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February 19, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon NYC

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  • Armenia report: Wiki project on Museums with My Armenia
  • Brazil report: Moreira Salles Institute GLAM initiative in Brazil
  • Finland report: The Helsinki then and now exhibition
  • France report: GLAM related blogposts
  • Indonesia report: Proposing collaboration with museums in Bali; First Wikisource training in the region
  • Netherlands report: Students write articles about Media artists, Public Domain Day 2020, Wiki Goes Caribbean, WikiFridays at Ihlia - Wikimedia Nederland in January & February 2020
  • Norway report: Wikipedia editing workshop with the Norwegian Network for Museums
  • Serbia report: Great dedication of librarians
  • Sweden report: Historic photos; Support for international Wikimedia community; Library training tour; Many GLAMs improved on Wikidata
  • UK report: Kimonos and Khalili
  • Ukraine report: Winning photos Wiki Loves Monuments shown in different cities; Libraries Lead an All-Ukrainian Challenge
  • USA report: Black History Month and Open Access Anniversaries
  • Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: Summary of pilot projects, and what's next
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March 18, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

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RILM access

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Thanks for posting that unbelievably timely bit of news. I'm using the coronavirus 'pause' to (re-)explore an extensive ontology for the performing arts. The drop in air/car travel may be good for the environment, but I have contributed to the death of many trees as the sheets of A3 cascade from my desk. Being able to test the ability of my designs and structures to fully capture a wide range of very rich (musical-related) content will be invaluable. Grazie! Scarabocchio (talk) 12:05, 26 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Prego! You're welcome! - kosboot (talk) 12:57, 26 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I see that you are in the GLAM group. I have a few former colleagues from IAML in mind for bouncing ideas off, but if you have any suggestions for anyone who might span across from the 'preserving arts' to the performing side, please drop me an email. (and stay safe!) Scarabocchio (talk) 14:32, 26 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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This Month in Education

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  • Australia report: Know My Name; Public libraries of Queensland join Wikidata
  • Colombia report: Gender gap, Wikipedia and Libraries from the GLAM team
  • France report: WikiGoths; WikiTopia Archives
  • Indonesia report: Volunteers' meet-up; Wiki Cinta Budaya 2020 structured data edit-a-thon
  • Ireland report: Video tutorials; Celtic Knot Conference 2020
  • Kosovo report: WoALUG and NGO Germin call Albanian Diaspora to contribute to Wikipedia
  • Netherlands report: Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen contributes to Wikimedia Commons again; Student research on GLAM-Wiki at Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • Serbia report: March Highlights - Everything is postponed
  • Sweden report: FindingGLAMs; Wikipedia in libraries; Art from the Thiel Gallery Collections; Kulturhistoria som gymnasiearbete
  • UK report: Colourful Kimonos from Khalili
  • USA report: Women & Editing in the time of virus
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DYK for Renée Gilly

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On 21 April 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Renée Gilly, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Renée Gilly studied under her parents and became a leading mezzo-soprano at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, where she sang roles such as Bizet's Carmen? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Renée Gilly. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Renée Gilly), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 00:01, 21 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

April 22, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-8pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop. This month, as part of Wikimedia NYC's commitment to the well-being of members, we will hold WikiWednesday online via Zoom videoconferencing! To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit this link. More information about how to connect is available on the meetup page.

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This month, we've invited Esther Jackson of the New York Botanical Garden to join us for an Earth Day focused conversation.

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Issue 38, January – April 2020

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This Month in Education: April 2020

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Symposium on Wikipedia and COVID-19 (May 9)

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for a Symposium on Wikipedia and COVID-19, which aims to answer questions the public may have about Wikipedia's coverage of the pandemic. The event includes four speakers, all of whom are active contributors to the topic area on Wikipedia, but bring different perspectives, backgrounds, and interests. The event is free and open to the public, broadcast live on YouTube and Facebook, and questions taken from viewers on these platforms. Abstracts and speaker bios are available on the event page.

Symposium on Wikipedia and COVID-19

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This Month in GLAM: April 2020

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  • Brazil report: GLAMce at Museu Paulista: making things machine-readable
  • Czech Republic report: WikiGap 2020 in Czech Republic; International event; support for Wikimedia community; edit-a-thon run with the US embassy and the Swedish Embassy
  • France report: Association des Archivistes Francais; Palladia, a museum collection portal based on Wikimedia resources
  • Indonesia report: Wikisource Competition 2020
  • Ireland report: Hunt Museum image donation; Livesteaming and video demonstrations
  • Italy report: Archivio Ricordi, webinars and videos
  • Kosovo report: One Village, One Article for each village in Albania and Kosovo
  • Netherlands report: Photo collections Afrika-Studiecentrum Leiden; meetup and media donations for Wiki goes Caribbean; first online WikiFriday
  • Sweden report: Skrivstuga (edit-a-thon) online – Wikipedia in libraries
  • Switzerland report: More women on Wikipedia
  • UK report: Japanese silk and Spanish iron
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May 20, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

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We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person!

