Optional: write a lede — not necessarily a WP:LEAD. Interesting > encyclopedic.

San Francisco-based outlet KQED reported U.S.-based Wikimedia staff's demand for recognition of their Wiki Workers United U.S. (WWU) union:

The staff who run the platform say they want a stronger voice in their workplace, better job protections and an end to common practices that make life "precarious for everyday workers" according to Jeremy Bernick, one of the union organizers.

WWU asked for an answer from the WMF by July 24, i.e. before the end of the Wikimania conference. According to Law360, which also covered the recognition demand, the union is organizing with the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and aims to represent about 235 U.S. employees. WWU-UK, the UK branch of Wiki Workers United, sought voluntary recognition from the Foundation in June (see press release).

A press release from CWA said recent events at the Wikimedia Foundation had led to drastically increased concerns regarding transparency, trust, the organization's future, and leadership's commitment to the free knowledge movement.

Union organizer Jeremy Bernick told KQED that the union represented WMF employees' third and so far most advanced attempt at unionizing, highlighting the Trump administration's attacks on public media, the cost of living crisis and concerns about artificial intelligence as some of the factors driving more staff toward unionization.

As 404 Media's Jason Koebler reported on July 27, the WMF declined to recognize the union, waiting until after the end of the Wikimania conference to make its decision public. For further developments, see this issue's News and notes. – AK

Sed quia non numquam eius modi tempora incidunt, ut labore et dolore magnam aliquam quaerat voluptatem. Ut enim ad minima veniam, quis nostrum exercitationem ullam corporis suscipit laboriosam, nisi ut aliquid ex ea commodi consequatur? Quis autem vel eum iure reprehenderit, qui in ea voluptate velit esse, quam nihil molestiae consequatur, vel illum, qui dolorem eum fugiat, quo voluptas nulla pariatur?

• Subtitle: Wikipedia doesn't have enough cryptocurrency articles because of its stringent notability policies, says deprecated cryptocurrency media company CoinDesk [1]
• Editors feel unsafe, receive "condescending" and "exclusionary" treatment: Aaron Bandler reports for the Jerusalem News Syndicate on another study by Israeli academic Shlomit Aharoni Lir.
• Guess the real fake article: Buzzfeed has a quiz that lists 20 triplets of purported Wikipedia articles, two of which are actual articles with one being a fake. Presumably, this means current articles. This reporter could only find 10 of the fakes, even though I could easily identify 16 of the real articles. Just unlucky, I guess! Let us know how you scored in the comments section. Probability professors are also invited to give the expected number of correct guesses as a function of the number of current articles known to be real, given complete ignorance of the fake articles, a random distribution of the known articles, etc. S
• This is wildly curious: Seattle isn't soley Starbucks and software; also pseudoscience: Discovery Institute blogger, summarizing The Federalist critique of the siteban received by Larry Sanger (see last issue), finds people still reading Wikipedia "beyond curious" and "a wildly Woke [sic] example of what can go wrong in an information society" [2]
• Wikimedians of the year (from Diff): https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/07/22/meet-the-wikimedians-of-the-year-2026/ started a News from Diff for this
• Battling health disinformation: The Genetic Literacy Project features an interview with Dr. Netha Hussain, who "has been part of the last line of defense against public health disinformation on Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia".
• The New York Times visits a World Cup focused editing meet-up in NYC: Published on July 17, 2026 in the The Athletic, the New York Times' sports journalism department, Rebecca Tauber's article: Welcome to the high-stakes universe of World Cup Wikipedia editing covers the Wiki Loves Fútbol campaign and includes quotes from: Kunal Mehta, Pacita Rudder, Danilo Mendonça, and Jordan Trujillo. Tauber stopped by Prime Produce for a FIFA World Cup focused event, Foundation and Friends' Free Culture / Wiki Loves Fútbol Friday on July 10, hosted by Wikimedia NYC and WikiLatinos. – W540
• https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/416570/company-uses-wikipedia-views-to-measure-tv-show-po.html
• The San Francisco Chronicle investigates the importance of Wikipedia in the AI heavy landscape of the mid-2020s: Published July 14, 2026, Thomas Lee's article: In the age of AI slop and misinformation, we need Wikipedia more than ever emphasis the importance and challenges Wikipedia faces in 2026 and beyond. Lee investigates the cannibalization of Wikipedia's content by AI, interviews Marshall Miller, looks into the effect that the drop of page views has had on fundraising, explains some volunteer outreach programs, and also breaks down Wikimedia Enterprise. – W540
• Subtitle: https://racketmn.com/a-wikipedia-loving-but-wikipedian-intimidated-dork-explores-the-minnesota-wiknic
• Subtitle: https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/business/2026-07-19-pics-r400m-blunder-arbitrators-used-wikipedia-to-settle-lanseria-dispute/
• Subtitle:
• Subtitle:
• Subtitle:

