[Koha] Number of Koha Libraries in the Word

[Sebastian Hierl]

Thank you, Michael!

In view of our marketing initiative aimed at librarians who are not yet
familiar with Koha it would be helpful to have such a list or a map
illustrating Koha's international impact on our main website.  Librarians
not familiar with Koha usually are not familiar with the Koha wiki.  If
Marshall Breeding does a good job at keeping the list up to date, we should
go with his--his expertise and objectivity would further provide
credibility, though I would ideally want to work with him (or his data) to
implement a visually stimulating map or list.

I fully agree that asking librarians to create profiles and learn how to
use Git only to list themselves on a website for promotional purposes is
not going to work and that the listing mechanism will have to be simplified.

-Sebastian

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On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 10:14 PM, Liz Rea <wizzyrea at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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