User talk:Apwoolrich

Early Britannica

Hi Tony - if you ever need anything looking up in old encylopedia - I have a facsimile edition of the 3 volume 1771 edition. Kind regards Brookie\^talk

Your user page

I imagine it's a bug. I added blank content to the end of the page; that seems to fix it. r3m0t ^talk 15:39, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)

Standardized test

I don't think it's a copyvio. The page has hardly changed since John FitzGerald's first edits, and he's not a user I would suspect of adding copyvios. The odd characters were introduced by an anon in this edit, probably due to problems with saving emdashes. The main problem with the article is the complete lack of sources, particularly for the criticisms section. A "use of standardised tests" section is missing, but I don't have any of my work or books about this topic with me since I'm now in Germany, so I can't easily fix this right now. Angela. 10:50, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)

Edit war in the making

There's a new "Mediation Cabal" which might be able to help with the issue. Angela. 12:02, May 11, 2005 (UTC)

Also, see Talk:Nathaniel Eaton and Talk:Copyright for other possible problems with the same user. Angela. 16:27, May 15, 2005 (UTC)

History/History of Science articles on Wikipedia?

Hello,

I’m a historian working at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University (http://chnm.gmu.edu/) and as part of our project on the History of Science, Technology, and Industry we are very interested in digital historical works, including people writing history on Wikipedia. We’d like to talk to people about their experiences working on articles in Wikipedia, in connection with a larger project on the history of the free and open source software movement. Would you be willing to talk with us about your involvement, either by phone, a/v chat, IM, or email? This could be as lengthy or brief a conversation as you wish.

Thanks for your consideration.

Joan Fragaszy

jfragasz at gmu dot edu

R B Prosser

I have just created a proper article on the "History of patent law". The early history of UK patent law could probably fit in this article. If you wish to improve the article, that would be excellent. I will try to gather what I know as well (and I will (proof-)read of course what you have written). Feel free to add sections to the article, this often helps to make things clearer. The section "history of patent law" in patent should be summarized now I think. Cheers. --Edcolins 20:58, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

Village Pump

==Indulgence==

One Plenary Indulgence

Thanks for your Firefox advice on Village Pump; even though I wasn't the one to ask the original question, I definately got some good ideas. I went to check for Firefox extensions and I found the greatest thing ever: an extension called OCD that automatically refreshes your browser window for you! Now I don't have to constantly whack the reload button on my watchlist. And it's all thanks to you! I hereby award you this plenary indulgence! Essjay · Talk 10:41, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)

You're welcome! I always try to show my appreciation; I use the indulgence because 1) it's so very Catholic, and 2) nobody else uses it. I figure, who knows when I may do something stupid, I'd better build up support beforehand!

After you mentioned extensions, I went and downloaded a bunch of them (probably more than I needed) and OCD was one I found. The page for OCD is here. I hope you enjoy it as much as I am! -- Essjay · Talk 02:54, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

Industrial Revolution

You may or may not have noticed that Industrial Revolution has come under the spotlight of a group of article improvers. My weekday access is very limited at the moment, so can I ask you to keep your eyes open for any bloopers. (My additions aren't exempt of course, because I'm very much the amateur in this field.) Now might be a good time to consider separating the article into two—one for the British Industrial Revolution, and another for 'industrial revolution' as a generic term. Cheers, Noisy | Talk 20:21, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC) (Also posted to User talk:AlainV.)

History Articles

Hey! Thanks for your note on my talk page; I started using that template because I always seem to be the second person to welcome people, and all the other templates look alike. As for history articles, I don't think I have; my area of expertise is Catholic doctrine & law, and it really hasn't led to much in the way of history. However, if you'd like to have the researcher email me, I'd be happy to discuss it. -- Essjay · Talk 10:35, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)

• After seeing AlainV's note below, I feel I should clarify my comment: If you want to have them contact me through the "email this user" link, I'd be happy to talk with them. -- Essjay · Talk

Category:UK Wikipedians

Hi, just to let you know that the list of UK participants at the UK notice board was getting rather long, so I have replaced it with the above category which I have added to your user page. -- Francs2000 | Talk 30 June 2005 18:42 (UTC)

No problem (re the historian) however please bear in mind that I'm going on holiday to Greece next week...! -- Francs2000 | Talk 1 July 2005 07:28 (UTC)

Thanks

The mop is mine!

Thanks for voting in my RfA; I promise I'll wield my sacred mop with care. If you ever need me for anything, you know where to find me. Thanks again! -- Essjay · Talk 15:33, July 20, 2005 (UTC)

Dictionary of National Biography

Hi Tony. Thanks for your work on Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles - I echo what's said above about how much more valuable your contributions are rather than another List of yoghurt brands mentioned in the Simpsons (really hoping that's a red link!) You mention on Talk:Dictionary of National Biography that you have a copy of the DNB on CD. Is there any way of generating a contents list from it? I feel that it would be a really valuable addition to the missing articles Wikiproject. --OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 11:12, August 23, 2005 (UTC)

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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