Wikipedia talk:The Wikipedia Library

New IRC channel!

Hello everyone, we now have an IRC channel for TWL at #wikipedia-library ^connect. Feel free to join the channel and ask away your questions. Coordinators, please ask me or Samwalton9 to get voiced in the channel. Regards—UY Scuti ^Talk 20:30, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

Ping @UY Scuti: and Samwalton9 could I please be voiced or op'd in the channel? Thanks! --Cameron₁₁₅₉₈ ^(Talk) 03:07, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

 Done—UY Scuti ^Talk 03:55, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

TWL Facebook group

Hi everyone! I am happy to announce that we now have a Facebook group The Wikipeda Library for better interaction with users and coordinators. Please feel free to join and invite your friends to join the group! Regards—UY Scuti ^Talk 17:45, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (November 2016)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:

• Foreign Affairs - Journal of international relations and U.S. foreign policy
• OpenEdition - Journals in the social sciences and humanities
• Édition Diffusion Presse Sciences - French and English language scientific journals
• ASHA - Speech–language–hearing journals
• Tilastopaja - Athletics statistics

Expansions

• EBSCO - Many new databases added
• Taylor & Francis - Strategic, Defence & Security Studies collection

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page. Sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 18:30, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Ocaasi (WMF).

This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.

• Getting "Server Error (500)" on the Foreign Affairs signup submission (after filling in the fields and clicking submit). Not sure whom to contact so posting here czar 22:16, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
  • @Czar: Labs has been up and down for some maintenance today. I see your application(s, three of them!) though! Hopefully it will be more stable tomorrow. Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 22:20, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Australian Newspapers

Hi... I'm interested in accessing materials from Australian newspapers - particularly ones like the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age - and am wondering if any of the resources available through the Wikipedia Library have substantial coverage. Thanks. EdChem (talk) 09:20, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Have you tried trove.nla.gov.au ? Cabayi (talk) 11:00, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

@EdChem: Gale have the SMH from 2007, The Age from 1991, and a number of other Australian newspapers as part of Academic OneFile :) Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 11:29, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. Cabayi, trove.nla has more than I expected but does not provide text for many articles. Sam, that's interesting. I'll consider requesting access, need to look at what other newspapers it has and consider whether I have sufficient need. EdChem (talk) 13:31, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

@EdChem: Great! There's a list on the page I linked. Don't worry too much about having sufficient need - if you only use it to add one reference then we'd consider that worthwhile :) Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 14:14, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

One, Sam? These two edits today added six! And this expansion (my work, but not every edit is mine) added 132 references.  :) EdChem (talk) 14:28, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Then definitely go ahead and apply! Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 16:53, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Proposal: change WP:TWL list?

The page Wikipedia:Unusual articles seems to have attracted the attention of growing youtube channel Wendover Productions. He has made a series of videos on article in this list, referring to the list as TWL, or That Wikipedia List. Googling "that wikipedia list" provides several links referring to this article, including the first link being this article itself. Said list seems to be becoming known on the internet as TWL, but WP:TWL already redirects to the Wikipedia library. Should the shortcut redirect to Wikipedia:Unusual articles instead? pluma♫ ♯ 21:23, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

A-Z help?

I've been working on a tool of potential use to contributors here - an A-Z list of which periodicals are indexed by which TWL database. As you'll see, though, the search functionality is hacked together and is not private. Anyone have ideas/capability to make this better? Nikkimaria (talk) 18:28, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

Our own Ulrich's. I like it. A lower tech solution would be to put the lists on-wiki: make pages A–Z and list the journals there, use the search function to find the specific journal title and see which databases list it (similar to searches in WP:VG/RL). Alternatively, someone could throw together a Python app that will eventually fall into disrepair. Alternatively, the TWL "library card" project could pull such a web app under its auspices. czar 18:45, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

That last is an eventual plan but at least a few months out. Think the first option would be a bit unwieldy with 90k+ entries... Nikkimaria (talk) 19:34, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

Ah, meant to say pages, as in split the listings across (at least) 26 pages. The search can handle as many pages as you throw at it as long as they share the same root. Try searching for a game in the WP:VG/RL search to see what I mean (e.g., "Donkey Kong 64"). czar 19:43, 23 December 2016 (UTC)