[Wikimedia-l] Textbooks Which Borrow Heavily from Wikipedia

[David Gerard]

On 26 November 2013 07:26, James Heilman <jmh649 at gmail.com> wrote:

> They are under a CC BY SA license and if you follow the links seen here
> http://books.google.ca/books?id=7avpAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA2058 they do eventually
> attribute Wikipedia.
> They are being offered for free on amazon.com
> http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Boudless
> and
> are being sold for $19.99 on their website. https://www.boundless.com/


My first impression is "that sounds excellent!"


> So the question is should we have a response? I think this could generate
> position press for our movement. Attribution could be better (I would
> consider theirs to be borderline). Additionally should we be adding this
> textbooks to Wikiversity or Wikibooks to make sure they stay free available?


We could work with them to fine-tune the attribution.

But yeah, if they check out as doing the right thing then this is
complete success for us.


- d.