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In wholesome news, User:Junnn11, a prolific contributor of illustrations of anthropods, made the main page of Hacker News [1] and a Japanese blog [2]. Nardog (talk) 21:14, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about...for "In the media" (or something more): Authority of knowledge: historians on Wikipedia in higher education #LILAC23 blogpost by Sheila Webber about a talk by Delphine Doucet given at the #LILAC23 Conference (information literacy). Maybe Doucet is an editor? - kosboot (talk) 15:51, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost should write an article comparing the several user scripts that show the reliability of sources:
User:Headbomb/unreliable, User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/CiteHighlighter, and User:SuperHamster/CiteUnseen
some of the things about each script
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Headbomb's script:
Novem Linguae's script
SuperHamster's script
All three scripts can apparently be used together without bugs (here is someone else's screenshot) |
137a (talk • edits) 18:02, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
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The Signpost should write about editing with a WP:COI taking place in Durham County, North Carolina if it hasn't already.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:47, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
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Would The Signpost welcome a piece by me, combining and updating User:Hansmuller/The_sum_of_all_knowledge (including international interpretations) and User:Hansmuller/Five_Pillars_plus_one (also Wikology/Wikisophy :-) in a more appropriate style? The sum of all knowledge might also be viewed as an extra Pillar, so then we would end up with a total of Seven Pillars of Wikipedia? Thank for considering this proposal, Hansmuller (talk) 08:41, 15 April 2023 (UTC), Wikipedian in Residence African Studies Centre Leiden
The Signpost should write about...
A really interesting research article about how Wikipedia's institutions have changed over time that essentially claims that Wikipedia's processes have become less friendly to fringe views over time was just published open access in APSR, an elite political science journal.
The title is "Rule Ambiguity, Institutional Clashes, and Population Loss: How Wikipedia Became the Last Good Place on the Internet"
I suggest that someone (perhaps myself) review it for the next recent research section.
Groceryheist (talk) 03:15, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about paltry funding for Wikimania scholarships.
{{u|Sdkb}} talk 19:59, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about...
Hi--I'm the executive editor over at the Forward and we just published this piece that I thought you all might be interested in. It's about a Wikimedia-funded project to save a half-dozen lost Jewish languages and there's been a major Wikipedia edit-a-thon associated with the project as well. Anyway, here's the link to the story: https://forward.com/culture/554932/jewish-languages-iran-neo-aramaic-endangered-preservation-wikimedia/
All Best,
Adam Langer 2603:7000:9600:172:869:57E:CCBC:7BD3 (talk) 19:33, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
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Slightly amusing tail wags dog story. There is a new RM (7th, but who's counting (we are)) going on at Talk:Czech Republic. The arguments for moving include more weighty orgs like IOC now use Czechia. In the Talk:Czech_Republic#Moratorium sub-thread I pointed out that the Czech OC still used "the Czech Republic" on their about-page[3], and that someone should perhaps talk to them about that. Apparently someone did, the page was updated[4] and currently reads the Czechia. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 15:22, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about the oldest hoax/false statement found thus far. As part of a peer review/expansion of Clipperton Island attempts to source the claim of a 1725 French expedition to the island found nothing predating 2003, which is when the claim was first added to Wikipedia. It seems the claim lasted on the page for 19 years, 3 months, and 15 days, propagating to a number of other sites, including print sources.
The previous longest-lasting known false statement was 15 years, 5 months; the longest-lasting known hoax article was 17 years, 5 months. —Carter (Tcr25) (talk) 22:08, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
→History: date wrong, check founding date, I don't believe it too!" It remained that way until CMD started in on the article in June and July 2021.) —Carter (Tcr25) (talk) 12:38, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
This coming October will mark 21 years I've been a contributor here at Wikipedia. I've been musing writing a memoir about how Wikipedia has changed over the years. Some good changes (e.g., as a reference it is definitely far more useful today than it was in 2002), some not good (e.g., as a result it is definitely harder to contribute to Wikipedia than 20-odd years ago, let alone start a new article -- although much remains to be covered). -- llywrch (talk) 21:26, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
Perhaps Smallbones is already on this, but just in case:
The New Yorker has a lengthy investigative article titled "The Dirty Secrets of a Smear Campaign", describing how "Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, the ruler of the United Arab Emirates, paid a Swiss private intelligence firm millions of dollars to taint perceived enemies". Most of the article isn't about Wikipedia, but there are several paragraphs about how the firm ("Alp Services", founded by an investigator named Mario Brero) used it for their purposes alongside many other interesting tools (such illegitimately obtaining phone call records or tax records of their targets, and planting stories in various news outlets). I'm excerpting them below for convenience.
