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Please propose Signpost stories you want to write (or have already begun writing). Submitted stories are published subject to the approval of the Editor-in-Chief, JPxG. We value the involvement of Wikipedians, and appreciate your submissions. If you have ideas or questions that don't fit neatly into this framework, don't hesitate to address us on our user talk pages, by email, or as a last resort, on the general Signpost talk page.

The Signpost's content guidelines may be useful to aspiring writers. We encourage you to contact us early in the process of developing a story. Different writers have varying levels of interest in editorial input, and we pride ourselves on finding the right balance with each writer; but in most cases, a brief discussion early on can help all parties shape our expectations, and can help produce a strong finished piece. We aim to support Wikimedians wishing to share news with their peers, and look forward to working with you.

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• Submission: User:Royiswariii/Signpost Opinion1
• Column: Opinion
• Author: Royiswariii
• Discussion:
  This is my first opinion here on The SignPost, I wrote this to express my feelings how they are recognizable now, this includes on being number 1 most popular Wikipedia article in Filipino musicians in 2024. I added who they are, how they formed, the rising of girl group, controversy and my final thoughts or my "real" commentary. Royiswariii Talk! 05:24, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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• Submission: User:NuclearSpuds/Lab/PissContest
• Column: Comix
• Author: NuclearSpuds
• Discussion:
  I don't even know if you take submissions for these but I enjoy the stuff that gets posted in the Comix column and wanted to give it a shot myself. Hope you enjoy. ^📻NuclearSpuds_🎙️ 02:21, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This rips, will queue it up. jp×g🗯️ 07:15, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

🙏 ^📻NuclearSpuds_🎙️ 08:30, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done @NuclearSpuds: Queued up, thanks for the submission! jp×g🗯️ 00:49, 2 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Submission: User:NuclearSpuds/Lab/Bite
• Column: Comix
• Author: NuclearSpuds
• Discussion:
  Here’s another comic. I found the image on commons and couldn’t not do something with it. I’m open to titles; I was thinking something along the lines of WP:BITE. ^📻NuclearSpuds_🎙️ 19:55, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This rips, will queue it up. jp×g🗯️ 07:15, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Submission: User:Vinizex94/Signpost Letter1
• Column: News
• Author: Vinizex94
• Discussion:
  Justin Knapp, known by his username Koavf and recognized as the first editor to reach 1 million edits on English Wikipedia, is currently serving an indefinite ban from editing as of July 2025. The block follows a history of multiple sanctions due to persistent disruptive and combative behavior. This submission is provided for coverage in the Signpost News column. This is my first letter here in the Signpost. Sure hope that it'll make the cut. Vinizex94🌍 15:07, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your contribution! This does seem like potentially noteworthy information. However, this ban already dates from July 2024 (not 2025), i.e. over a year ago, so it does not quite appear to be in scope for the Signpost at this point (see also the content guidance page). Regards, HaeB (talk) 06:37, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, thanks for considering the letter. Vinizex94🌍 12:26, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Submission: User:Theleekycauldron/Some disputes aren't worth it
• Column: Essays
• Author: Theleekycauldron
• Discussion:
  This essay is about the tendency of Wikipedians to waste a lot of time and energy on resolving questions that don't really matter to readers, sometimes with explosive results like the loss of experienced editors. Before you participate in a dispute, you should think about whether the readers actually have a stake in the result, or if it's just minutia or debate for the sake of debate. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 04:05, 15 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Theleekycauldron: Great -- queued for next issue. jp×g🗯️ 01:08, 2 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Submission: User:NuclearSpuds/Lab/Notability
• Column: Comix
• Author: NuclearSpuds
• Discussion:
  Woke in a cold sweat and had to return to Wikipedia to drop these comics that were sitting in my user pages. ^📻NuclearSpuds_🎙️ 10:59, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Formatted as a draft and staged, thanks. jp×g🗯️ 01:39, 10 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Submission: User:NuclearSpuds/Lab/Madness
• Column: Comix
• Author: NuclearSpuds
• Discussion:
  I'm entertained by myself and hopefully you will be too. ^📻NuclearSpuds_🎙️ 11:04, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Formatted as a draft and staged, thanks. jp×g🗯️ 01:39, 10 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi JPxG, thanks for picking up my submissions. Do you know what’s happened to this one? It shows a dead link. ^📻NuclearSpuds_🎙️ 21:48, 13 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Submission: User:MallardTV/We say Wikipedia isn't a battleground. So why does it feel like one?
• Column: Opinion
• Author: MallardTV
• Discussion:
  This is my opinion, and I really wouldn't be surprised if some people don't share it.

