An article by Daniel Terdiman:

``If you found yourself needing an old biology textbook and couldn't locate your battered copy from college, you'd have a few options.

``You could go to a university bookstore and snag a used copy; you could drop a few dollars on a new one at Amazon.com; or you could track down some old college chums and ask for their copies.

``But if Jimmy Wales and his colleagues at the Wikimedia Foundation have anything to say about it, you could have another way to go--the Wikibooks project. It's their attempt to create a comprehensive, kindergarten-to-college curriculum of textbooks that are free and freely distributable, based on an open-source development model.''

Full story:
http://news.com.com/2100-1025-5884291.html

Wikibooks:
http://wikibooks.org

Also, C-SPAN Q&A is featuring an interview with Jimmy Wales. I think you'll find there are some striking similarities between the Wikimedia Foundation and the Bioinformatics Organization, in both history and culture.

URL

http://www.q-and-a.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1042