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Technology report

Hi. I was wondering if a newsletter I started about user scripts and related stuff here on enwiki could be mentioned? Ping @Evad37: who just started the technology report for the next release. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 05:51, 17 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Done - Evad37 [talk] 05:59, 17 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Evad37: Thanks. I'll make sure to clean up the page its linked to before it gets sent. --DannyS712 (talk) 06:18, 17 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Evad37: About this edit. You may also want to include this --DannyS712 (talk) 08:11, 24 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Done - Evad37 [talk] 08:37, 24 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Deadline imminent

Although this month's issue was given a long time for preparation due to the early release of the December issue, as usual, it appears that many contributions have been left to the last minute. Some people still don't get to understand that Bri and I can only do a strict bare minimum of cleanup work as well as trying hard to boost the content with our own contributions, and we do not have time to review, complete, or copy edit everything else.

I'm further curious about the lack of response to the 'From the Editors' in the previous issue, and the very low number of reader comments in general. May be this is a blessing in disguise and the detractors have finally realised that their comments are not wanted. It may have been due to the holiday period. If someone can run some stats over the page views, it would help.

I'm now travelling for the rest of the month and have no time to do m anything else much here. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 00:47, 27 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I have had real life obligations for much of this month but i will do what i can. — pythoncoder (talk | contribs) 22:34, 28 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Featured content

The last four issues dod not have a Featured Content section. Was it decided at some time to permanently drop it? Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 16:08, 28 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I stopped creating that section and no-one else started it back up. I'd be happy to see it revived but I don't have capacity to do it myself. ☆ Bri (talk) 16:14, 28 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

There was someone planning to do it at some point but it's been a while since i heard anything about it — pythoncoder (talk | contribs) 22:33, 28 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The format for the Featured Content report makes a bit of a pain to put together, especially making the summaries for the articles and lists, and looking up the nomination links and nominators. And with the monthly schedule, it was probably getting past the TLDR point for most readers. I'll have a go at putting together a brief version, just using galleries and linking to articles. - Evad37 [talk] 00:49, 29 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Selecting illustrations was the best part, for me, honestly. Good luck with it! ☆ Bri (talk) 00:51, 29 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Done, apart from a title and blurb - Evad37 [talk] 02:00, 29 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Arbitration report

There is no proposed decision (PD) yet and we're near our writing deadline. Is someone else willing to finish this off in case the PD appears but I can't come back to writing? ☆ Bri (talk) 03:00, 29 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Appreciation

To everyone who shoulders the burden at the newsroom: You are appreciated. If I have been lax and forgotten to send anyone a barnstar, please ping me so I can remedy the situation as soon as possible. Regards, ☆ Bri (talk) 03:07, 29 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Copyedit done of News & Notes

I've been WP:BOLD and done this. Hope it's satisfactory. Buckshot06 (talk) 11:25, 29 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for this, Buckshot06. N&N has been expanded since, you may wish to take another look, and please feel free to be bold and CE any other Signpost columns (except snippets reported 'sic', and anything provided by or copied and pasted from WMF sources. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 19:42, 29 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

D'Costa photo - News and Notes

Bri, I'm not sure about the licensing for the photo I used. The WMF do not allow the photos on their site to be downloaded and they don't like to publish their work on Commons. I scanned and uploaded it to Commons but had to invent a usage rationale. Please check it out before publishing The Signpost in case Commons deletes it. The photo's creator is not known. Thanks, Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 19:34, 29 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I think we will be OK, the WMF blog where you got the image has this text: "Except where otherwise noted, the content of this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license". I added a comment to your upload. Bri.public (talk) 21:44, 29 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Kudpung and Bri, a couple points. One, that particular photo is unfortunately not CC licensed. The photo credits are at the bottom of the blog post, where you'll see that it's "Courtesy of Cassidy DuHon/Valerie D’Costa." A freely licensed staff photo will be going up in the next few weeks. Two, you can download images from the site... you can right click and then hit "save image as"? Ed Erhart (WMF) (talk) 23:29, 29 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]