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This Month in GLAM: December 2019
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Books & Bytes – Issue 37
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Issue 37, November – December 2019 
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This Month in Education: January 2020
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This Month in GLAM: January 2020
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The Signpost: 1 March 2020
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This Month in Education: February 2020
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This Month in GLAM: February 2020
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Looking for help ASAP on scientific topic to help with coronavirus
Looking for help ASAP on scientific topic to help with coronavirus I've got what I think is highly helpful information I want to add to an article, but need someone who understands Wikipedia, science, prudent safety consideration, & how to collaborate. And willing to race through data & such for the next several hours. And having OneNote 2010 would really help! I've collected a lot of linked information! I’m feeling the urgency to get the info out. Need help & it looked like you might have relevant experience! I'll keep looking for others, too. I’m super-green at Wikipedia, so please forgive if I’m using wrong channels to contact! Please let me know as soon as you can!! Field In (talk) 08:43, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I see you have already gotten responses from others, so I won't dig into this at this point. -- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 23:18, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

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This Month in Education: March 2020
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Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools
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The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the Talk pages consultation 2019.



The team is building a new tool for replying to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically. Please test the new Reply tool.


 * On 31 March 2020, the new tool was offered as a Beta Feature editors at four Wikipedias:  Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian.  If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF).
 * The team is planning some upcoming changes. Please review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page.  The team will test features such as:
 * an easy way to mention another editor ("pinging"),
 * a rich-text visual editing option, and
 * other features identified through user testing or recommended by editors.

To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the "Get involved"  section of the project page. You can also watch these pages: the main project page, Updates, Replying, and User testing.

– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 19:05, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: March 2020
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Happy Earth day!
 Happy Earth Day!   Hello! Wishing you a Happy Earth day on the behalf of WikiProject Environment and ''WikiProject Ecology.

What is this?
 * Earth Day is an annual event celebrated around the world on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First celebrated in 1970, it now includes events coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network in more than 193 countries.

What you can do!!
 * Actively participate in our Wikiprojects.
 * Promote an awareness of the natural environment and world.
 * Tag and assess articles under the scope of these projects.
 * Patrol articles related to environmental protection.
 * Maintain articles listed at List of controversial issues, WikiProject Environment/Popular pages, WikiProject Ecology, etc.
 * Participate in the delsort. and so on...

Newly nominated content
 * Energy in Turkey
 * Energy policy of Turkey
 * Electricity sector in Turkey

Similar events
 * Earth Hour
 * International Day of Forests
 * International Mother Earth Day
 * World Environment Day
 * World Soil Day
 * World Water Day



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Issue 38, January – April 2020
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 * New partnership
 * Global roundup

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This Month in Education: April 2020
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This Month in GLAM: April 2020
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This Month in Education: May 2020
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This Month in GLAM: May 2020
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Books & Bytes – Issue 39, May – June 2020
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 * Library Card Platform
 * New partnerships
 * ProQuest
 * Springer Nature
 * BioOne
 * CEEOL
 * IWA Publishing
 * ICE Publishing
 * Bytes in brief

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Editing news 2020 #2
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This issue of the Editing newsletter includes information the Talk pages project, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily.


 * Reply tool : This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature is called "".  The Beta Feature will get new features soon.  The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing  . You can test the new features on the Beta Cluster now.  Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months.
 * New requirements for user signatures : Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in Special:Preferences. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable.  Most editors will not be affected.
 * New discussion tool : The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions.   You can see the initial design on the project page.
 * Research on the use of talk pages : The Editing team worked with the Wikimedia research team to study how talk pages help editors improve articles.  We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.

– Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 20:29, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

This Month in Education: June 2020
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The Signpost: 28 June 2020
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Editing news 2020 #3
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Seven years ago this month, the Editing team offered the visual editor to most Wikipedia editors. Since then, editors have achieved many milestones:


 * More than 50 million edits have been made using the visual editor on desktop.
 * More than 2 million new articles have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
 * The visual editor is increasingly popular . The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has increased every year since its introduction.
 * In 2019, 35% of the edits by newcomers (logged-in editors with ≤99 edits) used the visual editor. This percentage has increased every year.
 * Almost 5 million edits on the mobile site have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the mobile visual editor in 2018.
 * On 17 November 2019, the first edit from outer space was made in the mobile visual editor. 🚀 👩‍🚀
 * Editors have made more than 7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor, including starting 600,000 new articles in it. The 2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode.  You can enable it in your preferences.

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This Month in GLAM: June 2020
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This Month in Education: July 2020
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This Month in GLAM: July 2020
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