Robert Scott Horning wrote:
Brad Patrick wrote:
Robert, what would an efficient process look like
to you, assuming the
licensing component is a requirement?
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This needs to be a community-driven approach, where
ordinary Wikimedia
users who contribute to various project have the opportunity to
participate and make this sort of content available. There is also no
need for having a dozen independent "publishers" that all go off on
their own direction. Certainly once it is apparent that you can make
some money off of publishing content like this, there will be a dozen
different companies offering Wikimedia content for sale, so your caution
is justified. In this case, we are talking about publishing content as
a Wikibooks community rather than as a bunch of mavericks.
We need to be a little cautious in how the community proceeds to
proactively to publish its materials.
By all means I think it would be excellent for the community to publish
its materials to create revenue for the Foundation by licensing the
Logos and Trademarks.
However, "mavericks" should not be discouraged or encounter systematic
hostility from any components of the "community" or the WMF in future
participation because they choose to publish material in accordance with
the FDL.
regards,
lazyquasar