[Foundation-l] Agreement between WMF and O'Reilly Media about Wikipedia: The Missing Manual on Wikipedia?

[Andrew Whitworth]

I hate to say it, but it would probably flourish best on Wikipedia,
since there are more knowledgable wikipedians on that site with a
vested interest to make the book better. The question is more one of
appropriateness, does Wikipedia want to host books, even books about
Wikipedia? Wikibooks has policies and structures in place already to
manage books like this, Wikipedia would have to write some kind of
special exception to every rule to allow this book to exist there.

Of course, we have to ask what the authors want too, even if we "can"
move the book to Wikibooks under the GFDL, I don't want to do that if
the authors or copyright owners are unhappy with it.

--Andrew Whitworth

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:57 AM, effe iets anders
<effeietsanders at gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe a silly question, but nobody is stopping anyone to copy it to
> Wikibooks. The question is mainly, should it be deleted from Wikipedia. I
> agree there with Erik, that this is clearly a community decision.
>
> Why not just copy it and see where it flourishes best?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Lodewijk
>
> 2009/1/28 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
>
>> 2009/1/28 Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com>:
>> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com
>> >wrote:
>> >
>> >> 2009/1/28 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>:
>> >> > Hoi,
>> >> > You are out of your mind. The author of the book, a respected
>> Wikipedian,
>> >> > can relicense it to anything he likes.
>> >>
>> >> Of course he can, but unless he relicenses it under CC-BY-SA (which I
>> >> can't imagine him not doing, but still), it will need to be deleted.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Did you consider asking him?
>>
>> No, we haven't even decided if we are going to switch yet.
>>
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