On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com> wrote: I have got it, but haven't finished it yet. Andrew spoke at the recent GLAM-Wiki event last year, which has audio available [1]. There are lots of good talks at that event (including one from Cory Doctorow), if you are interested in the intersection of galleries, libraries, archives, museums and WIkipedia. I work at the US Library of Congress where we've been slowly materials and putting them online since the Web was just being born in the mid 1990s. Like most Libraries we use web metrics software to track what's getting used, but recently I've started thinking that it could be interesting to show how library, museum, archive material is used in Wikipedia, to demonstrate how important it is that GLAM institutions continue to put content online. So I started working on Linkypedia [2]. Linkypedia kind of turns Wikipedia inside out, and lets content publishers see what articles reference their content. So for example the British Museum can see what Wikipedia articles reference their site [3]. And folks who are interested in keeping current with how Wikipedia uses their content can subscribe to a feed that lists them as they are added [4]. I'd like to scale this project significantly by allowing any domain to be looked at, and include links from all language wikipedias [5]. But this will require a small (but not insignificant) investment in a server with a couple gigabytes of RAM. I was thinking of contacting the toolserver people to see if I could potentially work in that environment. Sorry to hijack your thread, but I would be interested in hearing if any feedback on the idea of Linkypedia, and if anyone had any experience with what sorts of projects are possible in the toolserver environment. Perhaps that question is best asked on their discussion list though... //Ed [1] http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GLAMWIKI_UK_Fri_26_14.00_Stevenson_-_Andr… [2] http://linkypedia.info/ [3] http://linkypedia.info/websites/1/pages/ [4] http://linkypedia.info/websites/1/pages/feed/ [5] https://github.com/edsu/linkypedia/wiki/linkypedia-v2

On Tuesday, February 08, 2011, Carcharoth wrote: Yes, here's my summary:

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 4:33 AM, Carcharoth &lt;carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com&gt; wrote: I know of no place where libraries are as well-funded as they would like to be :) Libraries in the US are often poorly funded because they depend on local tax revenue (city or county). In a recession, when people don't buy as many goods and there are not as many real estate sales, this local revenue can drop dramatically and the corresponding impact on libraries (as on public schools and other social services) can be dramatic. See e.g. http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/libfunding/public/index.cfm for a sense of this across the U.S. These cuts affect all the services libraries provide -- everything from internet access for people who don't otherwise have it, to helping kids learn to read, to buying good books and reference materials for the community. Libraries are often the only common indoor public space in a community, and are certainly the only such spaces devoted to learning and research. And I certainly hope you all are using libraries for your Wikipedia work! It would make it much more difficult to find good sources if you weren't. -- phoebe, who's a librarian :) -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers <at> gmail.com *