Dispatches

The Featured content dispatch workshop facilitates the production of dispatches for the Wikipedia Signpost, one-off articles on the various vetted processes present on Wikipedia—including the Featured processes, Good articles, Did you know, Peer review, In the news, and so on. They can be tutorials teaching the reader how to do something, tips on using or reaching certain processes or tools, news stories covering major developments in article writing, interviews with writers, etc. Please note that Dispatches maintain a certain level of independence from the Signpost proper and so may be subject to external review.

The goal of the workshop is to act as a staging area for writers looking to contribute Dispatches to The Signpost. We hope that this page will help writers produce excellent articles that help others use and understand the Featured articles processes. Suggesting stories and writing them is open to anyone interested in contributing.

If you are ready to submit a proposal you can use the draft button below to do so.

If you are ready to start writing, feel free to use the button below to being doing so.

Please link your dispatch proposals here using the given formatting. Dispatch submissions are automatically transcluded to the Signpost Newsroom; the necessary formatting is available upon editing the page. Note that the dispatch workshop has always maintained a certain degree of autonomy from the Signpost, so your piece may subject to external vetting.

After publication be sure to add the title of the Dispatch to {{FCDW}}, the template which serves as the Signpost Dispatches index, as below.

Note: The following list is automatically generated using {{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Article list}}. It is complete.

• 2009-01-03, Dispatches: Dispatches: Featured list writers
• 2009-01-10, Dispatches: Dispatches: December-themed Main Page
• 2009-01-17, Dispatches: Dispatches: Featured article writers—the 2008 leaders
• 2009-01-24, Dispatches: Dispatches: Reviewing featured picture candidates
• 2009-01-31, Dispatches: Dispatches: In the news
• 2009-02-08, Dispatches: Dispatches: April Fools 2009 mainpage
• 2009-02-16, Dispatches: How busy was 2008?
• 2009-02-23, Dispatches: Hundredth Featured sound approaches
• 2009-03-02, Dispatches: WikiProject Ships Featured topic and Good topics
• 2009-03-09, Dispatches: 100 Featured sounds milestone
• 2009-03-16, Dispatches: New FAC and FAR appointments
• 2009-04-06, Dispatches: New FAC and FAR nomination process
• 2009-04-13, Dispatches: Let's get serious about plagiarism
• 2009-04-20, Dispatches: Valued pictures
• 2009-05-04, Dispatches: Re-examining Featured lists
• 2009-05-11, Dispatches: WikiProject Birds reaches an FA milestone
• 2009-10-12, Dispatches: Sounds
• 2009-11-02, Dispatches: Wikipedia remembers the Wall
• 2010-02-08, Dispatches: Fewer reviewers in 2009
• 2010-03-15, Dispatches: GA Sweeps end
• 2010-09-06, Dispatches: Tools, part 1: References, external links, categories and size
• 2010-09-20, Dispatches: Tools, part 2: Internal links and page histories
• 2010-10-11, Dispatches: Tools, part 3: Style tools and wikEd
• 2010-10-18, Dispatches: Common issues seen in Peer review
• 2010-11-15, Dispatches: A guide to the Good Article Review Process
• 2014-10-01, Dispatches: Let's get serious about plagiarism