[Fhsst-bio] Thoughts on WikiBooks and volunteers

[Mark Horner]

Hi all

I have been looking through the history of edits on WikiBooks - 
something I do from time to time (I
am not sure why I find it a fascinating read but I can tell you the 
cookbook is very popular).

I have noticed that the FHSST Physics book has had corrections made to 
it by a number of people.
More importantly the same people have been coming back over a period of 
weeks adding/correcting more
content. Its slow but it makes me very optimistic about starting the 
Biology book on WikiBooks from
scratch.

In addition I have scrounged up two more volunteers for Biology - both 
postgraduate students at UCT.
The Microbiology and Biochemistry departments at UCT are HUGE (compared 
to Physics anyway). So there
is a huge potential pool of volunteers.

I am going to email them more details but I am very optimistic that 
things will go very well (it will probably be our fastest book).

Cheers,

Mark