[Foundation-l] Offering Wikibooks content for sale

Tue Jul 4 02:23:52 UTC 2006

Robert Scott Horning wrote:
> There is a control issue here that does need to be resolved, and that 
> would be how much control does the WMF want to have directly over this 
> kind of activity as well?  That would also involve the use of Wikimedia 
> trademarks (aka Wikijunior) and logos.

I have no particular stance on the overall issues here, other than some
broad general principles that I think would be widely accepted by almost
everyone.

However, in the short term, since this came as a complete surprise
without any information given to the broader community, I have removed
the link from wikibooks, and also asked lulu to pull the book
immediately (but perhaps temporarily).

The important message I want to give here: this is not an issue of the
foundation versus the community, but rather about an individual versus
both the community and the foundation.  We should have been told first,
there should have been a discussion and some consideration given to a
number of important factors.

--Jimbo

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