This month, we'll focus on WikiProject New York City and our favorite local articles, as well as Wiki Loves Pride past and future.

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Music publishing

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Hi! There is a History of music publishing which is pretty rudimentary. It could make sense to merge the article Music publisher (sheet music) with this imo, and I would be prepared to support that. If you then wanted to improve it, I would be happy to help (if you want). Then the article Music publisher (popular music) could go its own way (or, improved, merge itself with the History article). Best, --Smerus (talk) 15:19, 19 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for finding that. Yes, I think all these articles should go into History of Music Publishing - and then perhaps if enough content is added to the current state of things, that could be forked off to a new article without the need to distinguish between pop and classical. - kosboot (talk) 15:23, 19 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Armenia report: Edit-a-thon dedicated to International Museum Day
  • Colombia report: A #1Lib1Ref to close the gender gap
  • Côte d'Ivoire report: #1Lib1Ref 2020 from 26 to 28 May in Côte d'Ivoire
  • France report: WikiArchives; IMD 2020: Cross-Chapter Collaboration
  • Indonesia report: Wikisource Competition 2020 recap; International Museum Day 2020
  • Italy report: New collaborations and contents!
  • Netherlands report: Analysis of Dutch GLAM-Wiki projects in relation to the Dutch Digital Heritage Reference Architecture, Content donation from Utrecht Archives, Detecting Wikipedia articles strongly based on single library collections and Collection highlights of the KB
  • Sweden report: Free music on Wikipedia; NHB webinars; Wikipedia in libraries – Projekt HBTQI
  • Switzerland report: International Museum Day 2020
  • UK report: Japanese art
  • USA report: Workshops & COVID-19 Symposium
  • Special story: Content partnership category - your help is needed
  • WMF GLAM report: GLAM metadata standards and Wikimedia projects
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Books & Bytes – Issue 39, May – June 2020

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June 17, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-8pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop. This month, as part of Wikimedia NYC's commitment to the well-being of members, we will hold WikiWednesday online via Zoom videoconferencing! To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit this link. More information about how to connect is available on the meetup page.

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This month, we'll check in on the global WikiCup race and have as featured speaker our local champion and frontrunner, who is trying to win it by writing as many new New York City articles as possible, as well as other local and global topics.

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This Month in Education: June 2020

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Can you add a better (more accessible) source for his full name than the one we cite? Thanks! -- Ssilvers (talk) 08:04, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Some baklava for you!

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Thanks for directing me to Template: Archival records. M.stevensgarmon (talk) 18:36, 21 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Schenker's "racism"

