On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 09:04:29 -0800, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
A mail from Jimbo to me (at least with my direct email mentioned in the to:)!!! Wow!!! I can't believe my eyes!
Err... I wasn't expecting this much attention. I'm beginning to feel nervous about my activities on wikibooks... Hope I haven't done anything wrong... Oh benevolent dictator (& others), please forgive anything that I might have done that is over the top. My trembling fingers aren't able to type much more. I'd need a week to recover...
Paddu (not in his senses due to intense joy+nervousness)
Without commenting on the actual issue, since I haven't even looked at it, I wanted to just note that of course he's got a right to fork a book project *on his own server* by complying with the GNU FDL. I encourage such creative reuse of our work.
However, on our servers, we can certainly set social policies against random book forks on wikibooks -- I'm not the best person to formulate a general policy about this, but it seems clear to me that a thoughtful approach is needed and shouldn't be too hard to formulate.
--Jimbo