Wikments

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Wikments is proposed wiki-based project for collection free documentation (for example, various guidebooks and reference manuals) by contributers. "Wikments" is the compound word of "Wiki" and "Documents", and means "Documents written with wiki".

[edit] Abstruct

The project is a collection of free guidebooks and other documents. It seems simillar to Wikibooks, but Wikments covers guidebooks and other documentations (for example, 9-11 memorial). In a certain genre(for example, computer games), Wikments can also have the community-side.

[edit] Why?

Now Wikibooks have various genre of textbooks and guidebooks, but Wikiboks must be a project for a textbook. I think so, I think Wikibooks must be content-base separated between textbooks and other guidebooks.

I thought two methods of this separation.

1. Create a new project for other than textbooks

   Good: Wikibooks can go back to the way original should be.

   Bad: Noting

2. Create a new project for textbooks

   Goos: Each project name is intelligible.

   Bad: Strange feeling to prepare newly because of the thing which should originally exist, and new project name for textbooks sounds so bad.

So, I took the first plan.

[edit] Comments

Why do textbooks and other guidebooks need to be separated? I don't see a reason for this not to be part of Wikibooks. Angela 06:49, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I agree, wikidocuments, especially as proposed, are insufficiently different from wikibooks. (At first glance, I was wondering why we might need breath-freshening wikimints. Now I'm wondering whether I shouldn't be putting wikicondiments on my hot dog. I must be tired, because I'm thinking there must be a merchandizing opportunity here somewhere. Oof.) -- Beland 05:12, 26 May 2005 (UTC)