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Books and Bytes - Issue 9
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Issue 9, November-December 2014 by, ,

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 * 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

Draft:Drought in California
Good morning! I noticed that you created Draft:Drought in California, and I was wondering if you wouldn't mind me contributing to it from time to time. Best,  Bananasoldier  (talk) 15:01, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
 * but of course! Please feel free to do anything you like and move to published article when you think it's ready. I haven't had much time to edit the last few weeks so haven't worked on it; I'd be very happy to see someone else add to it! -- phoebe / (talk to me) 21:44, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi, nice to see you editing! I've redirected the draft to the mainspace. § Bananasoldier  (talk) 04:35, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

RfC: AfC Helper Script access
An RfC has been opened at RfC to physically restrict access to the Helper Script. You are invited to  comment. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 17:11, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

RfC: AfC Helper Script access
An RfC has been opened at RfC to physically restrict access to the Helper Script. You are invited to  comment. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 17:14, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

BIS 98
Hi Phoebe,

I'm just checking in concerning the course page you created for Education Program:University of California, Davis/BIS 98 (W15). LiAnna said she thought it was likely a test, but it looks like you've included some assignment specifics there so I'm just making sure we set you up for whatever support you need.

Thanks --Ryan (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:36, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Hey Ryan! Thanks for checking in, and nice to meet you. I know it's a pretty stubby page, but it's actually not a test; it's a class I'm consulting with. It's a very different type of assignment though from the usual -- large-scale, minor edits. I realize this violates many of the best practices we've developed over the years for Wikipedia assignments :) That's intentional on my part though, and I'm keeping a pretty close eye on things. We're hoping to have one more pilot quarter and then evaluation; I'll write up what we did for everyone. I think we're ok for support for now -- if anyone asks about it, I'm taking full personal responsibility for cleaning up the articles in question if need be. best, -- phoebe / (talk to me) 20:44, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for clarifying and for the fast response. In general we like to stick to a particular set of best practices, yes, and to that effect we've been really pushing people to use the assignment design wizard where applicable. There's a copyediting option in there that I'd love your feedback on if you have time to check it out. That said, you certainly have enough experience using and helping people to use Wikipedia that nobody here is concerned if you veer from best practices. Unless you would prefer not to, I'd like to tag your course as supported by wiki_ed. That gives you access to the dashboard feature and extra support if you decide you do want it (e.g. the help of one of our content experts who can provide feedback directly to students and free brochures). --Ryan (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:37, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks Ryan! Sure, go for it -- if for no other reason than I'm curious what it looks like (I work with a fair number of faculty who are thinking about teaching with WP, so it's nice to be up on what we're doing). I haven't looked at the assignment wizard, I'll check it out. Say hi to everyone at WikiEd for me. best, -- phoebe / (talk to me) 21:59, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Great. I replaced the course page header with the newer version that links to the dashboard, turned on dashboard access (it should update within the hour if it's not working yet), added the wiki_ed support parameter, and added myself as online volunteer (I add myself by default for the instructor's benefit; you can remove me if you think it could be confusing). is the content expert who could help out your students. Thanks very much! --Ryan (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:09, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Oh, and to follow up on I work with a fair number of faculty who are thinking about teaching with WP: We're trying to do a little active recruitment for this term, which means recruiting instructors to add a small assignment for terms that have already started or working with people at schools on quarter-based schedules who might not have started yet. If you talk to anyone who might be interested, it would be great if you could send them my way :)
 * Thanks again, Phoebe. --Ryan (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:15, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Quick question: I didn't notice at the time that the course end date is set to just a couple days after the course page was created. Was that intentional? Just making sure it shouldn't still be on the current course list. Ryan (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:23, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Categorize articles with video clips
Hi Phoebe! In your recent bot request to categorize articles with video clips, you provided this link, which is no longer working. Was it the intent that the link would continue to be updated, so I do subsequent bot runs? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 20:45, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi, it would be nice to have ongoing runs, yes. I don't know why the tool is broken -- I'll file a bug about it. -- phoebe / (talk to me) 05:34, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Just noticed that this tool is now fixed, so I'm running the bot again to categorize another 700+ articles. Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 01:36, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
 * awesome, thanks! -- phoebe / (talk to me) 23:46, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Checked again and see that it's broken again. Where did you file a bug about it last time?  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 01:02, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Still broken, so I posted at de:Benutzer Diskussion:TMg Is that the right place?  Thanks, and Happy New Year!  GoingBatty (talk) 17:48, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 10
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Issue 10, January-February 2015 by, ,

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 * 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

Invitation


Hello, Phoebe,

The Editing team is asking for your help with VisualEditor. I am contacting you because you were one of the very first testers of VisualEditor, back in 2012 or early 2013. Please tell them what they need to change to make VisualEditor work better for you. The team has a list of top-priority problems, but they also want to hear about small problems. These problems may make editing less fun, take too much of your time, or be as annoying as a paper cut. The Editing team wants to hear about and try to fix these small things, too.

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Thank you, Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:13, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

thanks for you thanks re climate fiction page and i would love to chat with you sometime about Wiki ideas, i love it, and i am reporter, editor, 65 in Taiwan sinc 1991. dan bloom, Tufts 1971 lit major (Chiayi77 (talk) 04:56, 24 March 2015 (UTC)).

