Re: Offer to upload a book, subject to conditions

On 2/7/07, Martin Swift <martin-9TB/[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, Wikibooks is an open forum for the collaboration to write quality
> educational material for public use. The problem is that the framework
> of the wiki as a tool for collaboration allows easy modification of
> any page to create a derived work which then becomes the new current
> version of that page at Wikibooks.
>
> Basically, I see no way, under as free a license as your friend wants
> to use (and Wikibooks requires) to ensure that the current version
> contents of the book are mostly her original work.

Well, you can just protect the pages.  I assume that sysops won't go
willy-nilly editing them.  Obviously then she won't be able to
directly update it, but she could still use the equivalent of {{edit
protected}}.

> In my view, the best way for her to realise her objective, is to
> simply host the book herself somewhere on the web. That will ensure
> that she has editorial control of that copy at that location (though
> others may choose to modify it elsewhere -- e.g. on Wikibooks).

This has pitfalls with respect to readership volume.  Basically,
publishing it on Wikibooks will ensure that it reaches a comparatively
large audience, through Wikipedia sister links if nothing else.