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Suggestion by Shushugah (2024-09-04)

The Signpost should write about... Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the long-running, closely watched copyright case over the scanning and lending of print library books

~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 23:13, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Suggestion by Robertsky (2024-09-09)

The Signpost should write about... Asian News International court case against Wikimedia Foundation. https://www.livemint.com/news/india/delhi-hc-warns-wikipedia-over-ani-defamation-case-issues-contempt-notice-11725517336837.html in the next In the news report.

A draft: India's Asian News International (ANI) has brought Wikimedia Foundation to the courts over what they alleged to be defamatory content on the article about themselves, which currently stated that they "[had] been accused of having served as a propaganda tool for the incumbent central government, distributing materials from a vast network of fake news websites, and misreporting events on multiple occasions." Wikimedia Foundation is being compelled by the courts to give personal information of some editors who have edited the article. ANI as a source was determined in 2021 RfC that for general reporting, it is between marginally reliable and generally unreliable; it should be attributed in-text for contentious claims; and generally unreliable and questionable for its coverage of domestic and international politics, and other topics that the Government of India has a stake due to reported dissemination of pro-government propaganda. (WP:RSPANI)

– robertsky (talk) 08:38, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, added it to Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Next issue/In the media, with a link to our earlier coverage in Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2024-07-22/In the media.

Regards, HaeB (talk) 02:44, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

Suggestion by Novem Linguae (2024-09-10)

The Signpost should write about... Wikipedia:Administrator elections. These are right around the corner (October) and will be a big change for enwiki. You can find a summary of some important details at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/MMS/Election schedule. This probably doesn't need a whole article, but would be good to mention somewhere. –Novem Linguae (talk) 02:23, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

@Novem Linguae Thank you for suggesting this: it will feature in one of the lead stories on "News and notes", courtesy of @Soni! : ) Oltrepier (talk) 20:40, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

Suggestion by SYSS Mouse (2024-09-16)

The Signpost should write about... South China Morning Post wrote this piece "Wikipedia bans user for ‘alleged trolling, doxxing and intimidation’ of Hong Kong journalists"

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3278559/wikipedia-bans-user-alleged-trolling-doxxing-and-intimidation-hong-kong-journalists

Cross referencing Global ban list confirms the user is Flamelai (blocked here locally in July 2023 under WP:NOTHERE)

SYSS Mouse (talk) 01:33, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

See also n:Chinese Wikimedian banned amidst largest ‘harassment’ campaign against Hong Kong journalist (draft by User:Cypp0847). Regards, HaeB (talk) 02:25, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

@SYSS Mouse Thank you for suggesting this! A short piece about the global ban will feature in the "News and notes" section of the upcoming issue, so watch out for it! Oltrepier (talk) 20:41, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

Suggestion by Ham II (2024-09-17)

The Signpost should write about... criticism by the historian Simon Sebag Montefiore of changes made to the lead section of the article Zionism between 2023 and now: https://x.com/simonmontefiore/status/1836032108105490799?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw. "History needs to be balanced & authoritative, based on facts and knowledge. Its replacement here @wikipedia by prejudiced ideology, distorted facts, and ahistorical fakery is alarming . @wikipedia is (was) respected & important because it presents facts & history without bias. Sometimes there were duels on pages between historical schools of thoughts but ultimately its editors wished to present history based on facts and balance. Has this page been captured by activists? It looks like it has. If so dear @wikipedia come back: You are part of the wider underpinnings of truth, authoritative history and factbased reportage that we desperately need in our society to foster the trust in information, reporting and scholarship, and the respect for learning and evidence that we need for our democracies to work. These principles are under attack in our academies, our media and of course in social media. @wikipedia has with a few exceptions been rare sanctuary of standards. We need you. Plse restore those all important principles"

This was in a quote tweet of a post which may have gone viral yesterday; at any rate the original post seems to have sparked Twitter activity reported on at https://www.israelhayom.com/2024/09/17/wikipedia-entry-now-calls-zionism-colonialism/ and https://www.jns.org/wikipedia-defines-zionism-as-colonialism-sparking-outrage/. (Those two webpages are essentially the same article.) At Talk:Zionism § Bat Signal a user notes that "page views for this article more than doubled from the average yesterday". Ham II (talk) 19:29, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

Suggestion by Gråbergs Gråa Sång (2024-09-18)

The Signpost should write about... Seems something is happening at the Azerbaijani Wikipedia [1] (OC Media). Related discussions at [2][3]. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 16:57, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

@Gråbergs Gråa Sång Thank you for suggesting this: it will feature in the "In the media" section of the upcoming issue! Oltrepier (talk) 20:42, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

Suggestion by The Anome (2024-09-19)

Here's a creationist website article asking the question "Is Wikipedia distorted by ideology and propaganda?" https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2024/09/18/is-wikipedia-distorted-by-ideology-and-propaganda/ Amusing, to say the least. — The Anome (talk) 03:20, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Since when is Jerry Coyne a creationist? Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 08:33, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

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:[4][5]

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 Wikipedia'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:

• User:Rjjiii/Core content policy link counts

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