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| − | 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.... | + | 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.... --[[User:Phalseid|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 discussing concepts 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. --[[User:Nad|nad]] 14:02, 4 July 2008 (NZST) | |
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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 discussing concepts 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)