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Bob, I think that some words should be added to the Heinrich Schenker article about his alleged "racism". And I think that you should do that, as principal author of the article. This might however be a sensible matter these days in the US and particularly in the SMT – a matter to which, as European, I'd be less sensible. Would you like to discuss this elsewhere? I cannot imagine, despite my trying to remain anonymous on WP, that you don't know who I am. In any case, I can easily find an email address to reach you. Tell me. — Hucbald.SaintAmand (talk) 19:40, 8 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I agree. The problem is that so few people have written about it. I wish I could tell people that when I was processing the collection, Schenker had made "folders" out of the daily Viennese newspapers - and what they said was far worse than anything Schenker said. - kosboot (talk) 01:43, 9 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Two points – and a third:
1) WP is not the place to enter a debate about this. Viennese newspapers could be mentioned in a rejoinder to Philip Ewell, for instance in MTO, but not here. In any case, the quarrel that Ewell opened is not so much about Schenker himself than about present-day American theory and the SMT. (Ewell's mention of the etymology of "slave" is ridiculous: in what sense can an English etymology concern Schenker, who didn't speak English? And Barry Wiener shew in JSS how biased Ewell's quotations from Schenker are.) I didn't understand the problem with Timothy Jackson and his management of the JSS but, obviously, neither that concerns Schenker himself. As to tonal hierarchy being inherently racist, what is one to do of Schoenberg's theories (in Harmonielehre) about the tonic being the king, the other chords his vassals? But, once again, WP is not the place for such discussion.
2) Nevertheless, the Heinrich Schenker article should mention the problem, otherwise it participates in the silence. There are some writings that could be mentioned about it, e.g. Carl Schachter's "Elephants, crocodiles, and Beethoven" (Theory and Practice 26, 2001), or Martin Eybl, Ideologie und Methode, Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1995, or Nicolas Meeùs, Heinrich Schenker. Une introduction, Liège: Mardaga, 1993, who writes about nationalist statements in the Erläuterungsausgabe of op. 101: "One remains confounded at the sum of personal frustrations and of bitterness of which such texts bear testimony." If WP mentioned some of these – which, it may be interesting to note, are 20 to 30 years old, i.e. before the translation of Der Tonwille and, for two of them, before that of Das Meisterwerk –, an important step would have been done in giving the matter its true dimension. (I am afraid nevertheless that the debate would not stop.)
3) Even if this is not for WP, I think that if one were to consider the matter more closely, it may appear that Schenker's "racism" exists at different levels and differently at various moments: (a) he share the latent racism of his days, in Europe and in a world that certainly were generally racist; (b) he appears to have had reasons to be contemptuous of the Slavs around 1912, probably because of the Balkan League; and (c) he became frantic after WWI, up to the point of abandoning some of his previous interest e.g. for Rameau's theory of the fundamental bass.
Do I leave it up to you to modify the article? — Hucbald.SaintAmand (talk) 09:00, 9 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I"ll make a start and you can revise as needed. I suspect it will be one of those things which might overshadow the article itself. :) - kosboot (talk) 11:03, 9 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

He may have been many things, but he clearly was a writer from Vienna. Feel free to add, or if necessary, create, more categories. There are lots of articles in Category:Writers from Vienna. It could be subdivided. Though as I read the article he is more notable for what he did after he left Austria. Rathfelder (talk) 16:59, 9 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Sun Aug 16: Great American Wiknic NYC & Beyond

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August 16, 3pm: Great American Wiknic

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our annual summer Great American Wiknic, this year being held virtually.

We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person!

Featuring artist-Wikimedian Sara Clugage's "Picnics: An Outside History" for a cultural exploration of picnicking, knowledge and society during the national panel in the first part. We encourage you to call in for the second part from a local park or natural site and share it on the video stream, as well as sharing your favorite picnic grub or other special foods with us.

Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda. The Wiknic is taking the place of "WikiWednesday" this month, so we will also include salon and knowledge-sharing workshop aspects.

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm online via YouTube (watch our national panel's livestream, and participate by text chat)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm online via Zoom (participate by videoconference with NYC community)

We especially encourage folks to share your parks and foods on screen, and add your 3-minute lightning talks to our roster for the Zoom portion, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues!

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This Month in Education: August 2020

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Kind of a musical theater question.

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Hi Kosboot, I don’t think pur paths have crossed on-wiki before, so hello. I’m here because I have a sort-of Librarian/New York City/musical theater-related question that has stumped several people. It’s a cartoon from Puck magazine, January 13, 1886 (reduced size version linked here).

”Our Japanese Village”

It portrays various New York personalities of the time as characters from Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado. I also dug up the issue text describing the cartoon in Hathi trust, here. Puck snidely compares people to Mikado characters, but what has me scratching my head overall is why? (some pretty nasty caricatures in there). I’m missing something. Can you possibly point me to some place to find the answer? (“Historic analysis of Puck 1886” doesn’t Google very well...)

