There is not problem in using the Lead or some other part of a Wikipedia article in the OL entry. However remember that Wikipedia is released under a CC-BY-SA licenses so if you do use the Wikipedia content make sure that you leave attribution at the end of the quoted material. This can be as simple as a comment like "From the Wikipedia article on OBJECTNAME" where the object name has a link to the article that you used. Another option, is that you could list the name of all the contributors to that specific page.
Speaking of licensing, http://openlibrary.org/developers/licensing is very ambiguous. Could we get a little more clarification that open in the context of OL means? I am assuming it means that Open Library holds no copyright claim over the object records in OL and that they encourage reuse, per the definition of open at http://okfn.org/about/ . Am I interpreting wrong? Could we label the records themselves under a CC-BY-SA or similar license to clarify this? I realize that many of the images and actual ebooks fall under other licenses, but the database of information ought to have a clear and specific open license on it. You can't facilitate reuse if people don't know the position of the organization on it's use. Alex Stinson User:Sadads on Wikipedia and OL On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 6:03 AM, neville holmes <[email protected]>wrote: > I'm very new to the open library, but see a lot > of potential in it. I've contributed a little > bit so far using my own books as source. > > This morning I was expanding Ernest Raymond's > "Tell England" and was about to put in a description > when I remembered there was a very good Wikipedia > item on it, so I simply put in a link. > > Any problem with that ? Maybe others already do > this, and Wikipedia seems a very good resource. > Thinking along these lines, I just broke off to > put a similar link in the author page. > > If this seems like a good idea to Open Library > old hands then I will continue doing this kind > of thing. Of course the advantage is that the > Wikipedia people will maintain the data. > > Perhaps a formal cooperation could be set up, > with them linking back to the Open Library ? > > Neville Holmes > > > Neville Holmes, P.O. Box 2412, Bakery Hill 3354, Victoria > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] >
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