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Hey gang,
Hope everyone's staying safe with self-quarantine or however it is you're dealing with COVID-19. I'm teleworking and keeping sane with music and wiki stuff.
If folks are looking for things to do, openlibrary.org is a terrific resource for borrowing books online. We have a lot of Sesame Street and Muppet storybooks that could use a synopsis and more detail. We don't have a list of which articles need the most attention, but here are some links that will take you to a random book. Click to open the link in a new tab, decide if it's something you'd like to expand, and check openlibrary.org to see if they have it:
If you're new on the wiki, please look at your Message Wall where you should have a welcome message from one of the admins (the notification for this isn't working very consistently right now). If there's no message, or if folks just need a refresher, you can find the appropriate starting guide at Special:Community (which is also linked as the GET STARTED button on the right side of every article on the wiki).
Feel free to respond with ideas for areas of the wiki folks might like to work on, but please stay on topic. Let's see if we can avoid catching "Cabin Fever", and don't forget "Everybody Wash" your hands!<ac_metadata title="Everybody Wash Your Everything"> </ac_metadata>
Internet Archive has announced they're lifting the waitlist period for borrowing books:
Sesame Workshop announced last week that it has made 110 eBooks available for free on a number of retailers.
Good stuff, thanks David.
That reminds me, Jim Henson's Red Book changed their URL structure part way through publishing their blog. Here's a list of places where we're linking to them:
The content is still live, it's just a matter of finding the new URL. Which is pretty easy to do considering most of our links should already be referencing the date, and their navigation bar makes finding those easy.
If we work real hard, we can table every Sesame episode by the end of the night!
There is: Special:LongPages and Special:ShortPages.
Thanks for this. I've made use of the Internet Archive to find books that couldn't be immediately found through openlibrary.org.
For what it's worth, I've found that a lot of broken links to ERIC documents, many of which for some reason aren't connected to Education Resources Information Center website. In such cases, I've found some reports available through Internet Archive or Google searching by the ED identification number for another space to upload PDFs to.
I'll add to the list. A lot of performer's pages need work on their bios or credits sections (which may sound boring to some, but anyone who wants to help, please do!) Some still have quoted "Official bio" text which needs rewriting. Some use the deprecated "Non-Henson credits" section.
And some are just haphazard in the credits listing. The Sesame credits on Matt Vogel are a major example. It should look more like David Rudman: major and recurring roles first, the rest (one-shots, assists, one-time fill-ins, character from a random online video) alphabetically.
I’m safe as can be
As far as finding which books don't have descriptions, isn't there like a Wiki tool that tells you which pages have the most or least amount of text, or something, or is that admin only? (or or did I completely make that feature up?)
I knew that Barnes and Noble was doing the free Sesame Street eBooks, but I had no idea that it was on other providers as well. I'm going to start grabbing them off of Amazon, because I'd much rather have it in that format. Thanks for the info, Scott! Anyway, that seems to be true for a lot of stuff right now - that it's just being offered completely free. Off-topic of this - but last week two modern-day Tomb Raider games were offered completely free on Steam. So whatever your fandom may be, whether it's Muppet, or anything else, it's worth checking what's out there right now.
Oscarfan wrote: If we work real hard, we can table every Sesame episode by the end of the night!
If you believe, clap your hands (then, wash them)!