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How can WikiProjects be improved when the Signpost no longer publishes a dedicated column each week about the topic -- something it stopped doing after User:Mabeenot left? -- Ottawahitech 15:23, 22 January 2015‎
- @Ottawahitech: In fairness, Rcsprinter has completed a column on most weeks in recent months. That we don't have one this week is an anomaly. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 16:29, 22 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  - @The ed17: This is not a criticism of anyone at wp:Signpost. I am just sad to see an old tradition dying at Wikipedia. For example: what happened to the page at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Series/WikiProject report -- it use to have a compact list of all WikiProjects covered by the Signpost over the years? Ottawahitech (talk) 15:22, 23 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I look forward to learning your findings, James! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 15:33, 22 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
You know what would help WikiProjects revive? A checkbox for every item on your watchlist to get email when that article is changed, so it's not an all-or-nothing proposition. EllenCT (talk) 17:47, 23 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- +1 - Wikipedia's community signaling mechanisms are generations behind the state of the art, and it's not that we don't have the brainpower or technical chops to do it. We need to get over the attitude of WP:NOTSOCIALNETWORK, which I feel has created a fear of putting in anything that resembles useful notifications you see in Facebook, Quora or other modern sites. Sadly, I think the Visual Editor and Media Viewer tensions make any kind of innovation in this area pretty bleak. Here are some of my thoughts on why WikiProjects are part of a confusing landscape for editors, at the WikProjectX page. -- Fuzheado | Talk 16:34, 28 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Fuzheado: Thanks for the link above to you toughts, however, it does not look like anyone is still around to view it. Ottawahitech (talk) 15:28, 4 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]