On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Samuel Klein wrote:
> I'm meeting with the Boundless team tomorrow.
>
> How could they improve attribution?
Looking at the g-book that James linked (and without paying for a download
etc) I don't see any particular attribution at all in the book itself. The
insid
On 6 February 2014 21:41, Samuel Klein wrote:
> I'm meeting with the Boundless team tomorrow.
Excellent!
> 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?
Yeah, this is it. O
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
Yes agree with David that this is an very positive development and am glad
a company is turning Wikipedia into textbooks. I am myself in the process
of writing one as a compilation of 80 articles but do not mind someone
beating me to it.
They seem open to a discussion around attribution. At the le
On Nov 26, 2013 12:08 PM, "Srikanth Ramakrishnan"
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
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.
Sent from the touchscreen equivalent of a Nokia 1100, pardon the send
On 26 November 2013 07:26, James Heilman wrote:
> They are under a CC BY SA license and if you follow the links seen here
> http://books.google.ca/books?id=7avpQBAJ&pg=PA2058 they do eventually
> attribute Wikipedia.
> They are being offered for free on amazon.com
> http://www.amazon.com/s/re
so the books could be uploaded to wikibooks, or wikimedia commons, one
could produce an epub or openzim file out of it for the people not
having a kindle? sounds great to me ...
rupert.
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 8:26 AM, James Heilman wrote:
> Have come across a collection of basic college textbo
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://bo
