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Inspire launches March 4th!
Welcome to the Inspire Campaign! Thanks so much for signing up to support the Inspire Campaign! Please check out the Community Hub to learn more about the Gender Gap, how IdeaLab works, and our new Idea Lab Friendly Spaces Expectations. As a Community Organizer, we hope you'll spread the word on- and off-wiki to your communities, help maintain a friendly space in IdeaLab, and facilitate the development of ideas and project teams. Idea creation and refinement will take place March 4-31st in IdeaLab.
We are looking forward to an exciting month! Please feel free to leave questions/comments on the Community Hub discussion page. Alex Wang (WMF) — Preceding undated comment added 22:39, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
Books and Bytes - Issue 10
The Wikipedia Library
Books & Bytes
Issue 10, January-February 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs)
- New donations - ProjectMUSE, Dynamed, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, and Women Writers Online
- New TWL coordinator, conference news, and a new guide and template for archivists
- TWL moves into the new Community Engagement department at the WMF, quarterly review
A new reference tool
Hello Books & Bytes subscribers. There is a new Visual Editor reference feature in development called Citoid. It is designed to "auto-fill" references using a URL or DOI. We would really appreciate you testing whether TWL partners' references work in Citoid. Sharing your results will help the developers fix bugs and improve the system. If you have a few minutes, please visit the testing page for simple instructions on how to try this new tool. Regards, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:47, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
Books and Bytes - Issue 11
The Wikipedia Library
Books & Bytes
Issue 11, March-April 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs)
- New donations - MIT Press Journals, Sage Stats, Hein Online and more
- New TWL coordinators, conference news, and new reference projects
- Spotlight: Two metadata librarians talk about how library professionals can work with Wikipedia
The Wikipedia Library needs you!
The Wikipedia Library
The Wikipedia Library is expanding, and we need your help! With only a couple of hours per week, you can make a big difference in helping editors get access to reliable sources and other resources. Sign up for one of the following roles:
- Account coordinators help distribute research accounts to editors.
- Partner coordinators seek donations from new partners.
- Outreach coordinators reach out to the community through blog posts, social media, and newsletters or notifications.
- Technical coordinators advise on building tools to support the library's work.
Delivered on behalf of The Wikipedia Library by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:16, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
The Wikipedia Library needs you!
The Wikipedia Library
Did you know that Wikipedia has its own library? The Wikipedia Library is seeking volunteers from those in galleries, libraries, archives and museums.
- Become an account coordinator to distribute research accounts to editors
- Get involved in some of our special projects:
- Expand our Resources page with free resources for editors in all subject areas
- Help develop a template for citing archival collections
- Write guides to accessing and using library resources
Delivered on behalf of The Wikipedia Library by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:18, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
Books and Bytes - Issue 12
The Wikipedia Library
Books & Bytes
Issue 12, May-June 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs)
- New donations - Taylor & Francis, Science, and three new French-language resources
- Expansion into new languages, including French, Finnish, Turkish, and Farsi
- Spotlight: New partners for the Visiting Scholar program
- American Library Association Annual meeting in San Francisco
The article on The Human Stain
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/an-open-letter-to-wikipedia A date of the 6th appears. I was going by that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr legumoto (talk • contribs) 21:56, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
Books and Bytes - Issue 13
The Wikipedia Library
Books & Bytes
Issue 13, August-September 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs)
- New donations - EBSCO, IMF, more newspaper archives, and Arabic resources
- Expansion into new languages, including Viet and Catalan
- Spotlight: Elsevier partnership garners controversy, dialogue
- Conferences: PKP, IFLA, upcoming events
The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:30, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
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Speedy deletion nomination of Pollard memorial library
Hello Librarygurl,
I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Pollard memorial library for deletion in response to your request.
If you didn't intend to make such a request and don't want the article to be deleted, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.
