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 SignpostDiscord.
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 5934 articles, 734 issues, and 14608 pages (4821 talk and 9787 non-talk).
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
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.
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.
Note: There are also a bunch of things in /Drafts and /Next next issue. When prepping an issue, make sure that articles in this expand-o-box are accounted for.
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).
Hi JPxG, I have boldly written content for this issue's essay's section. I am fine with moving my essay to a different section or postponing this if there are other needs to use this essay section. If my essay needs to be postponed then I would be fine with you copying my content to a new page in my user space, then replacing my content on the Signpost page. Thanks, ༄ᨒ𖠰 Pine(✉)22:58, 17 October 2026 (UTC)reply
Note to the person who is acting EIC for the upcoming publication: unless I change this draft to say that copyediting is complete, please assume that this is not ready for publication. I may not have time to improve this essay before the upcoming publication deadline, and I may want to postpone this to a later Signpost issue. ༄ᨒ𖠰 Pine(✉)04:54, 27 October 2026 (UTC)reply
Thanks. This is now targeted to issue 15. Meeting optimization is an evergreen topic, and I may move this essay to a page in my userspace if the essay doesn't get published in issue in 15. ༄ᨒ𖠰 Pine(✉)05:59, 3 November 2026 (UTC)reply
WikiProject United States' 20,000 Challenge just passed the ten year mark and is going strong. Since I'm a participant I would prefer someone else to evaluate whether it is newsworthy. ☆ Bri (talk) 20:36, 2 November 2026 (UTC)reply
For issue 22:15, I intend to make a Reflections piece which invites reader participation in the comments regarding personal role models. This is partly inspired by the passing of the much-admired actor Patrick Stewart, and partially by three annual events which will happen this year on 11 November: Armistice Day, Veterans Day in the United States, and Remembrance Day in British Commonwealth states.
Hi Pine. I was a nice article. It's also many years ago and I've moved on. I still read every issue but nowadays I don't find the newspaper as compelling reading as it once was, but Bri and Smallbones have amazing staying power and I'm sure they and the current editorial team will welcome another contribution from you. I'll pop in and take a sneak peek before it's published. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 11:23, 3 November 2026 (UTC)reply
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 | Query runtime: 0.01 s | Last updated: 06:25, 5 November 2026 (UTC)
