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Goodwin Fire
GA nomination of Goodwin Fire
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Goodwin Fire passed
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Promotion of Goodwin Fire
Goodwin Fire for TFA
This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 24 June 2023. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June 2023, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/June 2023. I suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from two days before it appears on the Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work!—Wehwalt (talk) 22:59, 30 April 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – January 2023
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The Bugle: Issue 201, January 2023
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Working Wikipedian barnstar
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Frye Fire
GA nomination of Frye Fire
The article Frye Fire you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold 
. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Frye Fire and Talk:Frye Fire/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Sammi Brie -- Sammi Brie (talk) 08:00, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
Frye Fire passed
The article Frye Fire you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Frye Fire for comments about the article, and Talk:Frye Fire/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Sammi Brie -- Sammi Brie (talk) 19:22, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
DYK for Frye Fire
On 17 January 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Frye Fire, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Frye Fire decimated the population of the already endangered Mount Graham red squirrel in Arizona? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Frye Fire. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Frye Fire), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
BorgQueen (talk) 12:02, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
Promotion of Frye Fire
- Hurray! –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 02:04, 4 February 2023 (UTC)
- Congrats! Bolívar quest continues I suppose? Or perhaps something else? The Night Watch (talk) 19:52, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
- Bolívar Quest does indeed continue. I am currently reading and taking notes from Simón Bolívar: Essays on the Life and Legacy of the Liberator, which I had waited to get ahold of for months. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 21:18, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
- Aye, good luck! Legacy is always the trickiest part. I will do some small copyedits if I get the chance. The Night Watch (talk) 22:24, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
- Bolívar Quest does indeed continue. I am currently reading and taking notes from Simón Bolívar: Essays on the Life and Legacy of the Liberator, which I had waited to get ahold of for months. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 21:18, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
- Congrats! Bolívar quest continues I suppose? Or perhaps something else? The Night Watch (talk) 19:52, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
- Congrats on the FA! ♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:08, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
Four Award for Frye Fire
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Rattlesnake Fire
GA nomination of Rattlesnake Fire (2018)
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Rattlesnake Fire on hold
The article Rattlesnake Fire (2018) you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Rattlesnake Fire (2018) and Talk:Rattlesnake Fire (2018)/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of LunaEatsTuna -- LunaEatsTuna (talk) 03:02, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
Rattlesnake Fire passed
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Books & Bytes – Issue 54
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2023
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The Bugle: Issue 202, February 2023
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Copyright contributor investigation and Good article reassessment
You are receiving this message because you were a Good article reviewer on at least one article that is part of Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20210315 or you signed up for messages. An AN discussion closed with consensus to delist this group of Good articles for copyright and other problems, unless a reviewer opens an independent Good article reassessment and can vouch for/verify content of all sources. Please review Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/February 2023 for further information. A list of the GA reviewers can be found here. Questions or comments can be made at the project talk page. You can opt in or out of further messages at this page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:20, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
- Vami IV, have you had a look at the timeline on the GAR/Feb 2023 page above? We're trying to keep track of which articles have already been processed via a Petscan query, so we can be sure when the bot runs on Feb 23 or after we've gotten all the right delistings. GA templates that get removed now give me one more thing to have to track down and keep straight, so if you can post any GAs you submit to WP:CP at the project talk page, or hold off for a week, it will give me one less thing to keep track of for now. Best, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 04:44, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
- Noted. Will not happen again. Please be aware that what is listed at WP:CP will be deleted after seven days. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 05:43, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
- Yep ... I'll just have to keep track of those two, as Novem Linguae has indicated they might have problems getting the bot approved in time for the planned run on the 23rd ... I realize that copyright work takes priority, but if we can hold off on the GAs, it will be less for us to keep straight. I've learned from watching you work how many others I will be able to send straight to CP after the GAR run. Up to this point, I had been working through articles-- something I had to do I guess to convince myself of how seriously bad they are, so I won't feel bad now just sending them off for deletion. There are many GAs that are 98% DC's work, and full of blatant inaccuracies as well as copyvio-- off with their heads. Bst, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 06:16, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
- Your suffering through this shit is what allows us to so quickly dispense with it and start over. For that, I thank you. From here until the bot runs, I will avoid GAs and make note of them on the CCI page. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 06:25, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
- For reference, I use the mediawiki browser extension "Who Wrote That?" to see how much of an article was written by who. If the majority of the article is written by Coldwell, I sent it to CP immediately. The template we use for this is Template:Copyvio, like so: {{subst:copyvio|url=Presumptive deletion over copyright concerns, please see: [[Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20210315]]}}. Then, it's a matter of following the instructions in the box that appears over top of the article. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 08:12, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
