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What about an entire issue devoted to the Wikipedia (all languages) coverage of the Fall of Afghanistan - 2021 Taliban offensive? — Maile (talk) 22:26, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
I have a rough write-up of an article for the "Humour" section. It is around 250 words just now. It is related to current events in a particular country from which a superpower and allies have just pulled out, and it combines this event with a fictional Wikipedia world that has been affected by all this. I would request someone from the editorial team to read it once before I place it as an submission. Who could I email it to? DTM (talk) 14:40, 7 September 2021 (UTC)
Annual Russian Wiki Conference 2021 (15th) is about to begin on Saturday. There are English language materials (by link) and some worldwide guests (remotely). Worth at least mentioning in News or some summary (ends on Sunday). --ssr (talk) 15:11, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
If there's a section for ongoing collaborations, a passing mention of Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums/Backlog elimination drive: Album covers would be appreciated. This is an ongoing effort to reduce a specific backlog (infoboxes lacking album covers), which runs through the end of October. No worries if this does not qualify for mention. Either way, thanks! ---Another Believer (Talk) 15:54, 23 September 2021 (UTC)
The Dark Arts by Wiki Creators LLC could be worth an in-the-media (sort of) mention. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:26, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
Discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard#Wiki_Creators_LLC. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 14:59, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
A step-by-step guide for using Wikipedia for research communication was an interesting read. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 11:53, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about... Krassotkin global ban by T&S of WMF. Absurd decision portraying WMF as a totalitary structure contradicting their own goals. Very obscure story that has big resonance. I hope Signpost crew are able to locate suitable locations to explore—there are many of these sparkled in several places. I can randomly point to: w:ru:Участник:Kaganer/Переписка с Trust & Safety (in English). Campaigns are underway. --ssr (talk) 08:36, 15 October 2021 (UTC)
Then what could be the source of the complaints about "intimidation, harassment"? -Indy beetle (talk) 21:19, 15 October 2021 (UTC)
New podcast interviewing Wikipedians - https://podcasts.apple.com/th/podcast/dot-com-the-wikipedia-story/id1589936008 https://play.acast.com/s/dot-com/wikipedia-ep1-dontbitethenewbies - Cabayi (talk) 15:21, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
The usernames I caught in listening to it were Ser Amantio di Nicolao, Rosiestep, Giraffedata & his brother, "Louder" (?), Another Believer, Sandiooses, & Laurie Bird Macdevitt (?) + husband - Cabayi (talk) 17:57, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
Just FYI, a second episode is now available as well. ---Another Believer (Talk) 15:26, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
Episode 4 ("Hoax") became available on November 9:
The Signpost should write about IP ban experiment on fawiki for a 6-month period started from today: phab:T291018 and phab:T292781 4nn1l2 (talk) 05:08, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
More coverage of Wikipedia's China problems on the BBC - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-59081611 - Cabayi (talk) 10:47, 31 October 2021 (UTC)
CNN did an interesting article on the public domain and copyright here. -Indy beetle (talk) 15:09, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about "The Denial Files" https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct2yqn - I think this will be the episode covering Wikipedia Chidgk1 (talk) 06:27, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
Hello, I am a member of the WP:DISCORD, and we have a neat project called WP:TEAMB. It's where we get vital articles that are assessed as stub or start up to a B-class! Every week we vote on a new article, and get the rest of the week to finish it up before voting again. ferret, discord server operator, runs the project, but the members are the ones who edit and improve the articles. --JackFromWisconsin (talk | contribs) 15:00, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about...the backlog at Wikipedia:Proposed article mergers (and Wikipedia:Proposed article splits), previous attempts at reform, and where we can go from here. From the former's talk:
Adiscussion at the village pump in 2013 overwhelmingly concluded the current proposed mergers system (the process & templates) to be inadequate. A consequent discussiononimplementation of an automated system similar to requested moves was archived after 2 months of inactivity. The latter discussion had 6 participants; no conclusion was reached.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Merge may also be useful. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 17:26, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about the progress that editors made in reducing the Fix Wikilinks list of the Community Portal. A couple of years ago there were 20,000 articles with insufficient Wikilinks on this list, some dating back to 2013. Today there are only nine articles left. Rogermx (talk) 02:45, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
Suggested editorial for February of 2022
The signpost editors should feel free to make any edits they choose to the following.
In the unlikely event that I can't live with the edits I will ask that my name be removed.
As with everything I write, this is released under CC0 and I do not require attribution.
Suggested Title:
16 years of discriminating against the disabled
Suggested text:
The article regarding Trump Derangement Syndrome should be edited to reflect the viewpoint that it is Donald Trump and his voters that are deranged and attempted treason.
