Yes, I got this from transclusion counting. I didn't realize that there were so many edge cases, but I do know that transclusion counting is imperfect.

I'm trying to harvest these pages to help populate Wikidata right now. If you want to show your support for the task you can comment at my "Request for Bot" - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:RFBOT#VIAFbot_5

Maximilian Klein Wikipedian in Residence, OCLC +17074787023

________________________________ From: libraries-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org libraries-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of Kyrios, Alex akyrios@uidaho.edu Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2013 3:31 PM To: Wikimedia & Libraries Subject: Re: [libraries] The number of Infobox Book containing articles by language.

Thanks for this, Max. A few things may skew these numbers, though. There are the books that don’t have infoboxen. At least on the English Wikipedia, you could catch some of these by comparing against the “Book articles without infoboxes” category (currently 990, plus another 5750 (!) in the Novel articles subcat), but that would only catch those already tagged with the WikiProject Books banner.

Also, did you get these numbers from a transclusion count? There are articles with multiple instances of the template, especially articles on series where the individual books aren’t sufficiently notable. Regardless, I hope this all means that you’re cooking up another effort to link library data into Wikipedia.

Alex Kyrios Metadata and Catalog Librarian University of Idaho 208-885-2513 akyrios@uidaho.edu

From: libraries-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:libraries-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Klein,Max Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2013 3:07 PM To: Wikimedia & Libraries Subject: [libraries] The number of Infobox Book containing articles by language.

Hello All, I was just satisfying my itch to know how many wiki articles are distinctly about books in all of the Wikipedias. The follow is all the infobox books in all the languages and the respective counts. If you add them all up, you get 85,230 . That means we have at most 85,230 articles about books in the entire wikiverse, the actual number is probably less because this double counts to Wikipedias which have articles for the same book.

