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::::Appreciate your reply, but my point above was exactly that this is a major content decision (and one affecting authors - and interested readers! - who may not be interested in following the Signpost's technical side). In that repsect, /Technical was the wrong place for such discussions (at least without announcing them in more content-focused locations too, which I don't recall seeing at the time).
::::As for the specific content examples you're raising: Yes, I'm sure there were a lot of uncontroversial fixes among these mass changes, but also a lot of deliberate choices being altered. (I wasn't mainly thinking about my own bylines here, but apart from nonprinting characters etc., these were also not accidentally different.) Lastly, I would recommend to distinguish between building a more systematic, consistent way for handling bylines in future editions (great!) and retroactively changing reader-facing content in old issues. Regards, [[User:HaeB|HaeB]] ([[User talk:HaeB|talk]]) 00:02, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
== JSON for the indices ==
{{ping|Mr. Stradivarius}} Per [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#mw.loadJsonData this], it's now possible to have Lua modules load JSON rather than Lua tables. I think this would be a lot better to work with (i.e. all utilities wouldn't have to constantly serialize and deserialize Lua tables using the idiosyncratic whitespace/indentation/etc format). Additionally, a page with the JSON content model would be constrained and sanitized by MediaWiki, rather than a Lua table which can just have wrong stuff in it etc. I would like to write some more utilities to work with these indices but the Lua tables are kind of an awkward sticking point. What would the procedure be for converting them? I would be able to write patches for the Signpost tagger and Wegweiser (and may be able to help with the Lua module itself). <b style="font-family: monospace; color:#E35BD8">[[User:JPxG|<b style="color:#029D74">jp</b>]]×[[Special:Contributions/JPxG|<b style="color: #029D74">g</b>]][[User talk:JPxG|🗯️]]</b> 23:52, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
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