You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. ubiquity (talk) 16:18, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
- Ubiquity - It can be deleted right away. I moved it to the proper entry location. --LibraryGurl (talk) 16:38, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
- I know, but I'm not an administrator. It's tagged for deletion, someone will see it and delete it soon. Next time, just use the move command to move it. You don't need to be an admin. Let me know if you don't know what I'm talking about. ubiquity (talk) 16:59, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
Books and Bytes - Issue 14
The Wikipedia Library
Books & Bytes
Issue 14, October-November 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs)
- New donations - Gale, Brill, plus Finnish and Farsi resources
- Open Access Week recap, and DOIs, Wikipedia, and scholarly citations
- Spotlight: 1Lib1Ref - a citation drive for librarians
The Interior, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:12, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
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Speedy deletion nomination of Isabel Wolff
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- @SusunW, Megalibrarygirl, and Ipigott: can you please take a look at this one and see if there's something we can do? Maybe post it at WP:Women in Red for additional eyes? --Rosiestep (talk) 17:12, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
Nomination of Kelly DiPucchio for deletion
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- Exactly how do you define non-notable in the case of this author? From my point of view she is a best selling author whose books have won awards. I have three sources that include biography information including a major biographical source that is an important reference source (Contemporary Authors Online). This source only includes notable authors. --LibraryGurl (talk) 16:36, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
- @SusunW, Megalibrarygirl, and Ipigott: can you please take a look at this one and see if there's something we can do? Maybe post it at WP:Women in Red for additional eyes? --Rosiestep (talk) 17:12, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks Rosiestep! --LibraryGurl (talk) 18:02, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
- I've added a couple of awards I found. She also has had books translated into Spanish and French. Don't know if you can find press on that or not. But would be worth adding. One does not get translated if one is not marketable. SusunW (talk) 18:15, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
- I'm answering your question here, or rather not answering it, so as not to cloud up the AfD discussion with off-topic talk. I have no idea if there is a time limit on nominations to AfD. One would assume that a reasonable time frame would be allowed, but it is highly doubtful that anyone follows that based on what I have seen. Your best bet is to get 25 solid articles under your belt and apply for Autopatrol status so that your articles don't go into the patrol pool. SusunW (talk) 23:16, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
- Hi, afds usually run for seven days before being closed, or relisted for further discussion. Of course they can also be speedily deleted or kept before the seven days as rightly happened here. Here is the wikipage about afds - WP:AFD. At nominating afds editors are asked to carry out checks and consider alternatives but unfortunately a lot of nominators appear to either disregard or just pay it lipservice. Also, could this tag be useful to add to top of articles? - Template:In use. Coolabahapple (talk) 09:33, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
- Coolabahapple Thanks for the response and resource. The question is not how long they are posted on AfD, the question is do editors have a window from the creation of the file before it can be nominated. I see tons of these that get nominated within minutes of creation. And Librarygurl says this has happened to her twice.
- Hi SusunW, thanks, my understanding is there is no window, although the New Page Patrol article under Be nice to the newbies states "Research has shown that writers unfamiliar with Wikipedia guidelines should be accorded at least 10 to 15 minutes to fix the article before it is nominated for speedy deletion." I see the nom did wait 11mins but maybe this sentence should be given more emphasis and included in the lead of that page? Coolabahapple (talk) 01:27, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
- Coolabahapple Thanks for the response and resource. The question is not how long they are posted on AfD, the question is do editors have a window from the creation of the file before it can be nominated. I see tons of these that get nominated within minutes of creation. And Librarygurl says this has happened to her twice.
- Hi, afds usually run for seven days before being closed, or relisted for further discussion. Of course they can also be speedily deleted or kept before the seven days as rightly happened here. Here is the wikipage about afds - WP:AFD. At nominating afds editors are asked to carry out checks and consider alternatives but unfortunately a lot of nominators appear to either disregard or just pay it lipservice. Also, could this tag be useful to add to top of articles? - Template:In use. Coolabahapple (talk) 09:33, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
- I'm answering your question here, or rather not answering it, so as not to cloud up the AfD discussion with off-topic talk. I have no idea if there is a time limit on nominations to AfD. One would assume that a reasonable time frame would be allowed, but it is highly doubtful that anyone follows that based on what I have seen. Your best bet is to get 25 solid articles under your belt and apply for Autopatrol status so that your articles don't go into the patrol pool. SusunW (talk) 23:16, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
Librarygurl you might also try creating the file in a sandbox or in a UserSpace and then moving it. I create all my files from red links and select the option start the new article at "at Special:Mypage/FILENAME". Doing it that way, I can make sure that it is referenced and relatively complete before it goes to main space. Then once that is done, just select move to article and remove your username from the title. There are several ways to do that, it's just the way I do it. Feel free to ask me if you need or want help anytime. SusunW (talk) 18:21, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
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| Looking forward to working with you in 2016! Rosiestep (talk) 17:38, 30 December 2015 (UTC) |
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Books & Bytes - Issue 15
The Wikipedia Library
Books & Bytes
Issue 15, December-January 2016
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs)
- New donations - Ships, medical resources, plus Arabic and Farsi resources
- #1lib1ref campaign summary and highlights
- New branches and coordinators
The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:20, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
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