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Books & Bytes New Years Double Issue
Books & Bytes Volume 1 Issue 3, December/January 2013 (Sign up for monthly delivery) Happy New Year, and welcome to a special double issue of Books & Bytes. We've included a retrospective on the changes and progress TWL has seen over the last year, the results of the survey TWL participants completed in December, some of our plans for the future, a second interview with a Wiki Love Libraries coordinator, and more. Here's to 2014 being a year of expansion and innovation for TWL!

The Wikipedia Library completed the first 6 months of its Individual Engagement grant last week. Here's where we are and what we've done:
 * Increased access to sources: 1500 editors signed up for 3700 free accounts, individually worth over $500,000, with usage increases of 400-600%
 * Deep networking: Built relationships with Credo, HighBeam, Questia, JSTOR, Cochrane, LexisNexis, EBSCO, New York Times, and OCLC
 * New pilot projects: Started the Wikipedia Visiting Scholar project to empower university-affiliated Wikipedia researchers
 * Developed community: Created portal connecting 250 newsletter recipients, 30 library members, 3 volunteer coordinators, and 2 part-time contractors
 * Tech scoped: Spec'd out a reference tool for linking to full-text sources and established a basis for OAuth integration
 * Broad outreach: Wrote a feature article for Library Journal's The Digital Shift; presenting at the American Library Association annual meeting

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Welcome to WIKISOO
Hello and welcome to the Writing Wikipedia Articles course (#WIKISOO)! We look forward to meeting you in the first class on 25 February (Americas)/26 Feb (Asia/Australia). By now you should have received an introductory email with some details about the course. If you can't find it, there's an archived copy of the email at this link.

To attend the live session, please check our course home page for instructions and the link. We recommend logging into Blackboard Collaborate (the live class software we use) before the day of class, to be sure it's working. (More tips on the home page.)

If taking the course in self-paced mode, please come say hello on the course talk page so we know who you are! Thanks for signing up, and we'll see you Tuesday! - Pete (talk) 06:15, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

Books & Bytes, Issue 4
Books and Bytes Volume 1, Issue 4, February 2014 News for February from your Wikipedia Library. Donations drive: news on TWL's partnership efforts with publishers Open Access: Feature from Ocaasi on the intersection of the library and the open access movement American Library Association Midwinter Conference: TWL attended this year in Philadelphia Royal Society Opens Access To Journals: The UK's venerable Royal Society will give the public (and Wikipedians) full access to two of their journal titles for two days on March 4th and 5th Going Global: TWL starts work on pilot projects in other language Wikipedias Read the full newsletter MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:00, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Second WIKISOO class starts soon!
Hi! Just a quick reminder that the second WIKISOO class starts in about 3 hours. Even if you missed Week 1, please join us at this link for the live webinar - ideally about 15 minutes early to test your mic/speakers. If you haven’t finished up your Week 1 homework, there’s still time; post any questions on the class talk page! You can also watch a video of last week’s class on YouTube (earlier audio problems have been corrected). Feel free to contact me on my talk page with questions anytime! - WIKISOO co-instructor Sara FB (talk) 22:07, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Hi Amanda!
I'd love to keep in touch and share tips and tricks for this whole Wikipedia Loves Libraries realm- we are a public library and this project is the wild wild West for us! Best, Kelsey — Preceding unsigned comment added by Agathafrye (talk • contribs) 01:30, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

WIKISOO Week 3
Hi, we look forward to seeing you in class in a few hours. We look forward to seeing you in class in a few hours. Here's the link to our Week 3 class page and to the live webinar.

PLEASE NOTE: If you're not in the USA, please double-check the class time. We have gone on Daylight Savings Time (also known as Summer Time) in the USA, so for some of you the class time will be an hour earlier. (If your country goes on Summer Time in the coming weeks, you will want to check again!)

