> Also, I'd like to ask something of an
etiquette question - to Jimbo
>Wales in particular, and to the Wikipedians in general. How do
people
>feel about Wikipedia material being ported over and
adapted for use
in
>the textbook project? I know what the "public
domain" rules are,
but
>I don't want to do anything that would create
bad feeling or set up
>for trouble between the sites. I do, of course, have Wikipedia
linked
back from a
couple of places. ;)
I think it's wonderful!
I think that the Right Thing To Do is to link back to us on any
pages that have
our stuff as a source. Something as simple as
"This page partly
based on
http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Whatever" would be
great.
I don't intend to be a real stickler about this sort of thing,
meaning
the linkback. The one thing that I don't want, is
for Microsoft or
AOL or Yahoo or someone like that to take our content without
attribution. I think that's going to be a huge opportunity for the
free content to grow like crazy, and so letting people know we exist
is great.
And we should have a prominent page somewhere for "fellow
travelers",
i.e. other
people who are doing neat things with wiki and a free
license, like
you, and like
the Sevilla group, etc.
--Jimbo
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Rosa's project specifically says that any materials to be
posted on her site must be in the public domain, so unless she
changes that she won't be able to use anything from Wikipedia
(except for stuff she can get independently from authors like
me who release their work to the public domain as well as
putting it here).
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