Reading wiki books whilst Unplugged
Not content with enabling people to edit wikis whilst away from their computers with Miki, the mobile wiki, Socialtext now lets you edit whilst away from the Internet with Socialtext Unplugged.
My first thought was that if I could read and edit wikis when I was offline, when would I ever read books? But considering the increasing number of books being published on wikis, perhaps that won’t be a problem. :)
An example which was released today is Lessig’s Codev2, the first book dedicated to Wikipedia. The book was edited on a JotSpot wiki and is now being freely published on a Socialtext wiki under a Creative Commons license.
Here are a few more examples of books with wikis. If you know of any others, please add them to the list on my wiki.
- The Wealth of Networks by Yochai Benkler
- We Think by Charlie Leadbeater (in development)
- We Are Smarter Than Me – various (in development)
- Using Wiki in Education by Stewart Mader
- Fiction Wikia – various fiction stories and books in development
- Wikibooks.org – various textbooks in development
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