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Books and Bytes - Issue 19

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 19, September–October 2016
by Nikkimaria, Sadads and UY Scuti

• New and expanded donations - Foreign Affairs, Open Edition, and many more
• New Library Card Platform and Conference news
• Spotlight: Fixing one million broken links

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19:07, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: October 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue X, October 2016 Headlines Argentina report: Workshops and online course Basque Country report: Libraries and Wikimedia meet in Donostiapedia Belgium report: BeMuseum; upcoming prize ceremony Wiki Loves Brazil report: GLAM news in October Bulgaria report: Bulgarian Archives State Agency; Archives Challenge Côte d'Ivoire report: Collaborating with Parliament, editing with Women Germany report: GLAM on Tour at Heidelberg University Macedonia report: Wikiexperiments project continues: Chemistry experiments in glorious HD! Mexico report: Women in Cinema, LGBT rights, WikiArte, Donation from the Cervantine Library and WikiConNA Netherlands report: Wikipedian in Residence; Heritage Leiden; Public libraries Norway report: Maps! Poland report: Digitisation, modern museums and ancient Nubia Serbia report: Wikipedian in Residence and Wiki Librarian workshops Spain report: Wiki Takes and libraries Sweden report: Nationalmuseum's Paintings; Maritime edit-a-thon; Connected Open Heritage; Swedish National Archive UK report: Beautiful birds, and back to the Bodleian USA report: WikiConference North America 2016 and edit-a-thons Open Access report: Open Access Week; 7,000 new audiovisual media; 2 Requests for Comment & 1 bot WMF GLAM report: Digitization, Travel, Structured Data on Commons, and WMF updates Calendar: November's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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New deal for page patrollers

Hi Rberchie,

In order to better control the quality of new pages, keep out the spam, and welcome the genuine newbies, the current system we introduced in 2011 is being updated and improved. The documentation and tutorials have also been revised and given a facelift. Most importantly a new user group New Page Reviewer has been created.

Under the new rule, you may find that you are temporarily unable to mark new pages as reviewed. However, this is nothing to worry about - most current experienced patrollers are being accorded the the new right without the need to apply, and if you have significant previous experience of patrolling new pages, we strongly encourage you to apply for the new right as soon as possible - we need all the help we can get, and we are now providing a dynamic, supportive environment for your work.

Find out more about this exiting new user right now at New Page Reviewers and be sure to read the new tutorial before applying. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:29, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Rberchie. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)