The reason I’m curious is a Montana reason—the man in the top right overlooking the crowd, “Daly”, clearly is Marcus Daly, known as one of Montana’s “Copper Kings.” But in 1886, I didn’t think he was a celebrity back east (by 1896, maybe, but...) so how did he wind up in a Puck cartoon? (I’ve run this past two other historians and both agree it’s Daly and both are as puzzled as I am) Copper wire was used for telegraph lines, so “the lines of the Western Union hang in festal festoons” may reference his copper mines, and he was born in Ballyjamesduff, Ireland, so he might be the “nobleman from Ballykillrowdy” (definitely sarcasm...) but still... why? Thoughts? Know anyone who might help? Montanabw(talk) 05:15, 25 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there User:Montanabw - what a very interesting image. I know The Mikado pretty well but I think this cartoon depends on knowledge of the political and social status of the persons represented. Satire is often based on reputation as well as current events, so some of the references could be for issues long before the 1886 date. I did a hasty search on the Chronicling America site, choosing 1880-1886 and limiting to New York - nothing. But something comes up for Illinois (from 1880). You might want to do a couple of searches to get a feel for what was going on in the U.S. at that time to get a better understanding of the image. It's so rich it practically deserves an article itself. :) - kosboot (talk) 13:59, 25 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
My thinking as well. Individually, the people are easy to identify on a superficial level (the slap at Elizabeth Cady Stanton is an easy one, for example). A number of them are New York political figures (Samuel Tilden, Maxwell Evarts, and so on. What I probably need is someone who has studied Puck, I suppose, and knows his standard tropes. All I found online was someone’s college thesis, though... and not all of it. Wonder who knows 19th-century satire? Montanabw(talk) 15:32, 25 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I'm thinking the date of January 13 is so close to the beginning of the new year - maybe this was a rejected image for an end-of-the-year or beginning-of-year issue? Perhaps look at the last few issues of 1885 to see if they had a year end summary that might explain the image. - kosboot (talk) 16:42, 25 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 30 August 2020

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Books & Bytes – Issue 40

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Issue 40, July – August 2020

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This Month in GLAM: August 2020

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  • Albania report: Wikivoyage edit-a-thon - Editing Albania and Kosovo’s travel destinations
  • Brazil report: Open innovation and dissemination activities: wrapping up great achievements on a major GLAM in Brazil
  • Czech Republic report: First Prague Wiki Editathon held in Prague
  • Estonia report: Virtual exhibition about Polish-Estonian relations. Rephotography and cultural heritage
  • Germany report: KulTour in Swabia and 8000 documents new online
  • India report: Utilising Occasion for Content donation: A story
  • Netherlands report: WMIN & WMNL collaboration & Japanese propaganda films
  • Serbia report: Enriching Wiki projects in different ways
  • Sweden report: Free music and new recordings of songs in the public domain; Autumn in the libraries; Yes, you can hack the heritage this year – online!
  • Uganda report: Participating in the African Librarians Week (24-30 May 2020)
  • UK report: Spanish metal and ...
  • USA report: Wiknic & Black Artists Matter & Respect Her Crank
  • WMF GLAM report: Wikipedia Library, new WikiCite grant programs, and GLAM office hours
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September 26, 12:30pm: Met Fashion Virtual Edit Meet-up

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community and the Metropolitan Museum of Art for our The Met x Wikipedia Virtual Edit Meet-up: Met Fashion.

This is a follow-up to last year's successful MetFashion 2019, and will follow a similar theme optimized for a remote online experience.

We will be partially coordinating with the international Wiki Loves Fashion campaign.

Watch and join the livestream! The Metropolitan Museum of Art event on Saturday Sep 26 will host a tutorial and question-and-answer session live on YouTube and other social media platforms.

  • 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm - Presentation
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Chat about improving articles! Support will be provided to help guide new editors in this area at Wikimedia Fashion Chat for the duration of the campaign.

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This Month in GLAM: September 2020

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  • Brazil report: Wikidata birthday celebrations, Wiki Loves Monuments, new partnerships and more!
  • Colombia report: GLAM and virtual education
  • France report: AAF training course; Workshops in Strasbourg; European Heritage Days: Rennes; Wiki Loves Monuments
  • Germany report: Ahoy! Wikipedians set sail to document the reality of modern seafaring
  • Indonesia report: New GLAM partnerships on data donation; Commons structured data edit-a-thon
  • Norway report: Students taking on GLAM Wiki women in red
  • Sweden report: Musikverket: more folk music and photos; Hack for Heritage 2020; Wiki Loves Monuments; Wikipedia in the libraries; Digital Book Fair on Wikipedia
  • UK report: National Lottery; Khalili Collections
  • USA report: Virtual events MetFashion, 19SuffrageStories, WikiCari Festival and more
  • Open Access report: New publication about access to digitised cultural heritage
  • WMF GLAM report: Launching Wikisource Pagelist Widget
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October 21, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

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In honor of Wikidata's 8th birthday earlier this month, we especially encourage lightning talks related to Wikidata and Wikidata adjacent projects and tools. We'll also discuss the recent proposal to change the Wikimedia Foundation Bylaws, including the Statement of Opposition from Wikimedia NYC.

