Talk:Koha (software)

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Achieving NPOV
Openly (talk) 12:39, 30 April 2010 (UTC) I've added a bit of context to the history section, but wanted to comment on the general tone of the article- if others agree, please edit. The description sounds as if cut and paste from a marketing presentation; a summary from one of the many article comparing advantages and disadvantages of other FOSS ILS systems would make the article more useful. The list of ILS systems seems out of place; a templated table to place on all the ILS system articles would fit Wikipedia better. The listing of git repository statistics also seems excessive and should be removed.

Improvements needed
Here are some improvements that should happen (none of which risk point-of-view issues and so can be done by members of the koha community) Stuartyeates (talk) 21:57, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Adding some screenshots (see Google search for examples of what makes a good screenshot and how they can be worked into the article). I'll admit to being unsure how images are actaully uploaded.
 * Expand references, using Template:Cite_web in most cases. For explanation of why this is important see Link rot
 * Updating version numbers and dates when new versions are released (seems to be happening fairly reliably)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

No consensus to move. Vegaswikian (talk) 19:11, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Koha (software) → Koha (koha-community.org software) — These two pages are about forks of a software project. Both groups call their software by the same name (one group coined the name, the other has the US trademark on it). The move is a step towards clarity and resolving persistent POV issues with these articles (see their histories). Once the communities have clearly separate pages hopefully POV issues will abate. The new names were chosen with regard to WP:PRECISE and the fact that their respective domains are the least-loaded and least-controversial descriptions I could come up with, as per WP:POVTITLE. After the move Koha (software) should redirect to the Koha disambiguation page and LibLime should be a redirect to Koha (koha.org software). After the move someone will need to: add a hatnote to each of the articles pointing to the other; update the Koha disambiguation; trawl through and update various redirects in place at the moment. Stuartyeates (talk) 00:35, 2 March 2011 (UTC)


 * LibLime → Koha (koha.org software)


 * Correction LibLime / PTFS / koha.org has the koha trademark in the USA with the serial number 77586112 filed on October 6, 2008. Horowhenua Library Trust / koha-community.org has the koha trademark in the EU number  007350135  filed in France on 28/01/2005. Stuartyeates (talk) 00:55, 2 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep as is Koha is software, Liblime is a company. 140.203.154.5 (talk) 15:05, 9 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Oppose moves. The proposed names are creative but have no basis in policy; The existing names are however quite compliant. Andrewa (talk) 05:33, 11 March 2011 (UTC)


 * I recognise that the names are somewhat unusual, but WP:PRECISE requires them to be able to distinguish the two groups of people building diverging pieces of software. Neither of the two who oppose the moves have suggested how these groups might be clearly named nor made useful suggestions about how to avoid the long-running POV issues with these pages. Stuartyeates (talk) 08:31, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Conferences in history?
Should the international conferences be added into the existing history section, or in a new Conferences section? Dates, locations and links at the very least. Sekjal (talk) 17:29, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

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Risks?
I've just reverted the following from an Indian IP: I've considered whether some point are worth keeping - but while all of it is true, it's hare to believe that any of this is news to any but the most naive. - Snori (talk) 07:53, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
 * The software source code is free. However the deployment effort is not free and requires libraries to budget for deployment cost.
 * Customization of Koha for your own organization requires that library staff spend time or money to customize it.
 * Integration with other systems like College Administration Software, Accounting Software etc. is a challenge and it requires paid support.
 * The regular operation and maintenance of Koha expects that librarians have some system administration capability.
 * Absence of one owner for Koha makes it difficult for any one software company to own the issues and commit to fix within an SLA. when problems arise.

'''>>> Not able to find enough justification as to why these are removed. What I have written are truth. People do face these difficulties. Please modify if necessary but create a section called Risks portion. Make the article fair by giving a true picture whether positive or negative. Removing the risks portion is unjust. BangaloreWiki. 7th Jan 2018 '''

These are related to open source software in general, not just Koha. Therefore it should not be part of this page. 91.156.244.41 (talk) 16:57, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

Need help for a clean reference for Turkey's Koha installation infos
The source for the updated item and user counts are from https://kohapakistan.org/ in the carousel. But within few months the video won't be here anymore. The video is archived on https://web.archive.org but having it in it's context would be much cleaner. The video isn't viewable in the archived version of kohapakistan.org --Tuxayo (talk) 16:10, 3 April 2019 (UTC)