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Global Text Project – Wiki Textbooks

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the let-1000-textbooks-bloom dept.

Grooves writes, "A new initiative spearheaded by a University of Georgia professor aims to produce a library of 1,000 wiki textbooks by tapping the collaborative power of wiki. Inspiration for the project came from a computer science course that wrote its own textbook on XML when no suitable commercial offerings were available. From the article: 'The Global Text Project will work a bit differently from most wikis. Each chapter of each book will be overseen by an academic with knowledge of that field. Although the site will allow anyone to make changes, these will not become "official" until an editor signs off on them.' Textbooks free as in speech, and beer? Sign me up."

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  1. Wicked! by Chaffar · · Score: 3, Funny
    Inspiration for the project came from a computer science course that wrote its own textbook on XML when no suitable commercial offerings were available
    A course that writes its own textbooks? Sweeet...
    1. Re:Wicked! by dk-software-engineer · · Score: 2, Funny

      You spelled "wikied" wrong.

  2. Re:Its been done by interiot · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's right. Wikimedia foundation also tried to start up a wikiproject to increase gas mileage in cars, but the auto industry quietly put the kebash on that too.

  3. Moo by Chacham · · Score: 4, Funny

    Class, wait a momnet, as i revert your textbooks to the previous edit...

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  4. Where do I sign up? by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd like to be the one to doodle futuristic cars in all the margins.

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  5. Homework just got easy by dintech · · Score: 3, Funny

    1) Do homework without reading textbook 2) Change wiki 3) Hand in 'correct' homework 4) ??? 5) Profit

  6. Okay ... by ggvaidya · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can't tell if you're an elephant enthusiast, or if you're making a very subtle reference to the story of the blind men and the elephant ...

    Ah, the joys of making random inferences late at night ... !