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==Why are we doing this?== | ==Why are we doing this?== | ||
You might be reading this text in the online wikibook ''[[JP Boyd on Family Law]]'', in an offline version in PDF format, or in a thick, bound, printed book. We produced this as a wikibook so that free family law information can reach more people. Family law issues touch the lives of a lot of British Columbians, and when you're dealing with these issues, you need all the help and support you can get. | |||
Clicklaw Wikibooks has teamed up with Vancouver lawyer [[JP Boyd|John-Paul Boyd]] to turn his popular family law website, www.bcfamilylawresource.com, into this new Clicklaw Wikibook title, ''JP Boyd on Family Law''. The migration of John-Paul's website into this new format preserves the accessibility, scope and tone of the original, which provided free family law information to more than 27,000 British Columbians a month and had been published for more than a decade. | Clicklaw Wikibooks has teamed up with Vancouver lawyer [[JP Boyd|John-Paul Boyd]] to turn his popular family law website, www.bcfamilylawresource.com, into this new Clicklaw Wikibook title, ''JP Boyd on Family Law''. The migration of John-Paul's website into this new format preserves the accessibility, scope and tone of the original, which provided free family law information to more than 27,000 British Columbians a month and had been published for more than a decade. | ||
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As a wikibook, ''JP Boyd on Family Law'' continues John-Paul's commitment to explaining the legal system and providing free, plain language information on family law and divorce law, court processes and other family law dispute resolution mechanisms, while harnessing the versatility and strength of [http://www.mediawiki.org MediaWiki], the same open-source wiki platform that powers Wikipedia. | As a wikibook, ''JP Boyd on Family Law'' continues John-Paul's commitment to explaining the legal system and providing free, plain language information on family law and divorce law, court processes and other family law dispute resolution mechanisms, while harnessing the versatility and strength of [http://www.mediawiki.org MediaWiki], the same open-source wiki platform that powers Wikipedia. | ||
The clean page layout of the wikibook provides a familiar user experience, and the search functionality enables fulltext searching over the entire wikibook | The clean page layout of the wikibook in its online form (at wiki.clicklaw.bc.ca) provides a familiar user experience, and the online search functionality enables fulltext searching over the entire wikibook as well as other titles on Clicklaw Wikibooks. The wiki platform's ''book creator'' function allows libraries and individual readers to print as little or as much of this wikibook as they want, in convenient, user-friendly PDF or book formats that expand the reach of this resource to benefit British Columbians online and off. | ||
==A collaborative, community resource== | ==A collaborative, community resource== | ||