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Books and Bytes - Issue 12

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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

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The Interior 15:23, 16 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Rila Monastery Nature Park

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Greetings, Pine! I have recently improved the article about the Rila Monastery Nature Park, which you have copyedited a little than a month ago. I hope that you will be willing to take another look at the article because I am aware that my style of writing is not particularly elegant. If you are interested in the protected areas of Bulgaria, you may also wish to go through the article about the Strandzha Nature Park, which I intend to nominate for a GA or a FA and the only reason I still haven't done so is my English prose. Best regards, --Gligan (talk) 17:31, 18 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

03:05, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

UW Visiting Scholars

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Hi Pine,

A colleague told me you had asked about (or expressed confusion about) UW's Visiting Scholars position on Wikimedia-l. After I subscribed and responded, I was told it may have actually been the Cascadia list. Having now resolved to reply only to lists I'm already subscribed to, I thought I'd just follow up here :) Did you happen to see the reply? --Ryan (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:04, 21 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

  • Hi Ryan (Wiki Ed), I didn't get a reply from you in my inbox and there wasn't an email from you waiting in the Cascadia list's moderation queue, so perhaps you sent it to Wikimedia-l and it's held for moderation there. Would you please repost your email here? --Pine 02:52, 23 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I had sent it to Wikimedia-l based on incorrect information :/ Here's the primary text of the reply:
Since the Wikipedia Library is growing rapidly and Wiki Ed wanted to dedicate time and resources to grow this program in particular, Wiki Ed will be running Visiting Scholars in the US and Canada. But that hand-off only just happened with the announcements [last] week, with five institutions already ready to go (see posts on the Wiki Ed blog and WMF blog), so I want to try to apologize in advance for what I'm sure will be a few hiccups/areas of confusion.
Pine, regarding why you weren't in the loop about UW: Though Jake or Alex could probably say more definitively, it looks like the person who signed up to supervise the position, Paul Constantine, was contacted by the OCLC representative working with the Wikipedia Library. She wouldn't likely have known how to find out if Wikipedians are there first. You may want to connect with Paul, but in the future I'd be more than happy to work with you. Since we work with so many universities at Wiki Ed, we're pretty committed to maintaining a database of people we can talk to about this or that at different institutions.
Then there's the implicit question of why no UW contact was listed for the UW position. I've centralized the application process to have them go through me rather than going directly to the institutional contacts. That way I can do some screening, looking for the kinds of things a non-Wikipedian would have difficulty determining. It's also because I'd like to do more recruitment in the other direction, reaching out to Wikipedians to apply even if there's no open position and/or having conversations with people who want access to research materials. If I'm managing the applications, I can better make those connections. So the reason the contact isn't there is because I wanted to avoid the confusion of having a second email address someone might accidentally send their resume to. Upon reflection, it probably would be a good idea to include the contact's name and maybe a link to their faculty/staff bio.
--Ryan (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:40, 23 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Meetup to revitalize & prioritize WikiProject Seattle

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In the Seattle area? Edit Wikipedia or Wikimedia sister projects? You are invited to help. Come to our first Meetup to revitalize & prioritize WikiProject Seattle on July 27, 2015, 6pm to 9pm, at Café Allegro
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Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted
Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Meeting d'Athlétisme Paralympique de Paris - Iris Pruysen 01.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 02:54, 25 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

15:05, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

Seeking assistance

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Hi Pine, I saw you're one of the few active members of WP:Finance. I've been working on improving the article for Assurant with the goal of creating a quality article and removing the advert banner. If you've got a minute, would you mind taking a look to see what else needs to be done? Any comments at all would be quite helpful. Thanks!--FacultiesIntact (talk) 02:54, 28 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted
Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Gypful.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 01:28, 29 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted
Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Irregular galaxy NGC 1427A (captured by the Hubble Space Telescope).jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 18:41, 29 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A pine

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File:Paul Signac - The Bonaventure Pine - Google Art Project.jpg

Hafspajen (talk) 00:59, 30 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This Month in Education: July 2015

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Invitation to participate in an interview

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Hi Pine, in the next edition of the Military History Wikiproject's monthly newsletter The Bugle Ian Rose and I are hoping to run a group interview with some of the editors who have worked on military history-themed FPs, and I'd like to invite you to participate. If you have time, I'd appreciate it if you could post responses at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/August 2015/Interview by 14 August. Please let me know if you have any questions. Regards, Nick-D (talk) 11:29, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot for your responses Nick-D (talk) 08:44, 3 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

15:51, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted
Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Land on the Moon 7 21 1969-repair.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 12:40, 4 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

14:57, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: July 2015

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Headlines
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Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted
Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Jean Metzinger, 1912, Danseuse au café, Dancer in a café, oil on canvas, 146.1 x 114.3 cm, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 20:16, 11 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted
Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Claude Monet - Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son - Google Art Project.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 20:40, 11 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

RFC at image policy

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Hi there! I was made aware of the RfC you opened at WT:IUP by the feedback request service. After reading over the current discussion, I have a suggestion for you.

