The Wikipedia Library/Processes/Announcing partnerships/05 2018

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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
  • Notify requesting editors (check English, Meta, non-English, check-in surveys) Done
  • Mass Message Global Done
  • Mass Message TWL Subscribers (Books & Bytes)
  • Do an English Language watchlist notice Done
  • Email relevant listservs Done
  • Notify relevant WikiProjects Done
  • Post on Twitter and Facebook about the announcement Done
  • Announce to Signpost newsroom
  • Add to en:Template:Find sources twl

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/69/ Rock's Backpages]''' (music articles and interviews), '''[https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/68/ Invaluable]''' (auctions and artists database), '''[https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/70/ Termsoup]''' (translation tool). New content from [https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/60/ Alexander Street Press], [https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/43/ Fold3], and more. Many other resources are freely available on the '''[https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/ Wikipedia Library Card Platform]'''. Sign up!
}}

Displays as:

New Wikipedia Library research access: Rock's Backpages (music articles and interviews), Invaluable (auctions and artists database), Termsoup (translation tool). New content from Alexander Street Press, Fold3, and more. Many other resources are freely available on the 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 (May 2018)

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/69/ Rock's Backpages]''' – Music articles and interviews from the 1950s onwards - 50 accounts
* '''[https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/68/ Invaluable]''' – Database of more than 50 million auctions and over 500,000 artists - 15 accounts
* '''[https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/70/ Termsoup]''' – Translation tool

'''Expansions'''
* '''[https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/43/ Fold3]''' – Available content has more than doubled, now including new military collections from the UK, Australia, and New Zealand.
* '''[https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/52/ Oxford University Press]''' – The Scholarship collection now includes [http://www.e-enlightenment.com/ Electronic Enlightenment]
* '''[https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/60/ Alexander Street Press]''' – [https://alexanderstreet.com/products/women-and-social-movements-library Women and Social Movements Library] now available
* '''[https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/58/ Cambridge University Press]''' – [http://orlando.cambridge.org/ Orlando Collection] now available

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/41/ Loeb Classical Library], [https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/46/ Cairn], [https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/55/ Gale] and [https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/61/ Bloomsbury].

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>

Books and Bytes Mass message[edit]

The_Wikipedia_Library/Newsletter/April-May_2018

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/):

* Rock's Backpages (Music articles and interviews from the 1950s onwards): https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/69/

* Invaluable (Database of more than 50 million auctions and over 500,000 artists): https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/68/

* Termsoup (Translation tool): https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/70/

Expansions
* Fold3 - Available content has more than doubled, now including new military collections from the UK, Australia, and New Zealand - https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/43/
* Oxford University Press - The Scholarship collection now includes Electronic Enlightenment (http://www.e-enlightenment.com/) - https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/52/
* Alexander Street Press - Women and Social Movements Library (https://alexanderstreet.com/products/women-and-social-movements-library) now available - https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/60/
* Cambridge University Press - Orlando Collection (http://orlando.cambridge.org/) now available - https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/58/

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>

Post to Facebook and Twitter[edit]

Make sure to post to: