Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2020-05-31/On the bright side
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- I am reading the section title:
- " 23 500,000 articles in the Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia"
and thinking "What a helluva number of articles compared to meager 6 millions on English Wikipedia!! Only recalling a bit later that I have section numbering turned on :-) Staszek Lem (talk) 06:14, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
- I'm looking for " 23 500,000 articles..." and can't find it. If it's something that we at The Signpost can control we should certainly check for that when we copyedit. Or perhaps we'll just have to avoid putting numbers at the start of a paragraph. @Staszek Lem: could you let us know where "23 500,000" is located?
- @Vulphere: Click your "Preferences" link, select the "Appearance tab" and check the option "Auto-number headings" (it is closer to the bottom). "23" is a section number (see, there is no comma after it). I do not think common readers ever see this option, so starting with numbers is OK. My post was intended as an insider joke; sorry for confusion. Staszek Lem (talk) 17:30, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
- @Staszek Lem: I see, thanks for pointing me out.--Vulphere 17:55, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
- Reminded me of Mathmanship. See also [1] at xkcd . Staszek Lem (talk) 18:23, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
- @Staszek Lem: I see, thanks for pointing me out.--Vulphere 17:55, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
- @Vulphere: Click your "Preferences" link, select the "Appearance tab" and check the option "Auto-number headings" (it is closer to the bottom). "23" is a section number (see, there is no comma after it). I do not think common readers ever see this option, so starting with numbers is OK. My post was intended as an insider joke; sorry for confusion. Staszek Lem (talk) 17:30, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
- I'm looking for " 23 500,000 articles..." and can't find it. If it's something that we at The Signpost can control we should certainly check for that when we copyedit. Or perhaps we'll just have to avoid putting numbers at the start of a paragraph. @Staszek Lem: could you let us know where "23 500,000" is located?
- Entering June, I became more busy with things at home during current pandemic restrictions. Drawing a lot of International Typographic Style-influenced posters, I like the beautiful colours and the simplicity of this design style.--Vulphere 10:27, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
- And after this the Wikimedia stewards rewarded us by: De-sysop and lock arz:User:Al-Dandoon, De-sysop arz:User:HitomiAkane and De-crat arz:User:Ghaly, what a magnificent way to encourage Wikimedia projects to keep the hard work!, I guess this would be a great story for the next post! HitomiAkane (talk) 06:56, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
- Why is the number of articles exponentially increasing on arz-wiki? It's almost at 1 million articles now, apparently due to mass article translation. HᴇʀᴘᴇᴛᴏGᴇɴᴇꜱɪꜱ (talk) 15:55, 26 July 2020 (UTC)