The Signpost should write about... Silva, Marco (24 December 2021). "Climate change: Small army of volunteers keeping deniers off Wikipedia". BBC News. Retrieved 24 December 2021. - featuring Wikipedia:WikiProject Climate change/Participants Dtetta, Femkemilene, Sadads... Cabayi (talk) 12:07, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about WP:URFA/2020. The initiative reviews FAs promoted before 2016 to ensure they still meet the FA criteria. We produced a year-end report highlighting the work that has been completed and posted here. We would be happy to create an article for the Signpost, have a Signpost editor interview key members, or contribute to an article written by a Signpost writer. Please let me know if you are interested and which option is preferred. Z1720 (talk) 20:35, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
Thanks to @EpicPupper: for getting this started at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Next issue/WikiProject report. The only problem I see is that this interview needs several respondents and there's really only 9 days before deadline. Perhaps it's already been done, but I'll ping everybody involved above @SandyGeorgia, Z1720, and Sdkb:. Anybody else who is involved should consider this an open invitation.
Smallbones(smalltalk) 18:15, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January 2022, a new task force Wikipedia:Nazi affiliation Task Force was launched. The task force's initiator User:Shushugah was directly inspired by the op-ed "World War II Myth-making and Wikipedia" published by User:K.e.coffman on Wikipedia Signpost in a 2018.
The Signpost should write about the ongoing call for feedback for the upcoming Board of Trustees election. It opened 10 January and runs until 16 February. The Board is asking the community for input on three key questions. Participants are asked to discuss in any language and submit proposals. The call for feedback is supported by the Movement Strategy and Governance team and volunteer translators. Material is available in more than 25 languages. At time of writing, approximately 15 participants have advanced 8 proposals.
Please feel free to ping if further information is needed or would be useful. Xeno (WMF) (talk) 02:48, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
Several users in mainland China were desysopped and/or globally banned by WMF: m:Office actions/September 2021 statement Rschen7754 18:22, 13 September 2021 (UTC)
There's a duplicate thread about this at Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom#WMF bans and desysops around "infiltration concerns" with Wikimedians of Mainland China. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 16:53, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
Let's just use this page to link to sources:
Nature has an article about OpenAlex, a new open database of scholarly papers that are not behind paywalls -- "Massive open index of scholarly papers launches", article dated 24 January 2022. (Although I suspect this article is behind a paywall, darn it.) This is only the most recent article I've seen from Nature on free information. Any idea if the Foundation is involved in this? -- llywrch (talk) 23:34, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about... Either a major milestone or just a fun bit of collective editcountitis (editcountcountitis?): within the next day or two there will be 10,000 editors who have made at least 10,000 edits to English Wikipedia (there are currently 9,999 editors who have made at least 9,999 edits)! Tdslk (talk) 05:43, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
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The Signpost should write about a WikiEd instructor triggered a Twitter spat, bullying an editor. Not surprisingly, WEF circled their wagons around the instructor due to political reasons. Perhaps the editing community should do more to defend its own interests. And no, I'm not interested in writing about this as there's no way I could do so even-handedly. Chris Troutman (talk) 00:47, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
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The Independent is today (3 Feb) reporting that the UK Government's Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities's recently issued white paper contains wholesale copying from Wikipedia articles (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/levelling-up-plan-copied-wikipedia-michael-gove-b2006757.html). Articles copied from include Constantinople and List of largest cities throughout history. And to compound the issue, it looks like the sources aren't attributed. Nthep (talk) 20:27, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about... "How Wiktionary is Different from Wikipedia and Why It Works Anyway". I've been struggling for years to understand how Wiktionary can work if it doesn't require contributions to be verifiable. Others probably would be interested too, and even if you don't think that's the key issue this would be a chance to shine a light on Wiktionary. Dan Bloch (talk) 17:57, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about... (or could somebody please point me to an article about...)
Interactions between Wikipedia/Wikimedia & pending legislation, both national & international
I'm a UK resident who has just discovered Signpost & my instant thought was to read an article on this topic since the Government here is proposing a huge raft of new laws, most from Home Secretary Priti Patel, banning all sorts of things including protests & nomadic lifestyles and adding restrictions to querying Government policy, including through the Courts. It all looks horrendous &, in my opinion, is likely to lead to censorship of Wikipedia so I feel that Wikipedia/Wikimedia should be broadcasting this around the world as well as doing something more direct & I would very much like to read about it & re-broadcast it on my social media page.
