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selamatkan aku

Hello again Revolution, are you sysop in Indonesian Wikipedia ? Help me! I was blocked there because (accusation) canvassing. Padahal belakangan ini saya tidak pernah melakukan hal semacam itu. Perilaku saya untuk mengikutkan beberapa pengguna untuk ikut nimbrung di sebuah pembicaraan Warung Kopi pun cuman sekedar mengikut-sertakan saja. Lihat saja halaman daftar kontribut saya disana. Mohon untuk (kalo bisa) dicabut status pemblokirannya.

Oh ya, saya mohon juga agar membebaskan SockPuppet saya disana berakun id:Pengguna:Erik Evermtus karena akan digunakan sebagai akun pengganti jika akun utama dicuri oleh orang lain seperti id:Pengguna:Kenrick95Sock --Erik Evrest (talk) 09:13, 17 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Tapi gimana yang terjadi dengan User:Si Gam Acèh. Ia ketika lagi sedang protes anti gambar Muhammad saja juga melakukan canvassing sama di WBI yang bunyinya kaya gini:

“

Assalamu 'alaykum wr. wb Menyambut hari kelahiran Nabi Muhammad saw, saya mempunyai sebuah pemikiran agar Wikipedia Bahasa Indonesia dapat mengirimkan surat permintaan penghapusan gambar-gambar penghinaan terhadap Nabi Muhammad saw. yang dimuat di berbagai proyek Wikimedia terutama sekali di Wikipedia Bahasa Inggris. Kalau WBI tidak bersedia, kita bisa menggalang suara-suara wikipediawan Indonesia terutama sekali yang muslim untuk menandatangani surat pernyataan meminta penghapusan gambar-gambar penghinaan tersebut.

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Namun buktinya ia tak pernah diblokir di WBI apalagi dengan alasan canvassing itu. Yang ada ia malah diblokir secara global dan itu pun karena dianggap telah melakukan vandalisme di berbagai tempat serta membuat akun siluman, bukan karena canvassing. Itu artinya peraturan canvassing tidak berlaku donk. Lagipula peraturan canvassing tidak ada di WBI, cari aja sendiri. Jika belom ada peraturannya ya. Lagipula canvassing itu juga diantaranya memasukan spam promosi ProyekWiki juga yang sampai saat ini masih dilakukan bahkan oleh usert terkenal, para petinggi WBI, dan yang mempunyai status yang lumayan terhormat. Pokoknya inget nih kata-katanya Iwan Novirion di Warung Kopi Usulan:

“

kalau semua hal di Wikipedia Bahasa Indonesia ini harus berdasarkan yang ada di Wikipedia English ataupun Meta, kenapa gak sekalian aja bahasanya di samakan/ditukar dengan bahasa Inggris? Lain ladang lain belalang donk, mas. Sesuatu yang tidak dianggap tabu pada suatu tempat, belum tentu tempat lain menerimanya. Memang WBI bukan milik warga Indonesia saja, tapi milik dunia. Tapi pada kenyataannya warga Indonesia yang berkumpul disini

”

Jikalau pemblokiran bagi kaum canvassing sudah sah di WBI. Tapi kenapa yang pas si Gam Aceh tidak pernah diblokir dengan alasan itu. Coba jelaskan ! Kalo beliau tidak kenapa saya iya ? Kalo gitu saya merasa dipermainkan donk. Berarti saya tak layak menyandang status blokir itu dan harus di CABUT!

Dan coba lihat sumber Google Images dengan kata kunci "Canvassing" dan "Provokasi":

• Canvassing ==> http://www.google.com/search?hl=id&biw=1277&bih=642&gbv=2&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=canvassing&btnG=Telusuri&oq=canvassing&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=&gs_sm=s&gs_upl=103127l105755l0l10l10l0l2l2l0l409l2024l2.0.4.0.2l8 . Lihatkan, daftar gambarnya mendominasi gambar orang lagi kampanye dari rumah ke rumah.
• Provokasi ==> http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=id&source=hp&biw=1276&bih=642&q=provokasi&btnG=Telusuri+Gambar&gbv=2&oq=provokasi&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=&gs_sm=s&gs_upl=925l2608l0l9l9l0l2l2l0l337l1562l1.1.4.1l7 . Lihatkan, daftar gambarnya mendominasi perkumpulan orang sedang demo.

