Wikipedia talk:Newspapers.com

Publisher Extra no longer available
Back when access was still account based, we would get access to all Publisher Extra features and publications. Is there a way to access this using the proxy method, or is it something that is no longer available? Yee no  (talk) 10:16, 17 December 2023 (UTC)


 * I am having the same problem. I hope the limitation is only temporary. Eddie Blick (talk) 02:41, 4 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Hmm, works for me. I was able to browse the 03 Jul 1978 Boston Globe, which I believe is a Publisher Extra feature.  Maybe try tossing the cookies in your browser?  See also links at the bottom of Newspapers.com. Cxbrx (talk) 03:21, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
 * @Teblick @Cxbrx: I was able to access my page while logged in by replacing  in the url with image. For example, if I access https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/newspage/436990449/, I run into a paywall, but https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/image/436990449/ works fine.  Yee no   (talk) 03:45, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks, @Yeeno! I will try that technique. Eddie Blick (talk) 03:50, 4 January 2024 (UTC)


 * This is happening to me now, as of last night (so 5 April 2024). Accessing as usual through TWL, I can't see any search results, they all take me to the "Upgrade to a Publisher Extra Subscription to view this page" popup. I think I can see my own old clippings fine. Anyone else? Penny Richards (talk) 14:23, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Update: got it working in another browser. Probably a cache problem. Penny Richards (talk) 20:54, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Sounds like the same issue for me, too. By chance, are/were you operating through Safari on MacOS? The paywall pops up when I try to load up The Journal (Newcastle upon Tyne) on Safari - my older clippings are loading just fine - but on Google Chrome, the popup doesn't appear. Hullian111 (talk) 20:07, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
 * MacOS, but Firefox--it's been working fine since I cleared cache, though. Penny Richards (talk) 00:29, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/
Is it just me or does the site load much more slowly via the new URL through the Wikipedia Library? When I was using plain old Newspapers.com, it seemed to go much quicker and there were fewer errors. Now it seems I have to wait for search results and images to load and sometimes have to reload them after my first effort fails. I'm not sure if this is a me problem or if this is universal. Dennis C. Abrams (talk) 14:26, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
 * @Denniscabrams: I've never really noticed any significant issues, although it will inherently be slightly slower as your requests have to go through the Wikipedia Library as a sort of middleman before reaching the Newspapers.com servers. Bsoyka  (t &bull; c &bull; g) 20:42, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
 * You're not alone, Dennis. I find it to be much slower than when I had a Newspapers.com subscription. Not so much slower that I am suddenly interested in forking out $230 AUD a year for a Publisher Extra subscription again, but it definitely impacts the speed of work. Gibbsyspin 10:15, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

View newspaper articles in the citation
I have previously used the following format: https://www.newspapers.com/search/#lnd=1&query=%22Terrace%22&ymd=1929-01-06&t=11702: for readers of articles to view the actual newspaper excerpt when clicking on the citation. This no longer works. Is there another way to achieve this outside of logging into that site by one means or another? DMBanks1 (talk) 22:47, 11 April 2024 (UTC)


 * I'm afraid I don't know what that syntax previously produced. What are you trying to accomplish beyond what is done by a clipping? Nick Number (talk) 14:42, 12 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Up to a few days ago, this syntax produced an image similar to the one seen in a search when logged into the site via Wiki Library. It does not appear even possible now to search the site when not logged in. I am unfamiliar with creating clippings. Can this be done when logged in via Wiki Library? Can a small section of an article be clipped? Are there instructions to create a clipping? DMBanks1 (talk) 15:27, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Basic instructions are at Newspapers.com. Nick Number (talk) 16:11, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
 * When the "Welcome from Wikimedia Foundation" "Free Registration" screen appears at step 7, the message is "There was an error while loading the form. Please contact customer support" Is free access no longer available? DMBanks1 (talk) 17:22, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I'd recommend creating a free account with email through their normal form first. Then at step 7, log in with that account instead of registering. Nick Number (talk) 17:58, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Register button on normal form is inactive, making registration impossible. DMBanks1 (talk) 19:27, 12 April 2024 (UTC)


 * I'm not able to reproduce that; I can at least enter an email address and password and click the Cloudflare box to get the Register button to light up. I'd recommend clearing your cache and/or trying a different browser. Nick Number (talk) 19:30, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Where is the Cloudflare box? DMBanks1 (talk) 19:40, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
 * For me it shows a "Verify you are human" box below Show Password after entering an email address. Nick Number (talk) 20:04, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

The button took a few minutes to appear. Thank you for your patience. I think I've now created a clipping https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/image/774906896/?match=1&clipping_id=145249056 from Victoria Daily Chronicle Mon, Dec 11, 1865 ·Page 3, but am not entirely sure. If not, what step have I missed? If so, how is this expressed as a regular https file, since I cannot figure out the wiki guideline? DMBanks1 (talk) 21:29, 12 April 2024 (UTC)