Sakata info
Thanks Phoebe, I wasn't aware of the Wikivoyages pages. I'll try and add some information for Sakata. It's my first time contributing to Wikipedia, so I'm still trying to get the hang of it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sakburgh5 (talk • contribs) 05:26, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Unconstructive edits and original research
Hello! I'm new here and was reviewing Wikipedia's core content policies when I noticed that an unconstructive edit was made over at Sophie Hunter's page by Lady Lotus (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sophie_Hunter&diff=653358418&oldid=653281992). I'm forwarding this request to you as I have seen that you are active with pages on Women in the Arts. Anyway, Lady Lotus has restored an edit that mislabels a production and removes a credit. User Corsican Honeymoon's edit should be restored due to the following reasons:
 * Calling the production Lucretia an installation is mislabeling the production because installations are inanimate and Lucretia has movements from performers, so it should be properly called performance art. Installation and performance art are entirely different things.
 * Putting the timestamp "(2011)" after Rape of Lucretia suggests that Rape of Lucretia was done in 2011 when it isn't. It's the performance art Lucretia that was produced in 2011 not the opera which was first performed in 1946.
 * Deletion of Magic Flute as credit when the provided reliable source explicitly says that Hunter has directed it. Per core content policy "No original research", an editor can't just remove a credit because she thinks the production didn't happen at all. That counts as vandalism.Medium Bae Cutie Pie (talk) 01:51, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

A desperate scream from outside of the echo chamber
Hello Phoebe. Thank you for your work on wikipedia!

I came across another article on a topic which is very important to me today. I hope you don't mind if I share an excerpt:


 * "The main source of [Wikipedia's decline] is not mysterious. The loose collective running the site today, estimated to be 90 percent male, operates a crushing bureaucracy with an often abrasive atmosphere that deters newcomers who might increase participation in Wikipedia and broaden its coverage." - The Decline of Wikipedia.

Is anything seriously being done about this by **you** today? Any widespread structural change initiatives?

Everyday there are more warnings to radically change course. This is the biggest long term problem facing the health of wikipedia. The history of technology shows that it is only a matter of time before a more inclusive upstart threatens wikipedia's dominance.

Thank you for listening! Namecheapblues (talk) 13:41, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

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
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Issue 11, March-April 2015 by, , ,

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 * 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

(Early) Welcome to MIT!
Hi Phoebe -- I just saw on your candidate page that you'll soon be joining the MIT libraries. Wonderful! Looking forward to meeting you and discussing ideas on how MIT and the community can integrate better with WP and mutually support each other. Best, Michael Cuthbert (Assoc. Prof. Music; chair of the Lewis Music Library Faculty Committee). [ etc: -- Michael Scott Cuthbert (talk) 20:53, 19 May 2015 (UTC) ]
 * Mscuthbert thanks! Very cool. Looking forward to it and to meeting you as well. -- phoebe / (talk to me) 17:07, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Wonderful! See you around! - Myke -- Michael Scott Cuthbert (talk) 17:48, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

A pie for you!

 * thank you :) I love pie. -- phoebe / (talk to me) 01:51, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Library needs you!
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Books and Bytes - Issue 12
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Issue 12, May-June 2015 by, , ,

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 * 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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Eponymous Wikipedians
I finally got around to actually creating Category:Eponymous Wikipedians. Feel free to add yourself, pass the word around, etc. Or not, it's just for fun. (The category description could probably use some love as well.) C. Scott Ananian (talk) 13:50, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 13
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Issue 13, August-September 2015 by, , ,

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 * 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

This Friday: Women in Architecture edit-a-thon @ Cambridge, MA
You are invited to join the Women in Architecture edit-a-thon @ Cambridge, MA on October 16! (drop-in any time, 6-9pm)--Pharos (talk) 18:29, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Assistance with Paper Access?
Hi, Phoebe! I hope you've been well since last since we last spoke. Can you help me in obtaining access to the following paper please? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25410148 I think it would help with editing varenicline. Thanks! TylerDurden8823 (talk) 21:54, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

November 2015 newsletter
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ArbCom elections are now open!
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Ceremony today
Hi Phoebe. The guy from the fan club today was me (I actually introduced myself, but I am pretty sure you did not hear).--Ymblanter (talk) 21:35, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Hello! I'm so sorry, you are right that I didn't hear (my hearing is poor and I was very distracted!) it was so great to meet you! thank you for coming and the kind words, and I'm sorry we didn't get to talk more. best, -- phoebe / (talk to me) 13:34, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
 * No problem, I understand you were super-busy. It was great meeting you, and thanks for the nice and insightful speech.--Ymblanter (talk) 14:04, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * I just watch the very nice video — thanks for your contribution.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  22:37, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, you came over very well; thanks, Phoebe. Tony   (talk)  04:05, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you, everyone! That's very kind. -- phoebe / (talk to me) 13:35, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 14
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Issue 14, October-November 2015 by, , ,

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 * 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

Merry Christmas and happy new year
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Merry Christmas and happy new year. (: --<span style="white-space:nowrap;text-shadow:#008C3A 0.1em 0.1em 1.5em,#01796F -0.1em -0.1em 1.5em;"><b style="color:#01796F;">Pine</b><sup style="color:#01796F;">✉

2016

 * thanks User:Cullen328! Same to you. Greetings from the wrong coast - I hope all is well. -- phoebe / (talk to me) 20:52, 31 December 2015 (UTC)