Email, SubVersion, IRC, basically the ways wikimedia does its continuous integration development. --Sven 21:31, 14 January 2009 (NZDT)
