On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:45 AM, Michael Peel <email(a)mikepeel.net> wrote:
Hi all,
The author of Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, John Broughton, has just
uploaded the book to Wikipedia under the GFDL, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual
My reaction when I spotted this was: great, but shouldn't this be on
Wikibooks? Part of the author's response to this was that "the
agreement between O'Reilly Media and the Wikimedia Foundation was
that this would be at /Wikipedia/ ... [do] not remove it from this
site without a /lot/ more discussion among a /lot/ of other people."
Did the WMF really make an agreement saying that the content should
be on Wikipedia, rather than a WMF project or simply under a free
license?
Does anyone want to weigh in with comments on this on the talk page?
I'm obviously in favor of having more books at Wikibooks, but then
again it does make some sense to keep the documentation close to the
website it documents. If the book is GFDL, couldn't we just copy/fork
it to Wikibooks too?
--Andrew Whitworth