I think we ("the community") might be able connect you with interested
wikipedians (some librarians some not) interested/willing to help you
shepard it through wikipedia approval, if you're interested.
On 6/2/2011 10:40 AM, Ralph LeVan wrote:
Yes, the bot was approved, but in a much more limited application that was
initially intended (make a link between Wikipedia records and corresponding
OpenLibrary records.) And the conversation was quite rancorous for granting
permission to an organization philosophically much closer to Wikipedia than
OCLC would seem to be.
I don't think we'll be able to make this happen without a lot of help.
Ralph
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Ed Summers<[email protected]> wrote:
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Ralph LeVan<[email protected]> wrote:
OCLC Research would desperately love to add VIAF links to Wikipedia
articles, but it seems to be very difficult. The OpenLibrary folks tried
to
do it a while back and ended up getting their plans severely curtailed.
The
discussion at Wikipedia is captured here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/OpenlibraryBot
Ralph if you read that entire discussion it sounds like the bot was
approved. Am I missing something?
//Ed