This page is a draft for the next issue of the Signpost. Below is some helpful code that will help you write and format a Signpost draft. If it's blank, you can fill out a template by copy-pasting this in and pressing 'publish changes': {{subst:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Story-preload}}

Images and Galleries

Sidebar images To put an image in your article, use the following template (link): I understand the primacy of pure feeling in creative art. {{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Filler image-v2 |size = 300px |fullwidth = no |alt = TKTK |caption = |image = }} This will create the file on the right. Keep the 300px in most cases. If writing a 'full width' article, change |fullwidth=no to |fullwidth=yes. Inline images Placing {{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Inline image |size = 300px |align = center |alt = TKTK |caption = |image = }} (link) will instead create an inline image like below The significant thing is feeling, as such, quite apart from the environment in which it is called forth. Galleries To create a gallery, use the following <gallery style="float:right;" mode=packed | heights=200px> |TKTK |TKTK </gallery> Each line inside the tags should be formatted like File:Whatever.jpg|Caption). This creates: Art no longer cares to serve the state and religion, it no longer wishes to illustrate the history of manners. It wants to have nothing further to do with the object as such, and believes that it can exist in and for itself. If you want it centered, remove tstyle="float:right;" from the first line.

{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Filler quote-v2
 |author    = 
 |source    = 
 |fullwidth = 
 |text      = 
}}

{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Quote
 |source    = 
 |author    = 
 |text      = 
}}

{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/block quote
 |text      = 
 |by        = 
 |ts        = 
 |oldid     = 
 |source    = 
}}

{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Filler frame-v2
 |1         = Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
 |caption   = A caption
 |fullwidth = no
}}

{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-block-end-v2}}
{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-block-start-v2|fullwidth=yes}}

{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-block-end-v2}}
{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-block-start-v2|fullwidth=no}}

Article series

To add a series of 'related articles' your article, use the following code Related articles Visual Editor Five, ten, and fifteen years ago 1 January 2023 VisualEditor, endowment, science, and news in brief 5 August 2015 HTTPS-only rollout completed, proposal to enable VisualEditor for new accounts 17 June 2015 VisualEditor and MediaWiki updates 29 April 2015 Security issue fixed; VisualEditor changes 4 February 2015 More articles Draft namespace, VisualEditor meetings 25 December 2013 Sockpuppet investigations, VisualEditor, Wikidata's birthday, and more 6 November 2013 Last call for Wiki Loves Monuments; Community–WMF tension over VisualEditor 25 September 2013 Making Wikipedia more accessible 4 September 2013 Gallery improvements launch on Wikipedia 28 August 2013 The VisualEditor Beta and the path to change 31 July 2013 Defining consensus; VisualEditor default state; expert and layperson terms in article titles 31 July 2013 VisualEditor in midst of game-changing deployment series 3 July 2013 VisualEditor will "change world history" 12 June 2013 VisualEditor, elections, bots, and more 12 June 2013 The Visual Editor: Where are we now, and where are we headed? 25 March 2013 Visual Editor "on schedule" for July rollout 18 March 2013 Looking ahead to 2013 7 January 2013 The new Visual Editor gets a bit more visual 10 December 2012 Second Visual Editor prototype launches 25 June 2012 Visual editor demo launched, hailed as "most important change to our user experience ... ever"; but elsewhere over-hasty deployments criticised 19 December 2011 Full steam ahead on Visual Editor, the avoidance of lock-breaking and 1.18b1 release 7 November 2011 {{Signpost series |type = sidebar-v2 |tag = VisualEditor |seriestitle = Visual Editor |fullwidth = no }} or {{Signpost series |type = sidebar-v2 |tag = VisualEditor |seriestitle = Visual Editor |fullwidth = yes }} will create the sidebar on the right. If writing a 'full width' article, change |fullwidth=no to |fullwidth=yes. A partial list of valid |tag= parameters can be found at here and will decide the list of articles presented. |seriestitle= is the title that will appear below 'Related articles' in the box. Alternatively, you can use {{Signpost series |type = inline |tag = VisualEditor |tag_name = visual editor |tag_pretext = the }} at the end of an article to create For more Signpost coverage on the visual editor see our visual editor series. If you think a topic would make a good series, but you don't see a tag for it, or that all the articles in a series seem 'old', ask for help at the WT:NEWSROOM. Many more tags exist, but they haven't been documented yet.