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

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Thu Jan 29 22:07:25 UTC 2009


Thomas Dalton wrote:
> 2009/1/28 effe iets anders <effeietsanders at gmail.com>:
>   
>> 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?
>>     
> While it could be copied, I'm not sure there is much point having it
> duplicated - it just means any improvements need to be made twice. It
> could be moved to Wikibooks and then Wikipedia could link/redirect to
> it, that might make the most sense.
>
>   
I suppose it could also be copied into Wikisource as a static copy where 
changes would not be allowed.

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