Since it's "BY" - could the text be preceded with "From Wikipedia"? Also, it would be good for the "From Wikipedia" to be a link back to the Wikipedia page. To my mind, this would be sufficient attribution.
kc On 2/12/13 12:58 AM, John Shutt wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] > -- Karen Coyle [email protected] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
