User:Whiteknight/Wikibooks book

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I've been kicking around the idea of writing a book about Wikibooks, but not necessarily one that would fit the inclusion criteria here. It would be a book about my experiences here, and the lessons that I've learned about community and collaboration from this project.

The Plan

Target Audience

readers, likely people not familiar with Wikibooks, Wikipedia, or wiki in general

Scope

Will cover the history of wikibooks, including my participation in this project, some of the trials and tribulations of the community here, and some of the decisions that we've made that have shaped this project. I would like to offer an insiders perspective to Wikibooks, and a perspective of Wikipedia that is not encountered often in the media.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• History of Wiki, Wikimedia, and Wikibooks
  • What is Wiki?
  • History of Wikipedia, and creation of Wikibooks
  • Community and Founding Principles
    • Collaboration and Decisions
    • Being Bold
  • Wikimedia foundation and sister projects
  • Early Wikibooks History
    • Exodus of early users
    • Early norms and policies
• My Activity in Wikibooks
• Relation with Wikipedia
  • Jimbo's Declaration on Videogames
  • Wikibooks as a dumping ground for deleted articles
• Decisions and Administration
  • Be Bold and the Decision making process
  • Roles of administrators, bureaucrats
  • Getting Checkusers
  • Desysopping and Administrator Tenure
  • Policy and Guidelines
  • Role of Administrators, status, power
• Wikibooks Identity Crisis
  • Wikijunior
  • Updating help and policy pages
  • Videogame Guide Issue
  • Wikiversity project
  • Defining "Textbook"
  • Logo
• Content and Copyright
  • Fair Use images and Wikimedia Commons
  • Unlicensed Images backlog and mass deletion
• Success stories
  • Class Projects
• Wikimedia and the Sister Projects
  • Rebranding Survey
  • My Blog and Planet Wikimedia
  • Wikibooks and the WMF
• Organization
  • Bookshelves and manual lists
  • Categories and Categorization
  • difference from printed books
• Beyond Wikibooks
  • Publishing Booksand controversy
  • Attracting Contributors
  • Wikibooks in the Classroom

Resources

I'm going to list some links to pages and discussions here as research for the book