The first part is about an American oil trader named Hazim Nada, founder of a company called Lord Energy:
On January 5, 2018, Sylvain Besson, a journalist who had written a book purporting to tie [Hazim Nada's father] Youssef Nada to a supposed Islamist conspiracy, published an article, in the Geneva newspaper Le Temps, claiming that Lord Energy was a cover for a Muslim Brotherhood cell. “The children of the historical leaders of the organization have recycled themselves in oil and gas,” Besson wrote. A new item in Africa Intelligence hinted darkly that Lord Energy employees had “been active in the political-religious sphere.” Headlines sprang up on Web sites, such as Medium, that had little editorial oversight: “Lord Energy: The Mysterious Company Linking Al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood”; “Compliance: Muslim Brotherhood Trading Company Lord Energy Linked to Crédit Suisse.” A Wikipedia entry for Lord Energy [probably fr:Lord Energy] suddenly included descriptions of alleged ties to terrorism.
This outside view from the victim's perspective is later matched to what the reporter learned from leaked/hacked internal emails of "Alp Services":
In February, 2018, [Brero] asked for more money to expand his operation against Nada, and proposed “to alert compliance databases and watchdogs, which are used by banks and multinationals, for example about Lord Energy’s real activities and links to terrorism.” His “objective,” he explained, was to block the company’s “bank accounts and business.” [...]
Alp quickly put the Emiratis’ money to work. An Alp employee named Raihane Hassaine e-mailed drafts of damning Wikipedia entries. On an invoice dated May 31, 2018, the company paid Nina May, a freelance writer in London, six hundred and twenty-five pounds for five online articles, published under pseudonyms and based on notes supplied by Alp, that attacked Lord Energy for links to terrorism and extremism. (Hassaine did not respond to requests for comment. May told me that she had worked for Alp in the past but had signed a nondisclosure agreement.)
And:
Alp operatives bragged to the Emiratis that they had successfully thwarted Nada’s efforts to correct the disparaging Lord Energy entry on Wikipedia. “We requested the assistance of friendly moderators who countered the repeated attacks,” Brero wrote in an “urgent update” to the Emiratis in June, 2018. “The objective remains to paralyze the company.” To pressure others to shun Lord Energy, Alp added dubious allegations about the company to the Wikipedia entries for Credit Suisse and for an Algerian oil monopoly [possibly Sonatrach, referring to these edits].
And regarding another target:
Brero’s campaign sometimes involved secret retaliation. In a 2018 report, a U.N. panel of human-rights experts concluded that the U.A.E. may have committed war crimes in its military intervention in Yemen. The Emiratis commissioned Brero to investigate the panel’s members, especially its chairman, Kamel Jendoubi, a widely admired French Tunisian human-rights advocate. [...] “Today, in both Google French and Google English, the reputation of Kamel Jendoubi is excellent,” Brero noted in a November, 2018, pitch to the Emiratis. “On both first pages, there is not a single critical article.” Within six months, Brero promised, Jendoubi’s image could be “reshaped” with “negative elements.” The cost: a hundred and fifty thousand euros.
Rumors spread through Arab news outlets and European Web publications that Jendoubi was a tool of Qatar, a failed businessman, and tied to extremists. A French-language article posted on Medium suggested that he might be “an opportunist disguised as a human-rights hero.” An article in English asked, “Is UN-expert Kamel Jendoubi too close to Qatar?” Alp created or altered Wikipedia entries about Jendoubi, in various languages, by citing claims from unreliable, reactionary, or pro-government news outlets in Egypt and Tunisia.