This week we are going to start off with some basic review of all we've covered. So if you've been feeling behind or confused by all the details, we'll make sure we've got your questions answered before forging ahead! See you soon, -Pete (talk) 16:31, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

Week 4 of Writing Wikipedia Articles: Final Projects Ahoy!
Hey - hope all is going well with you as we segue into Week 4 of WIKISOO! Just a reminder, in case you need it, that depending on your time zone, class time may have shifted - check out this link to make sure you know when to join us. Looking forward to chatting more with you this week about the Final Project - if you already know which article you're working on, you'll find instructions there for sharing this information easily with your classmates. Post any questions to the class Talk page, please! See you in class tomorrow! Sara FB (talk) 01:46, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

WIKISOO check-in
How's it going, ? Just touching base as we start the fifth (!) week of the WIKISOO course. We're excited to see students working on such a diverse range of articles! If you haven't already, log in, scroll down to the bottom of the main course page to list your chosen final project article next to your own name; brag a little about your work (or just ask questions!) on the course talk page; and join the live lecture tomorrow as we move towards completion of the course! This is when things get exciting. :) Looking forward to seeing you in class! - Sara FB (talk) 23:43, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Week 6 of WIKISOO
Hi ! Just checking in as we head into the final week of the Writing Wikipedia Articles class. You can look through last week's ether pad notes, check out your homework assignments from Week 5, and watch last week's lecture on YouTube - all right here. Check out my note from last week (above) if you're still diving into your Final Project... or head over to the course talk page to see if anyone else is having the same issues you are! Looking forward to seeing you in the last live webinar of the session tomorrow. Big WikiLove. -Sara FB (talk) 23:24, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Basic notability 101
Hi Amanda. I noticed you removed the PROD from Community Resources for Justice, which you are certainly entitled to do. However, I am going to nominate it for deletion, which you cannot remove. I see your point about the institute's work being important and agree to an extent. However, neither your opinion nor my opinion on the subject of the article's importance has any bearing on whether or not it gets an article on Wikipedia. What matters is notability.

Put simply, the definition of notability is (Jeopardy-style in the form of a question): "Are reliable, independent, secondary sources talking about the subject in detail?" In addition, for organizations and corporations (see WP:ORG), you must show sources that are either widely distributed (like books or national magazines) or sources from a disparate geographic area. (in this case, outside of Boston). I looked and did not find any. I hope you can, but that is what it is going to take to prevent the article for being deleted (and even if it is, it will not stop you from re-creating it at a later date when better sources are available). Good luck and happy editing! John from Idegon (talk) 23:08, 7 April 2014 (UTC)


 * thanks very much, I appreciate the additional information, and added my comments to the discussion page for the article's deletion. I think that was the right place to do so, but I may be wrong! I'd like to work on articles in the history area, so am interested in learning more about working within the notability guidelines. AmandaRR123 (talk) 18:20, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Your arguments there are possibly compelling enough to get me to withdraw the nomination. My concern is detail.  The only one that I could review online was just a passing mention, more about the architecture of a building than a human rights organization.  For a reference to be usable to show notability, it first must be reliable (see WP:RS for details, but in short, must have some fact checking policy in place.  Newspapers, magazines of general circulation [ not trade publications ], books [ as long as they are published by mainline publishers and not vanity press ] , respected academic journals, TV and radio news and their websites are all reliable sources.  Web content, other than the sites of reliable print sources, are generally not.) and it also must be "in detail".  That means, in the case of magazines and newspapers, that it has to be an article that is substantially about the organization rather than a directory-type listing or a brief mention in an article on another subject.  It also means that the article cannot be based primarily on an interview with a person connected with the organization or on a press release.
 * If you can show me thru a weblink or a quote that some of the sources I could not see satisfy that requirement, I will gladly withdraw my nomination. Happy editing.  It is good to see new editors that are willing to work within our structure rather than fighting it!  Thanks!  Since you are a librarian, I thought I'd better proofread this closely.  John from Idegon (talk) 18:42, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
 * thanks -- I appreciate all the help! I tried to add a few more sources and re-write the article to make clearer the scope of the orgs work, and added additional comments to the deletion talk page.

April 2014
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Books & Bytes, Issue 6
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