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.
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@gmail.com wrote:
On 26 November 2013 07:26, James Heilman jmh649@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-ke...
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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