The Signpost
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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 5615 articles, 703 issues, and 13690 pages (4469 talk and 9221 non-talk).

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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 Special:MyPage/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.



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

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Administrator elections debrief

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Does anybody want to volunteer to do a review of Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2024/Debrief? The discussion seems to have wound down a bit. A writeup could take some time, or it could be more off-the-cuff. ☆ Bri (talk) 22:13, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Searching through Signpost archives, the page name should be in sentence case as 'Op-ed' and not 'Op-Ed', so this should be noted before publishing. Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Next issue/Op-ed is ready for copyediting and the transcript can be found here.
Thank you for allowing us to republish the essay, @Tamzin. Would you like to select a cover image for the column? Svampesky (talk) 16:45, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Since it happens to be freely licensed, I don't see how I could not pick File:HobbyTown USA Oshkosh interior under construction 2002 (The Backrooms).jpg. -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (they|xe) 16:56, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I redirected Next issue/Op-Ed to the submitted Op-ed, which might have been a bludgeon. Update the article status table picked up Op-ed and listed them both, so I removed the redirect. ☆ Bri (talk) 18:00, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi all. I was asked to write an opinion by Svampesky and have just realised that since I've never written for Signpost before, I have no idea of the etiquette, formatting or process. I've dropped it in Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Next issue/Opinion - but please feel free to delete / format / reword or whatever wizardry you do as editors. If there's anything you need me to do, let me know. WormTT(talk) 14:50, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the submission. There aren't too many rules for opinion pieces, but I'll sort out the formatting. Svampesky (talk) 16:07, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Op-ed

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Searching through Signpost archives, the page name should be in sentence case as 'Op-ed' and not 'Op-Ed', so this should be noted before publishing. Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Next issue/Op-ed is ready for copyediting and the transcript can be found here.
Thank you for allowing us to republish the essay, @Tamzin. Would you like to select a cover image for the column? Svampesky (talk) 16:45, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Since it happens to be freely licensed, I don't see how I could not pick File:HobbyTown USA Oshkosh interior under construction 2002 (The Backrooms).jpg. -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (they|xe) 16:56, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I redirected Next issue/Op-Ed to the submitted Op-ed, which might have been a bludgeon. Update the article status table picked up Op-ed and listed them both, so I removed the redirect. ☆ Bri (talk) 18:00, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]



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