Welcome![edit]

Hello, Lisa Beck, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

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Username[edit]

Hi! I'm a bit confused about your username - this is the account your edits are under, but you sign as "Emerald Evergreen". Emerald Evergreen (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) - this account does not exist on English Wikipedia. Did you want to get renamed? Nikkimaria (talk) 13:40, 9 October 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Applications[edit]

Thought I'd bring this here since it's a bit more extensive than is appropriate for the various signup pages, and applies to all of them anyways.

You currently have just under 200 edits and a sporadic editing history. While we'd love to be able to give resources to everyone who wanted them, there are a finite number available, so we evaluate contribution history to try to understand who will make best use of them. I'd recommend that you spend some more time getting experience working with articles, perhaps even creating a few from scratch, and then we can re-evaluate your application. There will almost certainly be HighBeam accounts remaining at that time.

Similarly, while I appreciate your willingness to volunteer as a coordinator, I'm not sure you're quite experienced enough yet for that role. However, we do have some open tasks that you don't have to be a coordinator to do - I'd love to see you jump into those.

Finally, I thought I should point out that a couple of your applications were rejected by others because, like me above, they were confused about seeing an account that apparently doesn't exist applying for resources. There are a few things you could do to prevent this kind of confusion in future:

Rename your account
Register "Emerald Evergreen" as a doppelganger account, and redirect its user and user talk pages to yours
Change your signature so that it reads "Emerald Evergreen" but still links to the Lisa Beck user and user talk pages.

Any of these would be possibilities, but be aware that if you choose either 2 or 3, you will still need to use the "Lisa Beck" username when completing templates like ((user8)) - Lisa Beck (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) is correct while Emerald Evergreen (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) does not work. Nikkimaria (talk) 18:28, 26 October 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Books and Bytes - Issue 14[edit]

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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[edit]

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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[edit]

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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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May 2016[edit]

Hello, I'm Walter Görlitz. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Mate (beverage), but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. The reference you provided, http://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Mate%20(beverage), is a mirror of the Wikipedia article to which you added the reference. Notice the "Content from Wikipedia" at the bottom. It can't be used as a reference. And we don't sign our edits in main space. Walter Görlitz (talk) 17:53, 21 May 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Books & Bytes - Issue 17[edit]

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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[edit]

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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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Latin American 10,000 Challenge invite[edit]

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Latin America/The 10,000 Challenge ‎ has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Argentina etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. At some stage we hope to run some contests to benefit Latin American content, a destubathon perhaps, aimed at reducing the stub count would be a good place to start, based on the current Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon. If you would like to see this happening for Latin America, and see potential in this attracting more interest and editors for the country/countries you work on please sign up and being contributing to the challenge! This is a way we can target every country of Latin America, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant!♦ --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 00:39, 27 October 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Books and Bytes - Issue 19[edit]

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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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19:07, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Europe 10,000 Challenge invite[edit]

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Germany, Italy, the Benelux countries, Iberian Peninsula, Romania, Slovenia etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for Europe and your specialist country like Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every country of Europe, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any country sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thank you. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 09:57, 6 November 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Books and Bytes - Issue 20[edit]

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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[edit]

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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[edit]

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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[edit]

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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[edit]

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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!

Welcome![edit]

Username[edit]

Applications[edit]

Books and Bytes - Issue 14[edit]

Books & Bytes - Issue 15[edit]

Books & Bytes - Issue 16[edit]

May 2016[edit]

Books & Bytes - Issue 17[edit]

Books & Bytes - Issue 18[edit]

Latin American 10,000 Challenge invite[edit]

Books and Bytes - Issue 19[edit]

Europe 10,000 Challenge invite[edit]

Books and Bytes - Issue 20[edit]

Books and Bytes - Issue 21[edit]

Books and Bytes - Issue 22[edit]

Books and Bytes - Issue 23[edit]

Books and Bytes - Issue 24[edit]

Women in Red World Contest[edit]

Books and Bytes - Issue 25[edit]

Books and Bytes - Issue 26[edit]

Books & Bytes - Issue 27[edit]

Books & Bytes – Issue 28[edit]

Books & Bytes – Issue 29[edit]

Books & Bytes, Issue 30[edit]

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Books & Bytes, Issue 32[edit]

Books & Bytes, Issue 33[edit]

Books & Bytes Issue 34, May – June 2019[edit]

Books & Bytes – Issue 35, July – August 2019[edit]

Books & Bytes – Issue 36[edit]

Books & Bytes – Issue 37[edit]

WikiProject Backpacking[edit]

Issue 38, January – April 2020[edit]

Books & Bytes – Issue 39, May – June 2020[edit]

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