Yes I agree - totally wonderful. And there are more ways to make a more
meaningful query out of this (In Dutch #1 is Barbapapa and in English the
Simpsons take 1st place), by either specifying it can'be a film, or just
filtering for inception date before 1970
On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 12:51 PM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com
wrote:
> 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(a)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(a)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(a)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(a)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(a)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(a)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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