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Suggestion by Gråbergs Gråa Sång (2022-02-27)[edit]

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)[reply]

Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Next issue/News and notes has a mention. Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2022 is supposed to be ongoing right now, perhaps the sad irony should be noted. -Indy beetle (talk) 20:09, 27 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I originally wrote a section about this in News and notes, but removed it. See discussion here. 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 01:34, 28 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

Thanks for the tip. I'll add it to In the Media. 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 19:35, 1 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The Russian Wikipedia will likely be blocked in Russia today or tomorrow, we will be able to compare the demographics then.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:37, 1 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It wasn't and won't likely. --ssr (talk) 13:43, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion by PAC2 (2022-03-10)[edit]

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)[reply]

Hiya @PAC2! I feel like you would be the best person to write on this - after all, you performed the research, and know most about it. Your "by the numbers" column in last month's issue was stellar! Please let me know if I can help in any way. Cheers, 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 07:32, 26 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your answer. I'll try. Is there any deadline? PAC2 (talk) 21:18, 29 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@PAC2 the next publication deadline is in 5 days. Good luck! 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 04:00, 19 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

@PAC2 yep! 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 17:53, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion by Piotrus (2022-03-11)[edit]

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. [1] _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 14:38, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Also see Song, Victoria (2022-03-11). "A top Wikipedia editor has been arrested in Belarus". The Verge. Retrieved 2022-03-13. François Robere (talk) 22:11, 13 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Also see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark Bernstein (Wikimedian) and Talk:Detention_of_Mark_Bernstein#Requested_move_12_March_2022 — to see how some Wikimedians are trying to oust Mark. --ssr (talk) 12:55, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

In NAN. 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 07:17, 26 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Another user jailed for Wikipedia: Draft:Pavel Pernikaŭ + n:ru:Участник Википедии из Бреста Павел Перников приговорён к 2 годам колонии --ssr (talk) 18:21, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Interview with The Commoner[edit]

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)[reply]

@Czar: Thanks for the tip. If we can get Commoner to give us a CC-BY SA license we'll run part I as an Op-ed, but I haven't heard back from them. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 01:23, 19 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Query[edit]

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)[reply]

Hi @Liz, I had a paragraph or so ready for the discussion report but didn't finish it, so it was postponed until next issue. We'd always love help, especially in areas like the Discussion Report. Cheers, 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 21:26, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Well, that's good to hear, I just think it needs as much publicity as possible. I have a hope, which might be unwarranted, that it might prompt some borderline inactive admins to return to service and help us out. We have really seen fewer and fewer admins participating in areas where they are needed. Since it's unlikely that there will be a tidal wave of new RfAs, having marginally active admins become more active seems like a promising possibility. Thanks again for this month's issue. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:55, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Even if it's only a sentence, I'd always rather we have something than nothing for big news items like this. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 00:47, 25 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Follow-up to Suggestion by Rotideypoc41352 (2021-12-14)[edit]

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)[reply]

You can find the code I used to scrape and analyze the RM data here. I think the code could be adapted to WP:MERGEREQ/WP:SPLITREQ, though parsing out structured data from the Wikitext source of those pages would be more difficult, as the format is somewhat freeform (and appears to have changed over the years). Colin M (talk) 16:50, 2 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I seem to recall there being a merge bot that shares an operator with RMCD bot. Maybe that bot generates something easier to use even if incomplete. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 22:02, 8 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Nick Clark articles in Wikipedia; paid editing by Procreative Writers[edit]

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)[reply]

Done see above :) 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 05:30, 2 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

What Does Hitler Look Like?[edit]

http://www.simplicissimus.info/index.php?id=6&tx_lombkswjournaldb_pi1%5Bvolume%5D=26&tx_lombkswjournaldb_pi1%5Baction%5D=showVolume&tx_lombkswjournaldb_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=YearRegister&cHash=958174066a2c607fc5fa13e6da28f0fe

Issue No. 9, 5-18-1923, 105-116, p.2

This was published in the photo section of Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi by Thomas Weber, who credits Simplicissimus. I don't want to put the image up myself unless and until I'm certain that it meets Wikipedia's licensing criteria, but in any case Simplicissimus is a real gold mine! In this wise I was amazed to see that it doesn't have, and has never had, a project of its own. Is it all public domain? Does it go on a case-by-case basis? Do we have to wait 100 years? Is this the earliest known satire of Adolf Hitler‽!‽ Tell me, Teutons! 22:18, 7 May 2022 (UTC)

Suggestion by HumanxAnthro (2022-05-12)[edit]

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)[reply]