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Create Signpost author pages system
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Frostly
Jun 7 2022, 8:25 PM
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Feature summary (what you would like to be able to do and where):
Create an author pages system for The Signpost, listing a picture (similar to Teahouse host pictures), a short bio, and a list of articles that an author has contributed to / has a byline for. Could be automated via Module:Signpost, through adding author metadata. We should automate adding metadata in the publication script, or even better, directly integrate Module:Signpost in draft "next issue" pages to add tags, authors, etc pre-publication, to reduce pre-publication load. Vox example: https://www.vox.com/authors/anna-north

Use case(s) (list the steps that you performed to discover that problem, and describe the actual underlying problem which you want to solve. Do not describe only a solution):
As a reader of The Signpost, I want to see what other articles an author has written, to explore article series. As a contributor to The Signpost, I want to check an author's previous work in order to determine future assignments to provide, or give feedback.

Benefits (why should this be implemented?):
This allows for showcasing the hard work of our authors, and also brings parity to external media outlets.

Event Timeline

This is now possible: WegweiserBot (running https://github.com/jp-x-g/wegweiser ) has refactored all of the old modules to include author information, and me and Mr. Stradivarius have updated the module to allow for sorting by author. This means that it is now possible to generate byline pages for individual authors:

Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Statistics/Authors there are about a thousand distinct byline credits, although many of these are errors (like "24 May") or duplicates (like "Tilman Bayer" and "HaeB" being counted separately). I'm not sure how good of an idea it is to create a thousand author pages, but I have at least made a few, which are at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Author

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