User talk:Phoebe

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Inventation to Boston-Gathering, celebrating Wikipedias 22th Birthday

Afers several years of distancing, I wan to invite you tomorrow (Jan 17th at 6pm) to the Boston-gathering at MIT.

Details can be found at Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/Wikipedia_22th_Anniversary_Celebration

I hope I see you there  — Johannes Kalliauer - contrib. 19:19, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Books & Bytes – Issue 54

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Issue 54, November – December 2022

  • New collections:
    • British Newspaper Archive
    • Findmypast
    • University of Michigan Press
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    • Duke University Press
  • 1Lib1Ref 2023
  • Spotlight: EDS Refine Results

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Cybernetics in the Soviet Union

Hi! I need to check a quote from a book to which you may be able to have relatively easy access: Gerovitch, Slava (2002). From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. ISBN 9780262572255

According to the article Cybernetics in the Soviet Union, it's on page 288: "tactical uses of cyberspeak overshadowed the original reformist goals that aspired the first Soviet cyberneticians."

Is that the actual text? English is not my native language, but I find this usage of "aspire" a bit odd in a professionally edited book published in the U.S. I'd expect "inspired", or maybe "goals to which the first Soviet cyberneticians aspired". But if that's the actual printed quote, then I guess that's what Wikipedia should have. Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 08:04, 7 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I found it myself! :) Here's the full quote: "By the early 1970s, the cybernetics movement had changed completely in character. It no longer challenged the orthodoxy; instead, tactical uses of cyberspeak overshadowed the original reformist goals that aspired the first Soviet cyberneticians."
As an English speaker, what would you say: is it an acceptable usage of "aspired", or is it indeed weird? Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 08:46, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Hey @Amire80:! I think it's weird. Typo for inspired I guess? Or I'd reorder the sentence: "the first Soviet cyberneticians aspired to" -- phoebe / (talk to me) 16:27, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! :) Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 17:33, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Books & Bytes – Issue 55

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Issue 55, January – February 2023

  • New bundle partners:
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  • 1Lib1Ref January report
  • Spotlight: EDS SmartText Searching

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Books & Bytes – Issue 56

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Issue 56, March – April 2023

  • New partner:
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  • Library access tips and tricks
  • Spotlight: EveryBookItsReader

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Books & Bytes – Issue 57

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Issue 57, May – June 2023

  • Suggestion improvements
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  • Spotlight: Promoting Nigerian Books and Authors

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Precious anniversary

Precious
Five years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:28, 26 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Books & Bytes – Issue 58

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Issue 58, July – August 2023

  • New partners - De Standaard and Duncker & Humblot
  • Tech tip: Filters
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A WCNA Barncompass for you!

WCNA 2023 Barncompass
Thank you for attending the AGO culture crawl and writing about Inuit artists. I am awarding this barncompass to you. (Barncompass originated in Wikivoyage as a response to Wikipedia's barnstar. Since everyone travelled long distance for the conference and would have no doubt pulled out a map app at some point, awarding a barncompass is probably as fitting as a barnstar.) OhanaUnitedTalk page 14:00, 15 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Books & Bytes – Issue 59

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Issue 59, September – October 2023

  • Spotlight: Introducing a repository of anti-disinformation projects
  • Tech tip: Library access methods

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Writing women into STEM

Thanks, Phoebe, for your involvement in this initiative and in the follow-up work. A really impressive set of articles from talented new contributors. I hope you will try to encourage them to continue improving the coverage of women on Wikipedia. I have invited some of them to join us on Wikiproject Women in Red where we will be able to offer further assistance. Happy editing!--Ipigott (talk) 12:28, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Books & Bytes – Issue 60

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Issue 60, November – December 2023

  • Three new partners
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Books & Bytes – Issue 61

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Issue 61, January – February 2024

  • Bristol University Press and British Online Archives now available
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