Hoi,
Classification as we have it is a wonder. It is there and it cannot be
explained. It does serve a purpose though.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 11 April 2017 at 12:44, Jane Darnell <jane...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Interesting query, thanks! How odd that "sitcom" is a subclass of
> "literary work"! I never thought of it that way :)
>
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 12:23 PM, Magnus Manske <
> magnusman...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> The 500 most important (as in, number of Wiki sitelinks) literary works
>> that are (at least partially) in "original language" German, according to
>> Wikidata:
>> http://tinyurl.com/mzhd8na
>> "The Big Bang Theory" item might need some review, but the rest look
>> good...
>> Just change the Q188 and the language code for your favourite language!
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 10:58 AM Andrea Zanni <zanni.andre...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> In it.source we made a similar Canon:
>>> https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Canone_delle_opere
>>> _della_letteratura_italiana
>>>
>>> Ideally, we should have an item (a "work" item, so basically the one
>>> with a Wikipedia article) on Wikidata for each one.
>>> Than we can count how many Wikipedias have an article on it. Basically
>>> it's Tpt's idea using wikidata and sitelinks.
>>>
>>> Aubrey
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Jane Darnell <jane...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> You can always start with the lists per country (if they exist). So for
>>> example I made an article about the first 500 of such a "1000 most
>>> important works of literature" list compiled for the Netherlands here:
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_of_Dutch_Literature
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 10:44 AM, Thomas PT <thoma...@hotmail.fr> wrote:
>>>
>>> A maybe simpler metric: the top 1000 Wikipedia articles about works per
>>> page view.
>>>
>>> Thomas
>>>
>>> > Le 11 avr. 2017 à 09:42, mathieu stumpf guntz <
>>> psychosl...@culture-libre.org> a écrit :
>>> >
>>> > Hi Nemo,
>>> >
>>> > We may establish a list a the "1000 works that every Wikisource should
>>> have" (with translation possibly needed).
>>> >
>>> > What metric could we use to define such a list? Maybe reference
>>> frequency, but it requires statistics whose availability is unknown to me.
>>> >
>>> > Statistically,
>>> > psychoslave
>>> >
>>> > Le 29/03/2017 à 08:30, Federico Leva (Nemo) a écrit :
>>> >> One issue sometimes raised about Wikisource is how we know that we're
>>> working on the "right" books. Internet Archive is planning to textbooks
>>> starting from those which are most frequently assigned in USA schools:
>>> >> http://blog.archive.org/2017/03/29/books-donated-for-macarth
>>> ur-foundation-100change-challenge-from-bookmooch-users/
>>> >>
>>> >> I was surprised to learn a project like OpenSyllabus exists and
>>> works, I emailed them to ask what it would take to do the same for other
>>> languages/geographies.
>>> >>
>>> >> Nemo
>>> >>
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