Re: Fwd: FW: APC IR handbook: getting on wikibooks

I'll be happy to ask on fr :-)

Ant

Andrew Whitworth wrote:
> I received an email this morning from Frederick Noronha, one of the
> contacts at the UNDP who helped to oversee the UNDP-APDIP book
> donations. He is so pleased with the way the donations went, and how
> well the situation is working out for them, that he is trying to set
> us up with other NGOs who have books that would be ripe for donationg
> to Wikibooks.
> 
> Currently, he is trying to arrange donations from APC.org:
> 
> http://www.apc.org
> http://www.apc.org/books/index.shtml
> 
> of their ebooks to Wikibooks. Looking through the list, I think this
> donation might only contain a few books (most other listed
> publications are not books at all), but it's a demonstration that we
> are starting to get some serious recognition from some cool groups.
> 
> Below is the email that he sent to me this morning. I have already
> replied with some answers to the easy questions. I have removed email
> addresses and other contact information from this email because I dont
> know if these people want that information archived on the mailing
> list. I would be happy to provide that contact information to anybody
> who was interested in getting in touch with this group, and helping
> with this project.
> 
> One question that I could not answer is the attitude towards book
> donations of this caliber of the other Wikibooks language projects,
> specifically FR and ES. I assume, blindly, that these projects would
> accept such donations and possibly assist with the upload effort.
> However, I like to find out for certain. Do we have any fluent French
> and Spanish speakers who would be willing to ask about this issue on
> the respective projects?
> 
> Also, it seems that the books to be donated are in PDF format. Does
> there exist a GOOD conversion utility from PDF to wiki format? Barring
> that, is there a good conversion utility from PDF to DOC, DOCBOOK, or
> ODT format (because openoffice can export from these types to
> MediaWiki)? If not, we will need to do the formatting and uploading
> manually, which isn't going to be pleasant. Maybe we could ask the
> guys at Wikisource if they had any good utilities for this task.
> 
> --Andrew Whitworth
> 
>> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:00:49 +0530
>> Subject: Re: APC IR handbook: getting on wikibooks
>> Dear Andrew,
>>
>> We're making progress on this, and it would be really nice to get
>> APC.org's books up on Wikibooks. My personal view is that such actions
>> could trigger off a wider trend among NGOs (and others) who realise
>> the relevance of such a process.
>>
>> Below is Karen Higgs's post, which is self-explanatory. Could you
>> kindly let me know if this would meet the needs of Wikibooks? Let's
>> try and best see how we can meet one another's specific requirements
>> in a way that both sides feel that we've done something positive at
>> the end of the day. Thanks! FN
>>
>> On 21/02/2008, Karen Higgs wrote:
>>> dear fn
>>>
>>> how are you doing?
>>>
>>> i'm very happy to tell you that i had a long chat with Andrew Rens, an
>>> IP/open content lawyer while i was in South Africa to unravel the
>>> situation with our publications and sharing on wikibooks.
>>>
>>> He advised us that there is NO problem whatsoever with us applying
>>> multiple licences to any publication.
>>>
>>> We "apply" the licences by adding them to the appropriate section of our
>>> website where the books are located.
>>>
>>> So we can now get moving!
>>>
>>> I would like you to work with Kelly, our intern, on this. She will
>>> ensure that the necessary licensing information is added to the APC site.
>>>
>>> Can wikibooks use the information in pdf format? That is what we have.
>>>
>>> The pdfs have the following licensing information:
>>> EN - "copyleft" 2003
>>> ES - creative commons attribution-non commercial 2.0 2005
>>> FR - creative commons attribution-non commercial 2.5 2003
>>>
>>> What text do you propose we add to the website bestowing the FDL that
>>> wikibooks wants? That reference is what wikibooks can point to as the
>>> relevant licensing.
>>>
>>> Do they want the three language versions - EN, FR and ES? That is what
>>> we would like to give them.
>>>
>>> Btw, Kelly is on leave now until next week.
>>>
>>> All the best and thanks for keeping this going
>>> Kah