Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom/Resources
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Resources
This page lists external and internal resources for Signpost writers researching news items to cover in an upcoming issue. For information on the use of templates within Signpost articles see the style guidelines and the documentation for the specific templates in question. For content guidance see the content guidelines.
News and notes[edit]
- Community mailing lists:
- Wikimedia-l i: Very high-volume, of primary interest.
- WikimediaAnnounce-l i: low traffic, postings are intended to automatically forward to Wikimedia-l as well
- GLAM (i),
- GLAM-US (i),
- Commons-l (i),
- Wikidata (i),
- Wikisource-l (i),
- Wikimania-l (i)
- Planet 2.0: A Foundation-run community blog aggregator, includes official blog content.
- Related changes aggregators
- meta-wiki
- (cf.) Related changes details for chapter and Foundation reports.
- foundation-wiki related changes
- en-wiki related changes
- outreach-wiki related changes
- (cf.) Related changes details for Wikipedians in Residence.
- meta-wiki
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_News
- https://www.youtube.com/@TheWikimediaFoundation and separate live-streams
- Wikipedia:News
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom/Suggestions
In the media[edit]
- Wikipedia Review RSS feed (very useful listing of news stories actually focused on Wikipedia)
- Google News results for Wikipedia (specify an appropriate custom date range in the Search tools dropdown)
- Wikipedia:Press coverage
- Wikipedia Weekly news discussions
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom/Suggestions
- Twitter mentions of "Wikipedia":
https://twitter.com/search?q=%22Wikipedia%22%20min_faves%3A10%20min_retweets%3A10&src=typed_query
WikiProject report[edit]
- List of previously published interviews (reverse chronological order)
- Directory of WikiProjects (by topic)
- Category for WikiProjects (by topic; subdivisions for collaborations, inactive projects, etc)
- Prefix Index for WikiProjects (alphabetical; every page starting with "WikiProject")
- Most active projects by watchers of project's page
- Most active projects by edits to project's talk page
- Call for interviews template
- Sample message for inviting interview responses
Example questions
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*What motivated you to become a member of WikiProject XXXXXX? What kind of XXXXXX-related articles do you like to work on?
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Discussion report[edit]
Featured content[edit]
- WP:GO is by far the most useful resource, setting out all promotions in convenient weekly logs.
Other resources include:
- Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log
- Wikipedia:Featured article review/archive
- Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Featured log
- Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates/log
- Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Featured log
- Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/Featured log
- Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/May-2024
Technology report[edit]
- Server admin log
- Recently fixed bugs
- Wikimedia Technical blog
- Wikitech-l mailing list
- Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)
- de:WP:NEU (technical "Project news" page on the German Wikipedia, useful for finding (links to) newsworthy bugs)
- https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ (recent outages and performance issues)
- Wikimedia Foundation Grafana (status dashboards)
- Software deployments
Recent research[edit]
- A todo list of academic publications for this section (which doubles as the Wikimedia Research Newsletter) is maintained in form of an Etherpad that is updated monthly, mostly based on the @WikiResearch Twitter feed
- Wikimedia Research Showcase (monthly presentations)
- WMF's own research projects
Humour[edit]
- Unusual articles
- Category:Humorous Wikipedia essays
- Category:Wikipedia cabal humor
- Wikipedia:Silly Things
- Wikipedia:Yet more Best of BJAODN
Publication[edit]
Template:Signpost/Deadline contains the anticipated writing and publishing deadlines for the upcoming issue. It is transcluded in various other pages, such as the Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom.
Script[edit]
As of May 2023, most of the publishing process is automated by a user script, see User:JPxG/SPS.js (forked from User:Evad37/SPS).
On-wiki tasks that are not (yet) automated via this script:
- Cleanup the newsroom: Reset the article status table on the Newsroom by following the instructions in the hidden comments in that section.
- Update the deadline template: Enter the anticipated publication time of the next issue at Template:Signpost/Deadline (20:00 UTC on the first and third Sunday of each month, as of July 2023)
If there is a problem with the automated process, follow the steps in the section below to publish manually.
Manual off-wiki tasks[edit]
The script does all the on-wiki publishing tasks, including local and global mass-messaging. Tasks that still need to be completed manually by the Outreach Managers are:
- Announce the new issue on WikimediaAnnounce-L, using the pre-generated output below for copy & paste. Send from the
wikipediasignpostgmail.com
account. When composing the message in Gmail, click theTx
icon to remove HTML formatting before sending. (WikimediaAnnounce-l will automatically forward every message to Wikimedia-L, so do not send directly to Wikimedia-L, unless there is a forwarding error.) Check here and here to ensure that the messages have been posted. - Post to social media: Tweet about the new issue, linking, for example, to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Archives/2024-05-08 as landing page. Bridges have been set up to automatically forward tweets to the WikiSignpost Facebook page and Mastodon feed.
Manual process[edit]
Main details
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Handle the actual "publishing" tasks in the following order; it should avoid the necessity of having to purge each individual article to update the footer.
Additionally:
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Manual process: English Wikipedia mass message delivery output for this issue
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Send from Special:MassMessage using the following details. Page or category containing list of pages to leave a message on: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Subscribe Subject of the message (also used as the edit summary): ''The Signpost'': 25 April 2024
Section of the page:
Body of the message: <div lang="en" dir="ltr"><div style="column-count:2;"> {{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2024-04-25}} </div><!--Volume 20, Issue 6--> <div class="hlist" style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> * '''[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost|Read this Signpost in full]]''' * [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2024-04-25|Single-page]] * [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Subscribe|Unsubscribe]] * [[User:MediaWiki message delivery|MediaWiki message delivery]] ([[User talk:MediaWiki message delivery|talk]]) ~~~~~ </div></div> (The formatted output should look something like this) |
Manual process: Global mass message delivery output for this issue
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Send from meta:Special:MassMessage using these details: Page or category containing list of pages to leave a message on: Global message delivery/Targets/Signpost Subject of the message (also used as the edit summary): ''The Signpost'': 25 April 2024 Page to be sent as a message:
Section of the page:
Body of the message: <div lang="en" dir="ltr" style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">[[File:WikipediaSignpostIcon.svg|40px|right]] ''News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper''</div> <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2;"> * In the media: [[w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2024-04-25/In the media|Censorship and wikiwashing looming over RuWiki, edit wars over San Francisco politics and another wikirace on live TV]] |
Generic skeleton for manually updating the issue contents page of the upcoming issue
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{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|1||News and notes|Add to "News and notes"}} {{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|2||In the news|Add to "In the news"}} {{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|3||Discussion report|Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations}} {{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|4||WikiProject report|Talking with WikiProject}} {{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|5||Featured content|The best of the week}} {{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|6||Arbitration report|The Report on Lengthy Litigation}} {{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|7||Recent research|Recent research}} {{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|8||Technology report|Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News}} |