Obviously, what is happening in one country is likely to be happening/have happened in other countries with potential follow-through internationally in places like the United Nations Alanthehat (talk) 06:25, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
It looks like The Signpost hasn't had any coverage yet of New Vector skin aka improved reading experience. Am I just missing it? Seems like an important potential future topic. ☆ Bri (talk) 18:12, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
Maybe there can be a gallery piece for movies that are in the public domain that may be Featured Pictures or are at least of high quality. Just thinking there could be more love for movies on Wikipedia. Especially important films like Night of the Living Dead. Or maybe a piece about movies published on Wikipedia in general. GamerPro64 06:39, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about... Does your birthplace affect your probability to have your Wikipedia biography ? some evidence from people born in France. a notebook computing the probability of having a biographical article on fr.wikipedia.org for people born in France. It shows huge differences between French departments. PAC2 (talk) 18:39, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about...
Well, this is just a suggestion, and I don't know where you'd fit it. A couple of months ago, I did an interview with a group of academics (the Human Energy group) who are researching the noosphere, to discuss how Wikipedia fits into this theory. They have now published the interview. This was a long interview, three videos of about 30 minutes each (with accompanying transcript), and I leave it to your editorial decision on whether or not this is interesting enough to include in one of the routine reports. Risker (talk) 04:39, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about the unfortunate timing of the banner of Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month across all projects and accusation of NPOV pushing from Ukrainian Institute and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (see talk page) when Russian troops are at the border, ready to invade going to march towards Kiev and we don't know if there will still be a Ukraine for the next Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month) SYSS Mouse (talk) 02:20, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about...
The last Signpost wrote about Wiki unseen. If you want to do a follow-up, their images has had some en-WP reactions, and I see the images are also used on other WP:s (possibly because wikidata in some cases?).
Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:23, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about...
Not sure if this is newsworthy, but I recently released a Wikimedia Commons upload tool for macOS: c:Commons:Sunflower. Thanks for your consideration. -FASTILY 07:59, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about... TimTempleton (talk) (cont) 20:20, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
Wikipedia downloading in Russia [[5]]
The Signpost should write about... a Meta Platforms researcher using AI to address Wikipedia's gender gap.
––FormalDude talk 19:25, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
In the media — an NYT article on the Depths of Wikipedia (@depthsofwikipedia): Want to See the Weirdest of Wikipedia? Look No Further. I read it tonight and thought I'd point it out here. Maybe everyone else already knows about this. To paraphrase the pool salesman, I don't know; this is not what I do; I play keyboards, as it were. Quercus solaris (talk) 04:04, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about... Should look into who maintains the Russia-Ukraine War battle map located at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine.svg and interview them. The map is detailed, accurate, and updated quickly. It is used by third party websites. Would be interesting to see what their process is, how many people are involved, what sources of information they typically pull from, etc. –Novem Linguae (talk) 21:02, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
[6] - 2 CUs were removed by the OC and WMF, one on German Wikipedia, one on Bengali. --Rschen7754 19:48, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
WP:URFA/2020 has published their Q1 report for 2022. The report can be found at Wikipedia:Unreviewed featured articles/2020/1Q2022. Please post on the report's talk page if a Signpost reporter has any questions or would like a comment from a URFA/2020 editor. Thanks, Z1720 (talk) 20:52, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
Riffing off the success of Wordle, there's a newly released browser game out there called Redactle, "where the user tries to determine the subject of a random obfuscated Wikipedia article, chosen from Wikipedia's 10,000 Vital Articles." Figured it might be an interesting mention. bibliomaniac15 18:36, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about Treloar, Iain (28 April 2022). "Exposed by a Strava KOM: The many lives of a fake pro cyclist". CyclingTips. It involves a faked professional sporting career, abusive behaviour, paid Wikipedia editing, questions about a military record, and lots more. I think it's around 20,000 words so takes time to read but I saw from the journalist's social media that a podcast episode is coming soon. See also Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1073#Should this page be deleted? and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nicholas P. Clark. Cordless Larry (talk) 06:02, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about the deletion of the David Firth article and the dent it seems to be making in Wikipedia's reputation, as can be seen in the replies under this tweet by the man himself. A lot of concerningly negative talk below it. TimTheDragonRider (talk) 11:32, 1 May 2022 (UTC) TimTheDragonRider (talk) 11:32, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
Dropping this brief mention of the Depths of Wikipedia on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday.
Peaceray (talk) 16:42, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
https://cyclingtips.com/2022/04/exposed-by-a-strava-kom-the-many-lives-of-a-fake-pro-cyclist/ - It's a long article, but section 13 is very much about Wikipedia, including a large dash of COI and paid editing. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 04:25, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about an arrest of a Belarusian/Russian Wikipedian for writing about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He was arrested in Belarus. [7] Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 14:38, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about...
There's a new war, 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, a WP-article available in many languages. As has been noted before in media, WP language versions can have interesting differences. It would be interesting to see an article about similarities/differences primarily between the English/Russian/Ukranian versions, but there may be interesting stuff in others, too. Google translate is imperfect, but not useless. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 16:47, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
How the Russian Invasion of Ukraine Is Playing Out on English, Ukrainian, and Russian Wikipedia Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 18:58, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
See also: https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/3/22960007/russia-wikipedia-wikimedia-foundation-censorship-demand ---Another Believer (Talk) 20:20, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about...
