Articles tagged: fromtheeditor
[edit] From the editor NINETEEN MORE YEARS! NINETEEN MORE YEARS!
2024-01-10
The Signpost can now drink beer and chant slogans in Canada. What slogans should we chant for the next nineteen years?
From the editor A piccy iz worth OVAR 9000!!!11oneone! wordz ^_^
2023-12-24
The debugging will continue until performance improves.
From the editor Beta version of signpost.news now online
2023-08-31
News for the editoriat. Stuff that matters.
From the editor New for the Signpost: Author pages, tag pages, and a decent article search function
2023-02-04
Last issue's vow for "something to show for these efforts" revisited.
From the team We heard zoomers liked fortnights: the biweekly Signpost rides again
2023-01-16
It's not just a phase! Well, maybe it is.
From the editors Rise of the machines, or something
2022-08-01
The future of stuff? Who knows, but two articles were written by a computer this month.
From the Signpost team We stand in solidarity with Ukraine
2022-03-27
How the Signpost is documenting the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: We stand in solidarity with free knowledge.
From the editor Here is the news
2021-12-28
And wishing our readers a healthy, fortunate and bountiful 2022.
From the editor Reaching six million articles is great, but we need a moratorium
2020-01-27
How long can we ignore Wiki-PR?
From the editors Caught with their hands in the cookie jar, again
2019-12-27
You can buy "cleaners" but you might not come away clean.
From the editors Picture that
2019-05-31
The North Face sneaks in advertisements, apologizes after being caught
From the editors Help wanted (still)
2019-02-28
This may be too wordy, verbose and loquacious – and possibly redundant – but as you know, it takes others to check our work, and if there were more people in the Newsroom, we'd be able to double check ourselves and produce a better product for our readership; if you think you are up to it, you are welcome to join us and even copyedit the Editor-in-Chief's article intros.
From the editor The Signpost 's reorganization plan—we need your help
2015-10-28
A call for volunteers.
From the editor Change the world
2015-07-22
We want to take a moment to ask you to consider contributing to the Signpost.
From the editor The Signpost tagging initiative
2015-06-24
Over more than a decade of weekly publication, The Signpost has accumulated an incredibly lengthy and detailed record about the issues, controversies, successes, and failures of the English Wikipedia community and the movement at large.
From the editor Your voice is needed: strategic voting in the WMF election
2015-05-20
The Wikimedia Foundation's bi-annual Board of Trustees election is open for voting. Of the ten seats on the board, three are elected representatives of the global Wikimedia community—you.
From the editor A salute to Pine
2015-03-18
We announce with sadness and gratitude that Signpost publication and newsroom manager Pine will be stepping back to focus on other Wikipedia and Wikimedia-related endeavors.
From the editor A sign of the times—the Signpost revamps its internal structure to make contributing easier
2015-03-04
We received a large amount of feedback in our survey indicating that our readers found the idea of contributing to the Signpost difficult due to our opaque internal structure.
From the editors We want to know what you think!
2015-02-11
Please take this survey about the Signpost.
From the editor An editorial board that includes you
2015-01-28
The editorial board is not complete without you. We are looking for Wikipedians with all kinds of experience levels.
From the editor Introducing your new editors-in-chief
2015-01-21
A letter from departing Signpost editor-in-chief The ed17.
From the editor Looking for new editors-in-chief
2014-12-24
Looking for two people to replace me, both as a safeguard against similar real life changes and to spread the overall workload.
From the editor The Signpost needs your help
2014-10-01
Contributing to the Signpost can be one of the most rewarding things an editor can do.
From the editor The Signpost needs your help
2013-11-20
As I said in August, contributing to the Signpost can be one of the most rewarding things an editor can do. The genre is refreshingly different from that of Wikipedia articles, and can allow writers to use a different range of skills. The need for an independent, volunteer-run Signpost continues to grow, given the increasing complexity and financial expenditures of the global Wikimedia movement, not to mention the English Wikipedia.
From the editor Call for contributors
2013-08-21
Contributing to the Signpost can be one of the most rewarding things an editor can do, and the need for an independent, volunteer-run Signpost continues to grow, given the increasing complexity and financial expenditures of the global Wikimedia movement.
From the editor Signpost developments
2013-06-05
I am excited to announce that a Portuguese-language journal, Correio da Wikipédia has been launched by Vitorvicentevalente. It has just published its third edition, and I encourage readers who speak the language to read and contribute to its already-expansive coverage of the Portuguese Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement.
From the editor Signpost–Wikizine merger; new writers
2013-03-11
Signpost–Wikizine merger: I am pleased to announce that the Signpost and Wikizine have reached an in-principle agreement that will see Wikizine published as a special Signpost section at the beginning of each month.
From the editor Wikipedia, our Colosseum
2012-12-31
In the impersonal, detached Colosseum that is Wikipedia, people find it much easier to put their thumbs down. As such, many people active in the Wikimedia movement have witnessed a precipitous decline in civil discourse. This is far from a new trend, yet many people would agree that it all seemed somehow worse in 2012.
From the editor Signpost expands to Facebook
2012-09-17
We now have a Facebook page at facebook.com/wikisignpost. We invite you to "like" the page and join the discussion there.
From the editor Signpost adapts as news consumption changes
2012-09-10
Thanks to the initiative of Yuvi Panda and Notnarayan, the Signpost now has an Android app, free for download on Google Play. ... but would readers be interested in an iOS app for Apple devices?
From the editor Signpost developments
2012-07-23
The Signpost{{'}}s goal is to provide readers with essential information about the Wikimedia movement and the English Wikipedia – both of which have become large and extremely complex institutions that require timely, balanced and in-depth coverage.