Hi there, Imagine my delight that you are creating a list of all the libraries in the world! However this does present a bit of an issue – are all libraries notable? The American Library Association estimates that there are around 120,000 libraries but doesn’t have an exact number because there is not a survey that covers all of them. Since librarians are discouraged from creating articles about their own institutions, this could be problematic? If this is an initiative that has broad approval I’m happy to help in any way that I can!
http://www.ala.org/tools/libfactsheets/alalibraryfactsheet01 Merrilee Proffitt, Senior Program Officer OCLC Research From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2015 1:41 AM To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project.; Wikimedia & Libraries Subject: Re: [libraries] [Wikidata] How can Wikidata get over 30, 000, 000 facts added a year ? 2015-06-23 9:00 GMT+02:00 Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>: 2015-06-23 8:49 GMT+02:00 Lucian Velea <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>: Great idea. Does anyone know a statistics of number of libraries / librarians by country? I compiled some numbers here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emijrp/All_human_knowledge#Libraries And started a list of lists that needs to be completed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_libraries_by_country Is anyone interested in contacting national libraries/culture ministries so they can provide info about all the libraries for each country? I have been working in Lists of museums/archives/libraries by country long time, but I only find partial lists and the work is slow. How can we make these institutions get involved? All the best, Lucian On 23.06.2015 9:14, Gerard Meijssen wrote: Hoi, That is only librarians in the USA.. Why not think big? There is a world out there !! Thanks, GerardM On 23 June 2015 at 05:51, Thad Guidry <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: If 1 librarian in the USA added one fact or verified / qualified it per work day in their spare 2 mins a day. 119,729 Libraries in USA x 1 Librarian minimum per Library with internet access...mostly :-) x 251 work days in a year = 30,051,979 MILLION facts that could be added or verified Get the word out, Thad +ThadGuidry<https://www.google.com/+ThadGuidry> _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
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