Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom

Welcome to the central hub of The Signpost! This is The Signpost Newsroom, a place where The Signpost team can coordinate with writers, both regular and occasional, and people who have suggestions for topics to cover. See the boxes below if you have suggestions (something for the team to write about in regular columns), proposal/submissions (for articles you want to write/have written yourself), or want to create a pre-formatted draft article in your userspace, with helpful links and easy-to-edit syntax. Discussion occurs both here and in the Signpost Discord. Discussion of upcoming issues is done at the newsroom talk page. For general feedback on The Signpost as a whole, go to our talk page. To learn more about The Signpost, see our about page. The Signpost currently has 5546 articles, 694 issues, and 13494 pages (4390 talk and 9104 non-talk). Links: Current issue: Volume 20, Issue 8 (2024-06-08) · issue page · archive page · single-page edition · single-page talk (create) Suggest a topic To suggest a topic to be covered by The Signpost, simply click on the button below or post to our suggestions page manually. Example of good topics are Editors who have done something extraordinary/wonderful Ongoing discussions Media coverage of Wikipedia Technical news Updates to important tools and templates Wikipedia-related events but many more exist. Email a private tip to the EiC Propose/submit an article If you have an idea for an article you would like to write, you can submit it for review by the editorial team. You can do so by clicking the button below or by posting to our submissions page manually. News articles should be kept relatively neutral and report on a specific piece of actual news. They can be on any topic of interest to Wikipedians, from general events, to technical news. Opinion pieces are evaluate on originality, relevance to Wikipedians, and the quality of the arguments. They should provoke thought and encourage productive discussion. Special pieces cover things that don't fall neatly in the above two categories. If it's interesting to you, it's likely interesting to someone else as well. Check with us and we'll see what can be done! Create a draft To create a draft of an article in your userspace, simply copy-paste {{subst:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Story-preload}} at User:USERNAME/Signpost draft (replacing USERNAME with your own username). You can also use the button below. This will preload a form, which you can then save and edit. We recommend saving without making any edits to the preloaded form before starting to write your article. Calendar: current deadline is highlighted, and current UTC date is 2024-06-09 19:34:03. May 2024 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 29 30 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 01 02 June 2024 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 27 28 29 30 31 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 July 2024 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 01 02 03 04

Submissions

See submissions page.

All submission statuses

Article status

Below here is an automatically generated master list of every page whose title starts with Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Next issue/. It's automatically generated by SDZeroBot every day. Also consult the mockup page for the next issue to make sure all of their titles, images and blurbs are correct.

You should click the button to manually update it and make sure it's current before doing anything serious.

Update newsroom tasks

Also, these categories ():

Ready for copyedit	Copyedit done	Final approval	Cat	#
no	no	no	Signpost drafts, not ready for copyedit	37
yes	no	no	Signpost drafts, ready for copyedit	0
yes	yes	no	Signpost drafts, ready for final check	2
yes	yes	yes	Signpost drafts, ready for publication	0

Note: The below discussions are automatically transcluded from the newsroom talk page; to comment on a draft or submission, go there and create a section with the same name (i.e. "News and notes", "Arbitration report" etc).

From the editor Not started · Content guidance + resources

Arbitration report Not started · Content guidance + resources

Comix Not started · Content guidance + resources

Cobwebs Not started · Content guidance + resources

Discussion report Not started · Content guidance + resources

Disinformation report Not started · Content guidance + resources

Featured content Not started · Content guidance + resources

Next featured content Not started · Content guidance + resources

From the archives Not started · Content guidance + resources

Next from the archives Not started · Content guidance + resources

Gallery Not started · Content guidance + resources

Humour Not started · Content guidance + resources

Essay Not started · Content guidance + resources

Concept Not started · Content guidance + resources

Crossword Not started · Content guidance + resources

In the media Not started · Content guidance + resources

News and notes Not started · Content guidance + resources

News from Diff Not started · Content guidance + resources

Obituary Not started · Content guidance + resources

On the bright side Not started · Content guidance + resources

Op-Ed Not started · Content guidance + resources

Opinion Not started · Content guidance + resources

Recent research Not started · Content guidance + resources

Serendipity Not started · Content guidance + resources

Special report Not started · Content guidance + resources

Hello! First of all, sorry for not being able to help with the up-coming issue: I've been pretty much snowed with other tasks and priorities... Since the first ever election cycle for the newly-established Italian ArbCom has just come to an end, I feel like it would be nice to talk about it next time, so much that I'm considering to write a full Special report about it, by even reaching out to some of the most notable users involved in the process. However, if you feel like we should rather stick to a shorter blurb in the "News and notes" column, I'd be up for it, as well! How do you all feel about this? Oltrepier (talk) 20:26, 29 May 2024 (UTC) We are abjectly grateful to anyone who writes anything at all about the governance of the non-English projects. Sounds interesting, in particular given the Orsini affair and the recent de-stewarding of one of the Italian stewards. Andreas JN466 14:42, 30 May 2024 (UTC) @Jayen466 I'm very happy to read this! So, do you think it deserves its own Special report? Oltrepier (talk) 20:25, 30 May 2024 (UTC) Up to the EiC, but there aren't too many projects that have an ArbCom, so if a major project creates one, yes, I'd say that's worth writing about. I also wonder if User:Gitz6666 might like to contribute some views or info to any article; he is a native speaker. Andreas JN466 22:51, 30 May 2024 (UTC) Thank you for the ping. I'd be happy to help, but I'm afraid that a contribution from me would be perceived as inappropraite, even inflammatory, by many it.wiki users. Notable points about the Italian ArbCom: 1. It has limited purview and doesn't deal with deflagging/desysopping. 2. The arbitrators' opinions/votes and their reasoning are kept secret from the community (see here at No 4), which I find quite extraordinary since arbitrators are elected by the community. I've written my views on this in my blog here (in Italian). Gitz (talk) (contribs) 23:25, 30 May 2024 (UTC) Thanks, Gitz. Oltrepier, Gitz's comments would certainly be worth referring to. How is your Italian? Andreas JN466 14:03, 1 June 2024 (UTC) @Jayen466 Uhhh, it's actually my native language, so... quite good! : D Oltrepier (talk) 07:55, 2 June 2024 (UTC) Superb! I didn't know. Andreas JN466 12:14, 2 June 2024 (UTC) Agree with Andreas that this sounds like a valuable topic to cover. FWIW, regarding the steward election outcome: I posted a brief summary here. Regards, HaeB (talk) 04:38, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

Technology report Not started · Content guidance + resources

Tips and tricks Not started · Content guidance + resources

Traffic report Not started · Content guidance + resources

WikiProject report Not started · Content guidance + resources

WikiConference report Not started · Content guidance + resources

Community view Not started · Content guidance + resources

Forum Not started · Content guidance + resources

In focus Not started · Content guidance + resources

Interview Not started · Content guidance + resources

Update the table now

This table is generated by querying the database replica and is periodically updated by a bot.
Edits made within the table area will be removed on the next update!

No items retrieved.