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Follow-up to Suggestion by Rotideypoc41352 (2021-12-14)
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)
- 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)
- 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)
What Does Hitler Look Like?
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! kencf0618 (talk) 10:50, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
Suggestion by HumanxAnthro (2022-05-12)
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:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiRgJYMw6YA
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kaaYvauNho
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yJt0Gz1pa4
👨x🐱 (Nina CortexxCoco Bandicoot) 03:25, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
- "Conservatives don’t have as much time to tweet or argue on the web. Leftists do. And they love doing it. This helps them take over the media, universities, and now, Wikipedia." - John Stossel Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:49, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
- Yeah, never mind the many left-learning people forced into shitty jobs who will get fired and pushed into dangerous homelessness if they complain on the web about their workplace conditions. As a person who self-identifies as a "bleeding-heart libertarian", Stossel is the biggest insult to the libertarian term. Honestly, what else do you expect from a man responsible for real-estate and Koch-brothers funded, inciting-violence homelessness propaganda (one of which he trolled and harassed a bunch of random homeless people in bad faith, what next, is he gonna dress up as a clown and offer random homeless people jobs as circus dancers from a sewer drain), and concern-trolled about maternity leave laws causing employers to not hire women (cause god forbid employers have personality responsibility). 👨x🐱 (Nina CortexxCoco Bandicoot) 05:18, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
Nature article
---Another Believer (Talk) 13:13, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks, I'm sure that either In the media or Recent research @HaeB: will have something. Smallbones(smalltalk) 15:41, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
- Retweeted on Twitter as well, with the intention to add into ITM / reent research. 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him | talk) 20:08, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
- Perfectly agree. The authors also have a companion website with all the figures : https://medialab.github.io/bhht-datascape/ PAC2 (talk) 20:24, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
Suggestion by PAC2 (2022-06-21)
The Signpost should write about d:Template:Item documentation
Item documentation is a Wikidata template which provides generic SPARQL queries for Wikidata items.
Why is it interesting for the Signpost? The generic queries in Item documentation can be useful to create or complete Wikipedia articles.
In one click in the item's talk page header, a user can access very useful queries without writing SPARQL. For an author, you get the list of written works, for a filmmaker, you get the list of movies, for a musician, you get the list of musical works, etc ( PAC2 (talk) 20:53, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
Suggestion by NikosLikomitros (2022-06-21)
The Signpost should write about the consequences of COVID pandemic in Wikipedias, especially in the activity of many Wikipedias of the developing world. In the developing world, the years until 2020 were met with continuous and uninterrupted growth in users and activity. However, after the beginning of the Covid pandemic, the brief further growth due to the first lockdown has been followed from a, for many Wikipedias, prolonged decrease in active users and activity.
Here are some examples:
- Hindi had 7,707 active users in 2017 (according to Wikiscan), number that doubled to 15,2 thousand active users in 2020 based in Wikiscan. However in 2021 only 12,282 users made at least one edit according to Wikiscan. The evidence from 2022's activity show further decrease. And before the pandemic it was one of the shining stars globally in activity and gradually new articles, heading for more than 2 thousand active users in 2020 (in regular basis).
- Spanish had 118 thousand active users in the same year, 2017 (Wikiscan data)). In 2020 the active users had surged in 150 thousand (Wikiscan) and in 2021 the users decreased to 131 thousand. More decrease is expected in 2022.
- Indonesian, based in the same site, has recovered from 2021's decrease and heads back to normal.
- Turkish had 32,585 users in 2020, in the first year after the unblock. In the next year 30,3 thousand users did at least one edit, and further decrease seems to be expected.
- Bengali had 5,230 users in 2017. In 2019 the users with at least one edit increased to 10,8 thousand. In 2020 users increased to 11,6 thousand, and in 2021 to 11,8 thousand. This year a small decrease is possible. The impact, thus, was lower, but it would have been nearly to 17 thousand users without the pandemic's disruption and new articles would have continued to grow to more than 40-50 thousand a year.
- Urdu had 1,385 users in 2017. In 2020 the users with at least one edit had surged to 2,576. In the next year they decreased to 2,127 and a check of this year's data shows very strong possibility for a further decrease.
- Swahili had 590 users in 2017, 1,047 in 2020 and 1,012 in 2021. Finally for 2022 there is a strong possibility of growth based in the estimation from the numbers provided from Wikiscan.
- Marathi had 2,020 users in 2017. In 2020 they reached 2,270 (in 2019 there were 2,591) and in 2021 they continued to decrease to 1,794. In 2022 the most recent data show further decrease, possibly even 30%.
- French had 105 thousand users in 2017. In 2020 they reached 139 thousand, and they decreased to 133 thousand in 2021. As in 2010 there were 99 thousand users and 112 in 2014, it is obvious that much of post-2017 growth was driven from the French-speaking African countries.
- Persian had 33 thousand users in 2017, 52 thousand in 2020 and 49 thousand in 2021.
I suggest that you should write an article for this decrease of activity in many Wikipedias of the developing world. This decrease has been mixed with stagnation or decrease in pageviews as well, as you can see from the Wikistats site. These decreases wouldn't have happened if Covid pandemic wasn't disrupting the growth cycle of various Wikipedias of the developing world. You can check, in Wikiscan, in the Calendar unit (checking Stats and after the name of year, which is given as e.g. 22 for 2022), the growth and decrease of annual new article production pre and post-2020.
I think that you must compile a such article, with interviews from Wikipedias of India, Africa and Asia giving their opinions for the decrease and what could be done to finally end it. After the publication of that article, if you judge that it would be on the benefit of the Signpost, I would suggest to publish an op-ed as well, showing an estimation of how Wikipedia's activity could be now if Covid was just a mere fiction. NikosLikomitros (talk) 21:36, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
Mark Bernstein released from prison
Mark Bernstein was released from prison but nobody seems to care about that in English Wikipedia. --ssr (talk) 04:40, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
- Don't worry we got it in ITM.I had to wade thru Ukrainian Truth, and European Truth, before seeing it in the mirror. Smallbones(smalltalk) 05:21, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
"One of the largest hoaxes in the history of Wikipedia."
From A “Chinese Borges” wrote millions of words of fake Russian history on Wikipedia for a decade. in LitHub:
"For over a decade, a Chinese woman known as “Zhemao” created a massive, fantastical, and largely fictional alternate history of late Medieval Russia on Chinese Wikipedia, writing millions of words about entirely made-up political figures, massive (and fake) silver mines, and pivotal battles that never actually happened. She even went so far as to concoct details about things like currency and eating utensils. Using four puppet accounts, Zhemao—who wrote in an apology via her English Wikipedia account that she was a housewife with a high school degree—created one of the largest hoaxes in the history of Wikipedia." 2600:1700:D0A0:21B0:7D93:147C:28C1:4B04 (talk) 03:41, 2 July 2022 (UTC)