Re: Vectorsite.net

He also has a large photography section that we could leech into Commons :-)

Magnus


On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Andrew Whitworth <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've found an interesting website today called vectorsite.net
> (http://www.vectorsite.net/) that contains a number of nice but
> sparsly-formatted writings, all released into the Public Domain. Some
> of his works are not useful to Wikibooks, but he has a number (about
> computing, science, and mathematics) which I think would be very very
> useful for us. Plus, the lack of complicated formatting means that it
> should be very easy for us to translate to wikitext and upload them at
> wikibooks.
>
> I think I am going to do this for a few books (there are books on Awk
> and C programming that I am particularly interested) probably starting
> next week. I'll try to get a bot together to do the translation. If
> anybody wants to help, or suggest any books from this site to import
> as well, let me know. I'm also going to send a friendly email to the
> site's owner telling him that we're using his materials (and invite
> him to become a wikibookian!).
>
> --Andrew Whitworth
>
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