Wikibook Going "Stale" - How to Revive?
Christopher Scott Wyatt,
Kairosnews,
Sept 14, 2012
There's an interesting sociological story to be told here. Christopher Scott Wyatt reports on a wikibooks project he started last year that now lies moribund, incomplete and apparently largely unread. "This last year (2011-12), I attempted to get my students in a technical writing course to evalute the project and reboot the project. I wasn't successful, as the students argued that nobody knows of Wikibooks and there are plenty of free writing books / content available throught iTunesU and iBooks." It's not a simple thing to complete a collaborative writing project like this; people need to be willing to contribute (often anonymously) to the common project, but for the most p;art people don't work like that.
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