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

effe iets anders effeietsanders at gmail.com
Wed Jan 28 15:57:37 UTC 2009


Maybe a silly question, but nobody is stopping anyone to copy it to
Wikibooks. The question is mainly, should it be deleted from Wikipedia. I
agree there with Erik, that this is clearly a community decision.

Why not just copy it and see where it flourishes best?

Best regards,

Lodewijk

2009/1/28 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton op gmail.com>

> 2009/1/28 Chad <innocentkiller op gmail.com>:
> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton op gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> 2009/1/28 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen op gmail.com>:
> >> > Hoi,
> >> > You are out of your mind. The author of the book, a respected
> Wikipedian,
> >> > can relicense it to anything he likes.
> >>
> >> Of course he can, but unless he relicenses it under CC-BY-SA (which I
> >> can't imagine him not doing, but still), it will need to be deleted.
> >>
> >
> > Did you consider asking him?
>
> No, we haven't even decided if we are going to switch yet.
>
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