I think we ("the community") might be able connect you with interested
wikipedians (some librarians some not) interested/willing to help you
shepard it through wikipedia approval, if you're interested.
On 6/2/2011 10:40 AM, Ralph LeVan wrote:
> Yes, the bot was approved, but in a much more limited application that was
> initially intended (make a link between Wikipedia records and corresponding
> OpenLibrary records.) And the conversation was quite rancorous for granting
> permission to an organization philosophically much closer to Wikipedia than
> OCLC would seem to be.
>
> I don't think we'll be able to make this happen without a lot of help.
>
> Ralph
>
> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Ed Summers<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Ralph LeVan<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> OCLC Research would desperately love to add VIAF links to Wikipedia
>>> articles, but it seems to be very difficult. The OpenLibrary folks tried
>> to
>>> do it a while back and ended up getting their plans severely curtailed.
>> The
>>> discussion at Wikipedia is captured here:
>>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/OpenlibraryBot
>>
>> Ralph if you read that entire discussion it sounds like the bot was
>> approved. Am I missing something?
>>
>> //Ed
>>