A new scholarly book that cites Wikipedia 80 times - see https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/books/review/victory-at-sea-paul-kennedy.html . (Wikipedia is mentioned in several places in the article, but the meat is the third-to-last paragraph.)
-- John Broughton (♫♫) 05:39, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about... Epiphyllumlover (talk) 19:39, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Reward board#Add new Door County photos to articles and Wikipedia:WikiProject Wisconsin/Things to photograph in Door County.--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 19:39, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
Hey, Signpost,
I thought for sure there would be a few paragraphs devoted to the new activity requirements for administrators which is the first substantial change in this in a decade. Did I miss this mention? It might reduce the number of admins considered "active" by a large percentage. Liz Read! Talk! 21:20, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about measuring gender diversity in Wikipedia articles. I've written some notebooks about the topic about academic fields in Wikipedia in English, academic fields in Wikipedia in French. I've also developed a tool to measure gender diversity for any article : https://observablehq.com/@pac02/explore-gender-diversity-in-a-single-wikipedia-article?collection=@pac02/gender-diversity-in-wikipedia-articles. This part of a larger project d:User:PAC2/Gender_diversity . PAC2 (talk) 07:42, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
I'm sorry but I'll not be ready for tonight. Is it possible for next month? EpicPupper PAC2 (talk) 17:44, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
Here is my article : User:PAC2/Gender diversity article poke EpicPupper. Let me know if it' s clear enough. PAC2 (talk) 05:01, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
A member of the Anarchism WikiProject, @Grnrchst, was interviewed recently: Part 1 & Part 2. The second part has a bunch of great insight that I think would make for some good Signpost reading, if worth reaching out for republication. Otherwise worth a mention in ITM. czar 05:07, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
Read Colin M and EpicPupper's piece on the requested moves backlog in this week's Signpost. I was wondering what would need to happen for a similar analysis on merges and splits? Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 14:24, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about all those videos from Youtube alleging.... get this, a left-leaning bias. The John Stossel and Mark Dice ones are juicy, and I haven't seen any talks on these:
👨x🐱 (Nina CortexxCoco Bandicoot) 03:25, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
Mark Bernstein was released from prison but nobody seems to care about that in English Wikipedia. --ssr (talk) 04:40, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
---Another Believer (Talk) 13:13, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about d:Template:Item documentation
Item documentation is a Wikidata template which provides generic SPARQL queries for Wikidata items.
Why is it interesting for the Signpost? The generic queries in Item documentation can be useful to create or complete Wikipedia articles.
In one click in the item's talk page header, a user can access very useful queries without writing SPARQL. For an author, you get the list of written works, for a filmmaker, you get the list of movies, for a musician, you get the list of musical works, etc ( PAC2 (talk) 20:53, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
A link to the WP:URFA/2020 Q2 2022 report can be found here. Z1720 (talk) 19:37, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about... In the media: How a Prominent Composer Lost His Wikipedia Page—and Got Entangled in Kafkaesque Nightmare Trying to Get it Back - https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/how-a-prominent-composer-lost-his (as I write this, his WP page has not yet been reinstated). I know I'm far from the only one who feels that WP should err on the side of retaining articles, not deleting them. - kosboot (talk) 22:13, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost should write about... In the media: The recession article is receiving extensive news coverage due to alleged attempts to change the definition of a recession to favor the Biden administration. Just from the first page of a Google news search for "wikipedia recession": NY Post UnHerd Newsweek Daily Mail Daily Caller Outkick KBOI The Hill DNA India Cairns Post. Of course, a lot of the claims made in these headlines are pretty misleading. Wikipedia has not "suspended editing by the public" - the page so far has only been semi-protected for a week, which is a pretty tame response in the grand scheme of things. Ionmars10 (talk) 18:08, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
From A “Chinese Borges” wrote millions of words of fake Russian history on Wikipedia for a decade.inLitHub:
"For over a decade, a Chinese woman known as “Zhemao” created a massive, fantastical, and largely fictional alternate history of late Medieval Russia on Chinese Wikipedia, writing millions of words about entirely made-up political figures, massive (and fake) silver mines, and pivotal battles that never actually happened. She even went so far as to concoct details about things like currency and eating utensils. Using four puppet accounts, Zhemao—who wrote in an apology via her English Wikipedia account that she was a housewife with a high school degree—created one of the largest hoaxes in the history of Wikipedia." 2600:1700:D0A0:21B0:7D93:147C:28C1:4B04 (talk) 03:41, 2 July 2022 (UTC)