On Nov 26, 2013 12:08 PM, "Srikanth Ramakrishnan" <srik.r...@wikimedia.in> wrote: > > The new textbooks in Tamil Nadu state in India have images from the Commons > and links to articles printed at the end. > This was discussed on the Wikimedia India mailing list in the latter half > of 2011. You can check the archives.
I never knew that, thank you for sharing. I can at times get a little glum about our projects, but things like these demonstrate we are still on the right path doing good. > > Sent from the touchscreen equivalent of a Nokia 1100, pardon the sender. > -- > Srikanth Ramakrishnan, > Treasurer. > On Nov 26, 2013 2:23 PM, "David Gerard" <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 26 November 2013 07:26, James Heilman <jmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > 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/ > > > > > > My first impression is "that sounds excellent!" > > > > > > > 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? > > > > > > We could work with them to fine-tune the attribution. > > > > But yeah, if they check out as doing the right thing then this is > > complete success for us. > > > > > > - d. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>