Individually rebutting every editor who doesn't agree with your proposal is a dangerous habit to get into. It is very easily percieved as trying to bludgeon the process, and actually detracts from the weight of your position. An RfC is not about you trying to change everyone's mind, it's about allowing the members of the community to express their own opinions and a consensus is determined by the closer of the RfC.

At any rate, I don't think you've done anything wrong per se, but please keep this in mind as you are tempted to respond individually to each oppose !vote. –Darkwind (talk) 03:26, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

GOCE August 2015 newsletter

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Guild of Copy Editors August 2015 Newsletter

July drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in last month's backlog-reduction drive. Of the 24 people who signed up, 17 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

August blitz: The one-week April blitz, targeting biographical articles that have been tagged for copy editing for over a year, will run from August 16–22. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one article from the article list on the blitz page. Sign up here!

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators, Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, KieranTribe, Miniapolis, and Pax85.

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16:17, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted
Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Ultraviolet image of the Cygnus Loop Nebula crop.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 19:00, 21 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

13:02, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

21:36, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

This Month in Education: August 2015

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WikiCup 2015 September newsletter

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The finals for the 2015 Wikicup has now begun! Congrats to the 8 contestants who have survived to the finals, and well done and thanks to everyone who took part in rounds 3 and 4.

In round 3, we had a three-way tie for qualification among the wildcard contestants, so we had 34 competitors. The leader was by far Scotland Casliber (submissions) in Group B, who earned 1496 points. Although 913 of these points were bonus points, he submitted 15 articles in the DYK category. Second place overall was Philadelphia Coemgenus (submissions) at 864 points, who although submitted just 2 FAs for 400 points, earned double that amount for those articles in bonus points. Everyone who moved forward to Round 4 earned at least 100 points.

The scores required to move onto the semifinals were impressive; the lowest scorer to move onto the finals was 407, making this year's Wikicup as competitive as it's always been. Our finalists, ordered by round 4 score, are:

  1. Belarus Cas Liber (submissions), who is competing in his sixth consecutive Wikicup final, again finished the round in first place, with an impressive 1666 points in Pool B. Casliber writes about the natural sciences, including ornithology, botany and astronomy. A large bulk of his points this round were bonus points.
  2. Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points), second place both in Pool B and overall, earned the bulk of his points with FPs, mostly depicting currency.
  3. Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions), first in Pool A, came in third. His specialty is natural science articles; in Round 4, he mostly submitted articles about insects and botany. Five out of the six of the GAs he submitted were level-4 vital articles.
  4. Somerset Harrias (submissions), second in Pool A, took fourth overall. He tends to focus on articles about cricket and military history, specifically the 1640s First English Civil War.
  5. Washington, D.C. West Virginian (submissions), from Pool A, was our highest-scoring wildcard. West Virginia tends to focus on articles about the history of (what for it!) the U.S. state of West Virginia.
  6. Somerset Rodw (submissions), from Pool A, likes to work on articles about British geography and places. Most of his points this round were earned from two impressive accomplishments: a GT about Scheduled monuments in Somerset and a FT about English Heritage properties in Somerset.
  7. United States Rationalobserver (submissions), from Pool B, came in seventh overall. RO earned the majority of her points from GARs and PRs, many of which were earned in the final hours of the round.
  8. England Calvin999 (submissions), also from Pool B, who was competing with RO for the final two spots in the final hours, takes the race for most GARs and PRs—48.

The intense competition between RO and Calvin999 will continue into the finals. They're both eligible for the Newcomers Trophy, given for the first time in the Wikicup; whoever makes the most points will win it.

Good luck to the finalists; the judges are sure that the competition will be fierce!

Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs), Miyagawa (talk · contribs) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs) 11:48, 2 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted
Your nomination for featured picture status, File:720th Special Tactics Group airmen jump 20071003.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 19:06, 6 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

17:29, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted
Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Crested myna, Osaka, Japan.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 05:59, 10 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

POTD notification

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POTD

Hi Pine,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Louis Pasteur, foto av Félix Nadar Crisco edit.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on September 28, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-09-28. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:16, 10 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

WMF Affiliates

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I have read both your mailing list messages and VPM message. I could not understand the affiliate thing, but I am eager to join the celebration in all possible ways. Could you give me some details? --Tito Dutta (talk) 10:29, 12 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Tito Dutta. The plan is for Wikimedia affiliate organizations around the world in countries where English is commonly spoken (like Wikimedia UK, Wikimedia Australia, Wikimedia New York, and Wikimedia India) to do a coordinated press release on the day that English Wikipedia reaches 5 million articles. Right now, the ways that you could be most helpful are to get Wikimedia India engaged in the writing of the press release, and if you're interested you could propose a site banner for use on English Wikipedia that will announce the 5 million article milestone and invite users to click on it for more information. --Pine 20:44, 12 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This Month in GLAM: August 2015

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Headlines


  • UK report: QRpedia AWOL; RSC holds another edit-a-thon
  • Special story: New toolkit on Photo Events documents best practices, strategies and more
  • Open Access report: Wikipedia as an amplyfier; horse face recognition, rhythm perception, fossil rodent teeth
  • Wikidata report: Wikidata this month
  • Calendar: September's GLAM events



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16:17, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted
Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Ruine Aggstein 02.JPG, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 22:35, 14 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Catherine Munros' poem

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How do I get Catherine Munros' poem on my userpage? --I dream of horses (talk to me) (contributions) @ 05:30, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@I dream of horses: Do you mean the entire text box, or just the text? You can copy either to your talk page, with appropriate attribution. If you want me to put a copy of the box on your user page, just let me know where you want it and I'll try to copy it there for you. --Pine 14:22, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I want the entire text box.
I can't seem to copy and paste anything from your userpage. I can see your userpage fine, but there's a "create this page" tab instead of "edit this page". You'll have to copy it yourself. Thanks. --I dream of horses If you reply here, please ping me by adding {{Ping|I dream of horses}} to your message. (talk to me) (contributions) @ 05:03, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
 Done For a lack of a better place, it's at the bottom of my page. I dream of horses If you reply here, please ping me by adding {{Ping|I dream of horses}} to your message. (talk to me) (contributions) @ 20:54, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

18:29, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

POTD notification

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POTD

Hi Pine,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Ada Lovelace portrait.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on October 13, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-10-13. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 22:43, 26 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

15:15, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia Lab at the UW Research Commons

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What: Wikipedia Lab
When: Weekly on Mondays, starting 10/5/2015 through 11/30/2015, 4:30pm-6:30pm
Who: UW students, faculty, and staff; Wikimedians; Seattle community members
Where: UW Research Commons
Focus: Women and the Sciences in October and Pacific Northwest in November; weekly topics
Wikipedia Lab at the UW Libraries Research Commons brings together local Wikipedia experts with University of Washington subject specialists and UW community members to learn about editing Wikipedia. Come contribute vital, local, and corrective content to the world's largest online encyclopedia. Come as you are with questions, ideas, or content knowledge to share!

The Wikipedia Lab will run weekly, every Monday, during fall quarter. The Lab has two thematic focuses: Women in the Sciences and the Pacific Northwest. Each week will feature a special collections librarian content specialist and Wikipedian editors. Sponsored by the UW Libraries & Wikimedians User Group

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Books and Bytes - Issue 13

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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

Read the full newsletter

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18:32, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Movement Wide Finance Report 2014 & Cascadia Wikimedians User Group

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You have new message/s Hello. You have a new message at Peaceray's talk page. Peaceray (talk) 17:05, 7 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This Month in GLAM: September 2015

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Headlines
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16:29, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

16:02, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

October 2015 GOCE newsletter

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Guild of Copy Editors October 2015 Newsletter

September drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in last month's backlog-reduction drive. Of the 25 editors who signed up, 18 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

October blitz: The one-week October blitz, targeting requests, has just concluded. Of the nine editors who signed up, seven copyedited at least one request; check your talk page for your barnstar!

The month-long November drive, focusing on our oldest backlog articles (June, July, and August 2014) and the October requests, is just around the corner. Hope to see you there!

Thanks again for your support; together, we can improve the encyclopedia! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, KieranTribe, Miniapolis and Pax85.

To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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October 2015

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