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@Generalissima and i are working on a featured content piece for this issue. we talked about this briefly in the discord with @JPxG - the "start article" button for featured content on the newsroom page doesn't give any pre-loaded content currently, which would be a good thing to fix. we also may do something similar to jpxg's arb report and split it between two issues, as there's a lot to get through for the last 6ish months. ... sawyer * he/they * talk 04:46, 1 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
In the meantime, this link should work in lieu of the "Start article" button: [1].
Regards, HaeB (talk) 07:22, 1 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That newsroom task template is probably the single most convoluted piece of code I have ever seen on this site. That and the draft template are horrifyingly complicated layers-on-layers-on-layers that only barely work -- I have no idea why that wasn't supplying the & in the URL (since it wasn't actually constructing the URL directly in text -- it was invoking a tag!). Well, anyway, that was the only department that had a preload AND and "editintro", so I just merged the two into one.
Honestly, what needs to happen is that the whole template needs to be rewritten, perhaps with more than one layer, because there is just too much stuff going on in one template, even when you have the seven or eight (!!!) layers of {}{}}}{{}}{}{}}}{{}}{}{{}{}}{{}{} gobbledygook properly indented so as to see wth is going on. jp×g🗯️ 11:36, 1 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The button for 'Next featured content' works just fine for me, BTW. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 17:35, 1 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Did you read JPxG's comment that you are replying to? He implemented a stopgap measure by removing support for the "edittintro" parameter entirely from the template; and moving the content of Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Story-preload/FC/intro into Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Story-preload/FC. The actual bug is still unsolved, but if folks can live without such advice in the editnotice (i.e. are fine with deleting it from the preloaded content every time), I think that's an OK solution for the time being.
As usual, we are preparing this regular survey on recent academic research about Wikipedia, doubling as the Wikimedia Research Newsletter (now in its thirteenth year). Help is welcome to review or summarize the many interesting items listed here, as are suggestions of other new research papers that haven't been covered yet. Regards, HaeB (talk) 07:48, 29 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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