Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-01-21/Anniversary
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- Happy tenth, Signpost, and many thanks to the many volunteer editors who have in past years directed my attention to important issues and goings-on across the Wikimedia projects! Snow talk 11:23, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
- What Snow said... APK whisper in my ear 11:40, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
- I want to offer my apologies to Ed and Gamaliel, who asked me to add my voice to this... and I let it slip until it was too late. In the spirit of this anniversary issue, some of the things I remember fondly are the book reviews. Thanks so much to everyone who has contributed to — and read — the Signpost over the years!--ragesoss (talk) 16:43, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
- Wow, I forgot about the book reviews as well, and I've written two of them! Gamaliel (talk) 20:04, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
- Yes, but worse if input has been sent for consideration and swallowed by an uncoordinated process. At least two other people had prepared and emailed suggestions for improvements to this story. However, for the second time in three weeks, suddenly it was published without warning, leaving out important things in preparation (or ready for publication, like News and notes two weeks ago, despite prior email exchanges with the publisher—an omission that had to be laboriously fixed after the event).
While this story is better than nothing, it's just a nicely put-together laundary list of "things we covered". It says nothing about critical aspects of the SP’s development, like the two successive changes that made reader feedback the norm. It's silent on the introduction of bot-driven subscriptions on en.WP, or later of bot-driven subscriptions beyond en.WP—critical to the wider reach and scope of the publication. So when did these changes happen? (Someone dug up and communicated that information, but it again fell foul of early publication without warning.) It says nothing about how reader numbers have grown and plateaued—a glaring omission. It provides not even a thumbnail sketch of the SP’s social, political, and administrative roles and how they have evolved (worth a very important paragraph). It misses opportunities to be interesting, such as by reminding us of the connection with a previous world, starting with the fact that when the Signpost was launched, en.WP was gloating about being in the top 100 (yes, 100) sites on the web; and that the WMF was thinking of hiring its first paid staff (both are in Snow’s articles early on). Tony (talk) 01:55, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
- ~Gives Tony a party hat and party favour~ Well, it's done now, and I daresay the next edition will not be too late to continue discussing these elements of SP's impact. This is a nice milestone, so I say, for the moment anyway, celebrate what The Signpost has gotten right over the last decade and save the rest for the water-cooler over the next few days. :) Snow talk 03:49, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
- Yes, but worse if input has been sent for consideration and swallowed by an uncoordinated process. At least two other people had prepared and emailed suggestions for improvements to this story. However, for the second time in three weeks, suddenly it was published without warning, leaving out important things in preparation (or ready for publication, like News and notes two weeks ago, despite prior email exchanges with the publisher—an omission that had to be laboriously fixed after the event).