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Jessintime: Excuse the late reply but the story could still be covered in the next issue.
Stories exist in The Signpost because someone volunteers to write them. If you want a story covered of any kind then recruit a writer. It sometimes helps to start draft content and collect facts even if you feel that you will not be author. There is no staff labor here and there is hardly volunteer labor. Simply, if you do not see yourself represented, then you have to find a way to represent yourself if it is to happen at all. I do not have any power to recruit journalists except that if they submit something publishable, then we can do the editorial processing. Best wishes and I regret that I do not have more to give.
Bluerasberry (talk)19:37, 4 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Do we still record pageviews for every issue? I'm curious to see how the various columns performed, especially the Special report (no pun intended)!
Oltrepier (
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14:25, 20 May 2024 (UTC)reply
It seems that, beginning after the header "Kalloor" in the deletion report, the page width shrinks to the side. This also affects stories coming after it in the single-page edition. I can't see anything in the article source that would suggest why this is happening.
FunIsOptional (
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20:20, 8 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Yeah, that one had some weird stuff going on with the formatting, I tried to fix it this morning and I guess did not get everything. @
Headbomb: do you rember which ones were messed up? I am going to try and debug the script. jp×
g🗯️07:47, 9 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Why the image display on the front page is messed up sometimes and for some people
I am pretty sure I have cracked the code on this one: the images are all displayed using px values, but a bunch of the other stuff on the page is defined with em values. There is a way to force images to be scaled with respect to em, which I did at {{stupid t-shirt}} (see its stylesheet), but this seems like a giant pain (all of the offset params would need to be re-hardcoded, which could be done by bot but it would still be a gigantic pita). It should be pretty easy to fix this nonetheless -- just change the values for the styling on the snippet template to work with px instead of em. I think this will make the crops on the front page look good on mobile and desktop (and regardless of font size/dpi). jp×
g🗯️06:16, 18 June 2024 (UTC)reply
It would be good to have an archive for each column (if that doesn't already exist). Personally, I often find myself uncertain about which column to put my pieces in and spend an excessive amount of time searching for previous "x reports" to know how it should be written. For example, if an editor wanted to write up an AfD, it would be beneficial if they could promptly access all deletion reports to guide their writing. This may be anecdotal, but I have not found the
content guidance particularly helpful. I find it more effective to read the pieces directly, as I learn better through that method; again, we all have different ways of learning. I think the code will be something like 'Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/*/Discussion report' with the asterisk as a
wildcard.
Svampesky (
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11:58, 5 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Exactly like that. Thanks for also telling me how search parameters work too. Is there a way of making that into a template?
Svampesky (
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18:12, 5 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Even better -- there is an existing index that uses the feature I mentioned above. You should probably use the index at
Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Series.
Unfortunately it looks like there's a script problem and indexing broke sometime around January 2024. I'm looking into that. ☆ Bri (
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19:44, 5 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Ideally, every column should be given a tag with the respective column name, so that it shows up in list-maker invocations like this, although this is dependent on somebody going through and tagging every column when it's released. jp×
g🗯️21:50, 6 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Also, I tried to do something like this for the draft template (at the top of a draft, the box will give you an option to search "previous deletion report" etc) jp×
g🗯️21:50, 6 July 2024 (UTC)reply