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[edit] Another way of doing this?

A while ago I was playing with the idea of implementing the same goal as this project through a searchable database. See my proposal at User:Postdlf/library. I'm not a software guy so I don't know how to implement it, but I thought that was really secondary to figuring out how it would function on the user-end. I appreciate all thoughts as to how feasible this is to implement and how well this would work in practice. Feel free to post privately on my talk page too if you prefer. Postdlf 19:47, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] the New York Times

Good News. According to their news page, [1] : "The New York Times will stop charging for access to parts of its Web site, effective at midnight tonight [including] TimesSelect, .... In addition to opening the entire site to all readers, The Times will also make available its archives from 1987 to the present without charge, as well as those from 1851 to 1922, which are in the public domain. There will be charges for some material from the period 1923 to 1986, and some will be free." Spread the word. DGG (talk) 03:24, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Very cool. Glad they are opening up the PD stuff too... they didn't need to do that and it's a great public service. ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 04:54, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
The progress on transcribing NYT articles is improving since they made this announcement. See s:NYT. John Vandenberg (talk) 03:36, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bibliographic record keeping discussion.

On the Village pump (technical) there is a discussion to simplify the citing of commonly used sources, and more generally to improve our bibliographic record keeping. There are a number of options presented, some of which are ready for prime-time, and an organised effort is required to consider their suitability and prepare a well rounded proposal if any option appears to be workable. John Vandenberg (talk) 04:09, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User subpage libraries

Considering that a comprehensive list of the books Wikipedians own would be difficult to manage on your Shared Resources page, I have made a suggestion at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Shared resources/library that users maintain their own library subpages, and add categories to aid interested parties to navigate there. I'd like to know what you think. Gwinva (talk) 07:46, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

I've responded at the Village pump. Key (talk) 13:17, 20 February 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Template:Article resources

WikiProject Resource Exchange
GFDL resources
Public domain resources
Public domain image resources
Free image resources
Free sound resources
Non-PD resources
Maps
Bibliographies

The template Article resources is lacking a reference to this little project. Should we take the initiative and ad a link? ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 16:33, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

That's a great idea. Maybe wait until after the merge, so we know the definitive page name of the project though. But we can fix the template in case of a name change afterwards too. So your pick. Key to the city 19:23, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
Thats fine, we can wait on it. No hurry. ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 19:31, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
Merging is done, go for it now. Key to the city 15:36, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
No wait. I just saw: the header of the template links to our project now. So it solved itself. Key to the city 17:13, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
Just changed it ;) and great merge job. --Quiddity 17:41, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

I merged the content of the template to the new navigation box of the project. There were too many templates on this page. Have been improving the organisation of the project and made it less of a mess. But the template is still great for on related project pages. Key (talk) 21:02, 9 January 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Sharing Full / Physical Resources

I was going to do this at the village pump, but saw the discussion about this wiki-project.

Sharing resources that editors have owned but no longer want to keep.

For example an editor might have a book or a journal on an area of research, add to an article, cite the book/journal, and then move away from that area of research or need to otherwise relieve himself of said object. Wouldn't it be great if other editors could then get hold of that resource? They could perhaps improve the statements being cited, or find more useful information to cite from it than the original editor did.

There are models such as [2] and perhaps [3] which may work.

Personally, I'd rather post a book/journal to someone than have to scan or re-type an article if information was requested. The readit-swapit model has the added advantage of getting something in return. Perhaps this is a different enough idea to be a different wikiproject. Further there may be some complex issues regarding anonymity and abuse etc. Any thoughts?

Davémon (talk) 16:57, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

I've also implemented a "library" page in my user-space user:Davemon/Library, as an example, any feedback welcome. --Davémon (talk) 17:23, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Never thought about that before, but it's a good idea. Not sure if this fits in this project or would better be an independent project either. I'll do some thinking about it. Key (talk) 11:49, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] EB

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28miscellaneous%29#Encyclop.C3.A6dia_Britannica_WebShare --Historiograf (talk) 13:06, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

copied from that link: "Answered on the Help Desk. Please don't cross-post questions, as it causes duplication of effort. --— Gadget850 (Ed) talk - 13:57, 25 April 2008 (UTC)"
At the Help Desk, the answer was that this page (Resource Exchange) is the right place to talk about it, so I'll copy the discussion from WP:VPM:

As partner of WebShare with my weblog http://archiv.twoday.net/topics/English+Corner/ I have a free one year account and am able to make EB articles free by linking to them (no limit). Let's imagine some possibilities for WP:

  • Wikipedian A asks webpublisher and Wikipedian B for assistance on his discussion page or a WP: page because he wishes to read some EB articles as background information (no copyvio, of course!!) for WP articles (feel free to ask e.g. me). B gives him the links by writing them on the page.
  • Wikipedian C puts free EB links in (i) the weblinks section, (ii) the reference section of an article.
  • Wikipedian D makes here a list of known free EB articles.

I don't know if the links also expire after a year but I don't think so.

Some thoughts? --Historiograf (talk) 12:55, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Sample: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1192818/Wikipedia --Historiograf (talk) 12:59, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

- Dan Dank55 (talk)(mistakes) 14:17, 25 April 2008 (UTC)