A related link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_comparisons#Size_of_other_information_collections
2010/8/6 Pharos <pharosofalexand...@gmail.com> > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Tracy Poff <tracy.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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... > > The number of notable subjects covered in all those books is much much > greater than >> 130 million. > > Thanks, > Pharos > > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-l mailing list > > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
