simple English Wikibooks

[Mike.lifeguard]

Hello,

As the simple English Wikibooks project is slated to be closed[1], the
textbooks should probably be imported to the English Wikibooks. There's
a request for this to be done server-side[2]. When this happens, there
will be a mess to clean up. When the bug is handled, we should all try
to pitch in to make the transition as smooth as possible for our friends
from the simple English Wikibooks. There are a few hundred texts - not
an insignificant amount of work, so I wouldn't want them to be the only
people working on this.

Thanks,
- -Mike

[1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22103
[2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22106

[Martin Swift]

Post by Mike.lifeguard
As the simple English Wikibooks project is slated to be closed[1], the
textbooks should probably be imported to the English Wikibooks. There's
a request for this to be done server-side[2]. When this happens, there
will be a mess to clean up.

What, exactly needs to be done apart from fixing wikilinks to work in
the new namespace? Perhaps someone familiar with the details could set
up [[Wikibooks:Simple English merger]] to organise this.
What'll happen to their project and help name-spaces?

Cheers,
Martin

[Douglas Gardner]

The Simple English help namespace is almost non-existent, and something that
there isn't any point in moving. Out of projectspace, the only thing worth
moving is [[Wikibooks:Basic English alphabetical wordlist]].

As for books, there is no standard way of setting out subpages, and this
would need to be fiddled around with to fit in with ENWB (if there is such
standardisation). Many books are stubs. The delete button might be getting
worn out after a while, as many pages are simply placeholders.

There are nine administrators, one importer and thirteen rollbackers. What
is being planned in regards to user-rights? I personally feel that the
admins should lose their rights, but I have no idea how English Wikibooks
works.

Finally, I have added a site-notice and a note on the Main Page of Simple
English Wikibooks detailing the merger. You may want to edit it to explain
further what is going to happen, as I only had the bugs, the Reading Room
discussion, and the Meta closure to go on.

Regards,
Microchip08
(a [rather inept] SEWB administrator)



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Post by Mike.lifeguard
As the simple English Wikibooks project is slated to be closed[1], the
textbooks should probably be imported to the English Wikibooks. There's
a request for this to be done server-side[2]. When this happens, there
will be a mess to clean up.

What, exactly needs to be done apart from fixing wikilinks to work in
the new namespace? Perhaps someone familiar with the details could set
up [[Wikibooks:Simple English merger]] to organise this.
What'll happen to their project and help name-spaces?

Cheers,
Martin

[Aaron Adrignola]

Following the discussion at
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Reading_room/General#Simple_English_Wikibooks.27_books.3Fthere
is at least one person feeling that the vote at Meta may be a
determination on the content of the project as well and that content should
not be moved over at all.

--Adrignola

[Andrew Whitworth]

nobody can prevent en.wikibooks from hosting GFDL content. It is up to
the volunteers at wikibooks to determn what content to host.
Volunteers will vote with their time and effort: anything that gets
moved before the simple english project closes can b kept. anything
else can go.

I'm particularly happy to hear about this project closure, I've been
lobbying for it for years. Too bad it didn't happen when I was still
actve enough to help.

--Andrew Whitworth



On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Aaron Adrignola

Post by Aaron Adrignola
Following the discussion at
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Reading_room/General#Simple_English_Wikibooks.27_books.3Fthere
is at least one person feeling that the vote at Meta may be a
determination on the content of the project as well and that content should
not be moved over at all.
--Adrignola
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[Mike.lifeguard]

Post by Douglas Gardner
There are nine administrators, one importer and thirteen rollbackers. What
is being planned in regards to user-rights? I personally feel that the
admins should lose their rights, but I have no idea how English Wikibooks
works.

They'd need to ask the English Wikibooks community for the tools if they
wish to continue as administrators on that wiki.

- -Mike