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Books & Bytes New Years Double Issue
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
Books & Bytes - Issue 16
Books & Bytes
Issue 16, February-March 2016
by The Interior (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs)
- New donations - science, humanities, and video resources
- Using hashtags in edit summaries - a great way to track a project
- A new cite archive template, a new coordinator, plus conference and Visiting Scholar updates
- Metrics for the Wikipedia Library's last three months
The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:17, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
Incorrect Revision on Citizenship Clause Page August 2015
You incorrectly reverted my grammatical edit on this article because the original passage does not contain a period. You are incorrect on this rule of grammar. Periods and commas always belong inside quotation marks, regardless of whether they're part of the original text or not. It's only question marks and exclamation points that are sometimes placed outside because they can change the meaning of the original text. Thought you should know for future reference. Here is a link explaining the rule: Purdue OWL: Quotation Marks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Offensivename (talk • contribs) 18:29, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
- Each publication establishes its own style. Wikipedia's style regarding the placement of quotation marks may be found at MOS:LQ. Jc3s5h (talk) 18:49, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
That looks awful. Very bad decision on the part of whoever set up those guidelines. I stand corrected though. Sorry for wrongly disagreeing with your change. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Offensivename (talk • contribs) 21:01, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
Metric System
You restored an inappropriate citation in the Metric System article.[1] Could you explain why? If you read the reference you might have noticed it did not say anything about the statement in the article. Ceinturion (talk) 15:20, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
- The following paragraphs from the source support the claim in the article:
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The unit of volume, the pinte (later renamed the litre), was defined as the volume of a cube having a side equal to one-tenth of a meter. The unit of mass, the grave (later renamed the kilogramme), was defined as the mass of one pinte of distilled water at the temperature of melting ice. In addition, the centigrade scale for temperature was adopted, with fixed points at 0 C and 100 C representing the freezing and boiling points of water (now replaced by the Celsius scale).
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The work to determine the unit of mass was begun by Lavoisier and Hauy and was completed by Gineau and Fabbroni. They discovered that the maximum density of water occurs at 4 C, and not at 0 C as had been supposed, so the definition of the kilogram was amended to specify the temperature of maximum density. We now know that the intended mass was 0.999972 kg, i.e., 1000.028 cm3 instead of exactly 1000 cm3 for the volume of 1 kilogram of pure water at 4 C.
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- You may have noticed that the citation is behind the statement about aristocratic connotations (in the paragraph "original metric system"). That statement is not supported by Nelson's article. That is why it is an inappropriate citation. In addition, the different facts in the two quotes you selected here do not correspond to another statement in that paragraph. Citations should not be a puzzle. I am not sure why you are a fan of Nelson's article, but if it helps it would be no problem to keep it in the legends of the earlier figure. My focus is improving the paragraph "original metric system". Ceinturion (talk) 22:27, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
- I noticed you edited the article. You did a great job in removing the citation from its old location. However, introducing that citation behind another statement was a mistake. The statement "Originally the kilogramme, defined as being one pinte (later renamed the litre) of water at the melting point of ice, was called the grave" is garbled and wrong. As it is wrong, it does not deserve a citation. The kilogram was defined as 1000 gram, and the gram was defined as the weight of 1 cm3 of water (please read the wikipedia article on the kilogram and its citation of the law that introduced the kilogram, [2]). In successive reports and laws the kilogram was sometimes expressed as the weight of 1 dm3 of water, but never as a pinte and never als a litre. I read those reports and laws, and it really seems you did not. Ceinturion (talk) 18:52, 4 June 2016 (UTC)
- You may have noticed that the citation is behind the statement about aristocratic connotations (in the paragraph "original metric system"). That statement is not supported by Nelson's article. That is why it is an inappropriate citation. In addition, the different facts in the two quotes you selected here do not correspond to another statement in that paragraph. Citations should not be a puzzle. I am not sure why you are a fan of Nelson's article, but if it helps it would be no problem to keep it in the legends of the earlier figure. My focus is improving the paragraph "original metric system". Ceinturion (talk) 22:27, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
Books & Bytes - Issue 17
Books & Bytes
Issue 17, April-May 2016
by The Interior, Ocaasi, UY Scuti, Sadads, and Nikkimaria
- New donations this month - a German-language legal resource
- Wikipedia referals to academic citations - news from CrossRef and WikiCite2016
- New library stats, WikiCon news, a bot to reveal Open Access versions of citations, and more!
The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:36, 16 June 2016 (UTC)