I'm not an expert, but I have a few thoughts.
My guess is that on the page near the beginning of the book where it
gives copyright information, it should say "some portions of this book
are (C) Wikipedia, and are released under the GNU Free Documentation
licence" or something of the sort.
There should also be, somewhere in the book, a list of which parts are
from Wikipedia, and it should list all contributors for each article -
real names where available, pseudonyms where not, and rather than
listing all IPs say "and a number of anonymous contributors". I
personally would ask on the talkpages of those users with only
pseudonyms given if perhaps they'd be willing to divulge their real
name for the book - I know that I certainly would rather be cited in a
book as Mark Williamson than node_ue.
And as far as listing pseudonyms looking funny: just use quotes around
the name, such as "B Movie Bandit", "Vandalbot", "I Am
Sexy", etc.
Mark
On 30/04/05, Sj <2.718281828(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Someone in Boston is publishing a book in which he
would like to
include a few entire Wikipedia articles; he wrote me recently to ask
whether this had been done before, and precisely how he should go
about including the GFDL where, to clarify which sections of the
published work it covers, and how he should most perfectly comply with
the license (should he list main authors himself? all non-anon
authors? should he use pseudonyms or full names of both are
available? Do IP contributors ever include their real name on their
user page? Will it look funny to list pseudonyms as authors in what
is otherwise a scholarly text?).
If there are precedents, please point me to them. If anyone can
advise on this matter, please respond! Perhaps I should I contact the
FSF directly, but I thought I'd check with this list first.
--SJ, who is very curious what said book is about
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