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''The Featured content dispatch workshop achieved great prominence in the Signpost for a period of time, but that time came to pass long ago. Attempts were made to revive the project, but they were never successful. At this point there is nothing to do but mark the whole endeavour as historical and leave it for the dustbin. If you have any articles to write that fit under this banner, please send them to the [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom/Special desk|special desk]]. Thank you, and I should have done this sooner, <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b><font color="#333">[[User:Resident Mario|Res]]</font></b><font color="#444">[[User_talk:Resident_Mario#top|Mar]]</font></span> 03:01, 10 February 2013 (UTC)'' |
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# Give a link to the draft here (Proposed topics, below, and ({{t1|FCDW/T}}) and in the [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom|''Signpost'' newsroom]], to invite collaboration on the draft before the Monday deadline. This will alert other FCDW and ''Signpost'' writers that a Dispatch is ready to preview and publish in the upcoming issue. They will deal with the rest of the mechanics of moving the draft to the permanent ''Signpost'' file when the ''Signpost'' is published. |
# Give a link to the draft here (Proposed topics, below, and ({{t1|FCDW/T}}) and in the [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom|''Signpost'' newsroom]], to invite collaboration on the draft before the Monday deadline. This will alert other FCDW and ''Signpost'' writers that a Dispatch is ready to preview and publish in the upcoming issue. They will deal with the rest of the mechanics of moving the draft to the permanent ''Signpost'' file when the ''Signpost'' is published. |
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# After publication, add the title of the Dispatch (e.g., "Taming talk page clutter") to {{t1|FCDW}}, which lists the actual ''Signpost'' Dispatches, linking to the published ''Signpost'' page. |
# After publication, add the title of the Dispatch (e.g., "Taming talk page clutter") to {{t1|FCDW}}, which lists the actual ''Signpost'' Dispatches, linking to the published ''Signpost'' page. |
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=== Proposed future topics === |
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Proposed future dispatches from before the project became inactive can be found [[Wikipedia:Featured content dispatch workshop/Archive 1|at the archive]]. |
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* Welcome back dispatch: What's changed in featured processes since the last dispatch way back in 2010? (FL hits the main page. FS becomes highly active, becomes inactive again, VP closed, etc.) [[User:Sven Manguard|<font color="207004"><big>'''S</big>ven <big>M</big>anguard'''</font>]] [[User talk:Sven Manguard|<small><font color="F0A804">'''Wha?'''</font></small>]] 08:20, 25 October 2011 (UTC) |
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::I purport: cross-wiki Featured processes, special on Featured portals (bothered Cirt about this a while ago), events in the past year. I could use that last one. I haven't been here in a year, so. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b><font color="#333">[[User:Resident Mario|Res]]</font></b><font color="#444">[[User_talk:Resident_Mario#top|Mar]]</font></span> 03:25, 26 October 2011 (UTC) |
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Revision as of 03:01, 10 February 2013
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The Featured content dispatch workshop achieved great prominence in the Signpost for a period of time, but that time came to pass long ago. Attempts were made to revive the project, but they were never successful. At this point there is nothing to do but mark the whole endeavour as historical and leave it for the dustbin. If you have any articles to write that fit under this banner, please send them to the special desk. Thank you, and I should have done this sooner, ResMar 03:01, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
Dispatches
The Featured content dispatch workshop facilitates the production of dispatches for the Wikipedia Signpost. Dispatches are one-off articles on the various vetted processes, including the Featured processes, Good articles, Valued pictures, Did you know, Peer review, In the news, and so on. They can be tutorials teaching the reader how to do something, tips on using or reaching certain processes or tools, news stories covering major developments in article writing, interviews with writers, etc. Please note however that Dispatches are separate from the WikiProject Interview and from Features and admins, two other weekly sections of The Signpost.
The goal of the workshop is to act as a staging area for writers looking to contribute Dispatches to The Signpost. We hope that this page will help writers produce excellent articles that help others use and understand the Featured articles processes. Suggesting stories and writing them is open to anyone; see ideas, below.
Process
The sequence for preparing a Dispatch is as follows.
- Write the draft at the temporary work file, named WP:FCDW/[Title] or in your userspace, preferably by the Friday before the Monday 3:00 UTC submission deadline. The exact formatting of the temporary file can be seen at {{FCDW/T}}, which lists the temporary page for working on each article before publication.
- Give a link to the draft here (Proposed topics, below, and ({{FCDW/T}}) and in the Signpost newsroom, to invite collaboration on the draft before the Monday deadline. This will alert other FCDW and Signpost writers that a Dispatch is ready to preview and publish in the upcoming issue. They will deal with the rest of the mechanics of moving the draft to the permanent Signpost file when the Signpost is published.
- After publication, add the title of the Dispatch (e.g., "Taming talk page clutter") to {{FCDW}}, which lists the actual Signpost Dispatches, linking to the published Signpost page.