Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2019-08-30/On the bright side


 * I learned about Royal christening gowns today after seeing the DYK hook on the main page. It's an interesting topic that I didn't even know I was interested in! I loved reading it, the article definitely satisfied my curiousity. Clovermoss (talk) 01:44, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

, thank you for this article. I had to struggle with it at first but became more engrossed as I read on. Guess you wouldn't be able to make this a regular feature for The Signpost? Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 21:57, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
 * As I understand it, it is a regular feature of The Signpost. If I misunderstood, it's up to Pine to decide. Personally, a lot of us - definitely including myself - can get carried away with criticism at times. It is important to look at the problems of Wikipedia, but then we have to ask ourselves "How did Wikipedia become such an outstanding success?" In its own quiet way this column answers that and I hope it will continue to answer that every month. The flip side - how Wikipedia could crash and burn - is explored 3 times this month: In Opinion, Op-Ed, and Community view. I'm glad we have something to keep in balance. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 02:15, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

Hi thank you very much for the comments. I'm planning to continue to write these pieces, although for at least the near future after the week of September 1 my comments will probably be shorter because I have other things that I need or want to do. Kudpung, if you didn't see June's or July's "On the bright side", you may want to have a look at them. -- Pine  (✉)  21:28, 1 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Just today I was doing work on the Mangrove page and learned about Mangrove crabs which I have to say are one of the smallest and cutest things I've seen in a long time. Seeing the photo made me audibly cry out and exclaim at the sheer cuteness and gave me sense of encouragement and extra energy boost to continue working through a process of copy editing that was beginning to feel bland. Much thanks and cheers to User:Charlesjsharp the photographer and uploader. &mdash;The Editor's Apprentice (talk) 17:46, 8 September 2019 (UTC)