[okfn-br] Textbooks Which Borrow Heavily from Wikipedia Fwd: [Wikimedia-l]

Terça Novembro 26 10:31:40 UTC 2013

Exemplo excelente.

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From: James Heilman <jmh649 em gmail.com>
Date: 2013/11/26
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Textbooks Which Borrow Heavily from Wikipedia
To: wikimedia-l em lists.wikimedia.org

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?

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James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian

The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine
www.opentextbookofmedicine.com
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