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Issue 66, November–December 2024

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In this issue we highlight two new partners, a spotlight on the Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention and WikiCredCon, a note about the Suggest page, and, as always, a roundup of news and community items related to libraries and digital knowledge.

Partner announcements

The Wikipedia Library is announcing free access to two new partners:

  • East View Press: publishes periodicals and books focused on international and public policy issues, particularly related to the former Soviet Union and China.
  • The Africa Report: a Paris-based English-language quarterly magazine that focuses on African politics and economics.

See all available partners on your My Collections page.

Spotlight: Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention and WikiCredCon

The second edition of the Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention 2025 took place from 15 to 17 January 2025, in Mexico City. Also known as WikiLibCon25, this event welcomed an international group of Wikimedians, information professionals, and partners interested in the intersection of Wikimedia and libraries. The Wikipedia Library team delivered an unconference session to introduce the library, and open a discussion about how attendees use the library, what improvements they would like to see, and what collections or topics are missing. The slides from the session are available here.

WikiCredCon took place in San Francisco from 14 to 16 February. Its topic was reliable sourcing and credibility of the Wikimedia projects. The Wikipedia Library team delivered a lightning talk on TWL's resources and participated in a session on the decline in trust of online information.

Tech tip: Suggest page

The Suggest page is the best way to highlight resources and collections that you'd like the library to have access to. You can add a new resource that you've just discovered, or upvote existing suggestions to bring the most important opportunities to the top.

Once a partner has joined the Library, we notify users who have upvoted it that these resources are now available. However, sometimes users add suggestions for resources that are already part of the Library. Be sure to check both tabs of your collections page to avoid requesting resources to which we already have access, and report any technical problems via Phabricator rather than a Suggest entry.

These are some suggestions that we've deleted recently because we already have access to them:

Bytes in brief

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