[[wikipedia:en:Template:Infobox book]] 30953 [[wikipedia:it:Template:Libro]] 10978 [[wikipedia:fr:Modèle:Infobox Livre]] 7964 [[wikipedia:es:Plantilla:Ficha de libro]] 3578 [[wikipedia:sv:Mall:Bokfakta]] 3067 [[wikipedia:ja:Template:基礎情報 書籍]] 2871 [[wikipedia:pl:Szablon:Książka infobox]] 2774 [[wikipedia:pt:Predefinição:Info/Livro]] 2045 [[wikipedia:ru:Шаблон:Издание]] 1972 [[wikipedia:ms:Templat:Infobox buku]] 1916 [[wikipedia:nl:Sjabloon:Infobox boek]] 1896 [[wikipedia:zh:Template:Infobox Book]] 1280 [[wikipedia:fa:الگو:جعبه اطلاعات کتاب]] 1269 [[wikipedia:sl:Predloga:Infopolje Knjiga]] 973 [[wikipedia:he:תבנית:ספר]] 901 [[wikipedia:hu:Sablon:Könyv infobox]] 872 [[wikipedia:cs:Šablona:Infobox Kniha]] 842 [[wikipedia:ar:قالب:صندوق معلومات كتاب]] 781 [[wikipedia:uk:Шаблон:Видання]] 675 [[wikipedia:bg:Шаблон:Книга инфо]] 620 [[wikipedia:no:Mal:Infoboks bok]] 574 [[wikipedia:ro:Format:Carte]] 560 [[wikipedia:ml:ഫലകം:Infobox book]] 555 [[wikipedia:vi:Bản mẫu:Thông tin sách]] 479 [[wikipedia:gl:Modelo:Libro]] 421 [[wikipedia:ko:틀:책 정보]] 387 [[wikipedia:th:แม่แบบ:กล่องข้อมูล หนังสือ]] 332 [[wikipedia:eu:Txantiloi:Liburu infotaula]] 323 [[wikipedia:et:Mall:Raamatu info]] 277 [[wikipedia:hr:Predložak:Infookvir knjiga]] 276 [[wikipedia:sk:Šablóna:Infobox Kniha]] 258 [[wikipedia:mk:Шаблон:Инфокутија Книга]] 233 [[wikipedia:tr:Şablon:Kitap]] 223 [[wikipedia:sr:Шаблон:Кутијица за књигу]] 201 [[wikipedia:bs:Šablon:Infokutija knjiga]] 201 [[wikipedia:mr:साचा:माहितीचौकट पुस्तक]] 182 [[wikipedia:hi:साँचा:ज्ञानसन्दूक पुस्तक]] 177 [[wikipedia:az:Şablon:Kitab]] 166 [[wikipedia:bn:টেমপ্লেট:তথ্যছক বই]] 138 [[wikipedia:ca:Plantilla:Llibre]] 138 [[wikipedia:id:Templat:Infobox book]] 133 [[wikipedia:da:Skabelon:Infoboks bog]] 126 [[wikipedia:eo:Ŝablono:Informkesto libro]] 114 [[wikipedia:ku:Şablon:Infobox Pirtûk]] 80 [[wikipedia:ur:سانچہ:خانۂ معلومات کتاب]] 57 [[wikipedia:sq:Stampa:Infobox libër]] 50 [[wikipedia:cy:Nodyn:Gwybodlen llyfr]] 49 [[wikipedia:or:ଛାଞ୍ଚ:Infobox Book]] 48 [[wikipedia:be:Шаблон:Выданне]] 36 [[wikipedia:ky:Калып:Китеп]] 34 [[wikipedia:uz:Andoza:Kitob]] 28 [[wikipedia:oc:Modèl:Infobox Libre]] 28 [[wikipedia:lv:Veidne:Grāmatas infokaste v2]] 28 [[wikipedia:af:Sjabloon:Boek]] 21 [[wikipedia:nn:Mal:Infoboks bok]] 18 [[wikipedia:gv:Clowan:Kishtey fys lioar]] 9 [[wikipedia:hsb:Předłoha:Infokašćik kniha]] 5 [[wikipedia:tl:Padron:Infobox book]] 5 [[wikipedia:su:Citakan:Kotak info buku]] 5 [[wikipedia:ta:வார்ப்புரு:தகவல்பெட்டி புத்தகம்]] 4 [[wikipedia:ilo:Plantilia:Infobox libro]] 4 [[wikipedia:sco:Template:Infobox Beuk]] 2 [[wikipedia:sh:Šablon:Kutijica za knjigu]] 2 [[wikipedia:la:Formula:Capsa libri]] 2 [[wikipedia:te:మూస:సమాచారపెట్టె పుస్తకం/doc]] 2 [[wikipedia:mn:Загвар:Инфобокс ном/doc]] 2 [[wikipedia:kk:Үлгі:Басылым/doc]] 2 [[wikipedia:km:ទំព័រគំរូ:ប្រអប់ព័ត៌មាន សៀវភៅ/doc]] 2 [[wikipedia:ka:თარგი:ინფოდაფა წიგნი/ინფო]] 1 [[wikipedia:ckb:داڕێژە:Infobox book]] 1 [[wikipedia:ps:کينډۍ:د کتاب مالوماتبکس-1]] 1 [[wikipedia:jv:Cithakan:Kothakinfo buku]] 1 [[wikipedia:bjn:Citakan:Infobox Book]] 1 [[wikipedia:lmo:Mudel:Scheda del Liber]] 1 [[wikipedia:si:සැකිල්ල:Infobox book/doc]] 0 Maximilian Klein Wikipedian in Residence, OCLC +17074787023

On English Wikipedia, there's also [[Template:Infobox book series]] 648 [[Template:Infobox Medieval text]] 87 ... (All numbers just from the transclusion count)

There may be edge cases yet even beyond those. For example uncategorized stubs about books.

I don't know that I would say that there are at most 85,230. Perhaps though one could say that there are approximately 90,000 books.

I know the WMF has a stats team, do they just do things like visitors and the like, or would they be able to help find edge cases and get a more realistic number with this as well?

Thank you, Derric Atzrott