What’s new in The Wikipedia Library? (Oct-Dec 2024)

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Happy New Year! As we enter 2025, here are some updates from The Wikipedia Library team from the last quarter of 2024. 

The disparity in linguistic and regional representation that we see in Wikimedia projects and the publishing world is something that affects The Wikipedia Library as well. That is something we want to address by expanding our collections to include content from more regions and languages. In the last quarter, the following publishers joined The Wikipedia Library, offering free access to their content.

  • The Hindu Group is a major Indian publishing company based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. TWL users will now have access to The Hindu Digital, The Hindu Businessline, Frontline, and SportStar from The Hindu. Collections from The Hindu will be available with a single sign-on voucher code. You can apply for access here
  • Les Jours is an independent and generalist online news site based in France. Les Jours specialises in long-form reporting on topics such as media moguls, feminism, pollution, discrimination, etc. You can apply for access to Les Jours here.
  • Arcanum is the largest (and growing) digital periodical database from Eastern Europe, which contains scientific and specialized journals, encyclopaedias, weekly and daily newspapers, and more. You can apply for access here.
  • East View Press publishes periodicals and books focused on international and public policy issues, particularly related to the former Soviet Union and China. Their publications cover topics like foreign policy, international security, Slavic and Sino studies, and geography, with content translated and edited to make global research accessible in English. This collection is part of the Library Bundle, meaning eligible editors can instantly access content from East View Press here.

Both Arcanum and East View Press were long standing requests from the community and we were able to meet these publishers and develop partnership conversations with them at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October. If there is a resource that you would like to see in this list in the future, please suggest or upvote it.

In November, The Wikipedia Library team attended the first edition of the Dubai International Library Conference. We delivered two talks; an introduction to the Wikimedia movement and one on the shared spaces between Wikimedia and Libraries.

Our team will be attending the Wikimedia + Libraries International Convention 2025 from 15th to 17th January in Mexico City and the WikiCred Conference in San Francisco from 14th to 16th February. We look forward to seeing some of you there. 

Alice Kibombo and Vipin SJ at the Dubai International Library Conference 2024

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