[Wikipedia-l] New to the Wikipedia with a few questions

[David Black]

Thanks for the reply and information.

David

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brion Vibber" <brion at pobox.com>
To: <wikipedia-l at nupedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 9:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] New to the Wikipedia with a few questions


> On sab, 2002-02-02 at 01:11, David Black wrote:
> > I'm new to Wikipedia and would like to contribute to some of the pages.
I
> > would initially like to add a list of recommended books to some of the
> > pages with a review paragraph. Is it permissible ( is it accepted
> > practice ) to link the book into something like Amazon so that if the
> > reader wanted to buy a copy they can ?
> [..]
> > PS I'm not proposing this to sell book it's just that it's the sort of
> > feature I would like to see.
>
> It's already a feature. Just insert the ISBN number and the wiki
> automatically links to pricescan.com, which will provide links to a wide
> range of online retailers which carry the given book. ie,
>   ISBN 0844237639
> results in a link to
>   http://www.pricescan.com/books/bookDetail.asp?isbn=0844237639
>
> Fun, huh?
>
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
>
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