- Yep, I have Who Wrote That, and took a screenshot of your templating so I'd know how to do it ... unfortunately, I had already partially cleaned most of the Ludington family articles before the AN consensus, so I may have to suffer through those and finish what I started, but from there on out, it's straight to CP on anything mostly written by him. Somewhat unbelievable that I waded through the whole Lunar display series of 30 articles, but it showed me what DC's work was about. Thx ! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 13:29, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
- Yep ... I'll just have to keep track of those two, as Novem Linguae has indicated they might have problems getting the bot approved in time for the planned run on the 23rd ... I realize that copyright work takes priority, but if we can hold off on the GAs, it will be less for us to keep straight. I've learned from watching you work how many others I will be able to send straight to CP after the GAR run. Up to this point, I had been working through articles-- something I had to do I guess to convince myself of how seriously bad they are, so I won't feel bad now just sending them off for deletion. There are many GAs that are 98% DC's work, and full of blatant inaccuracies as well as copyvio-- off with their heads. Bst, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 06:16, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
- Noted. Will not happen again. Please be aware that what is listed at WP:CP will be deleted after seven days. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 05:43, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
NovemBot is running, so we can move forward at the CCI with the now delisted GAs (or soon to be) ... SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:25, 25 February 2023 (UTC)
- Bot stopped halfway through ... got to articles beginning with J. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 10:02, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
- Then let the sword bite letters A to I. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 10:31, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
- Looks like NovemBot should finish in an hour or two more. Then I shall unwatch the GA pages and thank my lucky stars I never got involved over there, and focus on the CCI. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:15, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
- Then let the sword bite letters A to I. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 10:31, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
Category:Architecture in Sri Lanka by century
Please see two discussions at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 February 14 where I have nominated Category:Architecture in Sri Lanka by century and others like it for deletion. – Fayenatic London 23:04, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
Wiki-project Prussia
Hey there Vami IV,
I saw that you are a member the inactive project Prussia, I also joined the Project a few days ago, I wanted to ask you if you would be interested in reviving the project, I recently submitted a draft of Landkreis Heilsberg, and we both together could make new pages for the project and recruit new members. Crainsaw (talk) 13:35, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
February stories
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Thank you for improving articles in February! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:22, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
- A peaceful day. Like the pause, from the work in the field or at the bench, to drink some cool water. Ah, there is always so much to do. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 16:29, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
- Thank you for the pause! - My story on 24 February is about Artemy Vedel (TFA by Amitchell235), and I made a suggestion for more peace, - what do you think? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:12, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
- today: two women whose birthday we celebrate today, 99 and 90! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:22, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
Tinder Fire
GA nomination of Tinder Fire
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Tinder Fire on hold
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Tinder Fire passed
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2023
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March 2023
Have you seen this book on McQueen from last year here: [1]. It seems to have relevant information for both the Widows article and your current nomination for Kate Moss. I'm thinking that your next article might be about his Spring 1999 collection with Shalom Harlow painted by industrial robotic arms. ErnestKrause (talk) 17:01, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
- @ErnestKrause: I think you have me confused for my mentor, Premeditated Chaos (talk). I'm sure Ad-Mom would like to know about this book if she doesn't already :D –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 00:31, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks for the ping, Vami, and for the suggestion, Ernest. I've already asked for my local library to purchase a copy and it's been on order for a few weeks now :) ♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:35, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
- I'm not sure how I crossed the signals on this. Premeditated Chaos: The book is a good read and I think you'll enjoy it when it arrives at your library both for your Widows article and for your new Kate Moss article. ErnestKrause (talk) 00:39, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
- Aye cheers, would love to have your comments there if you're up for reviewing yet another FAC. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 01:09, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
- If you need someone as a third reviewer or to do a source review for it, then let me know. ErnestKrause (talk) 17:53, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
- Aye cheers, would love to have your comments there if you're up for reviewing yet another FAC. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 01:09, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
- I'm not sure how I crossed the signals on this. Premeditated Chaos: The book is a good read and I think you'll enjoy it when it arrives at your library both for your Widows article and for your new Kate Moss article. ErnestKrause (talk) 00:39, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks for the ping, Vami, and for the suggestion, Ernest. I've already asked for my local library to purchase a copy and it's been on order for a few weeks now :) ♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:35, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
Thoughts on something
Was recently handing out a Civil War barnstar to somebody, and ran across Template:ACW Barnstar. Am I the only one who is uncomfortable with the phrasing "For actions worthy of [...] Forrest"? Forrest just isn't a person I think we'd want to place as an example of good behavior.
