[Koha] Number of Koha Libraries in the Word

[Michael Kuhn]

Hi Sebastian

> We discussed this issue before and a number of very impressive figures were
> quoted, but when I go to the home page of the Koha community, at
> https://koha-community.org/about/libraries/, I only see a sample of Koha
> libraries and our library is missing.

I was not aware of this list, which is very incomplete and uninformative 
compared to https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_Users_Worldwide or 
especially to Marshall Breedings great list of Koha libraries throughout 
the world at
https://librarytechnology.org/lwc-processquery.pl?ILS=Koha (which 
actually list 4'427 libraries with a lot of details).

> Please do not get me wrong, I think that the list is good, but as any list,
> hard to keep up to date.
>
> In light of our marketing effort, we should bring it as up to date as we
> can. In order to get us listed, I went to https://gitlab.com/koha-
> community-devs-users/Koha-library-list/ and clicked on "Merge Request," but
> could find how to place a new request. There is no "new" button or
> similar.  Others were able to do it and I applaud them, but we are not
> going to get many new libraries to list themselves and keep this list
> relevant, if they cannot easily and immediately place a request.  Is this
> something that could be fixed?  I.e. add a green "NEW" button or something
> of the sort.  And could you explain me how I could add our library?

To me it seems an absolutely horrible idea that libraries or anyone 
should learn or use Git when they want to include themselves in a simple 
list. Instead I suggest to delete this list and instead link to 
https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_Users_Worldwide

In my case however I stick to the above mentioned lists and I will 
simply ignore the list at https://koha-community.org/about/libraries/ 
when adding new libraries.

Best wishes: Michael
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