[Koha] Number of Koha Libraries in the Word

[Liz Rea]

It's gone. For now.



On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 9:44 AM, Michael Kuhn <mik at adminkuhn.ch> wrote:

> 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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