Thanks, I look foward to modifying it. Again, it should really be turned into a Wiki by the WMF. That's a good idea. Having the Foundation make it as a project for users to modify. A sort of guide to editing. However, the greatest problem with this is that the rules might as well be changed itself, which may confuse many. On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 12:56 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Answers to questions:
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 4:50 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Phoebe, Charles, Ben, you've done a fantastic job. I'm still fascinated
by
the GFDL licensing aspect! Was it your aim from the start to make a GFDL-compatible version?
Yes, it was. We recognized that to comply with the letter *and* the spirit of the license when adapting help pages from Wikipedia, we needed to license the result under the GFDL; and we all wanted to produce a freely-licensed work regardless. The publisher, No Starch Press, was fantastic about being supportive of the license and accepting it, pretty much no questions asked. (And I learned a great deal about the GFDL in the process, including that despite our best efforts "how to reuse Wikipedia content properly" is still kind of a murky area. If any of the license-savvy contributors out there wanted to rewrite the onwiki help pages, it's an area that could use a *lot* of work).
Is there a wiki version?
Not yet! I would like to have one, of course. Producing one will mean taking the HTML and converting it to MediaWiki syntax -- the files for the printed book were laid out in a design program, so it was difficult enough just getting the HTML produced (which is why there was a delay for the online version). We did draft the book in MW, but there were significant changes between the draft and the finished version. Contact me off-list if you're interested in helping out with producing a wiki version.
best, -- Phoebe
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