On 2013-03-05 9:20 PM, "Sumana Harihareswara" <sumanah(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
See
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/glam/2013-March/000361.html &
http://everybodyslibraries.com/2013/03/04/from-wikipedia-to-our-libraries/
: "how do we get people from Wikipedia articles to the related offerings
of our local libraries?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Library_resources_box "create a
sidebar box with links to resources about (or by) the topic of a
Wikipedia article in a reader’s library, or in another library a reader
might want to consult."
And more!
"As with most things related to Wikipedia, this service is experimental,
and subject to change (and, hopefully, improvement) over time. I’d love
to hear thoughts and suggestions from users and maintainers of Wikipedia
and libraries."
John, since you said you're new to template-building, you might enjoy
learning about what the new Lua templating system gives you:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
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Sounds like the use case of special:booksources page...
<offtopic rant>
The problem with libraries electronic resources (or at least my libraries')
is not that people are too google addicted to consider them. The problem is
that they are a usability nightmere. In one case I recall I was not able to
download more than 10 pages at a time or effectively navigate because the
interface was a horrid mess. People go where they can get what they need in
the easiest fashion. Libraries are not even close to providing that for
electronic resources. Otoh I love me my dead tree books, and libraries are
still king there.
-bawolff