Jendoubi told me that he’d been perplexed by the flurry of slander that followed the war-crimes report. “Wikipedia is a monster!” he told me. He had managed to clean up the French entry, but the English-language page still stymied him. He said, “You speak English—can you help?”
I likely won't have time to look more into this, but it surely seems worthwhile to examine edit histories, look at whether frwiki has been discussing these issues, etc.
Regards, HaeB (talk) 16:37, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
Seems to me it should be mentioned that Kamel Jendoubi is a BLP article, and the content added to it was clearly slanderous, poorly cited, and in ungrammatical English, but when an IP tried to remove it, one of our WP:RCP users reverted the IP, claiming "censorship". This speaks to me of the difficulties of checking thousands of edits every day NotBartEhrman (talk) 19:27, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about Update Wikipedia, from something called enhanced.org. Their table of Example of Harmful Language -> A Better Alternative is something of an Orwellian masterpiece. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 14:44, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about... Wikicommunes (https://mtmx.github.io/wikicommunes/index_int.html).
French data scientist Mathieu Garnier has combined data from the Code officiel géographique, Wikidata and Wikipediatrend (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/wikipediatrend/index.html) to measure popularity of articles related to French communes. He has created a map of communes colored by popularity. More recently, he has added comparisons between the popularity of articles in different languages.
See the thread https://mapstodon.space/@mat/109551154676286788 (in French but automatic translators should help).
PAC2 (talk) 04:18, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about... the latest developments of the Ruviki situation you wrote about last month.
As reported in an article by Il Post, Ruviki's beta version went live at the end of June: volunteers currently are not allowed to create or even edit content, and founder Vladimir V. Medeyko is seemingly going to restrict their functions in favor of paid editors, anyway. For now, the platform mostly hosts forked and re-edited copies of many ru.wiki articles.
Although Medeyko denied that Ruviki has any ties with the Russian regime, claiming the site is supported by undisclosed investors who "believe in the project", Il Post noted that several articles on... "sensible" topics have likely been subject to censorship and manipulation: for example, the Wagner Group's page does not include any details about their recent (and very notable) rebellion, at least for now.
I think most of us were already expecting this, but it's still scary news...
Oltrepier (talk) 18:48, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about... Yestersday de:Marvin Oppong published the article „Greenwashing“ in Wikipedia? in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Goptyyyy (talk) 10:22, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about...
A story about the battle between the good witches of the 21st century and the imaginary but evil witches of earlier centuries at Talk:Witchcraft? Skyerise (talk) 17:42, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
Wikifunctions, Wikipedia's newest sibling project, had a soft launch this week. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:19, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about...
The Daily Telegraph opines today that Wikipedia should focus on content creation – not social justice campaigns and digs up a few financial details. (Thanks to Andreas for the tip.) Certes (talk) 22:06, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
In case it has missed anyone's radar, Diff has an article about Johnny Au for setting the longest consecutive days of editing. Article Also check out this tool for measuring strings of consecutive days of editing. (It'd be nice if Diff recognized quality of edits, rather than quantity.) -- llywrch (talk) 16:50, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about m:Requests for comment/Hiding the number of Russian/Belorussian/Kazakh contributors on the statistics map − Russian users protest against WMF's "censorship" ssr (talk) 16:01, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about... n:ru:European Wikimedians gathered in Tbilisi ssr (talk) 10:57, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about... I was watching "How Counterfeit Money Actually Works | How Crime Works | Insider" on YouTube, and the counterfeiter gave credit to Wikipedia for having "pretty high resolution photos in their stock" for him to work with. Are there any anti-counterfeiting measures being taken (or should be taken) regarding the images? I posted this question at commons:File talk:Obverse of the series 2009 $100 Federal Reserve Note.jpg since that's the file shown in the video. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 22:51, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
Just saw this mention of Wikipedia in our old friend Nature: "AI tidies up Wikipedia's references -- and boosts reliability" (published 19 October 2023) -- llywrch (talk) 06:07, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about... the discussion currently taking place at VPP regarding secret clients who have paid an admin, (Cullen328) for advice and the associated RFC. The whole thing stinks as there is a potential for corruption and subversion.
