There are a number of articles which displays a None publishing date

[FireBoyAJ24]

The Problem?

On https://ubyssey.ca/archive/?order=oldest you can find that a number of articles have no date of issue.

What actually happened?

There are two fields, self.explicit_published_at (We made) and self.first_published_at (from Wagtail Pages model). The None published date on the article page issue comes from the fact that some how the explicit_published_at field was able to pass the checks whether the field is none, and display a none published date. The articles that display a none also has there self.first_published_at as none which is not possible unless we did not publish the articles. However, after checking the Ubyssey admin, we have found that these articles have been published and have some changes in them.

What we can do?

We can manually update the articles with the latest date when the pages have been updated. However, considering how wide spread the issue is we need to further investigate the possibilities of a migration error from Dispatch as some of the articles come around that time.

[FireBoyAJ24]

This core issue causes #1104

[SamuelmdLow]

I concluded that these articles were likely unpublished articles that got set to live after a migrations between CMSs. I asked the editors if I could mass unpublish them by running an sql command on the database. They thought some might have been legitimately published though so instead I set them all the "no index". I'm still suspicious that none of these articles were actually meant to published though.

[SamuelmdLow]

This is a list of all these articles (you can only access it with your Ubyssey email)