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Suggestion by Ssr (2024-01-13)[edit]

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)[reply]

While report itself is ready, its English translation haven't been reviewed yet and will be ready approximately around tommorow (UTC). Red ^{wanna talk?} 17:21, 13 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Красный:, ICYDK the link is included in the fresh issue, so mention it in the next report =))) --ssr (talk) 12:01, 9 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion by Kazamzam (2024-01-20)[edit]

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)[reply]

(Biased) endorse from me as well. A simple mention at one of Signpost's new issue is enough. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 18:55, 20 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Added a mention to the upcoming issue's "News and notes" section. Regards, HaeB (talk) 21:29, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 12:24, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Addition to "Nationalist governance capture in self-governed Wikipedia projects" section in "News and notes"[edit]

"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)[reply]

Or maybe I should better had posted it at Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom? This is not very much a suggestion, but correction. -- ssr (talk) 11:44, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I looked into this, but the paper does actually mention the Chechen case (alongside similar RfCs about Azerbaijani and Japanese Wikipedia). Regards, HaeB (talk) 19:12, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for assistance, I am glad to hear this! --ssr (talk) 12:04, 9 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion by Gråbergs Gråa Sång (2024-01-23)[edit]

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)[reply]

Suggestion by Cyberwolf (2024-01-29)[edit]

The Signpost should write about palworlds 1 million views in a week

•Cyberwolf•talk? 15:33, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cyberwolf Isn't that normally covered in the traffic statistics at the end of the issue? It's in the top 25 for two weeks ago (no. 8) so it should show up this issue. Sincerely, Novo Tape^{My Talk Page} 03:43, 9 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion by Donald Albury (2024-02-17)[edit]

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)[reply]

Suggestion by Gog the Mild (2024-03-03)[edit]

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)[reply]

Graphs[edit]

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)[reply]

Another suggestion by llywrch[edit]

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)[reply]

Suggestion by PAC2 (2024-03-25)[edit]

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)[reply]

@PAC2 Would you be willing to share these sources over at Talk:LGBT and Wikipedia, too? ---Another Believer _(Talk) 20:37, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Of course. PAC2 (talk) 21:10, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 16:49, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

WP:URFA/2020 report for 2023[edit]

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)[reply]

Suggestion by Jerome Charles Potts (2024-03-31)[edit]

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)[reply]

Suggestion by Gråbergs Gråa Sång (2024-04-11)[edit]

A piece of research, may be worth a mention:Wikipedia and the Outsider Within: Black Feminism and Social Inequality in Knowledge Sharing. Afaict [1] it hasn't been mentioned. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 14:56, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion by Another Believer (2024-04-11)[edit]

The Signpost should write about the Joint Statement on Palestine:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Joint_Statement_on_Palestine

--Another Believer _(Talk) 16:49, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion by Avessa (2024-04-16)[edit]

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)[reply]

Suggestion by Arcorann (2024-04-18)[edit]

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)[reply]