Hello from the editors of The Signpost! Wikipedia is the encyclopedia which anyone can edit, and The Signpost is the official newspaper of the Wikipedia community. This is a place where you are invited to share news, as well as your own views, on the events and issues affecting the way people read and edit the encyclopedia. A new development we would like to share this time is that The Signpost is only accepting submissions which were entirely created by humans and not by artificial intelligence. If you are a human writer who feels strongly about this for any reason, then we invite you to submit an opinion piece sharing your views at The Signpost newsroom submission desk.

Should they wish to share user perspectives and news in The Signpost, Wikipedians can choose either to focus on content creation, or on the administration of the newspaper.

If you have an article or any interesting views to share, then briefly describe your idea in a sentence or two at the submissions desk, so you can get some feedback from us on when and how you can develop your article further. You can also help out as an editor, in order to make writing submissions more accessible to everyone. Plus, if you have a hot take on a news story, Wikipedia community policy discussion, or Arbitration Committee ruling, then show gratitude for your right of self-expression by casting a submission here. Whatever you are doing on Wikipedia, regardless of how experienced or self-confident you are, remember that there are many other Wikipedians who want to hear you tell your stories. Just please do it without AI, and as usual, be nice to other people.

On the other hand, if you would like to join in the administration of The Signpost, then thanks for preserving journalism: we encourage you to jump in by posting at our Newsroom's talk page. Every major role in place in any conventional publishing house also exists in The Signpost, and you are invited to serve in any of those roles. Helpful options include the following:

• Identifying interesting people doing interesting things on Wikimedia platforms, then recruiting them to make a submission about their project for publication. Discussion reports and updates from WikiProjects are always in demand.
• Identifying the most heated controversies in Wikipedia discussion forums, and coordinating participants to summarize those in The Signpost's "News and Notes" column.
• Watching for external media mentions in off-wiki journalism, and summarizing any one of those in The Signpost's "In the media" column.
• Joining the editorial teams putting together any of Signpost's other regular columns, including the Traffic Report, Featured Content, Arbitration Report, Research Report, or any other column.
• Encouraging and supporting people who make submissions for publication.
• Joining in the editorial discussions on the Newsroom's talk page.
• Standing by to give opinion when The Signpost has one of its frequent ethical dilemmas, like how to react to the technological horror of the month, or which side to take in a diatribe, or more generally, how to manage situations where we need to get news out and it is impossible to do it without some harm to someone.

Having more editors in the Newsroom, even if you only contribute just once a year, gives more stability to The Signpost in a time when journalism is under existential threat. If unforeseen crisis ever occurs and we lose The Signpost as an information channel designed to share news by Wikipedians, for Wikipedians, then it could happen that we will not be able to establish a replacement. The Wikipedia community includes many social networks for information sharing, and there are also off-wiki private communication forums. The Wikimedia Foundation publishes its own statements from a corporate and foundation perspective. However, as the English Wikipedia article for The Signpost describes, since 2005 this newspaper has been the channel by means of which Wikipedia editors share news for fun and also formalize whatever common, shared knowledge we want to establish in the public record. The Signpost routinely encounters all of the social and ethical decisions which occur in journalism, plus all the additional tough decisions which happen in Very Large Online Platforms (VLOP). Please remember Wikipedia's position in society: we are the only non-profit VLOP, the only VLOP which is self-governed by its own user community, and the only VLOP which openly discusses its own social and ethical dilemmas publicly with the world.

At this time, given the state of technology and society, we are fortunate to have community publications like the The Signpost, and for this reason, its editors need to enforce the hard and practical decision to keep this newspaper for humans, by humans, and feeling human. So please, as a human with your own brain and hands, write every single word in any submission you make to The Signpost or any comment that you bring to the Newsroom. Thanks.