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I'll take it a bit easy for the next issue and do the Gallery, as I want commit my time to creating a few more mainspace articles, as my two previous pieces consumed all of my 'Wikipedia-time'. The Trump piece was last-minute because I wasn't anticipating an assassination attempt, and the Twitter one was rushed since the move was relisted, and I wanted to use that headline. Svampesky (talk) 13:24, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
From what I can tell, they're used A. for things where a photograph wouldn't do much. A painting of Narcissus at least says something about the origin of the word narcissism. A photograph might risk the old 2000s trend of some person becoming connected with an emotion or thing. (Y'know, Overly Attached Girlfriend, etc.) Adam Cuerden(talk)Has about 8.9% of all FPs.19:45, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I think this one is a cell that the AI gave its own personalised red tumour. That's... just not how cells grow. Or how cancer looks. Cancer cells don't have their own tiny tumours, for easy identification. As far as I can tell, this is based on images of cancer cells with an immune system cell attacking them (which would be the red thing - except that got turned into a tumor on the cell, because T-cells... well, just look up T-cells attacking cancer on Google images. You'll see: They just do not look like that).
@Bri No worries! By the way, I did manage to write a short draft for this story, but I don't know if I'll have enough time to complete it; plus, as a Gen Z user myself, it would feel a bit strange, and maybe even braggadocious to report on an article praising young contributors...
People who use the word "braggadocious" automatically raise suspicions. Just kidding!!! I'll try to weave some non-gen-Z perspective into it later. ☆ Bri (talk) 20:05, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
As usual, we are preparing this regular survey on recent academic research about Wikipedia, doubling as the Wikimedia Research Newsletter (now in its fourteenth year). Help is welcome to review or summarize the many interesting items listed here, as are suggestions of other new research papers that haven't been covered yet. Regards, HaeB (talk) 05:33, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Go ahead, remember to put your name in the authors and remove the byline where I note the short write-ups. (almost considered adding a mention of the discussion raised by putting a female singer; but as made clear, I hate this band and wanted to say as little as possible) igordebraga≠12:02, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Igordebraga Er, unfortunately, the controversy I was referring to is much more serious than that...
This is not a criticism, just pointing it out so the Signposters are aware. There has been what I'd call noticeable expansion of the draft Traffic report, such that our published version really doesn't match the TOP25 report. The addition in that one edit was almost 10% of the original size of the Traffic report – maybe to the point where the Signpost editor should be added to the byline. We don't usually work it this way, so I'm bringing it up in case it needs discussion. ☆ Bri (talk) 15:24, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Aside of the two write-ups on Linkin Park, where I felt like the current controversy surrounding the band was just too notable to get left on the cutting room floor (for further context, look how big is the talk page discussion about it, already), I was just trying to focus on copy-edit the blurbs and add some minor details, so I did not expect my changes to be this evident.
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