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== Suggestion by Gråbergs Gråa Sång (2024-10-14) ==


''The Signpost'' should write about... There is a new WP-article, ], you have probably heard of the subject. However, ''that WP-article'' has now been mentioned in the court, and not approvingly:
== WMF actions regarding users in China ==

Several users in mainland China were desysopped and/or globally banned by WMF: ] ''']]]''' 18:22, 13 September 2021 (UTC)
: See ] for a prior report.--] (]) 16:18, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
::Yes, we will cover this in as much detail as possible, though I still only know of 2 of the banned. I'd really like to hear from Chinese editors on both sides. If anybody has anything confidential to include on this story that I can otherwise verify please ] directly. ]<sub>(])</sub> 17:18, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
:::See ] : 8 people globally banned, 12 desysopped. ] (]) 17:50, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
::::Also . --''']]]''' 18:11, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
::::: As per ], the 8 globally locked accounts are: 城市酸儒文人挖坑, 蟲蟲飛, <s>玄客</s>, Walter Grassroot, ArthurLau1997, 尤里的1994, 遊魂 and Techyan. These 12 accounts have their admin/bureaucrat rights from all WMF wikis (not just zh.wp) stripped: Alexander Misel (former CheckUser), Stang, Nbfreeh, Manchiu, 瑞麗江的河水, Hamish, DreamLiner, Lanwi1 (former CheckUser), 霧島聖, Outlookxp, 夢蝶葬花 (also losing zh Wikivoyage and zh Wikiversity admin rights) and WAN233 (also losing classical Chinese wiki admin rights). As early as March 2018, WMF revoked all zh.wp local CheckUser rights due to security concerns, which was why Alexander Misel and Lanwi1 (plus others) lost their CU rights en-masse. ]] 22:19, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
:::::: Striking off 玄客 since it was a ]. ]] 21:34, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
:Current at zh wikipedia: that a proposal to derecognize WMC and to remove all links to WMC from the wiki is in process. And all RfA in zh wiki is suspended for 3 weeks from the bureaucrats. ] (]) 13:48, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
:Thanks, readers, for bringing this up. There is a placeholder item at the News and notes feature for the next issue. If you would like to contribute, please contact us at the ] or as he said, contact the Editor in Chief privately. ☆ <span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family: Papyrus">]</span> (]) 13:55, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
::Thanks to all. I'm almost sure this will be in ''Special report'' (though thr ] story might possibly end up there. There is an open letter to read at . ]<sub>(])</sub> 14:18, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
:all, it seems that this global ban is also related to an incident in 2017. ] (]) 14:43, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
:: For the 2017 incident, see ].--] (]) 16:40, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
===Break===
There's a duplicate thread about this at ]. <span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — ] ] ] 😼 </span> 16:53, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
:FWIW, the stuff is currently being worked on in ] and ]. --]] <small style="font-weight:lighter">]</small> 12:15, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

Let's just use this page to link to sources:
* external
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** 1:23=9:30, 3 parts, general description, Maryana Iskander appointment with her comments on China, BBC commentary ]<sub>(])</sub> 14:59, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
** (CCP)
**, surprisingly good —A2
*Internal
**zh:维基百科:互助客栈/其他#WG在qq群威胁其他wiki编辑诉诸法律案
**Links at top of ]: the zhwp list of users is definitely useful, as is {{U|PhiLiP}}'s (allegedly biased :Q) stuff. There's a bit of contention about ], who is not mainland Chinese (nor WMC) but has gotten into socking allegations before.
**And of course, earlier Signpost reports. We have ] (and the linked HK interview & BBC report) and the more recent ]. --]] <small style="font-weight:lighter">]</small> 12:23, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
*We can use the Newsroom talkpage for questions like "Who can help write this up?"
*]<sub>(])</sub> 20:57, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

== Suggestion by Chris troutman (2022-01-07) ==
{{Archive top|Being worked up ] (]) 18:13, 29 January 2022 (UTC)}}
''The Signpost'' should write about ]. 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. <span class="nowrap" style="font-family:copperplate gothic light;">] (])</span> 00:47, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
:I just read the discussion after seeing this and could take this on. <span style="color:#AAA"><small>&#123;{u&#124;</small><span style="border-radius:9em;padding:0 5px;background:#088">]</span><small>}&#125;</small></span> <sup>]</sup> 18:40, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
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== Suggestion by Indy beetle (2022-01-22) ==

