Thursday–Sunday: start. Start all pages that are to be included in the next edition, either on-wiki or in Google Docs.
Monday: draft. A rough outline of topics to be covered should be in place by the middle of Monday, so that if a regular reporter is unavailable, the editor can find a replacement for that week.
Tuesday, early Wednesday: mature versions. Aim to have reasonably mature drafts of all pages for comments by the managing editors, fellow journalists, and other interested editors.
Wednesday: finish! Last-minute tweaks and copy-editors go through the drafts; publication in the evening.
Current discussion
Ideas for Signpost features can be pitched and discussed by any interested parties here. Items should be listed directly at the opinion desk or the special desk, submissions from which are automatically transcluded here.
From the opinion desk
The following proposals have been transcluded from the opinion desk.
The following proposals have been transcluded from the review desk.
Note from editor(s)-in-chief
Hey everybody, when you start a new article, please do it from the Newsroom or a particular Desk. That will put in the templates we need for every article. Please don't try to add them manually, you will miss some. Gamaliel (talk) 01:36, 28 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Go Phightins! Thanks for making an edit on that survey template I created but I realized that I didnt need to make a new template bc the signpost already had a better one so Ill probably get that deleted. Im thinking that it's not really good to be late with publication so this coming week, I will try to knock out a bunch of stories early on that way, hopefully, publication can begin on time next week and it doesn't begin to snowball. I finished writing up the rest of the links listed at the bottom of the pages and everything looks fantastic so I think it's ready to go. I will do a copyedit through the whole thing to catch any errors. I'm new here so it's nice meeting you. Tortle (talk) 22:32, 10 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
How to convert the FP section of the featured content section into a gallery.
Do not archive
This takes 20 minutes, and only needs the bot's pre-setup content to make work. If you're running low on time for FC, this is a far better option than leaving the descriptions blank.
Fix any obvious attribution errors in the credits, e.g. saying a user made 19th-century artworks.
Copy list into Notepad (MS Word or the like will turn wikimarkup into smart quotes - not useful. You need a dumb text editor, not a word processor).
Search replace "* <b>[[:" for nothing.
Search replace "]]</b>" for "<br />"
Add "<gallery mode=packed heights=225px>" at the top, and "</gallery>" at the bottom
Put back into FP section after "Twenty-one featured pictures were promoted this week." There should be nothing else besides that statement and the new gallery in the FP section.
Save.
Have a copy of the gallery to look at open as you do the editing in the next step.
The captions are the name of the nomination. THEY WILL NEED CLEANED UP, THIS WILL NOT TAKE LONG, BUT IS NOT OPTIONAL. Replace all captions of the form "Obvious filename.jpg" with an appropriate caption. Sometimes just removing ".jpg" and a few other words will get a decent caption, other times you'll have to check by clicking on the image.
Add links to all captions, usually just by putting brackets around appropriate phrases. Don't worry - you can fix any redlinks later
Add any necessary italics to captions.
Save, review gallery once more. Fix any redlinks.
NOTE: There should be no other images after the FP gallery. Delete any closing images. No FPs should appear anywhere else in the article - use FAs, FLs, and the like instead.
No one (not even you, Adam) is going to submit to doing this on a regular weekly basis. It has to be something that is written into the starter script. I'll put on the to-do list but don't expect it happen overnight. ResMar19:37, 6 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
That's lessened the workload, leaving eight Featured Articles and twelve Featured Lists for someone to read and write digests about without copying from the articles. I'm taking this week off (and I am damn glad I don't have to write about 12 lists!) Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 12:21, 7 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
