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Jul 21 2024

Oona_Wikiwalker added a comment to T322916: Fix Newspapers.com access issues.

I wonder if anyone has told Newspapers.com that they probably get more exposure (free advertising) from people checking Wikipedia sources than from people doing genealogy? I've done all my genealogy, back to the 1500s and I never used newspapers.com. However, I bounce there all the time looking at sources in wikipedia articles. I always check what people tell me, lol.

Jul 21 2024, 5:26 PM · Essential-Work, Moderator-Tools-Team, Library-Card-Platform
Oona_Wikiwalker added a comment to T322916: Fix Newspapers.com access issues.

As I've said multiple times in this thread, that doesn't work for me. My account is through Ancestry. I can log in from newspapers.com itself, but I can't clip from the library access. And I've barely been able to add content to Wikipedia for nearly three months because I don't put in what I can't verify. Basically, my only sources are books from Internet Archive and websites.

Jul 21 2024, 5:23 PM · Essential-Work, Moderator-Tools-Team, Library-Card-Platform
Oona_Wikiwalker added a comment to T322916: Fix Newspapers.com access issues.

How can you log in, mxn? I've been seeing Newspapers.com flagged as unavailable in the Library for days now...

Jul 21 2024, 5:17 PM · Essential-Work, Moderator-Tools-Team, Library-Card-Platform

Jun 15 2024

Oona_Wikiwalker added a comment to T322916: Fix Newspapers.com access issues.

I've always ever had an Ancestry account there, from when they first began offering them.

Jun 15 2024, 11:05 PM · Essential-Work, Moderator-Tools-Team, Library-Card-Platform
Oona_Wikiwalker added a comment to T322916: Fix Newspapers.com access issues.

@KylieTastic , are you trying to log in to Newspapers.com through Ancestry.com?
And those are FANTASTIC articles! However, the Wikipedia article is about the Norias Division raid, and this is a very sore issue in Texas. I've been trying to keep the scope of the article strictly to the raid and save the politics surrounding the issue for an article on that subject. The article I had to use that silly workaround for is this one: </br>https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/image/286550494/?match=1&terms=%22george%20j.%20head%22

Jun 15 2024, 10:58 PM · Essential-Work, Moderator-Tools-Team, Library-Card-Platform
Oona_Wikiwalker added a comment to T322916: Fix Newspapers.com access issues.

I'm grateful for the suggestions, but I don't use Firefox on my phone. I tried downloading it to my laptop and no luck with Newspapers.com.
I do regularly clear cookies from my browsers and I still can't log into Newspapers.com with my Ancestry account. I understand this is a lot of work and it's probably beyond annoying. I've been trying to avoid it by, as I said, hunting down coordinates. I've worked through the backlogs for California, Arizona, Hawaii and Florida. I'm halfway through Texas. But I came across a page, Raid on Norias Ranch, with so many inaccuracies that I had to rewrite it. A person central to the event was replaced by a fictional person. People said to have been killed were not. The date was wrong, another person was misnamed, etc., etc.

Jun 15 2024, 8:59 AM · Essential-Work, Moderator-Tools-Team, Library-Card-Platform

Jun 12 2024

Oona_Wikiwalker added a comment to T367242: Can't access De Gruyter from Library.

Yes, it works fine. Thank you so much for your attention what you do! We depend on you so much.

Jun 12 2024, 2:47 AM · The-Wikipedia-Library (Partnerships)

Jun 11 2024

Oona_Wikiwalker created T367242: Can't access De Gruyter from Library.
Jun 11 2024, 9:52 PM · The-Wikipedia-Library (Partnerships)

Jun 6 2024

Oona_Wikiwalker added a comment to T322916: Fix Newspapers.com access issues.

Thank you for looking into that. The reason I don't just get another Newspapers.com account is that I've learned that you can never plan what's going to happen. Twice in the last four years, we here at Casa Oona were just living our lives when one of us suddenly ended up in the hospital for weeks. I was there when not at work because disabilities the people had were more than the nursing staff could handle with their workload. For a good while after coming home, I did not have had the time, energy, or available mental acreage to hunt down how to avoid being migrated from a free trial to a paid subscription either. So I don't know what to do...

Jun 6 2024, 12:06 AM · Essential-Work, Moderator-Tools-Team, Library-Card-Platform

Jun 5 2024

Oona_Wikiwalker added a comment to T322916: Fix Newspapers.com access issues.

Newspapers.com is behaving like above in Firefox, Chrome or the Brave browsers I use. I don't really use Microsoft Edge...

Jun 5 2024, 10:04 PM · Essential-Work, Moderator-Tools-Team, Library-Card-Platform

Jun 3 2024

Oona_Wikiwalker added a comment to T322916: Fix Newspapers.com access issues.

I've never minded unproxying the links. It's no more annoying than having to wait around while Archive.Today creates its saved page so I can grab the long link. Is continually renewing accounts' access to newspapers.com less work than dealing with the fragility of the manual proxy? I don't want to be unreasonable.

Jun 3 2024, 9:42 AM · Essential-Work, Moderator-Tools-Team, Library-Card-Platform

May 28 2024

Oona_Wikiwalker added a comment to T322916: Fix Newspapers.com access issues.

I've been unable to log into Newspapers.com through Ancestry using my Wikipedia Library account for weeks now. I can log into my Library account just fine. When, in Newspapers.com, I try to create a clipping to cite in a Wikipedia article, the Newspapers.com signin popup appears. I click "Ancestry" and the popup for name and password appears. I enter those. That popup disappears but the signin popup remains. Clicking the "Ancestry" button again makes it disappear and instantly reappear. When I go to Newspapers.com, I am logged in there, but I don't have Publisher's Extra.

May 28 2024, 2:35 AM · Essential-Work, Moderator-Tools-Team, Library-Card-Platform

Jan 29 2024

Oona_Wikiwalker added a comment to T327666: Corriere della Sera is displaying a paywall.

Deleting this comment because I was mistaken.

Jan 29 2024, 9:20 AM · Moderator-Tools-Team, Library-Card-Platform

Jan 27 2024

Oona_Wikiwalker added a comment to T322916: Fix Newspapers.com access issues.

I'm also getting the CloudFlare message when trying to log into Newspapers.com through the library.

Jan 27 2024, 12:05 PM · Essential-Work, Moderator-Tools-Team, Library-Card-Platform