MallardTV ^{Talk to me!} 20:01, 11 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Submission: The Wikimedia Foundation has published its audit report covering the period from July 2024 - June 2025. Highlights include investments in product and technology, funding advocacy and awareness for Wikimedia projects, limited internal expense growth, and improved revenue diversification. Reporting on Wikimedia Enterprise is included in the report. More information is available on Diff.
• Column: News and Notes
• Author: ELappen_(WMF)
• Discussion:
  Andreas - I wanted to pitch this here in case it's of interest. I've suggested a simple bullet for News and Notes, so I added proposed text to the submission field above rather than linking to a separate page. Happy to discuss! --ELappen (WMF) (talk) 21:53, 26 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the heads-up, @ELappen (WMF)! @JPxG:: Am adding this to N&N. Best, Andreas JN466 22:49, 26 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Submission: Wikipedia turns 25 on January 15, and there will be a big virtual birthday party to celebrate. The party will include trivia, prizes, musical performances, data visualization, editor spotlights, guest appearances and more. Read more and register on Meta-Wiki. You can also check out the other events happening to celebrate this milestone throughout the year.
• Column: News and Notes
• Author: ELappen_(WMF)
• Discussion: JPxG and Smallbones - hoping to add this (or some version of it) as a bullet to N&N for the upcoming issue, so that people who are interested have enough time to plan. Would this work?

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• Submision: User:Urban Versis 32/sandbox/Signpost/3
• Column: Tips and tricks
• Author: Urban Versis 32
• Discussion: This article would be a 1 year review of my goal to add short descriptions to all articles lacking one. The article was published February 27, 2025 so ideally this article would come out around that time this year. I wanted to put forth the article submission early to ensure it can come out in this time frame.

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• Submission: User:Josve05a/VRTdraft
• Column: TDB (possibly "Special report", "Essay", or "WikiProject"?)
• Author: Josve05a
• Discussion:
  This draft article provides an in-depth look at the Volunteer Response Team (VRT), Wikipedia's volunteer-run email response system. It explains what kinds of emails VRT handles (from copyright permissions and identity verification to article subject requests, bias complaints, and more), the challenges volunteers face, the limits of VRT's role, and how it serves as Wikipedia's de facto public-facing "customer service". The piece is based on firsthand experience as a VRT volunteer and aims to raise awareness among editors about this often-invisible but important part of the project. Ready for review/copyedit. Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 22:18, 7 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Courtesy ping to Smallbones as a follow-up from earlier. Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 22:41, 7 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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• Submission: User:Femke/Signpost draft
• Column: TDB
• Author: Femke
• Discussion:
  This piece is about the WP:WikiProject Medicine/Vital Signs 2026, which seeks to bring all top-importance articles within the WikiProject up to B-class or above. I'm also touching on why it's important to edit these vital articles for the health of the community, as they can bring in readers and potential editors by the droves, but only if they pass Google's SEO test and are up-to-date. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 21:27, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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• Submission: User:RAdimer-WMF/Resource support signpost draft
• Column: Not sure where is best suited
• Authors: HouseBlaster and RAdimer-WMF
• Discussion:
  This piece is about the new resource support pilot! Where WMF buys volunteers books. Quite based. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 20:18, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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• Submission: User:Pavan Santhosh (OKI)/Signpost Opinion1
• Column: Newsroom
• Author: Pavan Santhosh (OKI)
• Discussion: Madhav Gadgil was a proponent of Wikimedia movement in India. He was among the very few Indian public intellectuals of his stature to engage directly with the Wikimedia movement, participating in its outreach and other activities.
  This piece is about him as he recently passed away. Pavan Santhosh (OKI) (talk) 11:33, 14 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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• Submission: User:Lijil/AI increases the digital knowledge divide
• Column: Opinion
• Author: Lijil
• Discussion:AI slop is flooding the internet, and it is harder and harder to find reliable information. The digital divide of the future will be between people who can afford to pay for high quality, fact-checked content, and people who only have access to cheap, AI-generated texts full of hallucinations, promotional content and scams. In this world, the Wikipedia must remain a reliable and trustworthy source that is free to all users. To stay reliable, the Wikipedia has to keep relying on human editing, because LLMs are not reliable and they are not accountable for the words they generate. Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2026-01-15/Special report argues that using LLMs will help Wikipedia serve the Global South better. I disagree - to use LLMs means we will lower quality to the extent that the Wikipedia will lose its role as a reliable encyclopedia accessible to anyone. I'm both a Wikipedia editor and a professor doing research on LLMs and their cultural effect so would like to write something about this if it seems suitable for the Signpost. Lijil (talk) 20:33, 18 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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• Submission: User:7804j/OKA: grants for translators assisted by LLMs
• Column: Opinion
• Author: 7804j
• Discussion: We'd like to share OKA's story — how we went from a small experiment in 2022 to coordinating translation work across 80+ editors who published 13k+ articles, what we've learned (sometimes the hard way) from community feedback, and what our recent empirical study revealed about which LLM models actually work well for translation versus which ones just make things worse. Recent ANI discussions surfaced real concerns about our quality control processes, and we want to walk through how we're addressing those issues, including our upcoming peer review system. 7804j (talk) 20:42, 27 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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• Submission: User:MSincccc/The pursuit of a button
• Column: Essays
• Author: MSincccc
• Discussion:
  An essay which reflects on my past and present tryst with thank-button clicks, and briefly outlines part of my purpose on the English Wikipedia. MSincccc (talk) 17:31, 28 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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• Submission: User:Czarking0/sandbox
• Column: Special?
• Author: Czarking0
• Discussion: I wanted to have something about the annual plan. I think the community would prefer an independent reporting to a straight up republican of what the WMF wants to say. This is my take on something like a News from the WMF but independently made. It is a start as I expect the conversation to evolve more before publication.Czarking0 (talk) 21:20, 31 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]