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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

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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

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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.

--Jimbo [Wikipedia-l] To manage your subscription to this list, please go here: http://www.nupedia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l

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