[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Wikipedia Library: Accessing free reliable sources is now easier than ever

Hi, As a follow-up to my previous email, The Wikipedia Library team will be hosting Office Hours next week! Time:* 10th February, 1pm-2pm UTC* ( https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1644498009) Link:* https://meet.google.com/ycm-rjos-oqc/ * The Office Hours

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Wikipedia Library: Accessing free reliable sources is now easier than ever

Hi all, The issue of readers not being able to view links to library content is definitely one we're aware of. Ultimately we agree with Rebecca in believing this to be net-positive, in that Wikipedia can now summarise previously inaccessible information, but we absolutely do want to encourage

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Wikipedia Library: Accessing free reliable sources is now easier than ever

On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 11:25 AM Samuel Klein wrote: > --> collab w/ a free-content annotation + summarization service Strong +1. Summarization of proprietary sources helps to further broaden access to the facts stated therein (summarization of free sources is, of course, useful as well!). I'm

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Wikipedia Library: Accessing free reliable sources is now easier than ever

Some practical things that could help expand access to referenced sources: --> collab w/ OA Works on an OAButton / equivalent integration (for works where the author can make it more open) --> collab w/ a free-content annotation + summarization service (like the

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Wikipedia Library: Accessing free reliable sources is now easier than ever

I think it's something to bear in mind. Yay, more information on Wikipedia, and more information freely available to the world - but at the same time we tell our readers to use the references to verify the information, which they can't do if it's not openly available. I think the best thing

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Wikipedia Library: Accessing free reliable sources is now easier than ever

I understand where you are coming from Mike, but I'm a bit stumped by it at the same time. Do you apply the same logic to editors using expensive print books they happen to have access through to some sort of connection or other privilege? I often think about this in the opposite way, wrestling

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Wikipedia Library: Accessing free reliable sources is now easier than ever

Hi all, While the Wikipedia Library is definitely great at providing editors resources to find more information to Wikipedia articles - it does also have the drawback that it makes it much harder for readers to verify that information. It can even cause problems for other editors who haven't

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Wikipedia Library: Accessing free reliable sources is now easier than ever

+1 — this is super cool! Congrats to all involved. On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 7:33 PM Samuel Klein wrote: > This is the best. Thank you for persisting it making it not just useful > but fantastic. :) > > On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 12:10 PM Sam Walton wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> We've just published a

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Wikipedia Library: Accessing free reliable sources is now easier than ever

This is the best. Thank you for persisting it making it not just useful but fantastic. :) On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 12:10 PM Sam Walton wrote: > Hi all, > > We've just published a blog post summarising the new features and > functionality available to active Wikipedia editors in The Wikipedia >

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Wikipedia Library: Accessing free reliable sources is now easier than ever

Excellent work. Thanks to all who worked on this project and made it happen. Todd On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 10:10 AM Sam Walton wrote: > Hi all, > > We've just published a blog post summarising the new features and > functionality available to active Wikipedia editors in The Wikipedia > Library:

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Wikipedia Library: Accessing free reliable sources is now easier than ever

Hi Natacha, The interface is fully translated into French. You can change your language preferences by navigating to your profile ( https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/users/) and scrolling down to the Language preference. (As an update to my previous email, this link shows the status of all

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Wikipedia Library: Accessing free reliable sources is now easier than ever

Thank you ! Will this be translated in French ? Envoyé de mon iPhone > Le 19 janv. 2022 à 22:23, Steven Walling a écrit : > >  > +1 to The Cunctator, this is wonderful. I used it thanks to the invite > notification you sent to eligible users and it was super fast to get going. > Kudos! >

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Wikipedia Library: Accessing free reliable sources is now easier than ever

Hi Xavier, I think that's a great suggestion and something we had in the team's backlog. You can find the Phabricator ticket at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226804. The main page does detect the browser language, and will use that interface language if we have a translation for it (

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Wikipedia Library: Accessing free reliable sources is now easier than ever

Hi Sam, Thank you for the reply! It's a nice thing that we can already move on within different languages to try to feed more partners into the Wikipedia Library. I have two doubts or suggestions about the language interface: Once logged in, I can see that there is a language option in the

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Wikipedia Library: Accessing free reliable sources is now easier than ever

Thanks all! Cunctator - As Juergen notes, the search tool does index some major open access repositories already. We've gone back and forth on including open access repositories into the tool more directly (i.e. listing them in 'My Library') because we weren't sure what criteria to use for

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Wikipedia Library: Accessing free reliable sources is now easier than ever

Congratulations for this step forward and to everyone that has been involved! The Wikipedia Library is amazing news for those that do not have institutional accesses. I know that it’s a bit early for this question, but maybe someone can already give me some answer :) Is it expected that in the

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Wikipedia Library: Accessing free reliable sources is now easier than ever

A small step in the right direction... What is the difference between "My Collection" & "Available Collection"? Anupamdutta73 On Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 02:53 Steven Walling wrote: > +1 to The Cunctator, this is wonderful. I used it thanks to the invite > notification you sent to eligible users

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Wikipedia Library: Accessing free reliable sources is now easier than ever

Well, Hathi Trust is not a good example, I'm afraid, because most content cannot be retrieved from there in this country. However, some open access aggregators have been added, most notably the biggest index for OA papers on the web at https://www.base-search.net/ . Regards, Jürgen. Am 19.01.22

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Wikipedia Library: Accessing free reliable sources is now easier than ever

+1 to The Cunctator, this is wonderful. I used it thanks to the invite notification you sent to eligible users and it was super fast to get going. Kudos! On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 12:20 PM The Cunctator wrote: > This is really well done. One suggestion that's probably already been made > and may

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Wikipedia Library: Accessing free reliable sources is now easier than ever

This is really well done. One suggestion that's probably already been made and may have various reasons for not including would be to add some of the non-paywalled libraries (like HathiTrust and the Federal Register) as searchable options. On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 12:10 PM Sam Walton wrote: > Hi