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Books & Bytes New Years Double Issue

Books & Bytes

Volume 1 Issue 3, December/January 2013

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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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The Signpost: 16 March 2016

• News and notes: Wikipedia Zero: Orange mobile partnership in Africa ends; the evolution of privacy loss in Wikipedia

• In the media: Wales at SXSW; lawsuit over Wikipedia PR editing

• Op-ed: Hard work needed to address Wikimedia’s leadership challenges

• Discussion report: Is an interim WMF executive director inherently notable?

• Featured content: This week's featured content

• Technology report: Watchlists, watchlists, watchlists!

• Traffic report: Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States

• Wikipedia Weekly: Podcast #119: The Foundation and the departure of Lila Tretikov

• Blog: It “revolutionized the way German-speaking people inform themselves about the world”: Fifteen years of the German Wikipedia

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Notification

Thank you for the WP:ACDS warning on my talk page which I can only assume was made in good faith, nevertheless, as so many Israel haters are prone to point out, anti-Semitism and hatred of Israel are not necessarily synonymous so please do not conflate the two. In this case, this ruling clearly does not apply, because it is about Sizer's dissemination of anti-Semitic material, and not about the Arab-Israeli conflict. Clivel 0 (talk) 22:23, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

Don't try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs. And the ruling certainly does apply to edits relating to anti-Zionism. RolandR (talk) 00:25, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 March 2016

• Interview: Exclusive: interview with interim ED Katherine Maher

• News and notes: Lila Tretikov a Young Global Leader; Wikipediocracy blog post sparks indefinite blocks

• In the media: Angolan file sharers cause trouble for Wikipedia Zero; the 3D printer edit war; a culture based on change and turmoil

• Traffic report: Be weary on the Ides of March

• Editorial: "God damn it, you've got to be kind."

• Featured content: Watch out! A slave trader, a live mascot and a crested serpent awaits!

• Arbitration report: Palestine-Israel article 3 case amended

• Wikipedia Weekly: Podcast #120: Status of Wikimania 2016

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The Signpost: 1 April 2016

• News and notes: Trump/Wales 2016

• In the media: Saskatoon police delete Wikipedia content about police brutality

• WikiProject report: Why should the Devil have all the good music? An interview with WikiProject Christian music

• Traffic report: Donald v Daredevil

• Featured content: A slow, slow week

• Technology report: Browse Wikipedia in safety? Use Telnet!

• Recent research: "Employing Wikipedia for good not evil" in education; using eyetracking to find out how readers read articles

• Wikipedia Weekly: Podcast #121: How April Fools went down

• Blog: Growing hashtags: Expanding outreach on Wikipedia

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I am intrested to know

Is there a point in being Jewish when you are a an Anti-Zionistic communist? I mean, if you were Haredi, I would understand, but you are Marxist-Atheist and you are also seem to oppose "Racist Jews", at least this is the only ethnic group that you mention in your userpage that is racist (And I suppose I am one of them).--Bolter21 (talk to me) 19:52, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

That makes as much sense as asking " Is there any point being male when you are pro-feminist?" That is, no sense at all. I am Jewish, that is aan objective statement of fact. And, as an anti-racist, of course I oppose Zionism. I have no idea whether Bolter is either Jewish or a racist, so I cannot comment on his other remarks. RolandR (talk) 23:03, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

There's a difference between being a male and being Jewish. You can deny the fact you are a male but you can't deny the fact that biologically, you are a male. Being Jewish though, is an almost purely subjective thing, you can choose if you are or not a Jew. But since you are Marxist and Atheist, as well as Anti-Zionist, what holds you as a Jew? I am an Israeli, I am a Zionist, I am an Apatheist and I feel solidarity with other Jews everywhere. Since you claim you are not connected to Judaism by religion and you oppse Zionism and you are also a Marxist, I still don't get why still call yourself a Jew and not just a "human being". To me it sounds like a clash of ideologies, it seems you share more ideologies with anti-semitics rather than Jews.--Bolter21 (talk to me) 06:44, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for your very intelligent and perceptive comments. I must admit that I have never thought of things that way; you have obliged me to completely rethink my life. Goodbye. RolandR (talk) 11:17, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

You are welcome. (assuming you don't feel like answering)--Bolter21 (talk to me) 14:52, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 April 2016

• Op-ed: Should prison inmates be permitted to edit Wikipedia?

• News and notes: Denny Vrandečić resigns from Wikimedia Foundation board

• In the media: Wikimedia Sweden loses copyright case; Tex Watson; AI assistants; David Jolly biography

• Featured content: This week's featured content

• Traffic report: A welcome return to pop culture and death

• Arbitration report: The first case of 2016—Wikicology

• Gallery: A history lesson

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Books & Bytes - Issue 16

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Books & Bytes
Issue 16, February-March 2016
by The Interior (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs)

• New donations - science, humanities, and video resources
• Using hashtags in edit summaries - a great way to track a project
• A new cite archive template, a new coordinator, plus conference and Visiting Scholar updates
• Metrics for the Wikipedia Library's last three months

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Help

Hi RolandR, can you please give your opinion on the censorship issue on Talk:Yisrael Katz (politician born 1955)? 2A02:C7D:3FDE:D400:34AC:583A:B24A:5AF3 (talk) 15:14, 24 April 2016 (UTC)