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Dr Pink<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> English <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> deletion alert</p><p>Could you save this LGBTQ related <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a> Wikipedia article from deletion?</p><p>Index of Equatorial Guinea–related articles<br>* none</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_of_Equatorial_Guinea%E2%80%93related_articles" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_of</span><span class="invisible">_Equatorial_Guinea%E2%80%93related_articles</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Equatorial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Equatorial</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Indexes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indexes</span></a></p>
Dr Pink<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> English <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> deletion alert</p><p>Could you save this LGBTQ related <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a> Wikipedia article from deletion?</p><p>Index of Burundi-related articles<br>* none</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_of_Burundi-related_articles" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_of</span><span class="invisible">_Burundi-related_articles</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Indexes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indexes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Burundirelated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Burundirelated</span></a></p>
Dr Pink<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> English <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> deletion alert</p><p>Could you save this LGBTQ related <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a> Wikipedia article from deletion?</p><p>Index of Senegal-related articles<br>* none</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_of_Senegal-related_articles" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_of</span><span class="invisible">_Senegal-related_articles</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Senegalrelated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Senegalrelated</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Indexes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indexes</span></a></p>
jcraddock<a class="mention hashtag" href="https://mostr.pub/tags/RedactedScience" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span>#</span>RedactedScience</a> Daily update video .<br><a href="https://youtu.be/g2mS7AIDdgM?si=kYoSkIsgCR2nrDnc" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/g2mS7AIDdgM?si=kYoSkIsgCR2nrDnc</a><br><br><a class="mention hashtag" href="https://mostr.pub/tags/TheArchitect" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span>#</span>TheArchitect</a><br><a class="mention hashtag" href="https://mostr.pub/tags/Nostr" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span>#</span>Nostr</a><br><a class="mention hashtag" href="https://mostr.pub/tags/Indexes" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span>#</span>Indexes</a><br><a class="mention hashtag" href="https://mostr.pub/tags/Decentralized" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span>#</span>Decentralized</a> <br><br><br><br><a href="https://blossom.primal.net/17ec719e57a69d313189bef4224d44b344fedcc91421ba4f8d0792f66b6b6d7c.png" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://blossom.primal.net/17ec719e57a69d313189bef4224d44b344fedcc91421ba4f8d0792f66b6b6d7c.png</a>
Dr Pink<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> English <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> deletion alert</p><p>Could you save this LGBTQ related <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a> Wikipedia article from deletion?</p><p>Index of philosophy articles (R–Z)<br>* none</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_of_philosophy_articles_%28R%E2%80%93Z%29" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_of</span><span class="invisible">_philosophy_articles_%28R%E2%80%93Z%29</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Indexes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indexes</span></a></p>
Dr Pink<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> English <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> deletion alert</p><p>Could you save this LGBTQ related <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a> Wikipedia article from deletion?</p><p>Index of philosophy articles (A–C)<br>* none</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_of_philosophy_articles_%28A%E2%80%93C%29" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_of</span><span class="invisible">_philosophy_articles_%28A%E2%80%93C%29</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Indexes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indexes</span></a></p>
Dr Pink<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> English <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> deletion alert</p><p>Could you save this LGBTQ related <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a> Wikipedia article from deletion?</p><p>Index of philosophy articles (I–Q)<br>* none</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_of_philosophy_articles_%28I%E2%80%93Q%29" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_of</span><span class="invisible">_philosophy_articles_%28I%E2%80%93Q%29</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Indexes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indexes</span></a></p>
Dr Pink<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> English <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> deletion alert</p><p>Could you save this LGBTQ related <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a> Wikipedia article from deletion?</p><p>Index of philosophy articles (D–H)<br>* none</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_of_philosophy_articles_%28D%E2%80%93H%29" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_of</span><span class="invisible">_philosophy_articles_%28D%E2%80%93H%29</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Indexes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indexes</span></a></p>
Dennis Doomen<p>arise, I want tools that help diagnose <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/queries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>queries</span></a>, understand the (mis)use of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/indexes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indexes</span></a>, and tune database parameters based on the situation. It also needs to support remote administration (without requiring SSH access), be natively supported on @Microsoft <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Azure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Azure</span></a> or Amazon Web Services (AWS), and come with portable tools I can easily download and use in build pipelines without needing to install frameworks like .NET or Java. Finally, it should provide clear error (cont'd)</p>
MidgePhoto<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hackers.town/@aendra" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>aendra</span></a></span> <br>The various components of the social din might be better if the index was external, and more collaborative.</p><p>I wonder if the Fediverse could support a series of human-derived <a href="https://photog.social/tags/indexes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indexes</span></a> outside the likes of Bluesky, <a href="https://photog.social/tags/TwitteX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TwitteX</span></a> and <a href="https://photog.social/tags/FaceThreadAgram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FaceThreadAgram</span></a> ?</p>
Dan Jones<p><a href="https://microwords.goodevilgenius.org/t/since" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Since</span></a> <a href="https://microwords.goodevilgenius.org/t/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://microwords.goodevilgenius.org/t/only" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>only</span></a> <a href="https://microwords.goodevilgenius.org/t/indexes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indexes</span></a> <a href="https://microwords.goodevilgenius.org/t/hashtags" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hashtags</span></a>, <a href="https://microwords.goodevilgenius.org/t/in" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>in</span></a> <a href="https://microwords.goodevilgenius.org/t/order" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>order</span></a> <a href="https://microwords.goodevilgenius.org/t/to" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>to</span></a> <a href="https://microwords.goodevilgenius.org/t/ensure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ensure</span></a> <a href="https://microwords.goodevilgenius.org/t/your" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>your</span></a> <a href="https://microwords.goodevilgenius.org/t/entire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>entire</span></a> <a href="https://microwords.goodevilgenius.org/t/post" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>post</span></a> <a href="https://microwords.goodevilgenius.org/t/is" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>is</span></a> <a href="https://microwords.goodevilgenius.org/t/searchable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>searchable</span></a>, <a href="https://microwords.goodevilgenius.org/t/simply" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>simply</span></a> <a href="https://microwords.goodevilgenius.org/t/prepend" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prepend</span></a> <a href="https://microwords.goodevilgenius.org/t/every" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>every</span></a> <a href="https://microwords.goodevilgenius.org/t/word" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>word</span></a> <a href="https://microwords.goodevilgenius.org/t/in" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>in</span></a> <a href="https://microwords.goodevilgenius.org/t/your" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>your</span></a> <a href="https://microwords.goodevilgenius.org/t/post" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>post</span></a> <a href="https://microwords.goodevilgenius.org/t/with" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>with</span></a> <a href="https://microwords.goodevilgenius.org/t/a" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>a</span></a> <a href="https://microwords.goodevilgenius.org/t/hash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hash</span></a>.</p> <p><a href="https://microwords.goodevilgenius.org/t/modernproblems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ModernProblems</span></a> <a href="https://microwords.goodevilgenius.org/t/modernsolutions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ModernSolutions</span></a> <a href="https://microwords.goodevilgenius.org/t/donotdothis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DoNotDoThis</span></a> <a href="https://microwords.goodevilgenius.org/t/thisisnothowyouuseahashtag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThisIsNotHowYouUseAHashtag</span></a> <a href="https://microwords.goodevilgenius.org/t/hashtag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hashtag</span></a> <a href="https://microwords.goodevilgenius.org/t/toot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>toot</span></a> <a href="https://microwords.goodevilgenius.org/t/toottoot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TootToot</span></a></p>
Nicola King<p>I wrote a blog entry about the need for decent <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/indexes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indexes</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>archaeology</span></a> books. <a href="https://abookindexer.com/2023/01/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">abookindexer.com/2023/01/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> There'll be a revised version soon, because I have had more thoughts on the subject.</p>
OpenCitations<p>OpenCitations Meta is out now! It stores and delivers bibliographic metadata for all publications involved in the OpenCitations citation <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/indexes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indexes</span></a>, and presently contains <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/metadata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>metadata</span></a> describing &gt; 87 MILLION bibliographic entities. Learn more about its data and technical features here:  <a href="https://opencitations.hypotheses.org/3140" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">opencitations.hypotheses.org/3</span><span class="invisible">140</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/OpenCitationsMeta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenCitationsMeta</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/OC2022releases" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OC2022releases</span></a> </p>
Sam<p>What types of <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/indexes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indexes</span></a> are there, what are the elements of an <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/index" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>index</span></a>, and how do they interact? How avoid pitfalls of <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/indexing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indexing</span></a>? These and many other questions for <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/indexodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indexodon</span></a> get answered (in German) in this new contribution by Jochen Fassbender, freely available here: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110769043-019" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1515/9783110769043-</span><span class="invisible">019</span></a></p>
Paula Clarke Bain<p>It’s that <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/INDEX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>INDEX</span></a> book again. (This is getting silly now.)<br>After being in TIME magazine’s and the Washington Post’s top books of the year lists, Dennis Duncan’s ‘INDEX, A History of the’ (for which I did the, er, index) is also one of the ‘100 Notable Books of 2022’ in the New York Times. Go Dennis, go <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/indexes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indexes</span></a>, go <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/indexers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indexers</span></a>. 🥳<br><a href="https://toot.wales/tags/indexodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indexodon</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/22/books/notable-books.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/interactive/2022/1</span><span class="invisible">1/22/books/notable-books.html</span></a></p>
Paula Clarke Bain<p>Does your book need an <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/index" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>index</span></a>? <br>Is the author the best person to do it?<br>Well, sometimes, but often not, for reasons of experience, skills, software, training and time.<br>So here’s an article I wrote for the Society of Authors: ‘Why you need and how to work with a book <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/indexer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indexer</span></a>: a guide for <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/authors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authors</span></a>.’<br>Hope it helps!<br><a href="https://toot.wales/tags/indexes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indexes</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/indexing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indexing</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/indexodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indexodon</span></a></p><p><a href="https://baindex.org/2021/01/29/why-you-need-and-how-to-work-with-a-book-indexer-a-guide-for-authors/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">baindex.org/2021/01/29/why-you</span><span class="invisible">-need-and-how-to-work-with-a-book-indexer-a-guide-for-authors/</span></a></p>
Paul Filev<p>I'm willing to put friendship on the line when it comes to <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/bookrecs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookrecs</span></a>. I can't be friends with someone who doesn't like [insert author].</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/JaneBowles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JaneBowles</span></a> is high up on my list of writers that can make or break a friendship. She's a <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/TrueOriginal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrueOriginal</span></a></p><p>My <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/PasteUp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PasteUp</span></a> of Jane &amp; her lover <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Cherifa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cherifa</span></a> from 2009.</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/index" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>index</span></a> entry on Cherifa from Millicent Dillon's biography of Jane Bowles: A Little Original Sin.</p><p>p 236: "Cherifa...was handsome and had gold teeth. Like Janie she was unpredictable."</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/indexodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indexodon</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/indexes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indexes</span></a></p>