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Books & Bytes - Issue 5

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Books & Bytes
Issue 5, March 2014
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New Visiting Scholar positions
TWL Branch on Arabic Wikipedia, microgrants program
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I appreciate the sentiment either way. :) Thank you for getting the junction table on Route 77 up to standards. --CrunchySkies (talk) 04:24, 24 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Books & Bytes, Issue 6

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Books & Bytes
Issue 6, April-May 2014
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs)

New donations from Oxford University Press and Royal Society (UK)
TWL does Vegas: American Library Association Annual plans
TWL welcomes a new coordinator, resources for library students and interns
New portal on Meta, resources for starting TWL branches, donor call blitzes, Wikipedia Visiting Scholar news, and more

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The Wikipedia Library: New Account Coordinators Needed

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Neighborhoods in Lincoln, Nebraska

Hey CrunchySkies,

I would more than welcome any help with the Neighborhoods in Lincoln, Nebraska article! Wikipedia is relatively new to me, so what just had happened and I guess what I did to make it happen is quite a bit confusing to me. I see that the page is still there, but how it works in the greater scheme of things and with the articles of creation is a bit beyond me. I'm good with editing pages (really happy to be able to help out on Lincoln! - my hometown for all my life except for a two-year stint in-between in China) but creating, not so much.

So I guess to sum it up... I don't think anything bad happened, but is there anything that needs to be corrected just to be safe???

Also, don't know if you noticed, but I nominated the Lincoln article for GA status. I know there will probably be quite a few issues with the article, but I thought it would at least give an idea of where the article stands if the changes needed for GA would be unmanageable within the allotted time period for improvements. Hopefully but we'll see.....

Thank you once again so much for your help in advance! Hanyou23 (talk) 01:26, 17 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Books and Bytes - Issue 7

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Books & Bytes
Issue 7, June-July 2014
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs)

Seven new donations, two expanded partnerships
TWL's Final Report up, read the summary
Adventures in Las Vegas, WikiConference USA, and updates from TWL coordinators
Spotlight: Blog post on BNA's impact on one editor's research

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Marion Stokes

Awesome work on the Marion Stokes article. I remember reading something about her after she died and thought at the time she'd make an interesting Wikipedia article subject. It's already an excellent article, Wikipedia needs more like this! Thank you! Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 12:44, 22 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! :) Glad you appreciate the new article. --CrunchySkies (talk) 13:20, 22 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for creating the Marion Stokes article - What a fascinating obsession - I wish that she could have been able to have been a WP contributor, can you imagine the content she could have added and cited! KConWiki (talk) 14:54, 25 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

So true! Her legacy is quite promising for Internet Archive, and perhaps information from the content she amassed will trickle down, and benefit Wikipedia indirectly. :) I'm glad you enjoy the article. Thank you for finding a place for Marion in the IA navbox. --→CrunchySkies ❅ _{« talk ± gawk »} 10:42, 26 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanksgiving (United States)

Oops, I thought I was addressing only a section blanking incident, but now I see that I also undid your thoughtful changes to Thanksgiving (United States). I would have discussed it first, had I realized. I like a format with 28 rows, so that the 28-year cycle is apparent. What do you think? Leegrc (talk) 14:55, 24 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I think it works this way. This format does make the table appear quite a bit larger, but I'm not opposed to it because it adds clarity in terms of the cycle, which wouldn't otherwise be possible. While this will have to be updated every year, I think the article receives enough traffic to where it won't be a problem... even in the month of May (which is about as opposite of Thanksgiving as possible), it gets as many as 1,200 daily views depending on the day.

Incidentally, I didn't even realize this table had previously been part of the article until after making my own table... that strange blanking happened several edits prior and I didn't notice it right away. I just figured there had never been a table there before. Thank you for your work on this. --→CrunchySkies ❅ _{« talk ± gawk »} 08:14, 25 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The table auto-updates the year, so that viewers any year will see the then current year up front an center, and in bold. Leegrc (talk) 16:06, 25 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Books and Bytes - Issue 8

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Books & Bytes
Issue 8, August-September2014
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs)

TWL now a Wikimedia Foundation program, moves on from grant status
Four new donations, including large DeGruyter parntership, pilot with Elsevier
New TWL coordinators, Wikimania news, new library platform discussions, Wiki Loves Libraries update, and more
Spotlight: "Traveling Through History" - an editor talks about his experiences with a TWL newspaper archive, Newspapers.com

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New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (November 2014)

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Seeking collaboration

Hi CrunchySkies, I’m currently working on the page for David M. Cote and I’m seeking out guidance from experienced editors to collaborate with. I’ve disclosed my COI on the article talk page, but have yet to receive any responses there. When you have a quick moment, would you mind taking a look at the draft I have on my sandbox? I’d appreciate any feedback or suggestions you might have. Thanks! --FacultiesIntact (talk) 03:53, 24 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (December 2014)

