On 2013-03-05 9:20 PM, "Sumana Harihareswara" sumanah@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