Rosa Williams wrote:
Also, I'd like to ask something of an etiquette
question - to Jimbo
Wales in particular, and to the Wikipedians in general. How do people
feel about Wikipedia material being ported over and adapted for use in
the textbook project? I know what the "public domain" rules are, but
I don't want to do anything that would create bad feeling or set up
for trouble between the sites. I do, of course, have Wikipedia linked
back from a couple of places. ;)
I think it's wonderful!
I think that the Right Thing To Do is to link back to us on any pages that have
our stuff as a source. Something as simple as "This page partly based on
http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Whatever" would be great.
I don't intend to be a real stickler about this sort of thing, meaning
the linkback. The one thing that I don't want, is for Microsoft or
AOL or Yahoo or someone like that to take our content without
attribution. I think that's going to be a huge opportunity for the
free content to grow like crazy, and so letting people know we exist
is great.
And we should have a prominent page somewhere for "fellow travelers", i.e.
other
people who are doing neat things with wiki and a free license, like you, and like
the Sevilla group, etc.
--Jimbo