The Wikipedia Library/Newsletter/July-August 2024

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Issue 64, July–August 2024

In this issue we highlight a new partner, a Wikimania presentation, a script for searching The Wikipedia Library, 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 a new partner:

Hindu Group: includes The Hindu digital and ePaper editions, The Hindu businessline, Frontline, and SportStar

See all available partners on your My Collections page.

Wikimania

The Wikipedia Library delivered a lightning talk at Wikimania 2024 in Katowice, Poland. The talk highlighted some of the new partnerships the library has added in the past year—including JAMA, IEEE Xplore, ACM Digital Library, and more—and highlighted opportunities for collaboration.

Tech tip: Search-WPL script

Diegodlh has created a script that you can use to search The Wikipedia Library from within Wikimedia projects. The script adds a Wikipedia Library logo next to the Wikimedia search bar; clicking on this logo will send your search query to the Library Card Platform Search.

To install the user script add the following line to Special:MyPage/common.js:

mw.loader.load( '//meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Diegodlh/search-wpl.js?action=raw&ctype=text/javascript' );

Note that this script is maintained by a volunteer contributor, not the Wikipedia Library team, and may change without notice. Importing a remote script in the manner described above is susceptible to malicious code injection if the host account is compromised.