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Old logo

Years ago, for some reason, I made a logo for the Arbitration Committee File:ArbCom logo beta.png that never got used...except in one 2012 Signpost article. Is it OK if I G7 the logo or do I need to keep it around for archive purposes? Raymie (t • c) 19:57, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

In my opinion, we should move it from Commons to being hosted on the English Wikipedia. --Guy Macon (talk) 15:51, 12 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

In the news: Wired on Fox News as unreliable

https://www.wired.com/story/why-wikipedia-decided-to-stop-calling-fox-a-reliable-source/ ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 08:42, 12 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate delivery?

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T93049

Does anyone have any idea why the latest issue has been delivered to my talk page twice? As far as I can tell, I'm only on the subscription list once. stwalkerster (talk) 22:57, 27 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, these slipups sometimes happen. You can't unring a bell or take back a sent message. Just delete the extra notice. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:00, 27 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Meh, it's fine :) I was just wondering if it was some fixable mistake in configuration or something as easily explainable as human error. stwalkerster (talk) 23:08, 27 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Human or bot error. It was sent out twice, six minutes apart. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:14, 27 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Our apologies. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 12:42, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I’m the one who kicked off the mass message notification as part of the publication process, but I don’t know why it got sent twice. Could it have happened if I accidentally revisited or reopened the browser tab where bot configuration was filled? ☆ Bri (talk) 13:08, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't get it delivered myself but I did notice that some other user talk pages I watch had the message delivered twice. On the only one I really looked into, the first message had been deleted before the second was sent. I don't know if that might have anything to do with it. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 13:20, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Bri: Did you manually send out messages from visiting Special:MassMessage? If so, you don't need to in future as the publication script does the notifications for you via the API (and that would explain why only the initial messages had the publication script's hidden note Sent via script ([[User:Evad37/SPS]])). - Evad37 [talk] 00:45, 29 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Evad might be onto something here, but such duplicates are a general issue with MassMessage. See the venerable bug phab:T93049, which has been open for more than half a decade already. User:Samwalton9 already reported this particular occurrence there earlier today. Regards, HaeB (talk) 01:07, 29 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oh duh, yes I did do it manually (timestamps on script-driven SP page moves match the original mass message, mine was ~6 minutes later). I didn't think the script did it. Has that changed since I used to be the regular publisher? ☆ Bri (talk) 01:12, 29 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Estimated article size is NaN

In typical JS fashion, what I can only assume must be a bug somewhere in the publishing script's approxPageSize seems to have eaten the estimated article size normally displayed below each article's headline on the Signpost's main page and replaced it with NaN. I've taken a look, but I couldn't find any obvious cause, so I'm paging the exterminator. – Rummskartoffel (talk) 01:10, 2 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the heads up. I've patched the main page for now [1]. ☆ Bri (talk) 01:33, 2 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Wikipedia Editors Have Been Purging Conservative Media Since Trump’s Election"

That who shall not be named here on Wikipedia has written an interesting, actually fairly neutral story on how wikipedia has systematically pushed away right-leaning media sources. If any established editor dares to put their weight on this sore thumb and risk attracting the attention of activispedians, have a go at this story. 205.175.106.156 (talk) 05:50, 3 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

http://archive[dot]is/OVhRh