About the Signpost
The Signpost is a community-written and community-edited newspaper, covering stories, events and reports related to Wikipedia, its sister projects, and the Wikimedia Foundation. A new issue is published each week, and one can subscribe via talk page delivery (also on sister projects), template transclusion, or Identi.ca. You may also connect with us via Facebook and RSS, Twitter.
The Signpost's newsroom is for the development of stories among contributing editors. Anyone can contribute articles; suggestions and news tips from the wider community are welcomed at the newsroom's suggestions page.
The first issue of the Signpost was published on 10 January 2005. Michael Snow served as editor-in-chief from the paper's beginnings until August 2005, when he was followed by Ral315 through December 2008. Ragesoss was the editor from February 2009 until June 2010, and HaeB followed until July 2011. After a series of interim editors, The ed17 became the current editor-in-chief in May 2012. The name of the newspaper was The Wikipedia Signpost from its inception to August 2010; it was shortened to the Signpost in August 2010 as a symbol of an expansion in scope beyond the English Wikipedia.
The Signpost is an independent publication which is not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation. The opinions expressed in articles are those of their authors alone, and may not reflect the opinion of the Foundation. Unlike most Wikipedia pages, Signpost articles carry a byline to indicate the person responsible for what often amounts to original reporting. However, post-publication edits such as grammatical and spelling corrections to articles are welcome.
