Magnus Manske said:
- Can we use these? AFAIK, scanning&OCR is not a copyrightable thing.
The content of the book isn't, which typically means text is free game... but actual scanned images can be copyrighted. (or so I recall the gist of it from Project Gutenberg and Distributed Proofreaders discussion- IANAL)
- Should we use these? Wikified, of course, as I did. They'd cover
plenty of topics in the medical area, but may be a little old and heavy. OTOH, this is wikipedia; if you don't like the style, edit!
The medical topics in Wikipedia are woefully under-filled (probably because people are wary about that whole thing of being considered a source of medical advice, and it's very heavy stuff)... I think this would be a tremendous boost. And yes, we can always clean it up as we go. It's easier to restyle and reformat something than to supply it in the first place.
So I'd suggest putting in as much text as possible, but I'm unsure about images from there. Alternatively, there might be a PD scan out there somewhere... and if not, it might be something relatively easy to find. I've got some used book contacts, I can look around and see if I can snag a copy cheap. If so, I can scan in any images needed.
-- Jake