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Your #REDIRECT on WCAU-TV

I have changed your edit on WCAU-TV from WCAU#As a CBS station to WCAU because it should be redirected to the article as a WHOLE not just during its time as an affiliate of the CBS Television Network. TheGoofyGolfer (talk) 20:31, 19 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The reason I had it redirecting to the CBS section is because the -TV suffix was dropped once NBC took control. The callsign WCAU-TV is really just a former name for WCAU, so I had it pointing to the era when it was referred to as such. That said, I see it as a fairly minor detail, and have no intention of contesting your redirect to the article as a whole... I mostly just wanted to explain my rationale for originally having done that. →CrunchySkies ❅ _{« talk ± gawk »} 07:23, 22 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Books and Bytes - Issue 9

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Books & Bytes
Issue 9, November-December 2014
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs)

New donations, including real-paper-and-everything books, e-books, science journal databases, and more
New TWL coordinators, conference news, a new open-access journal database, summary of library-related WMF grants, and more
Spotlight: "Global Impact: The Wikipedia Library and Persian Wikipedia" - a Persian Wikipedia editor talks about their experiences with database access in Iran, writing on the Persian project and the JSTOR partnership

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Elisa Lam

I am sorry for having been so bold; when I discovered that we had been duplicating our efforts I was rather short of time and didn't know when I'd be able to come back and work on the article I had started (the Valhalla train crash had just occurred and, since I live in the region and have some expertise in that area and it was a breaking current event I decided to temporarily devote my time to it. Ordinarily I would have approached you first, but since I figured that the ultimate result would be a redirect to the "Death of ..." article (it is the correct title per WP:NC as the event is notable while she herself is not) I just decided to forego that conclusion, since otherwise we'd have to spend time reconciling the two articles on top of the time I was already devoting to the train-wreck article (and with a weekend coming up and weather and some family issues limiting the amount of time I could spend editing over the weekend). That, IMO, would have taken away time that would have been (and now will be, I hope) better spent getting the article to enough of a final form for it to be able to run on DYK on the 19th (which, it seems, is at least something we both wanted). This is by no means how I usually operate.

However, I should note that I had started the "Death of ..." article two days before you began the expansion you had promised in October, of what was then a redirect to Cecil Hotel (Los Angeles). When I began mine, I did a search for mentions of her name, and not finding any other article just began working. Only when I decided it would be a good idea to change the target of the redirect did I discover the one you started—during a period when, without explanation, you hadn't been editing for a couple of days, and hadn't edited the Lam article since your initial expansion.

So, you've learned something the hard way (sometimes the only way to learn): before you start (or expand from a redirect) an article on something you don't think we have an article on, do a search to make sure. It could save you some grief later (I had that experience once or twice, way back when, I think). I also remind you that the edit window has always had that warning that your work "can be edited, used, and redistributed—by anyone"

That said ... I went over your additions to the "Death of ..." article and I do thank you for adding some sources I hadn't gotten around to. I would like to add you to the DYK nomination as a cocreator, if that's alright with you, given what's happened.

However, at the same time, I removed some of your other additions, with explanations in the edit summary that I will reiterate below:

As far as I can tell, only the link to her Facebook memorial would qualify for inclusion under WP:EL. The video (more on this later) is already linked from an {{external media}} box within the text next to relevant commentary, per policy. The links to the films are sort of spammy, related to current or upcoming films based on the event, and should really be in articles about those films themselves should they prove to be notable (And as for The Bringing, an article should be created only if and when the cameras start rolling). There's no point in linking to the Snopes article if it doesn't tell a reader anything our article doesn't, so it fails WP:ELNO, too.
I also got rid of the two categories related to Lam as a person since, as I stated above, this is a "Death of ..." article about an event, not a person, so they're not needed.

I also removed the bit about the "LAM-ELISA" TB vaccine; this is one of those examples of conpiracy theorists investing completely, obviously random coincidences with quasi-mystical significance. It has no demonstrable relevance to her death. Therefore, it does not belong in the article.

Lastly, I removed the screenshot image (again) because it simply doesn't, and won't, meet that aspect of the fair-use criteria which has been interpreted to require that the inclusion of such content outside the whitelist be supported by sourced critical commentary on that image itself in the accompanying text. We just don't have that for a screenshot from the video.
Paradoxically, it would be far easier to justify including a clip of the video itself. If we can convert it to webm. or .ogv format, I think we could easily create a montage of its more interesting moments and put it in the article.

