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 <jane023@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 <magnusmanske@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.andrea84@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 <jane023@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 <thomaspt@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 <psychoslave@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-macarthur-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.
>>
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