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[edit] Potential topics

I believe most of the task forces have to be considered as potential topics. Please comment. -- FayssalF - ^{Wiki me up ®} 16:06, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

I think some of them may be too broad or too vague to produce reasonably-sized collections, at least initially. For example, we might prefer to compile a WikiReader about the British Army rather than all of British military history; about rifles rather than all weaponry; about the Sengoku period rather than all of Japanese military history; about the Punic Wars rather than all of Classical warfare; and so forth. Kirill Lokshin 16:10, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

I would agree, especially given that our top-level articles are often the ones with the most problems (i.e. bloat, POV warring, etc.). Also, given that we don't know how successful this will be, we probably want to start small... Carom 16:15, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

I've just added some few topics. Please check. -- FayssalF - ^{Wiki me up ®} 12:13, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Looks good. Kirill Lokshin 12:35, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

see it as a space to develop wikireaders and as I said in the discussion on the mainpage, a strong connection between portals and readers might help since portals are already intended to have collections of material they could turn into printable documents. Wandalstouring 18:09, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Indeed, a number of portals could probably translate into at least basic frameworks for WikiReaders quite easily. Kirill Lokshin 18:25, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Process

OK, how do we want to proceed with this? We could, for example, set up "work groups" for particular readers, and the participating editors would select and polish a group of articles. Or we could work, as a project, on one reader at a time. I kind of lean towards the first option, but I'd really just like to get the ball rolling on how we might actually produce one of these things. Carom 19:21, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

I think it would be better, for now, to make only one, mostly to observe the process of making it. Once that is done, the work can be split into several topics of focus. Titoxd^{(?!? - cool stuff)} 19:44, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

I think we actually can do both, in some sense:

• In the immediate future, compile an eclectic reader composed of pre-selected high-quality articles. This will let us get through the article selection stage very quickly, and give us a demo/prototype that we can then use for figuring out the subsequent technical process of actually producing a publication.
• At the same time, start the article selection process on a few topic-oriented readers. This may take a fairly long time, but by the time it's done, we should have completed developing the technical aspects, and can then move the topic-oriented readers towards publication in a smooth manner.

Kirill Lokshin 19:48, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, if nobody has any objections, I'll go ahead and set up an initial work area for the "selected readings" reader; are there ideas for some topic-centered ones that we could start with? I think we might initially try for something that's (a) somewhat limited in scope, and (b) has a large selection of decent articles to work with; something like the Vietnam War or the American Civil War might be doable in this sense. Kirill Lokshin 23:20, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps the Civil War; it is a broader topic (just how many major battles were there?), and it would IMO elicit a considerable amount of interest. Both do work, though. Titoxd^{(?!? - cool stuff)} 06:31, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

What about the Italian Wars? I think that is a topic you are really familiar with and it has quite a lot of high quality material. Wandalstouring 09:42, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

That has the usual problem: a small group of good articles and a vast sea of stubs. It might be doable in the long run, but I'd prefer to start off with something that has more than a dozen usable articles. ;-) Kirill Lokshin 11:22, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Write an overview and give more details for the important battles. I doubt someone wants to read all battles in detail. We could also think about creating articles about the mercenaries of the early modern age for example. I have Simplicius Simplicissimus and could do some more research (while working on my Punic Wars). Wandalstouring 14:06, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

I kindav support starting w/ the Punic Wars. Most of the articles belonging to the category under the same name are well developed. -- FayssalF - ^{Wiki me up ®} 14:38, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

That seems like a decent idea. Kirill Lokshin 18:27, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] other Wikireaders

There is a French wikireader on Latin American history in creation. If it is finished, I suggest to translate it and add some of our material, so we can copublish with the history project. Wandalstouring 20:00, 30 March 2007 (UTC)