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Bug 21885 - Textbooks need authors.
Textbooks need authors.
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Documentation (Other open bugs)
unspecified
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: Normal enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2009-12-18 05:02 UTC by Jacob Christman
Modified: 2009-12-18 10:47 UTC (History)
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Description Jacob Christman 2009-12-18 05:02:59 UTC
Why isn't the author's real name attached to the sections of the textbook that they have contributed? Anonymity, while viable for the interchange of pure information, isn't viable for an area that hinges completely upon authority, the textbook. The lack of an author leads to a lack of authority, and the lack of authority leads to a lack of culpability for poor quality, lack of depth, stylistic concerns, and misinformation. If indeed your mission is to create viable, dynamic textbooks that reflect the current sum of human knowledge on a subject, it cannot be anonymous and it cannot be open to everyone; in the realm of knowledge on a topic, everyone isn't even remotely equal. If you continue to forgo real names and deny the texts of any authority, wikibooks will continue to be the seeming failure it is today.
Comment 1 Roan Kattouw 2009-12-18 10:47:05 UTC
This is a local policy thing, not a software bug. You should take this up with the wikibooks community.

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