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Contents
- 1 New England Wikipedia Day @ MIT: Saturday Jan 18
- 2 Books & Bytes New Years Double Issue
- 3 You're invited: Women's History Edit-a-thons in Massachusetts this March
- 4 You're invited!
- 5 Edit-a-thon invite
- 6 Adrianne Wadewitz Memorial edit-a-thons
- 7 New England Wikimedians summer events!
- 8 Change of name
- 9 YoYo Games Image Removal
- 10 Revert of AFD closure
- 11 Blastikus
- 12 Premature Closing
New England Wikipedia Day @ MIT: Saturday Jan 18
NE Meetup #4: January 18 at MIT Building 5 | |
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Dear Fellow Wikimedian, You have been invited to the New England Wikimedians 2014 kick-off party and Wikipedia Day Celebration at Building Five on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus on Saturday, January 18th, from 3-5 PM. Afterwards, we will be holding an informal dinner at a local restaurant. If you are curious to join us, please do so, as we are always looking for people to come and give their opinion! Finally, be sure to RSVP here if you're interested. I hope to see you there! Kevin Rutherford (talk) |
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Books & Bytes New Years Double Issue
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
You're invited: Women's History Edit-a-thons in Massachusetts this March
Women's History Edit-a-thons in Massachusetts this March - You are invited! |
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New England Wikimedians is excited to announce a series of Wikipedia edit-a-thons that will be taking place at colleges and universities throughout Massachusetts as part of Wikiwomen's History Month from March 1 - March 31. We encourage you to join in an edit-a-thon near you, or to participate remotely if you are unable to attend in person (for the full list of articles, click here). Events are currently planned for the cities/towns of Boston, Northampton, South Hadley, and Cambridge. Further information on dates and locations can be found on our user group page. Questions? Contact Girona7 (talk) |
You're invited!
NE Meetup #5: April 19th at Clover Food Lab in Kendall Square | |
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Dear Fellow Wikimedian, New England Wikimedians would like to invite you to the April 2014 meeting, which will be a small-scale meetup of all interested Wikimedians from the New England area. We will socialize, review regional events from the beginning of the year, look ahead to regional events of 2014, and discuss other things of interest to the group. Be sure to RSVP here if you're interested. Also, if you haven't done so already, please consider signing up for our mailing list and connect with us on Facebook and Twitter. We hope to see you there! Kevin Rutherford (talk) and Maia Weinstock (talk) |
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Edit-a-thon invite
Adrianne Wadewitz Memorial edit-a-thons
Adrianne Wadewitz edit-a-thons in Southern New England | |
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As you may have already heard, the Wikipedia community lost an invaluable member of the community last month. Adrianne Wadewitz was a feminist scholar of 18th-Century British literature, and a prolific editor of the site. As part of a worldwide series of tributes, New England Wikimedians, in conjunction with local institutions of higher learning, have created three edit-a-thons that will be occurring in May and June. The events are as follows:
We hope that you will be able to join us, whether you are an experienced editor or are using Wikipedia for the first time. If you have any questions, please leave a message at Kevin Rutherford's talk page. You can unsubscribe from future notifications for Boston-area events by removing your name from this list. |
New England Wikimedians summer events!
Upcoming events hosted by New England Wikimedians! | |
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After many months of doubt, nature has finally warmed up and summer is almost here! The New England Wikimedians user group have planned some upcoming events. This includes some unique and interesting events to those who are interested:
Although we also aren't hosting this year's Wikimania, we would like to let you know that Wikimania this year will be occurring in London in August: If you have any questions, please leave a message at Kevin Rutherford's talk page. You can unsubscribe from future notifications for Boston-area events by removing your name from this list. |
Change of name
Hi, I changed my first name(s) from "Mehmet" to "David Ezra". As you may have noticed, I edited the page "Mehmet Okonsar" to reflect my new name "David Ezra Okonsar". Is there a way to change the title of the page? thank you
YoYo Games Image Removal
Hello, the image you removed was the actual image generated by the program when the DRM fails, I have sources for this as well.[1] Can you please discuss this further on the talk page as I do not want to add the image again and continue edit warring, thank you. BlitzGreg (talk) 18:41, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
Revert of AFD closure
please explain? How is closing something as "speedy keep" when the issue in question is not covered by the deletion policy an issue, especially when half the votes are in favour of that, and the rest keeps? --Mdann52talk to me! 17:24, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
- WP:SPEEDYKEEP is only valid under a particular set of circumstances. If you had invoked WP:SNOWCLOSE, I probably would have left it alone. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 20:42, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
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- Personally, I'd argue that this comes somewhere inbetween points 2 and 3, especially as it is a redirect, therefore is the wrong venue. However, I have reclosed as per WP:SNOW. Thanks, --Mdann52talk to me! 08:18, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
Blastikus
Hi, I was watching EdJohnston's page and recognized your name as the first blocking admin for Blastikus (talk · contribs). Would you be able to weigh in on the site ban proposal for him? The only comment so far has been a rambling "lol doesn't matter", so I am anxious to see meaningful input. Regards, Manul 20:55, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
- I don't think my input is needed, pretty clear what should be done. :-) --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 21:05, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
- It's not quite clear to me; I've never made a ban proposal before. I assume you mean the ban should happen, not "lol doesn't matter"? Regards, Manul 21:16, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
- At first glance, I can't see any particular argument against the ban. I didn't dig deeply enough into contributions to confirm that, though, which is mostly why I'm not opining there as well. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 21:21, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
- It's not quite clear to me; I've never made a ban proposal before. I assume you mean the ban should happen, not "lol doesn't matter"? Regards, Manul 21:16, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
Premature Closing
You recently closed a closure review for America:Imagine a World Without Her, prematurely. Another editor unarchived it because there wasn't sufficient discussion and this is proven by the fact that the arguments made were not refuted. I even supplied examples of how this issue was forumshopped which is directly expressed as a reason a RFC should be overturned. Please explain your closing decisions and the WP policies that support it.Scoobydunk (talk) 08:55, 17 December 2014 (UTC)