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There's something odd about the font used to overlay the images on the main Signpost page (within the Signpost/snippet template). I think it's supposed to be a tongue-in-cheek, retro call out or homage to Web 1.0 graphic design, and I get that, but the readability of the font is lacking due to the fat (or bold) typeface. It would help if there was increased legibility in the font. Viriditas (talk) 23:01, 1 March 2025 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about... the Museum of all Things. Someone mentioned it in the German Signpost equivalent and someone should do so here as well! So far it only has an English version anyways.
Lupe (talk) 10:34, 3 March 2025 (UTC)
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Nice to see appreciation for Wikipedia's coverage of restaurants!
--Another Believer (Talk) 20:16, 4 March 2025 (UTC)
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The Signpost should write about xkcd's Wikipedia Omniroll – "a cylindrical food containing one layer of every item from the Wikipedia article List of rolled foods".
—Bruce1eetalk 07:18, 9 March 2025 (UTC)
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Kjersti Flaa broke through the WP:N wall, mainly by being BLP2E. At least an editor currently blocked thought so[1], but personally I agree. Flaa has been vaguely connected to something WP calls It Ends with Us controversy (no, I never heard about that either). She made a YT-video about being on WP[2] which has 3 628 comments atm, and the WP-article about her has been mentioned in Verdens Gang:[3] Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 05:30, 10 March 2025 (UTC)
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The Signpost should write about... [4] Shameless self-plug about an article in The Korea Times about me and a bunch of Wikipedia articles I wrote in the List of oldest restaurants in South Korea. Think suited for the "In brief" section of "In the media".
Could use this as a base (it's really boring because I'm boring, feel free to spice it up).
seefooddiet (talk) 00:34, 19 March 2025 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about... something along the lines of a thank you to the WMF/Jimbo for keeping Wikipedia safe and free.
Relativity ⚡️ 01:26, 24 March 2025 (UTC)
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I wrote a blogpost where I go over the entire Wikimedia movement and explain how it all works, including (but not limited to) Wikipedia, which I think that it's something that the community would find interesting.
Short draft:
User:Feed_Me_Your_Skin has written an article detailing the entire Wikimedia movement. It goes over the main projects, the software behind the Wikimedia projects, the role of the Wikimedia foundation in managing the movement, and more. To the best of the author's knowledge, this is the most in-depth document that has ever been written about Wikimedia. The author hopes that this article will help spread awareness about the more obscure aspects of Wikimedia and make people more familiar with the other projects. Whether or not you're new to Wikipedia or if you're a seasoned Wikipedian, the author is confident that everybody will find something in this article that they find interesting. To read it, click the following link: [5]. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Feed Me Your Skin (talk • contribs) 01:21, 10 April 2025 (UTC)
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The Signpost should write about... File:Wikipedians by number of edits (2014-2025).webm. Pretty cool! ---Another Believer (Talk) 14:31, 17 April 2025 (UTC)
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Surely there would be plans to cover this without my suggestion, but sharing just in case:
---Another Believer (Talk) 17:56, 6 May 2025 (UTC)
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Harry Bruce, son of Charles Tory Bruce, was a prolific Canadian writer and journalist well-known in Atlantic Canada for his biographical novels and essays. He died nine months ago in August 2024, but somehow never had an article on Wikipedia even after his seven decade career. A little over a week ago I came across his grandson, User:GabrielMABruce, editing articles on my watchlist related to Guysborough County. After extending an invitation to WikiProject Nova Scotia, GabrielMABruce and I talked back and forth on his talk page and he expressed his family's wish to see a Wikipedia article created about his grandfather. We worked together on a draft since then before publishing what we have now. I thought it would be poetic if GabrielMABruce were to write a piece for The Signpost detailing his experience joining Wikipedia to do this, given the fact that he comes from a long line of journalists and this was an explicit goal of the family. GabrielMABruce has expressed interest in doing so, and I thought this would be the best place to start to see if other editors think this is as cool of a story as I do. Thanks, MediaKyle (talk) 02:59, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
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With the support of the Internet Archive I have developed a prototype database of citations appearing on Wikipedia. The project seeks to cover the complete history of sources added to, and removed from, Wikipedia articles. This sort of database is not already built into Wikipedia; works cited are not tracked in any central location. Thus the goal of this project is to isolate the references from the wikitext source. Future work will include explicitly associating these citations with known sources, giving editors a view of the kinds of sources that are used (or were formerly used) in an article. The linked wiki page describes the project in further detail. You can access a prototype here.
Harej (talk) 18:31, 19 May 2025 (UTC)
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Some bad news from Belarus: n:Wikipedia administrators are being arrested in Belarus. Pyb (talk) 16:48, 21 May 2025 (UTC)
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Some might remember that time WP predicted the death of Sushant Singh Rajput: [6]. We've done it again, this time it was Andriy Portnov: [7] Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 16:11, 23 May 2025 (UTC)
We may have reached seven million English articles during the time this tip was prepared, but as in most places, the ups come with the downs. From this season: A transgender Wikimedia employee from Texas who was fired after suffering harassment from a remote supervisor based in Kenya, and filed a wrongful-termination lawsuit on the matter this month. Her views and experiences have been shared by other employees for several years.
"K. Mae said she still believes that [Wikimedia] is 'doing good, crucial even, things for the world', but that the organization lacks clear direction and policies to deal with harassment... The 'bigotry' expressed in her lawsuit is 'organization wide' and that most of her former colleagues 'are as against the problems in leadership as I was.'"
— Keys, Matthew (2025-05-27). "Woman fired by Wikipedia parent after harassment speaks out". TheDesk.net. Solano Media. Retrieved 2025-05-27. Companion story from May 22.
Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 03:16, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