Once again, I am sorry to have rubbed you the wrong way on this; I hope you understand why I did as I did and I look forward to working with you on improving Death of Elisa Lam in the future. Daniel Case (talk) 19:19, 9 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Books and Bytes - Issue 10

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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
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TWL moves into the new Community Engagement department at the WMF, quarterly review

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A new reference tool

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Books and Bytes - Issue 11

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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
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Books and Bytes - Issue 12

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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

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Books and Bytes - Issue 13

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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

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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Books and Bytes - Issue 14

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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

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Books & Bytes - Issue 15

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Books & Bytes
Issue 15, December-January 2016
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New donations - Ships, medical resources, plus Arabic and Farsi resources
#1lib1ref campaign summary and highlights
New branches and coordinators

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Books & Bytes - Issue 16

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Books & Bytes
Issue 16, February-March 2016
by The Interior (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs)

New donations - science, humanities, and video resources
Using hashtags in edit summaries - a great way to track a project
A new cite archive template, a new coordinator, plus conference and Visiting Scholar updates
Metrics for the Wikipedia Library's last three months

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Books & Bytes - Issue 17

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Books & Bytes
Issue 17, April-May 2016
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New donations this month - a German-language legal resource
Wikipedia referals to academic citations - news from CrossRef and WikiCite2016
New library stats, WikiCon news, a bot to reveal Open Access versions of citations, and more!

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Books & Bytes - Issue 18

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Books & Bytes
Issue 18, June–July 2016
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi, Samwalton9, UY Scuti, and Sadads

New donations - Edinburgh University Press, American Psychological Association, Nomos (a German-language database), and more!
Spotlight: GLAM and Wikidata
TWL attends and presents at International Federation of Library Associations conference, meets with Association of Research Libraries
OCLC wins grant to train librarians on Wikimedia contribution

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Books and Bytes - Issue 19

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Books & Bytes
Issue 19, September–October 2016
by Nikkimaria, Sadads and UY Scuti

New and expanded donations - Foreign Affairs, Open Edition, and many more
New Library Card Platform and Conference news
Spotlight: Fixing one million broken links

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Books and Bytes - Issue 20

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Books & Bytes
Issue 20, November-December 2016
by Nikkimaria (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs), Samwalton9 (talk · contribs)

Partner resource expansions
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Books and Bytes - Issue 21

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Books & Bytes
Issue 21, January-March 2017
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#1lib1ref 2017
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Wikipedia Libraries at Wikimedia Conference 2017
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Books and Bytes - Issue 22

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Books & Bytes
Issue 22, April-May 2017

New and expanded research accounts
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Books and Bytes - Issue 23

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Books & Bytes
Issue 23, June-July 2017

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Books and Bytes - Issue 24

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Books & Bytes
Issue 24, August-September 2017

User Group update
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Wikimania Birds of a Feather session roundup
Spotlight: Wiki Loves Archives
Bytes in brief

Arabic, Kiswahili and Yoruba versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!

Books & Bytes - Issue 5

Disambiguation link notification for April 23

Welcome, roadfan!

Reference Errors on 25 April

Books & Bytes, Issue 6

The Wikipedia Library: New Account Coordinators Needed

Neighborhoods in Lincoln, Nebraska

Books and Bytes - Issue 7

Marion Stokes

Disambiguation link notification for August 23

Disambiguation link notification for September 18

Thanksgiving (United States)

Books and Bytes - Issue 8

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (November 2014)

Seeking collaboration

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (December 2014)

Your #REDIRECT on WCAU-TV

Books and Bytes - Issue 9

Orphaned non-free image File:Elisa Lam in elevator.jpg

Elisa Lam

Orphaned non-free image File:Elisa Lam in elevator.jpg

Books and Bytes - Issue 10

A new reference tool

Books and Bytes - Issue 11

The Wikipedia Library needs you!

Books and Bytes - Issue 12

Books and Bytes - Issue 13

ArbCom elections are now open!

Books and Bytes - Issue 14

Books & Bytes - Issue 15

Books & Bytes - Issue 16

Books & Bytes - Issue 17

Books & Bytes - Issue 18

Books and Bytes - Issue 19

Possible removal of AWB access due to inactivity

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Books and Bytes - Issue 26

Proposed deletion of LCC-TV

Books & Bytes - Issue 27

Books & Bytes – Issue 28

Books & Bytes – Issue 29

Books & Bytes, Issue 30

Books & Bytes, Issue 31

Books & Bytes, Issue 32

Books & Bytes, Issue 33

Books & Bytes Issue 34, May – June 2019

Books & Bytes – Issue 35, July – August 2019

Books & Bytes – Issue 36

Books & Bytes – Issue 37

Issue 38, January – April 2020

Books & Bytes – Issue 39, May – June 2020

Books & Bytes – Issue 40

Books & Bytes – Issue 41

Books & Bytes - Issue 42

Books & Bytes – Issue 42

Books & Bytes – Issue 43

Books & Bytes – Issue 45

Books & Bytes – Issue 46

Books & Bytes – Issue 47

"Marion Metelits" listed at Redirects for discussion

"Square Up" listed at Redirects for discussion

"Ryan Ferguson (wrongful conviction" listed at Redirects for discussion

"Necko Jenkins" listed at Redirects for discussion