*] just ] the first-ever ]-related Featured Article on English Misplaced Pages. One of my own, so editor's discretion on whether it's worth a mention. -] (]) 01:51, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

== Suggestion by Xeno (WMF) (2022-01-22) ==

:''Conflict of interest note: I work for or provide services to the Wikimedia Foundation, and this is the account I use for edits or statements I make in that role. However, the Foundation does not vet all my activity, so edits, statements, or other contributions made by this account may not reflect the views of the Foundation.''
''The Signpost'' should write about the ]. It opened 10 January and runs until 16 February. The Board is asking the community for input on ]. Participants are asked to ] and ]. The call for feedback is supported by the ] team and volunteer translators. Material is available in more than 25 languages. At time of writing, approximately 15 participants have advanced 8 proposals.

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* ] (])
* ] ()
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Please feel free to ping if further information is needed or would be useful. ] (]) 02:48, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

:Hi @]! I've started a draft at ]. Please feel free to suggest edits. Cheers, ] <sup>(he/him &#124; ])</sup> 03:38, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

== A new resource in free information ==

'']'' has an article about ], a new open database of scholarly papers that are not behind paywalls -- , 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? -- ] (]) 23:34, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

== Suggestion by Tdslk (2022-01-26) ==

''The Signpost'' should write about... Either a major milestone or just a fun bit of collective ] (editcountcountitis?): within the next day or two there will be ] (there are currently 9,999 editors who have made at least 9,999 edits)! ] (]) 05:43, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

== Suggestion by Bri (2022-01-29): New Vector skin improvements ==

It looks like ''The Signpost'' hasn't had any coverage yet of New Vector skin aka ]. Am I just missing it? Seems like an important potential future topic. ☆ <span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family: Papyrus">]</span> (]) 18:12, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
:if it's short - maybe something short in News & notes this month. If it's long maybe write it up next month? ]<sub>(])</sub> 05:30, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
::Courtesy link that works: ]. If nobody wants to take this on, I'd be happy to write up either a News and Notes item or something for the technology report. Thoughts? ] <sup>(he/him &#124; ])</sup> 00:13, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
:::Decided against doing this for the Feb issue because it's quite old news by now. ] <sup>(he/him &#124; ])</sup> 01:40, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

== Suggestion by GamerPro64 (2022-01-31) ==

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 Misplaced Pages. Especially important films like ]. Or maybe a piece about movies published on Misplaced Pages in general. ] 06:39, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

:Perhaps in Featured Content, or Gallery? Featured Content might be good because it's usually where we put things like this, but that's usually for recently featured stuff, so that might not be favorable because of that. ] <sup>(he/him &#124; ])</sup> 00:44, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
::Done as gallery for this month @]! ] <sup>(he/him &#124; ])</sup> 01:40, 28 February 2022 (UTC)


] (]) 08:07, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
== Suggestion by Nthep (2022-02-03) - UK government white paper contains unattributed Misplaced Pages content. ==


:The court hearing is to be held on 25 October. I think we can roll this into that hearing if Signpost isn't released by then. ] (]) 11:25, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
] is today (3 Feb) reporting that the UK Government's ]'s recently issued ] contains wholesale copying from Misplaced Pages articles (). Articles copied from include ] and ]. And to compound the issue, it looks like the sources aren't attributed. ] (]) 20:27, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
::I correct myself, it seems to be barely within the deadline for the next issue. ] (]) 11:44, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
:::and WP:Office has oversighted it. ] (]) 18:46, 23 October 2024 (UTC)


== Using policy and ] link counts to evaluate consensus ==
:Added as a brief in In the Media, thanks. ] <sup>(he/him &#124; ])</sup> 04:32, 4 February 2022 (UTC)


Hello. Initially for my own interest, I created a series of bar charts to evaluate the link counts Misplaced Pages's top-level policy pages (as of the first full week of November). I'd like to offer these up if anyone working on the ''Signpost'' would like to use them for an article:
== Suggestion by Danbloch (2022-02-04) ==


* ]
''The Signpost'' should write about... "How Wiktionary is Different from Misplaced Pages 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. ] (]) 17:57, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
:{{Ping|Danbloch}} Relevant link: ]. --] (]) 06:34, 7 February 2022 (UTC) ] (]) 19:40, 8 November 2024 (UTC)