Likewise, I find Template:Nuclear Barnstar an odd choice of image, as a hodge-podge of a good service award along with an image showing the mushroom cloud that once was a city. Hog Farm Talk 17:13, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
- @Hog Farm: The civil war barnstar was created by a, now community banned, neoconfederate. I don't think it would be a hard sell to remove the lost cause propaganda -- Guerillero Parlez Moi 17:45, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
- Yikes. Gut that shit. Sheridan's not exactly the nicest, gentlest of souls, either. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 05:26, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
- Sheesh. Venerating a man who committed massacres and was the first grand wizard of the KKK? How did this not get shut down years ago? Trainsandotherthings (talk) 17:42, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
- It must have flown under the radar. Those barnstars do not get handed out very often. I think, actually, the last time the nuke barnstar was awarded was when I gave it to you in 2021. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 17:47, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
- Indeed, that barnstar seems to have never been given out-- it was a proposed ACW barnstar which the project ended up choosing Template:ACWTF Barnstar over. Eddie891 Talk Work 17:51, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
- It must have flown under the radar. Those barnstars do not get handed out very often. I think, actually, the last time the nuke barnstar was awarded was when I gave it to you in 2021. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 17:47, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
- The Forrest one is at TFD now. Hog Farm Talk 18:50, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
Fort Phantom Hill
Your GA nomination of Fort Phantom Hill
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Fort Phantom Hill on hold
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Fort Phantom Hill passed
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DC CCI
Vami, is it OK with you if I go through and remove all of your flags of DC GAs, now that they have been delisted? It will make the page easier to read ... Bst, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:55, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue 203, March 2023
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Simón Bolívar
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Books & Bytes – Issue 55
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Category:7th-century churches in Austria has been nominated for merging
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March flowers
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Thank you for improving articles in March! - Today we remember the 150th birthday of Max Reger, who saw the horrors of a world war right when it began in 1914, while others were still in high patriotic moods -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:46, 19 March 2023 (UTC)
sharing impressions from vacation on Madeira 20-30 March, pics now at 24 Mar from the peaks --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:06, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Category:7th century in Austria
A tag has been placed on Category:7th century in Austria indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz Read! Talk! 02:39, 25 March 2023 (UTC)
DYK for Tinder Fire
On 3 April 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Tinder Fire, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that at the peak of the 2018 Tinder Fire in Arizona, 695 firefighters worked to contain its spread? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Tinder Fire. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Tinder Fire), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2023).
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Guideline and policy news
- A community RfC is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving gender-related disputes or controversies should be referred to the Arbitration enforcement noticeboard.
Technical news
- Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. (T178356)
- The rollback of Vector 2022 RfC has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default.
- A link to the user's Special:CentralAuth page will now appear in the subtitle links shown on Special:Contributions. This was voted #17 in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023.
Arbitration
- The Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case has been closed.
- A case about World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been opened, with the first evidence phase closing 6 April 2023.
In your wheelhouse?
Thought Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Great Raid of 1840/1 might be something you wanted to see (although I think the article needs much work to get to GA status - a few of those sources I thought were a bit cringe-worthy). I suspect that there are many similarly-poor MILHIST good articles. Hog Farm Talk 20:18, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
- Now that is one stinky article. Thanks for raising this to my attention. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 20:50, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue 204, April 2023
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The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here.
If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 21:30, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
Auld Lang Syne
Hey. I seem to be editing again, though I am a pale sliver of my former gryphon self. I hope again that you can forgive me for bailing out after trying to play rainmaker a couple of years ago. The gray weight on my soul at that time was disturbing my real life. Sorry. § Lingzhi (talk) 08:37, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
- All years and human lives have winters. I am glad to see you returned, whatever the capacity. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 10:12, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
Featured Article Save Award
On behalf of the FAR coordinators, thank you, Vami IV! Your work on Belton House has allowed the article to retain its featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. I hereby award you this Featured Article Save Award, or FASA. You may display this FA star upon your userpage. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Nikkimaria (talk) 13:14, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
DYK for Fort Phantom Hill
On 16 April 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Fort Phantom Hill, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the ruined Fort Phantom Hill was briefly a town that was the seat of Jones County, Texas? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Fort Phantom Hill. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Fort Phantom Hill), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Aoidh (talk) 00:03, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
Precious anniversary
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--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:01, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
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| my story today |
Thank you for improving articles in April! - Today is the 80th birthday of John Eliot Gardiner. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:21, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
Maurice Suckling
Hi Vami, as you may have seen Maurice Suckling is back at ACR. While I failed to respond to your comments during the first review, I have since made the edits relating to them anyway. I wondered whether you'd be kind enough to take another look? Thanks either way for commenting the first time around! Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 21:46, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
- Sure thing! I'll have more time for general editing in a few days. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 09:49, 30 April 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – May 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).
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Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.
Technical news
- Progress has started on the Page Triage improvement project. This is to address the concerns raised by the community in their 2022 WMF letter that requested improvements be made to the tool.
Arbitration
- The proposed decision in the World War II and the history of Jews in Poland case is expected 11 May 2023.
Miscellaneous
- The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input through May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023.
The Bugle: Issue 205, May 2023
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The Bugle: Issue 205, May 2023
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Hot topic
MOS:AMPM uses pm and am. – S. Rich (talk) 03:18, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
May thanks
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Thank you for improving articles in May. - I had a good story on coronation day: the Te Deum we sang that day. And the following day we sang it for the composer ;)
I nominated Soňa Červená for GA just to give her a bit more exposure, and I took some pics of bright scenery - click on songs. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:23, 20 May 2023 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 56
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 56, March – April 2023
- New partner:
- Perlego
- Library access tips and tricks
- Spotlight: EveryBookItsReader
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --10:04, 24 May 2023 (UTC)