Re: Offer to upload a book, subject to conditions

On 2/7/07, Robert Scott Horning <[email protected]> wrote:
> Has she considered Wikisource?  The goal of Wikisource is to preserve
> the content as is, with the only editing to improve minor spelling
> issues or to fix the content to a more historically accurate version.
>  "Donated" works are acceptable from what I understand as well.

According to the policy,
<http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:What_Wikisource_includes>,
non-documentary sources "must have been published in a medium that
includes peer review or editorial controls; this excludes
self-publication".  Although she may publish the book more
conventionally too, it's not going to happen right away and it may not
happen at all, so I don't think it qualifies (yet).

> The main thing that must be done is that it must be available for
> licensing under the GFDL, or something semi-compatable like the Creative
> Commons licensing (not CC-by-SA-NC though), or simply released into the
> public domain.  Apparently that isn't a problem.

No, I don't believe so.

> In addition, I don't see a problem having her name clearly labeled as
> the author on the "title page", or even having subpages also listing her
> name as part of a navigation header or something like that.  This
> doesn't really go against Wiki principles at all.  Wikibooks themselves
> often have author pages where principle contributors try to stake out
> authorship claims for copyright purposes, with a list of authors
> sometimes on the "main page" of the Wikibook... or "people willing to
> help put this book together" like would also be found on Wikipedia on
> Wikiprojects.
>
> Wikisource also has other navigation aids that might be useful, such as
> "author pages" and other things that might also fit in here.  She might
> even get a kick out of being lumped into the same page as other more
> classical authors like Samuel Clemmens and Frank Baum.

That sounds very good.

> The other issue that I would imagine would be to have resolved would be
> to have all of the images properly sourced and to make sure that they
> can be available to a GFDL'd project.  If there are some fair-use images
> being used, you might want to take this issue up with the Scriptorium on
> Wikisource for some further guidance.

Apparently there are no images.  (Which seems strange to me for a book
about writing about art, but hey, not like I've read it.)