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Books & Bytes New Years Double Issue

Books & Bytes

Volume 1 Issue 3, December/January 2013

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Happy New Year, and welcome to a special double issue of Books & Bytes. We've included a retrospective on the changes and progress TWL has seen over the last year, the results of the survey TWL participants completed in December, some of our plans for the future, a second interview with a Wiki Love Libraries coordinator, and more. Here's to 2014 being a year of expansion and innovation for TWL!

The Wikipedia Library completed the first 6 months of its Individual Engagement grant last week. Here's where we are and what we've done:

Increased access to sources: 1500 editors signed up for 3700 free accounts, individually worth over $500,000, with usage increases of 400-600%

Deep networking: Built relationships with Credo, HighBeam, Questia, JSTOR, Cochrane, LexisNexis, EBSCO, New York Times, and OCLC

New pilot projects: Started the Wikipedia Visiting Scholar project to empower university-affiliated Wikipedia researchers

Developed community: Created portal connecting 250 newsletter recipients, 30 library members, 3 volunteer coordinators, and 2 part-time contractors

Tech scoped: Spec'd out a reference tool for linking to full-text sources and established a basis for OAuth integration

Broad outreach: Wrote a feature article for Library Journal's The Digital Shift; presenting at the American Library Association annual meeting
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War on Whites

War on Whites has been nominated for speedy delection. I would ask that you give your opinion on it, since you have edited the article.Casprings (talk) 02:35, 6 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Modesta Avila

Hi. You might be interested in Modesta Avila, but no worries if you're busy with other things. Stumbled across her on your Gender Gap red list page and found her to be quite an important and interesting activist. That she died at the age of 22 in San Quentin for stringing a clothesline across train tracks is horrible. Thanks for the redlink. --Rosiestep (talk) 15:18, 6 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Rosie. Thank you for starting her article. Her story is terribly tragic. I'll have to add the opera about her to the article at some point. gobonobo + c 05:38, 7 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 06 August 2014

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Nomination of W00tstock for deletion

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Response that was copied here

Replied here. gobonobo + c 19:41, 13 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Middayexpress. I'd normally put a note on a talk page, but I wasn't sure which one was most appropriate. I put hatnotes on the articles for Mohammed Noor and Mohamed Noor. I saw your corrections and I just wonder if 'computer scientist' is the best disambiguator for Mohamud Noor. While that was his profession for a few years, he is now executive director of a non-profit community center. I decided to opt for 'politician' only because that is probably what he is best known for. I worry that a reader who was looking for Mohamud Noor that finds themselves on one of the other articles would be unlikely to identify him as a 'computer scientist'. Maybe we could make this moot by creating a disambiguation page for Moham(m)e/ud Noors? gobonobo + c 18:54, 13 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Gobonobo. While Noor indeed isn't presently a computer scientist, he isn't an officeholder either. He also has a degree in computer science. A disambiguation page for Mohamed/Mohammed would make sense; Mohamud is a different first name, though. Regards, Middayexpress (talk) 19:03, 13 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Well actually no. He got the degree and retains the knowledge, so I don't think he ever stopped being a computer scientist. But readers who search for him wouldn't necessarily know that he happened to have a degree in the field. For all they know he might be a geneticist or a footballer. I don't think one has to be an officeholder to be a politician. While Mohamud/Maxamuud/Mahmoud are different than Mohammed/Mohamed, the M. Noor names are homophonous and easily confused, so it's reasonable to conclude that a reader might find themselves looking for the name on a disambiguation page for all of these articles. Are you suggesting that the hatnote is unnecessary? Or that we should create a disambiguation page for Mohamed/Mohammed that excludes Mohamud Noor? I don't understand what you want here. gobonobo + c 19:41, 13 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Here's the definition of politician: "A politician, political leader, or political figure (from Classical Greek πόλις, "polis") is a person who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making." Noor isn't really in a position to do that at the moment, so "computer scientist" is indeed more immediately relevant. Mohamed/Mohammed/Muhammad and Mohamud/Mohamoud are altogether different names, with different etymologies. I bring this up to show that the necessity of the hatnote with regard to the differently named Mohamud is arguable, not just "politician" vs. "computer scientist". Please leave a response if any here (or feel free to delete this userspace post per WP:HUSH). Regards, Middayexpress (talk) 20:00, 13 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
@Middayexpress: You say that Noor isn't a 'politician' because he "isn't really in a position to do that at the moment". And while he isn't currently an officeholder, he just made a highly newsworthy bid for state legislature. If you take a closer look at the definition of politician (I'm assuming we're using the Wikipedia definition here) you will find that it indicates that the term includes people who seek those positions as well as those who have them. I think most political scientists would agree that you don't have to be an elected official to be a politician. But you say that 'computer scientist' is "immediately relevant" even though you previously argued that he wasn't presently a computer scientist. As a school board member, Noor has influenced public policy and decision making. Moreover, his only reason for having an article in the first place is his repeated candidacy for office (in 2010 for school board, as well as in 2011, 2012, and 2014 for state legislature). He is known for being a politician, not for being a computer scientist. Also, I don't think it is that unreasonable to think that people might misspell Mohamud Noor as Mohamed Noor or even Mohammed Noor. While the etymologies are different, the triconsonantal root is the same and the nuance of the pronunciation is probably lost on Western ears.
Since you mentioned WP:HUSH and seem to be unwilling to host a conversation on your talk page, let me just add that I hope I haven't posted anything there that annoys or embarrasses you. If so, it wasn't my intention. I'm certainly willing to keep the conservation here if that's more comfortable for you. gobonobo + c 21:04, 13 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, cause for a minute there I was under the impression that you perhaps didn't want the conversation here since you removed it when I first pasted it onto your userpage (which is your prerogative). At any rate, though there indeed are exceptions and it could be argued that Noor is a politician, most political scientists do regard a "politician" as an actual active officeholder ("someone who is active in government usually as an elected official"; "a person experienced in the art or science of government; especially: one actively engaged in conducting the business of a government"; "a person engaged in party politics as a profession" [1]). Someone who is no longer in office would thus be a "former politician". Even if we regard Noor's school board position as a political rather than an academic tenure, he secured it only a few months ago. By contrast, he has an actual degree in computer science and worked for many years in information technology for the government. To be honest, I'm not even certain that the whole hatnote with regard to Mohamud is necessary since "Mohamud" is actually a variation of Mahmud rather than the different name Mohamed. The two names do have the same Arabic triconsonantal root of Ḥ-M-D, but then again so do Hamid and Ahmed, among other separate names. Phonologically, the situation is similar to Sarah (given name) vs. Sahra/Zahra (name); they too sound similar but are ultimately different names, with different spellings. Regards, Middayexpress (talk) 16:14, 14 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for helping our Wikibomb 2014! We have made over 70 new pages about Australian women scientists.

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Thank you Bellacounihan. It's been really impressive to watch the progress on Twitter and at Category:Wikibomb2014. I hope we can get some of our editors from WikiProject Women scientists to help out too. gobonobo + c 06:39, 14 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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RFC needs your input

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Clara Bewick Colby

Hi. I am happy to say that another one of your Gender Gap redlinks, Clara Bewick Colby, is now blue. :) --Rosiestep (talk) 03:48, 17 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 13 August 2014

Michelle Parkerson has been nominated for Did You Know

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Conversion Funnel

Hi Gobonobo,

The sources for Conversion Funnel, Digital Strategy, and Content Marketing are reliable. They are backed by evidence and written in a non-commercial, academic tone.

Please tell me your thoughts.

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