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Eppstein, D.; Lewis, J. B.; Woodroofe, Russ; XOR'easter (2025). "Princ-wiki-a mathematica: Wikipedia editing and mathematics" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 72 (1): 65–73..

—David Eppstein (talk) 18:55, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@David Eppstein Thank you for your submission!

I guess @HaeB might find this pretty interesting for his "Recent research" column... Oltrepier (talk) 21:23, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Already appeared in the last issue, thanks. —David Eppstein (talk) 22:14, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost should write about... The 138th annual meeting of the American Historical Association is meeting in New York City and features a panel discussion on the topic Open Knowledge as Pedagogical Praxis: How Faculty and Students Are Opening up the Field of History by Improving Wikipedia. (This session is in-person only and meets Saturday morning, January 4 at 10:30-12 pm.) - kosboot (talk) 01:34, 23 December 2024 (UTC) kosboot (talk) 01:34, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Kosboot Done, thank you for flagging it! Oltrepier (talk) 13:32, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost should write about... Possible total project capture of the Hebrew Wikipedia. See the RFC page at Meta. I saw a lot of HEWP users complaining about ongoing unfair treatment of the people, including mass blocks on the users that current admins don't agree with their viewpoint.

Ahri Boy (talk) 16:43, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Ahri Boy It's likely too late to feature this, but we'll look into it for the next issue! Oltrepier (talk) 13:33, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost should write about... Wikipedia’s Lies Against Israel and How to Protect Historical Truth, YT-video by/with one Aaron Bandler. At the time of writing, I haven't seen it, 1h+, but the guy is a journalist. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:45, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

And another thing: Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)#Heritage_Foundation_intending_to_"identify_and_target"_editors. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 16:41, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Gråbergs Gråa Sång The VP discussion will feature in the lead story on In The Media. Thank you for flagging these! Oltrepier (talk) 13:33, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Request a poll re external plagiarism. How many times have you noticed your work on Wikipedia has been lifted verbatim and published elsewhere under another name?

I think it would be an interesting response from long-time editors. Happens to me a lot, which maybe says I did a good job if someone wants to steal it. My most recent was Loyal Valley, Texas. But the most blatant was someone who published a book under their own name from my content they copied verbatim: [1]. — Maile (talk) 16:27, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Planning for m:Wikipedia 25 is kicking off. Ed Erhart (WMF) (talk) 20:18, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@JPxG: I'm not sure if you or anyone else has seen this suggestion and the one above it. Ed Erhart (WMF) (talk) 06:08, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"Even Wikipedia recognises the gravity of the situation its contributors in Belarus now face, to the extent that they have overridden their own protocols and deleted the entire edit history for Belarus-related articles that could land its users in trouble." That's interesting. From Novaya Gazeta. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 17:20, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost should write about... Jordan Prosser (10 February 2025), "Want to know how the world ends? Try this Wikipedia page", The Guardian. One for In the media (probably the In brief section). Ham II (talk) 15:09, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost should write about... this news article - Remove derogatory and objectionable reference from Wikipedia about Sambhaji Maharaj: Fadnavis

Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Devendra Fadnavis has asked Maharashtra police to remove "derogatory and objectionable references" about Sambhaji in Wikipedia.

Srf123 (talk) 10:01, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

The Signpost should write about:

• https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2025/03/113_391790.html

Nice to see appreciation for Wikipedia's coverage of restaurants!

--Another Believer _(Talk) 20:16, 4 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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".

—Bruce1ee^talk 07:18, 9 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

+1 2601:2C4:4181:CC0:438:62B1:7D:F6D (talk) 19:05, 9 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost should write about...

Kjersti Flaa broke through the WP:N wall, mainly by being BLP2E. At least an editor currently blocked thought so[2], 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[3] which has 3 628 comments atm, and the WP-article about her has been mentioned in Verdens Gang:[4] Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 05:30, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost should write about... [5] 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).

• Oldest restaurants in South Korea: The Korea Times covered a list of oldest restaurants in South Korea created by seefooddiet and the English Wikipedia's need for more Korea-focused editors.

seefooddiet (talk) 00:34, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Seefooddiet By the way, I requested this above! Good stuff ---Another Believer _(Talk) 00:46, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

oop just spotted, thanks :) seefooddiet (talk) 01:03, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't want to brag / self-promote, but I got recognized for my "extra stupid" [sic] RfC close in this newspaper or magazine or something [6]. Several other editors are also mentioned! Chetsford (talk) 02:53, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost should write about... the release of Ziyad Alsufyani from jail. Unfortunately Osama Khalid remains in prison. Source: https://x.com/ALQST_En/status/1899417275733574124

Pyb en résidence (talk) 20:08, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]