Hey ol-tech mailing list, I noticed that a lot of books on Open Library don't have descriptions, so I've started working on NondescriptBot<https://github.com/pemulis/nondescript-bot>, which would make it easy to pull book summaries from Wikipedia, reformat them, and add them to Open Library. I haven't written any code yet (except for the login, which was adapted from IdentifierBot<https://github.com/dmontalvo/IdentifierBot/blob/master/fastadder.py>), but you can see the basic outline in the comments<https://github.com/pemulis/nondescript-bot/blob/master/nondescriptbot.py> .
Before I go any further, I want to see if anyone knows if this bot would be okay from a licensing standpoint. Wikipedia entries are licensed under CC-BY-SA<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License>, which requires attribution, while Open Library content is supposed to be licensed under CC0 <https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/>, which waives all rights. It's trivial to put a CC-BY-SA disclaimer at the bottom of a description, but I don't know if it's permitted to add content to OL that falls under that license. Assuming this bot is allowed, it would be awesome to get advice and pull requests from other developers! I'm coming into this project with very limited knowledge of Python, so I'm sure there will be plenty of places where my code could be improved. John Shutt
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