scope_creepTalk 11:03, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about... this piece in the Financial Times: New book from shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves lifts from Wikipedia. Ham II (talk) 07:55, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about... Williams, Zoe (23 October 2023). "Why is Elon Musk attacking Wikipedia? Because its very existence offends him". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
Cabayi (talk) 10:16, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
The topic of Elon Musk wanting to change Wikipedia’s name. For example:
”Elon Musk has offered to donate 1 billion dollars to the Wikipedia Foundation if we change Wikipedia’s name to Dickipedia. Jimmy Wales thinks ‘insert quote from Jimbo about how we are not going to do that here.’” Shadestar474 (talk) 22:43, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about... Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case#Lourdes. Lourdes admitted that they are Wifione and has been indefinitely blocked.
QuicoleJR (talk) 13:51, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about... Il Post's apparent "love" for Wikipedia!
At this point, it's likely no surprise I rate this Italian newspaper very highly, as I think it has established itself as one of the most respected and reliable news sources in my country. Still, I didn't notice how much care they've put into the coverage of Wikipedia-related news until now: they published many articles involving both en.wiki and it.wiki, reported from the 2016 edition of Wikimania in Esino Lario, and even cited Wiki pages as sources in some instances, including here and here.
What if you tried to reach out to someone from their editorial staff for a mini-interview about what they think about the platform and when, why and how they write about it? Obviously, I know it's incredibly difficult to even arrange something like this, but boy, would it be interesting to read what they have to say!
Oltrepier (talk) 17:31, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about... a recent article by Il Post which highlighted the works of Gage Skidmore, a photographer and Creative Commons contributor who has become famous for his contributions at the San Diego Comic Con, among other achievements. Admittedly, this bit of news is almost a month old now, but still, I hope it's useful for the "In the media" section! [@Bri, HaeB, Smallbones, and JPxG: I'm tagging you since you've all contributed to the latest edition.]
I also want to take advantage of this opportunity to re-launch my original proposal to (maybe) get in touch with Il Post, since they seem to care a lot about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, even using them as sources in many instances.
Oltrepier (talk) 10:29, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
{{done}} Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2023-11-20/In the media#Comic-Contextualization. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 16:00, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about...
A bomb threat was called to Toronto Reference Library today (Nov 11) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/bomb-threat-toronto-reference-library-1.7026287
According to this Reddit discussion, the threat is directly targeting WikiConference North America being held there today: https://www.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/17svtjo/bomb_threat_at_toronto_ref_library_this_morning/
SYSS Mouse (talk) 00:50, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about... The Requested Articles process and the Attempted Revival of WikiProject Requested Articles Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Requested articles#Revival Basically my idea is to cover the state of the requested articles process, and how some requests are decades old, and how there are attempts to revive WikiProject Requested articles to help with maintaining the request pages and encouraging people to create some of the oldest requests.
Zippybonzo | Talk (he|him) 11:29, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about...
this article for the in the media in brief section.
In a Harper's Magazine article entitled "The Hofmann Wobble", Ben Lerner tells the fictional memoirs of a sockpuppeteer trying to use Wikipedia to disseminate their viewpoints while also sharing false facts to discredit Wikipedia and gain academic prestige. Sincerely, Novo Tape (She/Her)My Talk Page 18:19, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
{{done}} Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2023-12-04/Disinformation report. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 04:12, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about... https://observablehq.com/@pac02/actress-singers-and-actor-singers-do-actresses-become-sing?collection=@pac02/wikidata
In this notebook I posit an intuition and use Wikidata to test if my assumption is wrong or false. It's not directly using Wikipedia as such but it show how data from the sister project Wikidata can be used to test various assumptions. PAC2 (talk) 20:58, 30 July 2022 (UTC)
Hello, I'm sorry but I won't be able to finish my piece for tomorrow. PAC2 (talk) 20:47, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about
Obsidian Soul (talk · contribs · global contribs · page moves · user creation · block log)
I came across this user today during my regular RTRC patrolling who did blanking and unexplained content removals. After 4im warnings, I reported them and they got blocked indefinitely. After that, I did some digging and they've been active for 14 years in Wikipedia with over 52,000 edits. Impressive track record, all down the drain in a day. I'm not sure what went wrong or why, but this is Signpost worthy, right?
