Bod Notbod, 06/08/2010 01:23: > Well, one of the things it reveals is the difficulty of answering this > question and I hope that it has some relation to Wikimedia projects; > in particular, I didn't know that multiple books (entirely unrelated > books) have shared ISBNs.
It's supposed not to happen... > And I also thought that Google's attempt to catologue all books was > parallel to our goal of... well, I'm not sure that we ever say we're > attempting to catalogue ALL knowledge... but we seem to be making a > decent fist of it so far. Well, someone suggested that this would be our job, too; see http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Building_a_database_of_all_books_ever_published and links to previous discussions. I don't like much that Google has those closed algorithms ans such to de-duplicate book catalogues: openlibrary and national central book catalogues do that, too, and it's a big effort. Lots of /duplicate/ work here. > Nevertheless, I confess that I'm still not sure I should be posting > this to Foundation-l... and it strikes me that perhaps the only > guidance I can find on what should be posted could perhaps be fleshed > out a little more: Meta-wikis are the answer. :-p See the previous strategy link, http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Foundation-L_Proposal , http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists , http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Improving_Foundation-l etc. Nemo _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
