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Single page edition is broken again

Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2025-02-07

I can see three red links instead of the relevant sections. --2A04:4A43:909F:F990:D0:B7A6:F407:709A (talk) 02:22, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Appears to be caused by that emergency hack by JPxG above. I've reverted to the older "unhacked" version which appears to be working. FunIsOptional (talk) (please use ping!) 06:39, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Social media suggestion

I noticed that the Signpost currently posts on Twitter, Facebook, and Mastodon. I would like to suggest potentially branching out to Bluesky. It is a very popular Twitter alternative, with over 30 million accounts, and a lot of former Twitter users have moved over. QuicoleJR (talk) 20:13, 17 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

RfA debrief

Hello, I was emailed a little while back by @Svampesky asking about the possibility of an RfA debrief—I've just posted it at User:Giraffer/RfA debrief. I'm happy for this to be published in The Signpost but I would prefer to keep it as a userspace essay and have it copied over (with attribution as necessary etc etc) rather than moved. Feel free to do any of the necessary wizardry to turn it into something publishable. I'm travelling at the moment but if you need anything just shoot me a ping. Thanks, Giraffer (talk) 22:20, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Is it time for the Signpost to switch to Bluesky?

With Twitter / X becoming more of a safe haven for anti-democratic authoritarianism, is it time for the Signpost to make the switch to Bluesky? That is, after Twitter blocked opposition figures in Turkey, purging of leftists and journalists, and honoured 83% of censorship requests from authoritarian countries, etc (see Twitter under Elon Musk). I don't think the website is still mission-aligned.. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 07:24, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I agree about exiting Twitter but surely more mission-aligned to settle on fediverse locations (Mastodon, from where the feed can be bridged to Bluesky if people want)? AllyD (talk) 08:12, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That looks like an option too. I must admit I don't quite understand the fediverse, but Bluesky seems to be working on interoperability with other networks? From a practical perspective, Bluesky seems about twice the size of Mastodon. If we gauge the interest in Wikipedia on both platforms by followers of the Wikipedia account, mastodon has 30k, whereas Bluesky has around 43k. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 08:35, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Bluesky clearly has higher user numbers (and a momentum of people moving from Xitter). Another consideration is structural: is a US VC-backed corporation is the most durable target right now? AllyD (talk) 09:25, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Related: meta:Microblogging handles (which lists Mastodon and Twitter handles for Signpost). The follower stats need updating though. ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · contribs · email · global) 09:34, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A bot can easily cross post to all of these platforms. If we wanted to interact with subscribers that’s a different story but that doesn’t happen anyways. Twitter has by far more journalists following so as much as I dislike their values, I see value in promoting Wikipedia, or as they know it as Dickipedia. ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 09:35, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]