[Foundation-l] Agreement between WMF and O'Reilly Media about Wikipedia: The Missing Manual on Wikipedia?

[Michael Peel]

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?

Thanks,
Mike Peel