Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2023-08-31/From the editor

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New site looks beautiful, but note that pages such as https://signpost.news/Newsroom/Quick_Start have links to edit such as https://signpost.news/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Newsroom/Quick_Start&action=edit&section=1 which pull up errors:

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at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)

at async /root/2023-aug-sinepost/sinepost/routes/index.js:48:25

Nice job otherwise. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:54, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, yeah. I am not really sure how to implement section-edit links for now, and had meant to .mw-editsection { display:none; } but forgot. jp×g 01:13, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Could you send me the newspaper to my email inbox, like an email newsletter? Benjamin (talk) 02:59, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

So this is a live mirror with no caching? -- John of Reading (talk) 06:29, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, if you write "peepee poopoo" in this article and then go to it over there it'll show up lickety-split. I have some vaguely defined future plan to set up a caching system (since right now my server has to transfer the data twice for each query) but while thinking about this in the shower I realized it would be pretty complicated and require a lot of work. We will see how motivated I am when I look at the hosting bill next month, I guess. jp×g 09:06, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: I would suggest that anyone interested in actually doing this come up with a different string to test with, and do it on some page that isn't from the current issue. jp×g 09:22, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting idea, I will say the thing that stands out most immediately is the yellowed paper look of the website, not exactly appealing in my opinion. —The Editor's Apprentice (talk) 08:25, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This looks pretty promising, thank you for the immensely hard work you're putting in! I've taken a quick look at the various sections, and I'd just point out a few graphical issues. Firstly, some of the pictures included in the articles look misplaced and tend to "invade" quotes (see this page for context); secondly, I think you could just stick to the "standard" layout used here, that is, white background and blue hyperlinks, instead of rose and grey, or maybe you could just use an ever lighter shade of rose! Finally, the bold font used for the articles' headlines and paragraphs is a bit too hard-hitting for the eyes, but maybe my myopia is the one to blame in this case... On a similar note, what about including an option to switch from light to dark background, and vice versa? Anyway, keep it up! : ) Oltrepier (talk) 09:47, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This whiffs of the URL shortener problem to me. When the mirror inevitably ceases to function (and I do think it's inevitable) and assuming it sees much use (though I don't think it will, which adds to the inevitability) are we not just generating future dead links? I suppose directly translating from en.wp to sp.news URLs does mitigate the issue somewhat (I can search "2023-08-31/From_the_editor", for example, and get to the Wikipedia article just fine) but I remain very wary. Tantusar (talk) 10:55, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Well, in that case, due to the URL structure, I could do what was on signpost.news for about a year before that (a simple DNS redirect from the root domain to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/*). This costs somewhere on the order of a couple hundred bucks per decade, so maybe we can hold a "fun raiser" of sorts. jp×g 19:07, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback: I enjoyed the new site of The Signpost. However, it felt that this site needs some improvements. Basically what I mean is that, even though the it is in the beta stages, I would suggest adding more features to be level to other news sites. No mobile view (which can be hard for users to read its content in some cases), no share links, search bar behind the "Archives" section, lack of illustration on the main page, and others. Overall, the site fells like one browsing a site in the 2010's. While some features are okay, like the yellow tint, it would be favorable to add such features. Toadette ^(chat)/_(logs) 11:45, 1 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hot dog!! JPxG you've done a gorgeous, uplifting thing. I happen to like the look of the site very much ;~). And you imported the backlog with all of its tags... it took me all of ten seconds to satisfy idle curiosity and track down some ancient history on early Wikimania coverage. – SJ + 22:24, 1 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I think this is a pretty cool initiative ! When i get back from vacation ill take a deeper look. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 09:03, 2 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm confused by the comparison of Wikipedia URLs with The Wetumpka Herald URLs. Surely ours are better than the fugly UUID in the Herald URL? 93.72.49.123 (talk) 21:53, 2 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Beautiful, incredible, amazing, wondrous, dope, awesomesauce, etc. Thanks! Can't wait to see where this goes! Crunchydillpickle🥒 (talk) 01:25, 4 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]