Jelas bedaKHAN! Lagi pula coba liat halaman yang berisi pandangan kebijakan Wikipedia sini mengenai canvassing ==> WP:CANVAS. Ada tidak kata "provokasi"/"provocation" disana. Berarti tidak ada hubungannya DONK. Kaya Mammoth ama Piramid dihubung-hubungkan aje. --Erik Evrest (talk) 04:27, 18 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

OK, i present use English in there. But, try to view a page containing clay Wikipedia policy regarding canvassing here ==> WP: CANVAS. See also this part ==> Wikipedia:CANVAS#Inappropriate notification. There is no word "provocation" or its synonyms, or there kind. Not right. Means nothing to do. --Erik Evrest (talk) 11:18, 19 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Therefore, the reason for blocking me because I said that itcanvassing. Well, I do not do it but lately in the Indonesian Wikipedia. But tell me this MimiHitam provocation. But as you look at WP: CANVAS there is no word "provocation" as I said earlier. That means the same as abuse of authority. So blocking is feasible status revoked and the blocker can be removed his admin status --Erik Evrest (talk) 11:45, 19 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

but not if you look at WP: CANVAS is not included either in each word and its synonyms.--Erik Evrest (talk) 12:10, 19 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

help me (again)

Tolong, saya diblokir lagi di WBI dengan alasan "intimidasi". Lha, saya tak melakukan intimidasi kok. Saya hanya suruh mempertimbangkan lagi keputusan mereka. Saya bahkan semakin lama semakin halus peribahasanya pada setiap voters sekalian. Dan lagi, pada pengusulan sebelumnya saya bahkan melakukan lebih buruk dari pada itu kenapa saya tidak diblokir ? Atau karena saya mengejek pak Sentausa "Si Lamban dari WikiLand" sama saya mengejek mas Ezagren "Anak Durhako" ? Lha, itu kan cuma lagi bercanda aja. Sama halnya Anda beri julukan pada id:Pengguna:Willy2000 "BadutWiki" disini ==> id:Pembicaraan Pengguna:Willy2000/arsip3#Interwiki. Mohon pertimbangkan lagi lah, kasihanilah saya to masak saya harus menikmati liburan Lebaran yang kemudian masih dilanjutkan pada saat liburan Natal nanti dengan keadaan didalam jeruji besi gini. Sama halnya dengan masa pemblokiran sebelum ini dimana saya harus melewati liburan sekolah dengan keadaan sama kaya gini. Coba bayangin kalo Anda jadi saya itu bagaimana ?--Erik Evrest (talk) 06:53, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Pertama, Anda tidak berhak menyuruh-nyuruh siapa pun. Soal bercanda, apakah orang yang Anda candai sependapat itu hanya bergurau? Tampaknya tidak. Terakhir, ucapan minta tolongnya mohon jangan sembarang salin tempel. Gombang (talk) 09:55, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

(for english speakers: Actually this should be brought up at Indonesian Wikipedia. Nothing relevant for en.wp here, move along.)

