Allowing work merging without needing to ping an admin is the other basic
one that comes to mind (unless it's been fixed recently)
On 21 Nov 2013 13:20, Anand Chitipothu an...@archive.org wrote:
On 21-Nov-2013, at 6:14 AM, Tom Morris wrote:
The search index not being updated is a known
Hi Anand. I'm sorry if I gave the impression that I am blaming you. I'm
absolutely not. I *am* however blaming your managers at the Internet
Archive for being a poor steward of OpenLibrary.
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 6:20 AM, Anand Chitipothu an...@archive.org wrote:
On 21-Nov-2013, at 6:14 AM,
I kind of wandered into OL from Wikipedia and what I thought was great was:
*Generating a Wikipedia citation template
*Being able to put the OCLC reference in as well
which means that a Wikmedian can add a reference to an article that
includes a link to World Cat. Any reader can use this to find
Fabian, I, too, Wikipede (-;)) and the ready-made WP templates on OL are
not well enough known among Wikipedians. I LOVE THEM! So we should
definitely try to make that more visible.
I would love to see more linking between OL and Wikipedia, in general.
As you probably know there is a lot of
On 11/21/2013 03:43 PM, Tom Morris wrote:
Internet Archive, which owns OpenLibrary, employs dozens though, so
it's merely a matter of priorities that OpenLibrary is being starved
of resources.
What is your background information for this? I'm just
an occasional user and I don't have any
Rather than half-baked lending schemes targeted at a handful of U.S.
brick mortar libraries, why don't we focus on data quality and community
building as our top priorities?
The lending scheme is actually available to people worldwide at this
point and there have been some fixes to it
