On 2/7/07, Robert Scott Horning robert_horning@netzero.net wrote:
Has she considered Wikisource? The goal of Wikisource is to preserve the content as is, with the only editing to improve minor spelling issues or to fix the content to a more historically accurate version. "Donated" works are acceptable from what I understand as well.
According to the policy, http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:What_Wikisource_includes, non-documentary sources "must have been published in a medium that includes peer review or editorial controls; this excludes self-publication". Although she may publish the book more conventionally too, it's not going to happen right away and it may not happen at all, so I don't think it qualifies (yet).
The main thing that must be done is that it must be available for licensing under the GFDL, or something semi-compatable like the Creative Commons licensing (not CC-by-SA-NC though), or simply released into the public domain. Apparently that isn't a problem.
No, I don't believe so.
In addition, I don't see a problem having her name clearly labeled as the author on the "title page", or even having subpages also listing her name as part of a navigation header or something like that. This doesn't really go against Wiki principles at all. Wikibooks themselves often have author pages where principle contributors try to stake out authorship claims for copyright purposes, with a list of authors sometimes on the "main page" of the Wikibook... or "people willing to help put this book together" like would also be found on Wikipedia on Wikiprojects.
Wikisource also has other navigation aids that might be useful, such as "author pages" and other things that might also fit in here. She might even get a kick out of being lumped into the same page as other more classical authors like Samuel Clemmens and Frank Baum.
That sounds very good.
The other issue that I would imagine would be to have resolved would be to have all of the images properly sourced and to make sure that they can be available to a GFDL'd project. If there are some fair-use images being used, you might want to take this issue up with the Scriptorium on Wikisource for some further guidance.
Apparently there are no images. (Which seems strange to me for a book about writing about art, but hey, not like I've read it.)