Saya tidak menyuruh, saya hanya meminta. Saya wajar donk melakukan hal itu karena Wikipedia adalah tempat kebebasan berpendapat. Mengenai orang yang saya candai juga sependapat bahwa itu hanya gurauan, bahkan orang tersebut tidak setuju dengan status pemblokiran tersebut, nih buktinya ==> http://id.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pembicaraan_Pengguna:Stephensuleeman&diff=prev&oldid=4693300
Yap, itu pesan seorang user WBI bernama Sentausa yang mendapatkan pesan kalo saya sedang diblokir dan minta dicabut status blokirnya dan menyinggungnya kepada Stephensuleeman si tukang blokir. Sentausa adalah kunci akan penuntasan masalah ini mengingat Mimihitam (seorang pengurus) mengatakan bahwa Sentausa merupakan salah seorang yang saya intimidasi-kan (bukti) Bukankah yang namanya "masalah" adalah "dimana ada 1 pihak yang dirugikan" yang itu berarti pihak tersebut merupakan kunci ke arah mana "masalah" ini akan berakhir. Keputusan pengurus itu kan (kurasa) hanya karena mereka merasakan kalau saya sedang bertindak seperti itu. Padahal sebetulnya tidak. Sama halnya Anda lihat orang lagi kecopetan terus copetnya lari dan Anda gebukin tuh copet namun Anda haruslah hentikan karena sebetulnya adegan pencopetan itu cuma sedang syuting sinetron aja Demikian juga dengan permasalahan saya sekarang ini, saya diblokir tapi sebetulnya dengan "korban" menyatakan bahwa permasalahan ini cuma karena kesalah pahaman saja. --Erik Evrest (talk) 09:55, 10 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Gom, katanya saya nih dikurangi masa pemblokirannya. Kok sampe saat ini masih 6 bulan sih di kotakan merah di halaman penglihat daftar kontribusi saya ?--Erik Evrest (talk) 10:05, 15 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sebelumnya lebih lama dari 6 bulan. Gombang (talk) 10:17, 15 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Bo'ong, sejak kapan ? Liat aja tuh tag blokir yang diberikan Stephensuleeman yang udah dari bahela (dahulu kala) di halaman pembicaraan saya. Udah deh ngaku aja. Saya tau Anda mau dipandang baek. Yalah saya pandang baik Anda karena Anda telah menghibur saya dengan mendongengkan saya sebelum tidur mengenai masa blokir saya di WBI udah dikurangi Makaci ya, saya jadi bisa bobo ini Bagi saya Anda tu paling baek dari seluruh Wikipediawan karena udah menghibur dengan penghiburan macam tu --Erik Evrest (talk) 13:26, 15 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Maksudnya sebelum diblokir sudah didiskusikan dulu oleh pengurus. Awalnya usul pemblokiran Anda itu lebih lama dari enam bulan. Jadi itu sudah diringankan. Gombang (talk) 14:13, 15 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yaelah, Anda mainan pake kosakata jargon di Warkop WBI biar yang tidak setuju ama pemblokiran saya ini jadi tenang, gitu ! Anda bilang kayak gitu biar para pengurus di WBI tidak dipandang diskriminatif dengan beberapa WBIwan dan tidak dipandang pilih kasih ? Pasalnya kalo kayak gitu maksudnya tidak usah dikatakan karena yang mereka inginkan adalah perpendekan masa blokir di saat masa blokir, bukannya perpendekan usulan masa blokir sebelum masa blokir Itu bukan memperpendek namanya tapi memperpendek tapi dalam pengusulannya, gimana seh ? Oh ya, coba deh liat 2 pranala ini :
serangan pribadi serta makian (dalam bahasa Inggris) 1
makian dalam bahasa Inggris 2
Yap, kedua pranala tersebut menunjukan makian kasar nggilani lan ngedani dalam bahasa inggris yang melebihi makian saya dari salah satu pengguna bernama Serenity. Serenity itu termasuk dalam pengguna lama dari WBI tapi masih berstatus pengguna WBI biasa namun setidaknya keseniorannya telah terkemuka mengingat ia salah satu pembangun Wikimedia Indonesia. Tapi betapa anehnya jika Anda dan saya melihat makian itu yang ternyata dibuat oleh seorang senior. Geleng geleng kepala saya. Saya liat log pemblokirannya ternyata lagi hanya pernah diblokir selama palingan 2 jam dalam 2X berturut-turut. Yalah mungkin karena dia kontributor WBI senior yang lagi stress jadi terpaksa dilakukan pemblokiran untuk ya palingan penenangan aja. Tapi bagaimana dengan saya yang juga udah WBIwan aktif diblokir sampai 6 bulan ? Yalah mungkin karena saya pernah diblokri karena melakukan hal keburukan yang sama sehingga segitu lamanya. Memang benar demikian. Dulu pernah diblokir selama seminggu dan sebulan. Tapi masak sih sebagai kontributor terpandang didemikiankan ? Kenapa tak 2 jam seperti si Serenity ? Apakah pendaftar tahun 2009 masih dianggap newbie bagi mereka ? Apakah mereka itu WikiVampir sehingga ngelakuin kelakuan kaya ginian ==> id:Wikipedia:Silakan hantam. Bukankah sudah diatur disini bahwa setiap pengguna harus dipikirkan secara positif bahwa mereka ingin berkontribusi yang baik untuk kemajuan di WBI. --Erik Evrest (talk) 10:49, 16 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Poinnya kesalahan Anda dinilai sudah cukup berat dan berulang untuk dihukum lebih berat. Soal kontributor terpandang, itu kan pendapat pribadi Anda saja. P.S. Bila Anda ingin berdiskusi lebih lanjut, silakan lakukan lewat surel. Saya tidak akan melayani diskusi di sini lagi. Gombang (talk) 11:48, 16 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Issue 11, March-April 2015
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• New donations - MIT Press Journals, Sage Stats, Hein Online and more
• New TWL coordinators, conference news, and new reference projects
• Spotlight: Two metadata librarians talk about how library professionals can work with Wikipedia

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The Wikipedia Library needs you!

