[Wikimedia-l] Textbooks Which Borrow Heavily from Wikipedia

[Srikanth Ramakrishnan]

The new textbooks in Tamil Nadu state in India have images from the Commons
and links to articles printed at the end.
This was discussed on the Wikimedia India mailing list in the latter half
of 2011. You can check the archives.

Sent from the touchscreen equivalent of a Nokia 1100, pardon the sender.
--
Srikanth Ramakrishnan,
Treasurer.
On Nov 26, 2013 2:23 PM, "David Gerard" <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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