Re: Vectorsite.net

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Andrew Whitworth <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 8:06 AM, Martin Swift <martin-9TB/[email protected]> wrote:
>> How about rather invite him to doing so himself. He seems quite
>> prolific and would serve whatever project he joined well.
>
> True, but it's a lot of work to have to go through and reformat all
> his work from HTML to wikitext. I have a bot that can do the
> translations automatically, which will be a very efficient process.
> Plus, I don't think all his works are suitable for Wikibooks, and I
> would hate for him to spend time translating things and later have us
> say that they aren't suitable. I think it would be far better to do
> the manual labor for him, and let him focus his energies on generating
> new content.

I didn't say that we should have him do anything...

>> It seems
>> like a better idea to contact him first before leeching anything.
>> Granted, he put it in the public domain, but giving him the option of
>> having a say whether his works belong on Wikibooks and Commons might
>> be a more polite thing to do.

... simply that it would be better to let him know about what we'd
like to do with his work.

> I have contacted him, and we have his blessing to start transferring
> materials. He asked to be kept in the loop about what we transfer and
> when, but besides that there's nothing he really wants. As a measure
> of courtesy, I'm going to post proper attribution information even
> though the work is PD.

Great!

Martin