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Call for Volunteers

The Wikipedia Library is expanding, and we need your help! With only a couple of hours per week, you can make a big difference in helping editors get access to reliable sources and other resources. Sign up for one of the following roles:

• Account coordinators help distribute research accounts to editors.
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Books and Bytes - Issue 12

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Books & Bytes
Issue 12, May-June 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs)

• New donations - Taylor & Francis, Science, and three new French-language resources
• Expansion into new languages, including French, Finnish, Turkish, and Farsi
• Spotlight: New partners for the Visiting Scholar program
• American Library Association Annual meeting in San Francisco

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Books and Bytes - Issue 13

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Books & Bytes
Issue 13, August-September 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs)

• New donations - EBSCO, IMF, more newspaper archives, and Arabic resources
• Expansion into new languages, including Viet and Catalan
• Spotlight: Elsevier partnership garners controversy, dialogue
• Conferences: PKP, IFLA, upcoming events

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Books and Bytes - Issue 14

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Books & Bytes
Issue 14, October-November 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs)

• New donations - Gale, Brill, plus Finnish and Farsi resources
• Open Access Week recap, and DOIs, Wikipedia, and scholarly citations
• Spotlight: 1Lib1Ref - a citation drive for librarians

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Books & Bytes - Issue 15

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Books & Bytes
Issue 15, December-January 2016
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs)

• New donations - Ships, medical resources, plus Arabic and Farsi resources
• #1lib1ref campaign summary and highlights
• New branches and coordinators

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Books & Bytes - Issue 16

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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

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Books & Bytes - Issue 17

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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!

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Books & Bytes - Issue 18

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 18, June–July 2016
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi, Samwalton9, UY Scuti, and Sadads

• New donations - Edinburgh University Press, American Psychological Association, Nomos (a German-language database), and more!
• Spotlight: GLAM and Wikidata
• TWL attends and presents at International Federation of Library Associations conference, meets with Association of Research Libraries
• OCLC wins grant to train librarians on Wikimedia contribution

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Books and Bytes - Issue 19

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Books & Bytes
Issue 19, September–October 2016
by Nikkimaria, Sadads and UY Scuti

• New and expanded donations - Foreign Affairs, Open Edition, and many more
• New Library Card Platform and Conference news
• Spotlight: Fixing one million broken links

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Books and Bytes - Issue 20

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Books & Bytes
Issue 20, November-December 2016
by Nikkimaria (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs), Samwalton9 (talk · contribs)

• Partner resource expansions
• New search tool for finding TWL resources
• #1lib1ref 2017
• Wikidata Visiting Scholar

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Books and Bytes - Issue 21

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Books & Bytes
Issue 21, January-March 2017
by Nikkimaria (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs), Samwalton9 (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs)

• #1lib1ref 2017
• Wikipedia Library User Group
• Wikipedia + Libraries at Wikimedia Conference 2017
• Spotlight: Library Card Platform

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Books and Bytes - Issue 22

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Books & Bytes
Issue 22, April-May 2017

• New and expanded research accounts
• Global branches update
• Spotlight: OCLC Partnership
• Bytes in brief

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Books and Bytes - Issue 23

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Books & Bytes
Issue 23, June-July 2017

• Library card
• User Group update
• Global branches update
• Spotlight: Combating misinformation, fake news, and censorship
• Bytes in brief

Chinese, Arabic and Yoruba versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!

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Books and Bytes - Issue 24

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Books & Bytes
Issue 24, August-September 2017

• User Group update
• Global branches update
  • Star Coordinator Award - last quarter's star coordinator: User:Csisc
• Wikimania Birds of a Feather session roundup
• Spotlight: Wiki Loves Archives
• Bytes in brief

Arabic, Kiswahili and Yoruba versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!

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Books and Bytes - Issue 25

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Books & Bytes
Issue 25, October – November 2017

• OAWiki & #1Lib1Ref
• User Group update
• Global branches update
• Spotlight: Research libraries and Wikimedia
• Bytes in brief

Arabic, Korean and French versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!

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Books and Bytes - Issue 26

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Books & Bytes
Issue 26, December – January 2018

• #1Lib1Ref
• User Group update
• Global branches update
• Spotlight: What can we glean from OCLC’s experience with library staff learning Wikipedia?
• Bytes in brief

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Books & Bytes - Issue 27

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Books & Bytes
Issue 27, February – March 2018

• #1Lib1Ref
• New collections
  • Alexander Street (expansion)
  • Cambridge University Press (expansion)
• User Group
• Global branches update
  • Wiki Indaba Wikipedia + Library Discussions
• Spotlight: Using librarianship to create a more equitable internet: LGBTQ+ advocacy as a wiki-librarian
• Bytes in brief

Arabic, Chinese and French versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!
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Books & Bytes – Issue 28

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Books & Bytes
Issue 28, April – May 2018