== Interactions between Misplaced Pages & pending legislation Suggestion by Alanthehat (2022-02-07) == == Suggestion by Hawkeye7 (2024-11-23) ==


Found this news article ] ] 22:26, 23 November 2024 (UTC) <!--Include links if you have them! -->
''The Signpost'' should write about... (or could somebody please point me to an article about...)
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] ] 22:26, 23 November 2024 (UTC)
'''Interactions between Misplaced Pages/Wikimedia & pending legislation, both national & international'''


== Hi everyone ==
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 ], 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 Misplaced Pages so I feel that Misplaced Pages/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.


when did Snoop Dogg start to become a famous person and how ] (]) 11:47, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
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 ] <!--Include links if you have them! --> ] (]) 06:25, 7 February 2022 (UTC)


:Hello, @]. This page is for suggesting items to go into ''Signpost'', the Misplaced Pages internal newsletter, so it is usually only about matters involving Misplaced Pages or its associated sites, or the Wikimedia Foundation, not general knowledge.
== Suggestion by PAC2 (2022-02-14) ==
:For general questions, the ] is the place to ask; but I think your questions are answered at ]. ] (]) 16:23, 3 December 2024 (UTC)


== Suggestion by Gråbergs Gråa Sång (2024-12-02) ==
''The Signpost'' should write about... 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. ] (]) 18:39, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
*{{ping|PAC2}} Very, very nice - with one trivial detail that *must* be corrected! We could publish this - almost as is - in the next issue (Feb 26th copy deadline - a day or 2 earlier is better), or if you want to add more detail on the importance of your findings, or on your motivation, reasons for your interest in Wikidata, etc., so much the better. But the trivial can be super important! 1,340/505,578 = 0.27% (for Paris) not 2.7% (at least in American English - maybe it's something with the commas (,)?). The same mistake (just one decimal) goes throughout your calculations. Please let me know. ]<sub>(])</sub> 16:36, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
**Quick questions (license and copyright?), (where are Lyon and Marseille.in your data)? ]<sub>(])</sub> 16:52, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
:: Thanks a lot for your feedback.
:: * 1,340/505,578 = 0.27%. That's it. I use ‰ (per mille), not % (percent). Maybe I should explicit it.
:: * Paris is a city and a department. Marseille is in the department "Bouches-du-Rhône" (number 13) and Lyon in the department Rhône (69).
:: * I'll add a license and add more details about my motivation. ] (]) 19:51, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
::: I've updated the notebook with more context and more interpretation : https://observablehq.com/@pac02/births-department-wikipedia. Do you want me to write a paragraph in the wiki? ] (]) 06:26, 22 February 2022 (UTC)


''The Signpost'' should write about... According to , c. 16:00-17:00, the WMF have stopped fund-raising in India for the time being. May be worth a mention. ] (]) 10:30, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
== Suggestion by Risker (2022-02-15) ==


== Suggestion by Bogazicili (2024-12-08) ==
''The Signpost'' should write about...


''The Signpost'' should write about... <!--Include links if you have them! -->
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 ], to discuss how Misplaced Pages fits into this theory. They have now published the . 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. ] (]) 04:39, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
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In addition to study, there's a recent study about Australia-related articles that found problematic coverage of Indigenous topics:
:Thanks @], added as a brief item ]. ] <sup>(he/him &#124; ])</sup> 01:39, 28 February 2022 (UTC)


{{tq2|To engage with place in the Australian context is inevitably an engagement with settler-colonialism. This research concludes that First Nations histories, current experiences and voices remain marginalised on Misplaced Pages, reflecting the literature (Thorpe, Sentance & Booker 2023; Gallert et al. 2016; Bjork-James 2021). There are other omissions as well. Lucas argued that “basically any non-white experiences or non-dominant experiences are omitted.” Gabriel felt that Misplaced Pages was “quite a hostile space to marginalised people” and that there is “a really frustrating lack of space, I suppose, to me in all three elements: being a regional Australian; being queer; being disabled. None of them feel like something that Misplaced Pages really quite welcomes a lot of the time.”}}
== Suggestion by SYSS Mouse (2022-02-24) Suggestion ==


