I'm meeting with the Boundless team tomorrow. How could they improve attribution? What download formats or APIs would we like to see to enable reposting to Wikibooks, or better cross-platform collaboration?
Is anyone on wikibooks currently working on importing such materials, in Tamil or English or other languages? SJ On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 2:26 AM, James Heilman <[email protected]> wrote: > Have come across a collection of basic college textbooks that appear to be > more or less based on text from Wikipedia. There are 21 of them. The > company claims that they are being used by more than 2 million students. > > They are under a CC BY SA license and if you follow the links seen here > http://books.google.ca/books?id=7avpAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA2058 they do eventually > attribute Wikipedia. > > They are being offered for free on amazon.com > http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Boudless > and > are being sold for $19.99 on their website. https://www.boundless.com/ > > So the question is should we have a response? I think this could generate > position press for our movement. Attribution could be better (I would > consider theirs to be borderline). Additionally should we be adding this > textbooks to Wikiversity or Wikibooks to make sure they stay free available? > > -- > James Heilman > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian > > The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine > www.opentextbookofmedicine.com > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 _______________________________________________ Textbook-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/textbook-l
