https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19262
--- Comment #53 from Project LibX <libx....@gmail.com> 2012-11-16 20:57:16 UTC --- libx....@gmail.com is backed by the LibX Team; I'm in charge of the technical aspects. LibX is no business - it's open source; though we have received federal grants to employ some students, it's primarily community driven. Our key community are thousands of librarians who have set it up for their own local communities. Currently, I'm happy that this happened this week, and not 3 months from now, because I was just able to recruit one student to (finally) improve support for COinS - Wikipedia was our primary target. We were going to analyze the quality of the COinS (which btw wasn't good - I think that's because you had Wikitags in the metadata, like brackets), then decide on which services we needed to use to make sure the user can get to the item cited. Note that libraries have been slow to provide services that expose their knowledge base of what they hold and how their users can get access to it, which is why it's taken so many years that such a project has become feasible at all. Today, it is. Discovery systems like Summon provide full-text indices that not only include the combined content of many traditional abstracting and indexing databases, but also news paper archives, traditional library catalogs, and even local institutional sources like electronic theses and dissertation databases. In any event, consider doing something - if the performance of your template structure is the issue, use other techniques. Provide an AJAX service, or embed the data in client-side JavaScript (like nytimes.com does), then put it together on the client. From our perspective, the goal is to show the user, upon a mouse gesture, whether they have access to an item that's cited in a Wikipedia article. If so, a single click of the mouse should get them there. This goal is difficult to achieve if only the unstructured, formatted data is present. But it's a worthwhile goal and, I'm convinced, would truly help editors if/when they check sources. - Godmar Back (libx....@gmail.com) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
