On Nov 26, 2013 12:08 PM, "Srikanth Ramakrishnan"
<srik.ramk(a)wikimedia.in>
wrote:
The new textbooks in Tamil Nadu state in India have images from the
Commons
and links to articles printed at the end.
This was discussed on the Wikimedia India mailing list in the latter half
of 2011. You can check the archives.
I never knew that, thank you for sharing. I can at times get a little glum
about our projects, but things like these demonstrate we are still on the
right path doing good.
Sent from the touchscreen equivalent of a Nokia 1100, pardon the sender.
--
Srikanth Ramakrishnan,
Treasurer.
On Nov 26, 2013 2:23 PM, "David Gerard" <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On 26 November 2013 07:26, James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > They are under a CC BY SA license and if you follow the links seen
here
> >
http://books.google.ca/books?id=7avpAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA2058 they do
> eventually
> > attribute Wikipedia.
> > They are being offered for free on
amazon.com
> >
>
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-k…
> > and
> > are being sold for $19.99 on their website.
https://www.boundless.com/
>
>
> My first impression is "that sounds excellent!"
>
>
> > So the question is should we have a response? I think this could
generate
> > position press for our movement. Attribution
could be better (I would
> > consider theirs to be borderline). Additionally should we be adding
this
textbooks to Wikiversity or Wikibooks to make sure
they stay free
available?
We could work with them to fine-tune the attribution.
But yeah, if they check out as doing the right thing then this is
complete success for us.
- d.
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