Re: PDF/Collection feature live on de.wikibooks

"Erik Moeller" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook
Message-ID <[email protected]>
2008/10/10 Derbeth <[email protected]>:

> I wonder about the legal aspects. In my opinion, when you create a ready-to-print version,
> you have to attach the text of GFDL license to it - directly, not as a link. Like it is done in
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Image:LaTeX.pdf.

Yes, I agree, and I've already noted this. The code accepts any text
insertion here, so that should be reasonably straightforward.
(Localization is trickier.)

> Secondly, current version of the tool does a plagiarism - beacause it does not mention
> image authors and does not provide any mean (like by making images clickable) to check
> these authors.

Ouch, thanks for pointing that out. Tricky to do this automatically
since it's all wiki-text with templates, but we'll investigate a
solution here.

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Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation

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