User talk:RAdimer-WMF

A belated welcome!

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Please see draft on The Signpost

At Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Next_issue/Serendipity. @HouseBlaster: I thought I had a question about an unsuccessful request being required, but figured it out. You might look at the photo on left of the top matter. Right now there's a photo of John Travolta with the "answer book" (pd). In the previous version, there's a phake comic book of Major Triumph (CC-0). Let me know if you like it better. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 04:51, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

Hi Smallbones! Rae is planning to get a good image tonight :) HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 16:28, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

@Smallbones, HouseBlaster: How's this file? It's used in the submission form directions. Or maybe this one. RAdimer-WMF (talk) 22:57, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

I really like this one :)

I really like the first option you gave :) HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 23:15, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

Munhumutapa book

Hi Rae, sorry to bother you on here but the listing with the agreed-upon price is now live (the time had been changed to 5pm UTC), could you please let the account operator know? Promise I’ll stop messaging you after this :) Kowal2701 (talk) 17:26, 21 January 2026 (UTC)

I've replied via email :) RAdimer-WMF (talk) 18:37, 21 January 2026 (UTC)

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Partnership with HathiTrust

Hi, HathiTrust (https://www.hathitrust.org/, HT) hosts a large and very high quality collection of documents, mostly old books. Many of them would be useful for Wikisource and other Wikimedia projects. However, access is often restricted (see their answer below), which hinders getting these books, and copying them to Commons.

Access is also restricted to bots, so these books can only be copied one by one, which is very impractical. There used to be a small program called Hathi Download Helper which was very practical, but HT has changed their API, and it doesn't work anymore. Also the command line version of Internet Archive Downloader could be used to download books from HT, but it also doesn't work anymore.

I don't have an account with a US university, which is also a possibility to access these books.

Would it be possible that the Wikimedia Foundation contacts HT to form a partnership for getting privileged access to these books?

Thanks, Yann (talk) 10:46, 26 June 2026 (UTC)

@Yann, this is interesting, thanks for sending. I'll pass this along to my colleagues who work on The Wikipedia Library. RAdimer-WMF (talk) 15:36, 26 June 2026 (UTC)