• #1Bib1Ref
• New partners
  • Rock's Backpages
  • Invaluable
  • Termsoup
• User Group update
• Global branches update
  • Wikipedia Library global coordinators' meeting
• Spotlight: What are the ten most cited sources on Wikipedia? Let's ask the data
• Bytes in brief

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Books & Bytes – Issue 29

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Books & Bytes
Issue 29, June – July 2018

• New partners
  • Economic & Political Weekly–10 accounts
• Wikimania
• Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
• Global branches update
• Bytes in brief

Hindi, Italian and French versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!
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Books & Bytes, Issue 30

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Books & Bytes
Issue 30, August – Septmeber 2018

• Library Card translation
• Spotlight: 1Lib1Ref spreads to the Southern Hemisphere and beyond
• Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
• Global branches update
• Bytes in brief

French version of Books & Bytes is now available in meta!
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Books & Bytes, Issue 31

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Books & Bytes
Issue 31, October – Novemeber 2018

• OAWiki
• Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
• Global branches update
• Bytes in brief

French version of Books & Bytes is now available on meta!
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Books & Bytes, Issue 32

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Books & Bytes
Issue 32, January – February 2019

• #1Lib1Ref
• New and expanded partners
• Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
• Global branches update
• Bytes in brief

French version of Books & Bytes is now available on meta!

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Books & Bytes, Issue 33

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Books & Bytes
Issue 33, March – April 2019

• #1Lib1Ref
• Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
• Global branches update
• Bytes in brief

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Books & Bytes Issue 34, May – June 2019

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 34, May – June 2019

• Partnerships
• #1Lib1Ref
• Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
• Global branches update
• Bytes in brief

French version of Books & Bytes is now available on meta!
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Books & Bytes – Issue 35, July – August 2019

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 35, July – August 2019

• Wikimania
• We're building something great, but..
• Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
• A Wikibrarian's story
• Bytes in brief

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Books & Bytes – Issue 36

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Books & Bytes
Issue 36, September – October 2019

• #1Lib1Ref January 2020
• #1Lib1Ref 2019 stories and learnings

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Books & Bytes – Issue 37

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Books & Bytes
Issue 37, November – December 2019

• #1Lib1Ref
• Wikimedia and Libraries User Group

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Issue 38, January – April 2020

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Books & Bytes
Issue 38, January – April 2020

• New partnership
• Global roundup

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Books & Bytes – Issue 39, May – June 2020

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Books & Bytes
Issue 39, May – June 2020

• Library Card Platform
• New partnerships
  • ProQuest
  • Springer Nature
  • BioOne
  • CEEOL
  • IWA Publishing
  • ICE Publishing
• Bytes in brief

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Books & Bytes – Issue 40

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 40, July – August 2020

• New partnerships
  • Al Manhal
  • Ancestry
  • RILM
• #1Lib1Ref May 2020 report
• AfLIA hires a Wikipedian-in-Residence

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Books & Bytes – Issue 41

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Books & Bytes
Issue 41, September – October 2020

• New partnership: Taxmann
• WikiCite
• 1Lib1Ref 2021

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Books & Bytes - Issue 42

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Books & Bytes
Issue 42, November – December 2020

• New EBSCO collections now available
• 1Lib1Ref 2021 underway
• Library Card input requested
• Libraries love Wikimedia, too!

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Books & Bytes – Issue 42

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 42, January – February 2021

• New partnerships: PNAS, De Gruyter, Nomos
• 1Lib1Ref
• Library Card

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Books & Bytes – Issue 43

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 43, March – April 2021

• New Library Card designs
• 1Lib1Ref May

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Books & Bytes – Issue 45

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 45, May – June 2021

• Library design improvements continue
• New partnerships
• 1Lib1Ref update

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Books & Bytes – Issue 46

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 46, July – August 2021

• Library design improvements deployed
• New collections available in English and German
• Wikimania presentation

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Books & Bytes – Issue 47

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 47, September – October 2021

• On-wiki Wikipedia Library notification rolling out
• Search tool deployed
• New My Library design improvements

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Discussion at Talk:Sarah Azhari

 I invite you to please join the discussion at Talk:Sarah Azhari.

Hello, we are seeking help with the Sarah Azhari article, created in 2013 & recently the subject of a deletion proposal. At issue was whether or not the Indonesian language sources establish notability. I am inviting you to the discussion at Talk:Sarah Azhari#Help with Indonesian language sources because you are in the Category:User id-N & have a minimum of 1,000 edits across all Wikimedia projects.

I realize that some of you are very busy while others may no longer be editing. Nevertheless, I thought it wise to consult with you.

Thank your for the work that you do on Wiki[mp]edia! Peaceray (talk) 21:06, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]