The Wikipedia Library/Processes/Announcing partnerships/03 2019

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Status for most recent release[edit]

Please mark each of the following with {{done}} ~~~~ after you have completed it.

Date release
  • Make sure all new partners are set to Available in the Library Card platform admin interface Done
  • Update en:WP:TWL/Journals and The_Wikipedia_Library/Journals Done
  • Update en:WP:TWL/Header Done
  • Update en:Template:TWLJ Done
  • Mass Message Global Done
  • Mass Message TWL Subscribers (Books & Bytes) Done
  • Do an English Language watchlist notice Done
  • Email relevant listservs Done
  • Post on Twitter and Facebook about the announcement Done

Update en:WP:TWL/Journals[edit]

One of the most important steps is to update en:WP:TWL/Journals and The_Wikipedia_Library/Journals to include all of the newest partnerships. Similarly, the navigational templates en:WP:TWL/Header, and en:Template:TWLJ on both English and Meta should be updated to reflect the changing status of those new partnerships.

Watchlist notice[edit]

  • You have to be an admin to edit watchlist notices. Post the message on the talk page and request that an admin add it.

On en:MediaWiki:Watchlist-messages update and add a revised version of: 


{{Display/watchlist
 |until=16 March 2015
 |cookie=192
 |text=New '''[[WP:The Wikipedia Library|Wikipedia Library]]''' research access: '''[https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/72/ Kinige]''' (Primarily Indian language ebooks), new collection from '''[https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/55/ Gale]''' (Times Digital Archive), and accounts now available for '''[https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/54/ JSTOR]'''. Many other resources (80,000 journals) are freely available from over 50 databases on the improved '''[https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/ Wikipedia Library Card Platform]'''. Sign up!
}}

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New Wikipedia Library research access: Kinige (Primarily Indian language ebooks), new collection from Gale (Times Digital Archive), and accounts now available for JSTOR. Many other resources (80,000 journals) are freely available from over 50 databases on the improved Wikipedia Library Card Platform. Sign up!

Mass Message on Meta[edit]

Using https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MassMessage send a message to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Wikipedia_Library with information about accessing signups on English Wikipedia or on other language sites. Instructions for requests for permissions can be found at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:MassMessage_senders .

Sample message: 

Subject: New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (March 2019)

Message:
<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">


Hello Wikimedians! 
[[File:Wikipedia_Library_owl.svg|thumb|upright|The TWL OWL says sign up today!]]
[[m:The Wikipedia Library|The Wikipedia Library]] is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to published research as part of our [[m:The_Wikipedia_Library/Journals|Publisher Donation Program]]. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials on the [https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/ Library Card platform]: 
* '''[https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/72/ Kinige]''' – Primarily Indian-language ebooks - 10 books per month
* '''[https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/55/ Gale]''' – Times Digital Archive collection added (covering 1785-2013)
* '''[https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/54/ JSTOR]''' – New applications now being taken again

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on [https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/ our partners page], including [https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/47/ Baylor University Press], [https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/10/ Taylor & Francis], [https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/46/ Cairn], [https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/32/ Annual Reviews] and [https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/61/ Bloomsbury]. You can request new partnerships on our [https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/suggest/ Suggestions page].

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
<br>--[[w:en:Wikipedia:TWL/Coordinators|The Wikipedia Library Team]] ~~~~~

:''You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact [[m:User:Ocaasi_(WMF)|Ocaasi (WMF)]].''<br> 
:<small>This message was delivered via the [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MassMessage#Global_message_delivery Global Mass Message] tool to [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Wikipedia_Library The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List].</small>
</div>

Email listservs (example)[edit]

Please send out individual emails:

  • wikipedia-library(_AT_)lists.wikimedia.org
  • wikipedia-l(_AT_)lists.wikimedia.org
  • wikimedia-l(_AT_)lists.wikimedia.org
  • glam(_AT_)lists.wikimedia.org
  • libraries(_AT_)lists.wikimedia.org
  • wikimediareference-l@lists.wikimedia.org
  • openaccess(_AT_)lists.wikimedia.org
  • wikimediaannounce-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Additional Wikimedia listservs can be found at Mailing_lists/Overview; make sure to post to relevant listservs if you think a partnership will have broad appeal in that space. For some of the listservs you need to be a subscriber to post. 

Subject: 
New Free Research Accounts via the Wikipedia Library

Message:
Hi!
The Wikipedia Library has new, free research donations available through the Library Card platform (https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/):

* Kinige (Primarily Indian-language ebooks): https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/72/
* Gale - Times Digital Archive collection added (covering 1785-2013) - https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/55/
* JSTOR - New applications now being taken again - https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/54/

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on: <https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/>

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library Team
 <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library>
 wikipedialibrary@wikimedia.org

Post to Facebook and Twitter[edit]

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