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Suggestion by User:Sm8900 (2020-03-05); Re community event notices compilation

The Signpost should write about...

I have created a section at the Wikipedia:Community bulletin board which compiles a whole variety of events, edit-a-thons, contests, etc etc, taking place around Wikipedia, mostly at WikiProjects, but also elsewhere as well.

LINK: you can view this at: Wikipedia:Community bulletin board#Wikiproject group activities and efforts.

I was wondering if we could provide the same information, here at the Signpost page? If so, let me know where, and I will copy and paste this compilation of items. I am proposing this at the suggestion of Andrybak. I appreciate any help, guidance, or input. Please ping me if you reply. thanks! Sm8900 (talk) 14:33, 5 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

JSTOR open

Because of the Covid-19 issue, JSTOR has become open to all until June 30, 2020. No login needed: http://www.universitytimes.ie/2020/03/jstor-makes-database-accessible-to-the-public/?doing_wp_cron=1584647560.9826989173889160156250. kosboot (talk) 20:20, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Here's JSTOR's statement: https://about.jstor.org/covid19/?utm_source=jstor&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=dsp_jstor_home_right_covid19_03_2020 - kosboot (talk) 21:46, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm reading that as "Open to already-participating institutions and potentially to libraries" not to the whole public. That is, if your university has a partial JSTOR license, you now have a full JSTOR license. --Masem (t) 22:19, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Is this their full ebook collection or only partial? If so, it's a huge deal. czar 22:28, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This is the best news I've heard all week. -Indy beetle (talk) 02:30, 20 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It's not everything but, according to them, it's a lot. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:52, 20 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, clarification from a librarian who said that a lot of misinterpretation is going around: "JSTOR is currently NOT opening their database to the public beyond what they already made freely available pre-Covid. That open access content can be searched here: https://www.jstor.org/open/. The exception to this are several journals in Public Health related directly to the virus, which they have made freely available." - kosboot (talk) 17:48, 20 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Indy Beetle, Liz, and Kosboot: - if anybody could sort this out, it sounds like it's good for at least 2 paragraphs in News & Notes, perhaps much more. If you want to start it please let us know on the newsroom talk page. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 18:46, 20 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like it's only certain publishers? @Samwalton9 (WMF), do you know if TWL's JSTOR coverage expands at all per these offers? czar 20:54, 28 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Unclear, I'll ask! Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 16:06, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Czar: JSTOR confirmed with us that everything listed on this page was already in the Wikipedia Library collection, but ebooks aren't, so the short answer is no. Ebooks are something we've been asking for for some time, and they're going to take another look into it (the agreements on their end are slightly different so it's not a direct change they can make). Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 16:57, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Internet Archive accused of using Covid-19 as 'an excuse for piracy' : This also seems relevant. -Indy beetle (talk) 02:52, 31 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Vikivestnik

It may be also interesting for you that we at Russian community have revived the Vikivestnik (Викивестник), literally "Wiki Herald" — Wikipedia/Wikimedia news bulletin in Russian language. It existed since 2008 in Russian Wikipedia as ru:ВП:ВЕСТ and was abandoned in 2015 and we have recently revived it at Russian Wikinews as n:ru:Викивестник. We use some material from Signpost, translating summaries. In 2016, an user created a project called "Signpost-digest", ru:Проект:Сайнпост-дайджест, a short summary of Signpost, but it was also abandoned after about 10 issues. --ssr (talk) 06:58, 21 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion by Another Believer (2020-04-01)

Just wanted to share some additional COVID-related coverage:

---Another Believer _(Talk) 03:49, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

In The News: Trump uses Wikipedia?

https://news.sky.com/story/trump-gets-seoul-population-wrong-by-28-million-after-boasting-he-knows-south-korea-better-than-anybody-11966163 https://twitter.com/simonmaginn/status/1245340399348133891?s=20 I have noted the date but it appears genuine. It's a good joke, if not. Cavrdg (talk) 13:35, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If we wrote a paragraph on every slip of the tongue by Trump we might fill up the Signpost each month, so I'm a bit skeptical. Also I can't see a link to Wikipedia except in somebody else's tweet. OTOH, he did miss it by a long way. In our List of largest cities, Tokyo has the largest numbers on the table (city proper, metropolitan area, urban area) of about 37 million in the urban area. Ouch. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 03:11, 4 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

April Fools Day DYK

Would it be worth a mention that every single article of the 11 that featured in the DYK section on April Fools Day received enough views to make it onto WP:DYKSTATS? It is very rare (and I don't recall it ever happening before) that every article in a set gains 5,000+ views, let alone an 11 article set. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 18:54, 2 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion by Bri (2020-04-02) – Wikidata compatible with "pure and unadulterated evil"

The Signpost should write about how Wikidata has been proposed as a workaround for an article deemed "pure and unadulterated evil". See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people with coronavirus disease 2019. ☆ Bri (talk) 20:29, 2 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion by slatersteven (2020-04-05)

The Signpost should write about...

A personal statement Corona Virus

In the first time in our (as in Wikipedia's) history we are actually living (and writing about) events that have a truly global scale that will have repercussions decades (if not 100's of years) from now. Every article we have related to this is far more important and significant than any article we have ever written before, both from a historical as well as contemporary viewpoint. What we say will have a very real impact on people living. We must all ensure that disinformation is not allowed to be expressed here, and we must expose it when it occurs. We must ensure that our readers are not only informed about the virus, but about those who would (and/or have) mislead them. Now we actually are important, in a way we have never been before. What we write here will be of historical importance, both as an example of how society dealt with this crisis, and a record of it.Slatersteven (talk) 13:55, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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 ''The Signpost'' should write about how Wikidata has been proposed as a workaround for an article deemed {{diff2|945768354|"pure and unadulterated evil"}}. See [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people with coronavirus disease 2019]].  ☆ [[User:Bri|Bri]] ([[User talk:Bri|talk]]) 20:29, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
+== Suggestion by slatersteven (2020-04-05) ==
+''The Signpost'' should write about... <!--Include links if you have them! -->
+===A personal statement Corona Virus===
+In the first time in our (as in Wikipedia's) history we are actually living (and writing about) events that have a truly global scale that will have repercussions decades (if not 100's of years) from now. Every article we have related to this is far more important and significant than any article we have ever written before, both from a historical as well as contemporary viewpoint. What we say will have a very real impact on people living. We must all ensure that disinformation is not allowed to be expressed here, and we must expose it when it occurs. We must ensure that our readers are not only informed about the virus, but about those who would (and/or have) mislead them. Now we actually are important, in a way we have never been before. What we write here will be of historical importance, both as an example of how society dealt with this crisis, and a record of it.[[User:Slatersteven|Slatersteven]] ([[User talk:Slatersteven|talk]]) 13:55, 5 April 2020 (UTC)