The previous journal article was covered in the Signpost (]) and there was also a response to it (]). Can we also mention the most recent study in one of the upcoming Signpost issues? ] (]) 14:26, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
''The Signpost'' should write about the unfortunate timing of the banner of ] 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 <s>at the border, ready to invade</s> 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) ] (]) 02:20, 24 February 2022 (UTC)


== Commons:Photo challenge ==
:I originally wrote a section about this in News and notes, but removed it. See discussion ]. ] <sup>(he/him &#124; ])</sup> 01:33, 28 February 2022 (UTC)


I would like to see a brief monthly note in ''The Signpost'' about the ] themes. It could probably be a simple, standardized blurb, e.g., {{xt|The ] for December 2024 is to upload photos you have taken of ] and ]s. Photos must be taken by the uploader. ] from last month's challenge.}}
== Suggestion by Gråbergs Gråa Sång (2022-02-27) ==


] (]) 19:28, 11 December 2024 (UTC)
''The Signpost'' should write about...


== Suggestion by David Eppstein (2024-12-20) ==
There's a new war, ], 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. ] (]) 16:47, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
* ] has a mention. is supposed to be ongoing right now, perhaps the sad irony should be noted. -] (]) 20:09, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
*:I originally wrote a section about this in News and notes, but removed it. See discussion ]. ] <sup>(he/him &#124; ])</sup> 01:34, 28 February 2022 (UTC)


One for your listing of recent Misplaced Pages-related publications:
] (]) 18:58, 1 March 2022 (UTC)


{{cite journal|title=''Princ-wiki-a mathematica'': Misplaced Pages editing and mathematics|first1=D.|last1=Eppstein|first2=J. B.|last2=Lewis|first3=Russ|last3=Woodroofe|author4=XOR'easter|journal=Notices of the AMS|volume=72|issue=1|pages=65–73|year=2025|url=https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202501/rnoti-p65.pdf}}.
:Thanks for the tip. I'll add it to In the Media. ] <sup>(he/him &#124; ])</sup> 19:35, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
: The Russian Misplaced Pages will likely be blocked in Russia today or tomorrow, we will be able to compare the demographics then.--] (]) 19:37, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
:: It wasn't and won't likely. --] (]) 13:43, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
''See also'': https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/3/22960007/russia-wikipedia-wikimedia-foundation-censorship-demand
---] <sub>(])</sub> 20:20, 3 March 2022 (UTC)


—] (]) 18:55, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
== Suggestion by PAC2 (2022-03-10) ==


:@] Thank you for your submission!
''The Signpost'' should write about measuring gender diversity in Misplaced Pages articles. I've written some notebooks about the topic about , . 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 ] . ] (]) 07:42, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
:I guess @] might find this pretty interesting for his "Recent research" column... ] (]) 21:23, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
: Already appeared in the last issue, thanks. —] (]) 22:14, 2 January 2025 (UTC)


== Suggestion by Gråbergs Gråa Sång (2022-03-10) == == Suggestion by Kosboot (2024-12-23) ==


''The Signpost'' should write about... ''The Signpost'' should write about... <!--Include links if you have them! -->
<!--If you contribute a short draft of your suggested item as it would appear in the Signpost, you increase the chances that it will make it to publication.-->
The 138th annual meeting of the ] is meeting in ] 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 Misplaced Pages''. (This session is in-person only and meets Saturday morning, January 4 at 10:30-12 pm.) - ] (]) 01:34, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
] (]) 01:34, 23 December 2024 (UTC)


== Suggestion by Ahri Boy (2025-01-03) ==
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?).
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''The Signpost'' should write about... Possible total project capture of the Hebrew Misplaced Pages. See the ]. 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.
== Suggestion by Piotrus (2022-03-11) ==


] (]) 16:43, 3 January 2025 (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. <!--Include links if you have them! --> <sub style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]&#124;]</sub> 14:38, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
: Also see {{Cite web |last=Song |first=Victoria |date=2022-03-11 |title=A top Misplaced Pages editor has been arrested in Belarus |url=https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/11/22973293/wikipedia-editor-russia-belarus-ukraine |access-date=2022-03-13 |website=The Verge |language=en}} ] (]) 22:11, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
:: Also see ] and ] — to see how some Wikimedians are trying to oust Mark. --] (]) 12:55, 22 March 2022 (UTC)


== Suggestion by Fastily (2022-03-22) == == Suggestion by Gråbergs Gråa Sång (2025-01-06) ==


''The Signpost'' should write about... , YT-video by/with one . At the time of writing, I haven't seen it, 1h+, but the guy is a journalist. ] (]) 10:45, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
''The Signpost'' should write about...


