Wiki E-Books

This is a **proposal for a new** Wikimedia sister project.
Wiki E-Books
	File:Wiki Books logo.webp
Status of the proposal
Status	procedurally closed
Reason	nipping in the bud— all activity is from May 18th-20th, critical comments have made strong points. WikiBooks exists for user-made educational books. WikiSource exists for notable freely licensed 3rd-party works. Non-educational user-made books are out of project scope. Dronebogus (talk) 06:23, 25 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Details of the proposal
Project description	Wiki E-Publishing
Is it a multilingual wiki?	Other languages could adopt it as well
Proposed URL	https://WikiE-Books.org
Technical requirements
Development wiki	Does your project have a technical-development wiki (e.g., in Wikimedia Labs)?
Interested participants
	List of project participants
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Proposing a new WikiProject for E-books publishing. E-books should evolve and embrace data such as pictures, videos, tables, graphs, linked data, in line references, (wikilinks/hyperlinks). Basically E-books written using the Wiki Markup Language using a new MediaWiki platform. Books are written and look like they did 150 years ago and a lot has changed since then.

Proposed by

--Wikideas1 (talk) 08:00, 18 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Alternative names

Wiki-E-Books
Wikipublishing
Wiki Epublishing

Related projects/proposals

WikiPAPER - was a similar idea for scholarly papers and research papers.

Domain names

https://WikiE-Books.org
https://Wiki-E-Books.org
https://WikiEpublishing.org

Mailing list links

Demos

People interested

--Wikideas1 (talk) 08:00, 18 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Comment @Wikideas1: Sounds similar to the already-exist Wikibooks? NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 08:08, 18 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That is more like text books. This proposal is for publishing books. --Wikideas1 (talk) 08:16, 18 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

No! Already published textbooks go to Wikisource, much like a library. Wikibooks, on the other hand, allow anyone to publish material on their own, including original research, much like a publisher the proposer has proposed for. —‍CX Zoom (A/अ/অ) (let's talk|contribs) 10:58, 18 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per CX Zoom. Faster than Thunder (talk) 20:33, 18 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Most of what is included in this proposal isn't possible on Wikibooks. Wikibooks explicitly states "Wikibooks is for textbooks, annotated texts, instructional guides, and manuals". According to What Wikibooks includes, anything that isn't instructional isn't allowed. StarryGrandma (talk) 20:45, 20 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Yeah more of just changing how we write to each other about ideas. Like the Constitution of the United States was written in cursive because it was written with a feather to keep the ink down. The typewriter had a big impact on our language and font and we still write that way. I think we need to innovate and create a new way of writing for everyone for the digital/Information age but we already have it and I think it’s Wikitext--Wikideas1 (talk) 14:43, 22 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]