[Wikimedia-l] Textbooks Which Borrow Heavily from Wikipedia

[Martijn Hoekstra]

On Nov 26, 2013 12:08 PM, "Srikanth Ramakrishnan" <srik.ramk at wikimedia.in>
wrote:
>
> 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.

I never knew that, thank you for sharing. I can at times get a little glum
about our projects, but things like these demonstrate we are still on the
right path doing good.


>
> 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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