 * The publicly accessible URL (reached by clicking the View Clip button and then changing www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org to www.newspapers.com) is https://www.newspapers.com/article/victoria-daily-chronicle-the-proposed-wa/145249056/. This process can be streamlined a bit, and archiving added, using the bookmarklet described here at the line starting with "My workaround". Nick Number (talk) 21:37, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Your help in navigating me through this exercise has been much appreciated. DMBanks1 (talk) 21:49, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Date range searching
Until yesterday morning, searching on a date range worked fine. Since then, searches produce varying numbers of searchable items followed by a consecutive list of page numbers, which are not buttons to anywhere else. Searches on specific dates still appear to work. Is the site experiencing chronic problems when accessed via Wikimedia? DMBanks1 (talk) 15:47, 23 April 2024 (UTC)


 * They seem to have changed their search sometime last week. I'm finding it less convenient since it no longer appears to support searching for a string and date in the same query. Maybe there are different ways to get to these functions now, but I'm unaware of them. Nick Number (talk) 17:17, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I am finding different things on different days. 2 days ago, I had to change the date by sliding the bar in the right margin (a pain in the X, IMO), but then yesterday I was able to add a date range at the top. So that seems to support that they are making changes. SusunW (talk) 17:40, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I can confirm that I've been seeing the same changes as SusunW. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 18:03, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Extra Subscription error message
It probably has something to do with all the changes happening on the site, but today every search result ends up with the error "Upgrade to a Publisher Extra Subscription to view this page". I can neither see any article nor clip it as I can't get past the popup. SusunW (talk) 16:15, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I haven't been able to access Newspapers.com articles since at least 24 April. I've been forced to use the California Digital Newspaper Database for my research, but that doesn't have all my sources and is limited to California.– Whaleyland (Talk • Contributions) 12:04, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
 * @SusunW @Whaleyland We're aware of some transient issues with Publisher Extra. Over on Meta a couple of users said that clearing their cookies fixed the issue - can you try that? Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 13:09, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
 * before I posted here I cleared the oclc cookies because you told me to do that last time. I honestly think it had to do with all the changes they are making on the site because the next day everything was back to normal, except I couldn't pull up anything in "My Clippings", but I could find them in "All Clippings". Then the day after that my clippings returned. I do wish they would finish whatever upgrades they are doing. But still am very grateful for the access. SusunW (talk) 14:52, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I erased my cookies for all of the relevant sites and it seems to work now. It's dumb that it randomly will forget that you have access, but I'm very glad to have it back. Thanks for the tip.– Whaleyland (Talk • Contributions) 07:27, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Can't Clip articles.
I have access to Newspapers.com through my Ancestry account, but I don't have Publishers Extra and I'm not going to get it because I ONLY use Newspapers.com for references in Wikipedia articles.

Previously, I was able to clip any articles through my Wikipedia Library account after signing in to Newspapers with my Ancestry account. For over a week now, that hasn't worked. So I tried something else.

I log into my Wikipedia library account and go to Newspapers.com. I pick an article and try to make a clipping. When I'm prompted to log in or create a new account, I try to create a new one. Then I get a message, "There was an error while loading the form. Please contact customer support." This has been happening for over a week. The suggestion to clear cookies was a very good one. However, that didn't change anything.

What should I do? I know there is a site to contact Wikipedia tech support so they can contact Newspapers.com, but where can I find that?

Newspapers.com is critical to creating solid references readers can use to verify articles. You would not BELIEVE the nonsense I've found in claims that had sources that were supposedly unverifiable. Oona Wikiwalker (talk) 03:28, 13 May 2024 (UTC)


 * You may need to toss some cookies associated with oclc.org from your browser. See Newspapers.com.  Cxbrx (talk) 05:49, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
 * @Oona Wikiwalker I believe Ancestry logins are currently broken for Newspapers.com (T322916). In the meantime you'll want to register a new account (not within the library), and then log into that from within the library. Apologies that this is a little convoluted :) Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 09:11, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you! I'll try that right away. Newspapers.com is so vital, IMHO, to providing verifiability to articles here. It seem like an extremely wise investment by Wikipedia. Oona Wikiwalker (talk) 19:51, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Is there a way to sign up for a free account without getting roped into a free trial? I don't know what'll happen at the end of the trial. (Internet outages, work demands, life demands.) That's why I don't sign up for free trials I don't intend to migrate through to paid subscriptions. Oona Wikiwalker (talk) 19:56, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I've gotten the new format  https://access-newspaperarchive-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/CLIPURL  to work with  https://newspaperarchive.com/CLIPURL  MacAddct1984 (talk &#124; contribs) 20:47, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

Error message
Over the past week, on clicking "View Clip" after saving, the clipped article appears for a second and is then replaced by the message, "This page is not available. This page is pending publication, has been removed or moved to a new location." However, this does not prevent the URL from being converted to WP format where it works fine. DMBanks1 (talk) 15:07, 22 June 2024 (UTC)


 * I've been getting that too. It has been slightly annoying (especially when citing more than usual for the Reliability drive), but clicking the bookmarklet does make it go away, so I've mostly been ignoring it. Nick Number (talk) 16:30, 22 June 2024 (UTC)