The Herald (Benison) (talk) 07:15, 5 August 2023 (UTC)
I saw a report in the Wikimedia General Chat channel on Telegram that Hiba Abu Nada, a Palestinian writer & Wikipedian, was killed during the bombing in Gaza. According to the Spanish Wikipedia she participated in the WikiWrites campaign. NOTE: Before this report I had never heard of her, nor of "WikiWrites", so I don't know just how prominent of a Wikipedian she was. But it cannot be denied that civilians on both sides are dying in this latest conflict. -- llywrch (talk) 23:33, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
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Two well-attended afd:s with WP:BLPREQUESTDELETE aspects. Perhaps something could be written on how the community deals with cases like these when there is disagreement on where to draw the line. More discussion at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Should_Wikipedia_offer_article_protection_as_a_compromise_between_deletion_on_request_and_causing_needless_distress?. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:53, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
Another AfD that falls into this area by a different path. --Tryptofish (talk) 20:52, 12 October 2023 (UTC)
Not sure it's appropriate: the Chinese Wikipedia recently had a large election under securepoll, the first in almost a year (the last one was October 2022), in which seven people ran for sysop and two for oversight, but all of them lost. The Chinese Wikipedia has made a RFC on this matter to consider lowering the standard. ときさき くるみ not because they are easy, but because they are hard 12:54, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about... Davies, Pascale (26 November 2023), Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales says AI is a 'mess' now but can become superhuman in 50 years, Euronews.
(As an aside, the only articles I'm aware of which are partly written with AI, based on transclusions of {{OpenAI}}, are Artwork title which was done with ChatGPT, and Leniolisib, which was done with Bing. Are there more?) Ham II (talk) 08:49, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about the fact that the number of active CheckUsers is having a net decrease.
Equalwidth (C) 05:58, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about...the edit request wizard (ERW). Not enough people know about it. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 02:43, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/2/12/pgad385/7457939. Seems like interesting research about Wikipedia and its environment.
0xDeadbeef→∞ (talk to me) 22:59, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
I found the meta:Wikimedia Foundation Community Affairs Committee/2023-12-07 Conversation with Trustees (video) particularly interesting this quarter. The agenda:
Not agendized were a detailed discussion of how Affiliate spending and conflicts of interest will be monitored and controlled going forward, and an explanation from the Foundation General Counsel implying that community safety issues prevent public advocacy on the jailed Arabic Wikipedia administrators. Jimbo and everyone else who talked at length on AI were particularly intriguing.
The meta:Wikimedia Foundation Community Affairs Committee/Talking: 2024 initiative could likely be a separate news note on its own, as they don't have too many sign-ups yet relative to their stated ambitions. Sandizer (talk) 15:26, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
Atsme's Justapedia fork is introduced in Quillette. This is a long read and almost certainly written by someone who edits here. There are mentions of what Signpost covers and our cancer diagnosis. The real thrust is the well-documented lefty bias here (and the sources we cite) which brings about the other coverage.
Chris Troutman (talk) 15:21, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
---Another Believer (Talk) 17:00, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about...