7:00pm - 8:00 pm online via Zoom (optional breakout rooms from 8:00-8:30)

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This Month in Education: October 2020

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  • AfLIA Wikipedia in African Libraries report: Wikipedia in African Libraries Project
  • Brazil report: Abre-te Código hackathon, Wikidata related events and news from our partners
  • Finland report: Postponed Hack4FI GLAM hackathon turned into an online global Hack4OpenGLAM
  • France report: Partnership with BNU Strasbourg
  • Germany report: Coding da Vinci cultural data hackathon heads to Lower Saxony
  • India report: Mapping GLAM in Maharashtra, India
  • Indonesia report: Bulan Sejarah Indonesia 2.0; Structured data edit-a-thon; Proofreading mini contest
  • Netherlands report: National History Month: East to West, Dutch libraries and Wikipedia
  • New Zealand report: West Coast Wikipedian at Large
  • Norway report: The Sámi Languages on wiki
  • Serbia report: Many activities are in our way
  • Sweden report: Librarians learn about Wikidata; More Swedish literature on Wikidata; Online Edit-a-thon Dalarna; Applications to the Swedish Innovation Agency; Kulturhistoria som gymnasiearbete; Librarians and Projekt HBTQI; GLAM Statistical Tool
  • UK report: Enamels of the World
  • USA report: American Archive of Public Broadcasting; Smithsonian Women in Finance Edit-a-thon; Black Lunch Table; San Diego/October 2020; WikiWednesday Salon
  • Calendar: November's GLAM events
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Books & Bytes – Issue 41

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The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 41, September – October 2020

  • New partnership: Taxmann
  • WikiCite
  • 1Lib1Ref 2021

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October 18: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC (plus weekend editathons)

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October 18, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-8pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop. To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit this link. More information about how to connect is available on the meetup page.

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This month we've invited the creators of instagram accounts @depthsofwikipedia and @wikipediapictures to chat with us about their Wiki* appreciation accounts. If there's a project you'd like to share or a question you'd like answered, just let us know by adding it to the agenda or responding to this message.

7:00pm - 8:00 pm online via Zoom (optional breakout rooms from 8:00-8:30)

Editathons this coming Saturday

You are also invited to join thse two editathon on Saturday November 21:

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Chopin talk page issue

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Hello, I noticed that you apparently copy-pasted the entire Chopin talk page into itself with this edit, which caused the talk page to grow by 47,514‎ bytes. Could you please remove the duplicated portions, while keeping the comments and changes that have been added/made to it since then? Thank you. Toccata quarta (talk) 03:38, 27 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 29 November 2020

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Headlines
  • AfLIA Wikipedia in African Libraries report: Launch of Wikipedia in African Libraries Project Pilot Cohort
  • Brazil report: Accessibility through audio descriptions, GLAM tutorials, WikidataCon 2021 and more updates on Brazilian GLAMs
  • Canada report: Taking a tour of CAPACOA workshops and some recent example sets from commons
  • Germany report: German symphony orchestra releases audio samples under free license
  • India report: Re-licensing of content on water & rivers in India
  • Indonesia report: #WikiSejarah WPWP Campaign
  • Netherlands report: Wikipedia and Education, Funding granted for two projects in 2021, KB completes collection highlights project
  • Serbia report: GLAM in Serbia makes important steps in the digitization of cultural heritage
  • Spain report: Edit-a-thons on women scientists and painters
  • Sweden report: Music, UNESCO and Wikidata
  • UK report: Hundreds of Khalili images
  • USA report: Black Lunch Table & Museum Computer Network
  • Calendar: December's GLAM events
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Chopin’s homo- hetero- or asexuality talk

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Hi Kosboot,

Just to inform you: I put a request on the Dispute resolution noticeboard.--Chip-chip-2020 (talk) 14:55, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

December 16, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-8pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop. To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit this link. More information about how to connect is available on the meetup page.

We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person!

This month will include a discussion of the sixth annual Community Wishlist Survey, an opportunity for editors and other community members to submit proposals for fixes and features you'd like the Wikimedia Foundation's tech team to address. As always, it's the agenda anyone can edit, so please feel free to add any projects you'd like to share.

7:00pm - 8:00 pm online via Zoom (optional breakout rooms from 8:00-8:30)

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This Month in Education: November 2020

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Buon Natale!

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May you have very Happy Holidays, kosboot ...

and a safe New Year filled with peace, joy, and beautiful music.



Best wishes, Voceditenore (talk) 10:30, 23 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Precious anniversary

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Precious
Eight years!

Good wishes on my talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:56, 24 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much Gerda Arendt! I appreciate all the work that you do and accomplish! - kosboot (talk) 14:24, 24 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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