 * I'm having the same issue with clippings, and it is very annoying., can you explain what you mean by "clicking the bookmarklet"? Thanks, Jweiss11 (talk) 22:07, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Just adding a +1 to this thread, the site loads correctly but every search results in "There was a problem loading the search results. Please try again. If the problem persists, please contact us." I've deleted all OCLC cookies, all Newspapers.com cookies, even the Wikipedia Library cookies. -- Zanimum (talk) 23:50, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I'm also getting the search results error in the last couple hours. This seems to happen periodically and usually resolves within a few hours. The clipping problem has been persistent for at least a week now. Jweiss11 (talk) 23:55, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I'm getting both of the errors described in this thread as well. Chrome and Firefox, both mobile and desktop.
 * @Jweiss11: see here for details about the bookmarklet that Nick Number created. Tl;dr: create a bookmark and paste the following code in the URL field:
 * When you have a clipped article open, click on the bookmark and it will convert the long URL to the shorter URL (which doesn't give the error message). Pi.1415926535 (talk) 00:07, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
 * When you have a clipped article open, click on the bookmark and it will convert the long URL to the shorter URL (which doesn't give the error message). Pi.1415926535 (talk) 00:07, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

Sign in
Loading error message appearing on sign in page today. Are you having the same problem? DMBanks1 (talk) 14:33, 4 July 2024 (UTC)


 * Yes, I'm getting "There was an error while loading the form. Please contact customer support". Nick Number (talk) 15:49, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I see that error when I load the login page. If I then still enter my U/P and press enter, it additionally gives the error: "There was a problem verifying you are not a robot. Please try again or refresh the page." PK-WIKI (talk) 21:01, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Worse, deleting cookies fixes nothing Mach61 17:19, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Ever since we had to start using this through the Wikipedia Library, it seems like there is always some sort of problem. When we could just go on Newspapers.com directly, I don't recall having any issues. Just a thought. Thanks, ~WikiOriginal-9~  ( talk ) 18:20, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Have the same issue too. Tried deleting cookies.  It didn’t help. Phatblackmama (talk) 22:35, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
 * After trying all yesterday, I started again over 3 hours ago but no luck. I'm wondering if the access through Wiki has been permanently withdrawn. DMBanks1 (talk) 15:46, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Given that:
 * Many of the recurring issues, including this one, seem to be with their bot-detection system, and of them seem to be with the OCLC proxy system.
 * The OCLC proxy system is presumably used by other institutional customers (libraries etc) who are likely a substantial portion of their customer base, and
 * Wikipedia Library access is probably a very small percentage of their traffic (i.e, no strong incentive to frustrate us into becoming individual paying users), and may well function as a loss leader because clips we make are linked from a popular public website
 * Sending Wikipedia Library traffic through their existing OCLC proxy is likely much simpler for them than having to individually activate free accounts as was previously done
 * I would tend to suspect that this is not a deliberate attempt by the site to exclude us. More likely it is one or more of:
 * They're having larger problems with the OCLC proxy system as a whole and customer support is already up to their ears
 * Because Wikipedia Library users have different characteristics than a typical institutional customer (more spread out in geography and time zone versus a city or university library's users would be, for example), they may be more likely to trigger the bot-detection systems
 * As a relatively minor customer, Wikipedia Library may not be a high priority for support, especially if unique fixes are needed
 * While the frequent interruptions are frustrating, and I hope Wikipedia Library staff are able to work with Newspapers.com to fix these issues, I doubt this is deliberate malice. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 20:18, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
 * 1415926535, I agree with your assessment, but this is pretty annoying. Jweiss11 (talk) 13:54, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Apologies for intruding on this conversation, but has there been any updates about this? When I log into the Wikipedia Library, it still says that access to Newspapers.com is temporarily unavailable and I get a "T322916" error. Aoba47 (talk) 16:48, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Since you have a better grasp of the issue than most, when do you expect the clipping function to be restored? Should we be assuming it is not imminent. I was two clippings away from doing a substantial article update 9 days ago. Should we just be publishing article changes with the newspaper citations but no clippings? DMBanks1 (talk) 15:03, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
 * The info must per verified though. User:DMBanks1 if you need help right now let me know. Timur9008 (talk) 15:24, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Do you have a way to sign in and thus create clippings? DMBanks1 (talk) 15:33, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Yeah I'm a subscriber. Timur9008 (talk) 15:38, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I need clippings for: The Hope Standard, Mar 2, 2006, page A14 "Movie Business Booming in Hope" (top left of page) and The Hope Standard, Dec 10, 2015, page A10 "Planet of the Apes" (right side of page to include narrative and photo below). DMBanks1 (talk) 16:07, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅, Timur9008 (talk) 16:14, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Many thanks DMBanks1 (talk) 16:30, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
 * @DMBanks1: I don't have any insight into the timeline, unfortunately. My post above was just based on what's been discussed on this page. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 21:13, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Still not working. ~WikiOriginal-9~  ( talk ) 16:39, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I am having the same problem. I have contacted support. LuxembourgLover (talk) 23:31, 20 July 2024 (UTC)