And another thing: ]. ] (]) 16:41, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
Not sure if this is newsworthy, but I recently released a Wikimedia Commons upload tool for macOS: ]. Thanks for your consideration. -] 07:59, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

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Suggestion by Gråbergs Gråa Sång (2024-10-14)

The Signpost should write about... There is a new WP-article, Asian News International vs. Wikimedia Foundation, you have probably heard of the subject. However, that WP-article has now been mentioned in the court, and not approvingly:

Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:07, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

The court hearing is to be held on 25 October. I think we can roll this into that hearing if Signpost isn't released by then. – robertsky (talk) 11:25, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
I correct myself, it seems to be barely within the deadline for the next issue. – robertsky (talk) 11:44, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
and WP:Office has oversighted it. SYSS Mouse (talk) 18:46, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

Using policy and WP:SHORTCUT link counts to evaluate consensus

Hello. Initially for my own interest, I created a series of bar charts to evaluate the link counts Misplaced Pages's top-level policy pages (as of the first full week of November). I'd like to offer these up if anyone working on the Signpost would like to use them for an article:

Rjj (talk) 19:40, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

Suggestion by Hawkeye7 (2024-11-23)

Found this news article frustrating': Aussie Misplaced Pages editors burn out: New study highlights disagreements, racism, and 'edit wars' Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:26, 23 November 2024 (UTC)

Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:26, 23 November 2024 (UTC)

Hi everyone

when did Snoop Dogg start to become a famous person and how Amogelang22 (talk) 11:47, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

Hello, @Amogelang22. This page is for suggesting items to go into Signpost, the Misplaced Pages internal newsletter, so it is usually only about matters involving Misplaced Pages or its associated sites, or the Wikimedia Foundation, not general knowledge.
For general questions, the Reference Desk is the place to ask; but I think your questions are answered at Snoop Dogg. ColinFine (talk) 16:23, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

Suggestion by Gråbergs Gråa Sång (2024-12-02)

The Signpost should write about... According to this video, c. 16:00-17:00, the WMF have stopped fund-raising in India for the time being. May be worth a mention. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:30, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

Suggestion by Bogazicili (2024-12-08)

The Signpost should write about...

In addition to Misplaced Pages's Indian problem: Settler colonial erasure of native American knowledge and history on the world's largest encyclopedia study, there's a recent study about Australia-related articles that found problematic coverage of Indigenous topics:

To engage with place in the Australian context is inevitably an engagement with settler-colonialism. This research concludes that First Nations histories, current experiences and voices remain marginalised on Misplaced Pages, reflecting the literature (Thorpe, Sentance & Booker 2023; Gallert et al. 2016; Bjork-James 2021). There are other omissions as well. Lucas argued that “basically any non-white experiences or non-dominant experiences are omitted.” Gabriel felt that Misplaced Pages was “quite a hostile space to marginalised people” and that there is “a really frustrating lack of space, I suppose, to me in all three elements: being a regional Australian; being queer; being disabled. None of them feel like something that Misplaced Pages really quite welcomes a lot of the time.”

The previous journal article was covered in the Signpost (Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages Signpost/2024-10-19/Recent research) and there was also a response to it (Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages Signpost/2024-06-08/Opinion). Can we also mention the most recent study in one of the upcoming Signpost issues? Bogazicili (talk) 14:26, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

Commons:Photo challenge

I would like to see a brief monthly note in The Signpost about the c:Commons:Photo challenge themes. It could probably be a simple, standardized blurb, e.g., The c:Commons:Photo challenge for December 2024 is to upload photos you have taken of pastel colors and footprints. Photos must be taken by the uploader. Vote for your favorites from last month's challenge.

WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:28, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

Suggestion by David Eppstein (2024-12-20)

One for your listing of recent Misplaced Pages-related publications:

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

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

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

Suggestion by Kosboot (2024-12-23)

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 Misplaced Pages. (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)

Suggestion by Ahri Boy (2025-01-03)

The Signpost should write about... Possible total project capture of the Hebrew Misplaced Pages. 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)

Suggestion by Gråbergs Gråa Sång (2025-01-06)

The Signpost should write about... Misplaced Pages’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)

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

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