On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:18 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Bod Notbod <bodnot...@gmail.com> wrote: >> in particular, I didn't know that multiple books (entirely unrelated >> books) have shared ISBNs. So, if nothing else, it might impact... >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ISBN > > AFAIK, this is a fairly uncommon problem; I've never run across it in > 6+ years of working with lots of books & library catalogs every day.
It varies by publisher--for example, in my experience, Harlequin (a publisher of romance novels) seems to have used all of its ISBNs *at least* twice. It's a real problem, if you expect an ISBN to be a unique ID for a book, and worse if you wanted to it be unique to edition or so on. Well, it's a minor issue from out point of view, I guess. How would Mediawiki scale to 130 million articles? Gotta cover everything... -- Tracy Poff _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
