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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

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1. 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
   1. FYI Bri I have boldly retitled and reformatted this section to align it with the upcoming N&N. ༄ᨒ𖠰 Pine (✉) 05:32, 3 November 2026 (UTC)reply

       Done Oltrepier (talk) 13:51, 14 November 2026 (UTC)reply

2. Wikidata's birthday may be worth covering, as mentioned above by Oltrepier. ༄ᨒ𖠰 Pine (✉) 05:32, 3 November 2026 (UTC)reply
3. I'll also throw in a brief article about a recent controversy over at the Italian Wikipedia, which includes a couple of new bans (for different reasons) and has needed intervention from the local ArbCom. More to come soon. Oltrepier (talk) 21:12, 6 November 2026 (UTC)reply
4. @Oltrepier and Bri: would one of you please mention the upcoming Wikimedia Café session in the Notes section of N&N? A description provided by me is in this diff. Thanks, ༄ᨒ𖠰 Pine (✉) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pine (talk • contribs) 00:49, 12 November 2026 (UTC)reply

    Done I've added this last night! I'll try to work on the rest of the column now. : ) Oltrepier (talk) 13:35, 14 November 2026 (UTC)reply

5. Apparently, a Russian tribunal has fined the Wikimedia Foundation (once more) for refusing to censor its content and spreading "LGBT propaganda". Smallbones Is anybody able to verify this? Oltrepier (talk) 20:35, 13 November 2026 (UTC)reply
6. Can someone do a short write-up on the ACE disqualification debacle? I'd write it myself but I think I might be a bit too involved in this one. QuicoleJR (talk|edits) 17:10, 14 November 2026 (UTC)reply

1. Perhaps Oltrepier could cover the United States 20,000 challenge if Oltrepier thinks that it's newsworthy, and Bri could cover Wikidata's birthday. What do you both think? ༄ᨒ𖠰 Pine (✉) 05:32, 3 November 2026 (UTC)reply

   @Pine Sounds good to me! Oltrepier (talk) 12:42, 3 November 2026 (UTC)reply

 Done got the Wikidata birthday item ☆ Bri (talk) 22:41, 3 November 2026 (UTC)reply

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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.

For some Signpost historical precedent, see Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom/Archive 3. Bri and Kudpung, you may remember that discussion. I was grateful to write the piece.

༄ᨒ𖠰 Pine (✉) 05:55, 3 November 2026 (UTC)reply

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

May I suggest a suitable soundtrack for your article? Oltrepier (talk) 12:46, 3 November 2026 (UTC)reply

Hey, we need more music videos! I'll just mention that HaeB has some pretty good staying power as well. We do sort of set ourselves up as targets here sometimes so staying power might just reflect that we've got mores sass than sense Smallbones_(smalltalk) 14:27, 3 November 2026 (UTC)reply

I'd just run into that song for the first time. Just to make sure that everybody understands that I was referring to myself, here's another. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 14:39, 3 November 2026 (UTC)reply

I thought Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2018-12-01/Reflections was a fine piece and would like to see another like it. BTW you can see from my user page that an ancestor was a combatant in WWI. ☆ Bri (talk) 18:18, 3 November 2026 (UTC)reply

I should read the entire thread before I comment. If Pine wants to we could run Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2018-12-01/Reflections as a From the archives piece. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 20:38, 3 November 2026 (UTC)reply

@Smallbones: thanks, that's a good suggestion for an option. I will consider it. ༄ᨒ𖠰 Pine (✉) 00:51, 12 November 2026 (UTC)reply

@Kudpung, Bri, Smallbones, and Oltrepier: I completed a draft of Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Next issue/Reflections which is ready for copyediting, but more so than usual, I would appreciate any feedback about the content. I am open to suggestions. Thanks, ༄ᨒ𖠰 Pine (✉) 21:03, 14 November 2026 (UTC)reply

This is rather different from what I was expecting. I can't think of anything I would change. I realise it's your personal message to the readers but if I were still on the editorial team I would have no hesitation in including it. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 21:43, 14 November 2026 (UTC)reply

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@Mitchsavl, thank you for covering the Wishlist! As I work on this project, may I provide some further details?

The submission period ends quite soon, on November 8. Any wish posted after this date will be considered for the next round, next year.

This year, triage will occur over 2 weeks this November (not 4), through a cooperation between volunteers and WMF staff. This working group will gather again early February for 2 weeks to think about the post-vote plan. The total is 4 weeks indeed, but for separated inputs. Thanks to your report, I updated the Wishlist documentation to make this point clearer.

"The first voting period is currently expected to be in January", actually between January 8 and 24.

Project families are defined at the submission step, by the submitter. It could be reviewed during the triage process, but not during the post-vote process. Again, this is the first time this workflow is implemented and we will learn while walking it. :)

During the triage period, the working group will provide a first evaluation of the quantity of work, the "wish size", a key driver. The selection of wishes will be a combination of "Project families", wish size and votes.

The Lead Program Manager for the Wishlist was announced in September. It is BGustafson-WMF.

If you have any question, please let me know! Trizek_(WMF) (talk) 11:21, 4 November 2026 (UTC)reply

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I've noticed that both the "In focus" column and the "Special report" column are still up for grabs on this issue, so maybe this is be the perfect opportunity to write an article to explain PHP2Shell and its effects on Wikipedia, as we previously discussed.

I think it could feature a short introduction explaining what PHP is, then an explanation of the incidents, and finally a conclusion about the potential effects of these vulnerabilities. I should be able to help with the first section, as I collected a few useful sources in the past few weeks.

Does it sound like a good idea? And who wants to help?

@Mitchsavl, Bri, The ed17, Pine, and Bluerasberry: Tagging users who took part in the previous discussion up above. Oltrepier (talk) 13:34, 12 November 2026 (UTC)reply

@Oltrepier: either option is fine with me. I would prefer calling this "In focus" instead of "Special report" as the latter is more generic and could be taken by an emergent issue between now and publishing day. Thanks for volunteering. ༄ᨒ𖠰 Pine (✉) 04:01, 14 November 2026 (UTC)reply

@Pine Right, I've created a draft at "In focus" last night, hopefully we can turn it into a full article and get it over the line! Oltrepier (talk) 13:28, 14 November 2026 (UTC)reply

Would anyone mind if I boldly added a lede to this? I don’t normally write stuff, but I’ve been wanting to try it. I could just quietly wikignome like I always do though :) Cheers, 𝔰𝔥𝔞𝔡𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔞𝔯 ^{(𝔱𝔞𝔩𝔨)} (any/all) 01:42, 15 November 2026 (UTC)reply