Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost

Wikiproject Report

Hello I am interested in reviving the Wikiproject Report. I am very active within wikiprojects and most of my edits can be traced to either wikiproject television or wikiproject Doctor Who. I feel that WikiProjects are key to wikipedias growth and deserve more recognition. What steps would be required in order for me to join the Signpost Team. Some of the projects I wish to cover include WP:COMICS, WP:Wikipedia, WP:DISNEY, and WP:AUSTRALIA. Questions? four Olifanofmrtennant (she/her) 00:04, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

@OlifanofmrTennant: seems nobody has gotten back to you on this yet, apologies on behalf of the Signpost team!

To your question: Just go ahead! I assume you might already be familiar with the section's usual format, but it can't hurt to take a look at earlier issues (Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Series/WikiProject report); there is also some potentially useful material at Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Newsroom/Resources#WikiProject_report. Once your have posted your draft report (e.g. via the Newsroom page), others will take a look to review and copy-edit it before publication. In case you want to solicit feedback in advance on e.g. your choice of WikiProject to cover, draft interview questions etc., you could post at Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom. Regards, HaeB (talk) 01:39, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Are there plans for using "piccy" in archives of The Signpost?

Page Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Archives/2024-02-13 looks very different compared to how the 13 February 2024 issue looked like on the landing page. Are there any plans to integrate the |piccy-*= template parameters into the archives of The Signpost? —⁠andrybak (talk) 14:00, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

The landing page has been very broken since the introduction of the new format a few issues ago, and it has not been fixed or reverted. I am in awe of the improvements that have been made to the Signpost infrastructure over the last year or so, but this change is definitely still in early beta. I don't think I have the skills to fix it. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:26, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Not to mention that Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2024-02-13 is a third presentation of the table of contents. ☆ Bri (talk) 18:04, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Can we please revert to the previous layout for Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost? We have black text on black backgrounds (accessibility problem), overlapping images, and images that exceed the cell-like spaces that they are being put in. The large images are not aligned vertically when the captions are different lengths, and the images overlap some of the text. It has looked bad for a few months now. I tried to insert a {{clear}} template after the first row of images to vertically align the next row, but it looks like the images are not set using divs or a table. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:36, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Arbcom

Any reason why a recent arbcom case that resulted in a de-cratting got zero coverage? ~~ Jessintime (talk) 15:27, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

@Jessintime: Can you draft an article? Can you find anyone who can? Post notes to Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Signpost/Newsroom to get started.

One answer to your question is simply that there was not enough volunteer labor to write the article. Anyone can still cover the story. Bluerasberry (talk) 15:49, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

As someone who participated in the case, I don't believe I should be writing about it. ~~ Jessintime (talk) 03:22, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

Front page

As long as everyone is complaining, I might as well voice my own gripe. In the good old days (yeah, former glory, wooden ships and iron men) the front page was a list of headlines, or rather sections and subsections. It was easy to read. This year, half the text is superimposed on a background photo. This degrades both the photo and the words, making them less easy and pleasant to read. It was a brave try, but it didn't work, at least for me and I'd like to click an option to show the old version, without pictures. Or words all below, above, or beside the picture; whatever. Jim.henderson (talk) 23:13, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Like this: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2024-04-25? Or more like this: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Archives/2024-04-25? ☆ Bri (talk) 23:20, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

I made a similar note above. The two pages that Bri linked to are fine. It's Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost that has been a problem for a few months. It can't possibly comply with our accessibility policies, for one thing. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:53, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

I'm trying to improve the layout/readability. I got something decent ish here I think, but I can't for the life of my find how the hell to adjust padding/margins so that things don't overlap with each other. I'd get rid of text shadows on the In the media etc. sections, but that would mean playing with the live version since there's no CSS sandbox. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 03:01, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

I think the only way to make the text accessible with arbitrary images is to separate it the text from the images. Black on translucent gray on an unknown image background is probably not accessible. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:03, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

The latter version with more details as given by Bri is my preference. But either of these no-picture front page versions is better than what we've been getting the past couple months. Jim.henderson (talk) 09:32, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

I too prefer the pictureless version. But only because the picture-full version is badly aligned and legibility is compromised. I'm not, in principle, opposed to pictures. But the layout needs improvement. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 20:06, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

agreed; i think pictures are good and well, but i also don't like that the text goes over them. ... sawyer * he/they * talk 22:14, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

The Big Pictures are a distracting, less than good (trying to say that gently) use of space requiring extra scrolling and making skimming very difficult, so the amt of time I care to spend on it is less- to un- informative, imo. Alanscottwalker (talk) 22:47, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

Another place to consider is Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Issue. One of the advertised methods to receive notifications for new issues is to put Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Issue on your watchlist. However with the current format, the items are overlapping each other within each row. isaacl (talk) 23:00, 2 May 2024 (UTC)