Today, the executive director of Wikimedia.Ru, Stanislav Kozlovsky (Ctac) was fired from his job at Moscow State University for his position as an executive director. Wikimedia.ru in response decided to disband itself. Probably someone wants to go into details.Ymblanter (talk) 19:20, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about... Arabic Wikipedia is on protest with blackout. The screenshot. I see some statements here. --ssr (talk) 11:00, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
{{done}}? Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2023-12-24/Discussion report#Arabic Wikipedia blacks out main page, logs out all users, publishes statement, and adopts new logo in response to war in Gaza Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 04:43, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
Seems to me an article about plagiarism and Wikipedia would be timely after the ouster of Harvard president Claudine Gay for plagiarism. Now, I see that Neri Oxman, whose husband advocated Gay's ouster for plagiarism, has been accused of plagiarism of Wikipedia and other sources. The article in Business Insider with examples is persuasive. Perhaps a Signpost article about plagiarism and Wikipedia by one of our copyright experts would be useful. Smallchief (talk) 16:50, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
The signpost should write about young creative African,in the vibrant streets of south Africa building their own genre from nothing to something,to the world"Amapiano" 41.113.212.174 (talk) 20:25, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about...
I came across UFO Coverup: The Wikipedia Secret Cabal in Wikipedia:Fringe_theories/Noticeboard#UFOlogy_promoter_BLPs. I haven't seen it (3h long) and I certainly will respect anybody else who don't want to either. But it may be fun to mention somewhere. Some effort appears to have gone into it. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 22:04, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about the WikiProject Unreferenced Article's February backlog drive to work through the 113,000+ backlog of articles without citations which begins February 1st.
Kazamzam (talk) 18:08, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about... m:NWR-Hist Wikimedia User Group (North-West Russia Wiki-Historians) has published their vast and illustrated annual 2023 report in English: m:North-West Russia Wiki-Historians User Group/Annual reports/2023/en // ping @Красный: --ssr (talk) 16:56, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
"News and notes" draft contains section about "Nationalist governance capture in self-governed Wikipedia projects" — a research by University of Washington. The research focuses on Croatian Wikipedia and probably doesn't mention Chechen Wikipedia which suffered from this problem many years before in lesser scale. The problem was resolved by interference of Wikimedia Foundation who had to totally replace all admins. Some basic information on this is here: meta:Requests for comment/Massive sysop abuse in Chechen Wikipedia. Probably it would be wise for Signpost to mention this case as similar in the past. --ssr (talk) 13:47, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about palworlds 1 million views in a week
•Cyberwolf•talk? 15:33, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about... User:Donald_Albury/The rescue of a sub-stub biography. Just a little note about article improvement.
Donald Albury 14:31, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about the current state of the graphs extension in April, the anniversary of the disabling, as seen in T334940. We could also talk about the decision announced 6 Feb to not focus on graphs. Aaron Liu (talk) 17:25, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about recent discussions in Wikipedia in French about transidentity. A recent poll in Wikipedia in French about the use of the deadname of trans people has had many consequences in the French community. Many articles in French speaking medias have been published in the last weeks.
I think it would be nice to have a summary of the controversy.
PAC2 (talk) 22:25, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about...
You may well be aware of it, but I found the Reddit post in this - since deleted - comment interesting. It may be worth following up and or mentioning in the next issue. Gog the Mild (talk) 14:22, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
Not strictly Wikipedia-related, but Nature published a study about toxicity in online discussions, looking at 30 years of data from Usenet & the earliest Listservs to contemporary web fora. In short, software has made no difference in toxicity -- it's all driven by us humans. Article here links to the article on Nature's website. -- llywrch (talk) 06:32, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
The text of WP:URFA/2020's report for 2023 has been posted, and can be found at Wikipedia:Unreviewed featured articles/2020/4Q2023. Z1720 (talk) 17:10, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about the French Witionary posting a banner saying that it is being sued (in France). The names of plaintif(s) and others implicated are obfuscated.
