Also, I'd like to ask something of an etiquette question - to Jimbo Wales in particular, and to the Wikipedians in general. How do
people
feel about Wikipedia material being ported over and adapted for use
in
the textbook project? I know what the "public domain" rules are,
but
I don't want to do anything that would create bad feeling or set up for trouble between the sites. I do, of course, have Wikipedia
linked
back from a couple of places. ;)
I think it's wonderful!
I think that the Right Thing To Do is to link back to us on any
pages that have
our stuff as a source. Something as simple as "This page partly
based on
http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Whatever" would be great.
I don't intend to be a real stickler about this sort of thing,
meaning
the linkback. The one thing that I don't want, is for Microsoft or AOL or Yahoo or someone like that to take our content without attribution. I think that's going to be a huge opportunity for the free content to grow like crazy, and so letting people know we exist is great.
And we should have a prominent page somewhere for "fellow
travelers", i.e. other
people who are doing neat things with wiki and a free license, like
you, and like
the Sevilla group, etc.
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Rosa's project specifically says that any materials to be posted on her site must be in the public domain, so unless she changes that she won't be able to use anything from Wikipedia (except for stuff she can get independently from authors like me who release their work to the public domain as well as putting it here). 0