On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 Alex Stinson wrote:
>
> 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. ...

What I had in mind was not quoting from Wikipedia,
but linking to it.  Like <a 
href=http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL136518A>this</a>.
I shouldn't think this would need attribution.  Note
that Wikipedia also features works, like
<a href=http://openlibrary.org/works/OL1340645W>this</a>.

In that way the Wikipedia crowd would manage the
descriptive data and OL would manage the book content
and the bibliographic data.  And of course enthusiasts
could work in both groups.  This partnership could
be formal, with Wikipedia linking to OL whenever OL
linked to Wikipedia, and vice versa.

These ideas coming from one who is a distant observer
in library matters and a minor collector of old books, 

Neville Holmes

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