Jerome Potts (talk) 23:09, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
A piece of research, may be worth a mention:Wikipedia and the Outsider Within: Black Feminism and Social Inequality in Knowledge Sharing. Afaict [7] it hasn't been mentioned. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 14:56, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about the Joint Statement on Palestine:
--Another Believer (Talk) 16:49, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about... Yuri Lushchai, an admin and a member of the Arbitration Committee on ruwiki, who died during Russian shelling of a village near Bakhmut (ruwiki discussion, Kramatorsk Post, Pro100media, Suspilne, Strana, Radio Svoboda). Avessa (talk) 20:16, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about... Wikimedia Foundation Joins as an Associate Member of the Unicode Consortium (2024-03-28). Haven't seen this mentioned yet. Arcorann (talk) 13:24, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about the recently completed Wikimedia Summit 2024. Here is my report back to my affiliate group; I imagine there are other reports like this that can be used as source materials, but weirdly I haven't seen any linked yet. Jmabel | Talk 13:46, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about... Trump’s social media account shares a campaign video with a headline about a ‘unified Reich’ (Associated Press): "A video posted to Donald Trump’s account on his social media network included references to a “unified Reich” among hypothetical news headlines if he wins the election in November." ... "At least one of the headlines flashing in the video appears to be text that is copied verbatim from a Wikipedia entry on World War I [for clarification, it's the article World War I]: 'German industrial strength and production had significantly increased after 1871, driven by the creation of a unified Reich'." Ham II (talk) 14:51, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about the call for feedback on the procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle.
See Victoria's email to wikimedia-l and diff post for details. This is a call for feedback on a key part of the work of the m:Wikimedia Foundation Community Affairs Committee/Sister Projects Task Force, which aims to revive the discussions and processes for opening new Wikimedia projects, as well as considering the overall lifecycle with our projects, including procedures for closing projects. Feedback is open until June 23rd, and there will be open calls on 23 and 30 May on this topic. The task force is open to answering questions about this work, ideally on the talk page. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 13:30, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about... Wikipedia’s Indian problem: settler colonial erasure of native American knowledge and history on the world’s largest encyclopedia. Something for the recent research page. Previously by the same author:[8] Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 17:13, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about... New Study Confirms Long-Held Conservative Suspicions of Wikipedia Bias. A search I've done for "David Rozado Wikipedia bias" has brought up various right-leaning sites reporting on this in recent days. Ham II (talk) 09:53, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
Hi. Someone might be interested in writing about this, Wikipedia just got summoned by Delhi High Court in "ANI MEDIA PVT. LTD. v. WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC AND ORS." defamation suit. -- CptViraj (talk) 06:10, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about Wikipedia:WikiProject Intertranswiki/OKA. TL;DR - WikiProject related to an NGO iniative about paying editors to translate articles between Wikipedias. Already dozens have been done. I think it is a fascinating initative, and some may even find it a bit controversial (interesting COI/PAID angle). I might help with the article but probably not until early July (busy grading students now...).
Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 02:37, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
Title | Last edited | Number of edits | Notes |
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Günəşli, Davachi | 2014-06-04 | 15 | village in Azerbaijan |
Abalı, Zaqatala | 2014-06-07 | 19 | ditto |
Üzümçü | 2014-06-09 | 9 | ditto |
Sədəfli | 2014-06-09 | 11 | guess where? |
Gomuşçu, Salyan | 2014-06-09 | 10 | ditto |
Vətəgə | 2014-06-09 | 10 | ditto |
Hacımustafalı | 2014-06-09 | 8 | ditto |
Barne | 2014-06-17 | 8 | disambiguation page |
Mezhgorye | 2014-06-23 | 13 | ditto |
Sokolsky District | 2014-06-27 | 10 | ditto |
Gagarinsky District | 2014-06-27 | 12 | ditto |
The Signpost should write about these forgotten articles. Several of them on the forgotten articles report (which I recently found hidden in a hard-to-find "special pages" menu for the first time, as a 20+ year WP editor possibly only present in the mobile skin?) just passed the 10 year point without any edits. Might make a fun short piece. ☆ Bri (talk) 15:38, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about... Abuse of wikipedia because of wikidata. the two projects should not be so closely intertwined and interconnected in the way they currently are , the two projects while they should be linked the current state does not help neither. it is vulnerability being exploited through various ways.
The Signpost should write also about... WP:Trust & Safety not doing anything while https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_requests/Miscellaneous#Fawikt_vandal my request for a obvious vandal being blocked is remained open for 10 days.
Baratiiman (talk) 08:30, 5 July 2024 (UTC)