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The Signpost is the English Wikipedia’s free internal newsletter.[1][2][3] It is managed by the Wikipedia community and is published online, usually weekly.[1][4] Each edition contains stories and articles related to the Wikipedia community.[5][6] It was founded in January 2005 by Michael Snow,[1] a Wikipedia administrator[7] and later Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.[8] Contributions to the newsletter are made by a wide range of editors.[1]

Newsletter

In his 2008 book Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, John Broughton recommended The Signpost as essential reading for aspiring Wikipedia contributors: "If you expect to continue editing at Wikipedia for any length of time, by all means subscribe to the weekly internal newsletter, the Wikipedia Signpost."[9] It has stories related to the Wikipedia community[1] and other Wikipedia-related projects.[10] Readers may choose to receive the newsletter by email or to receive notices of new issues at their user "Talk" page; a third option is to have the latest issue's table of contents displayed on their user page.[9] All the archives are available to read which is a fast way to learn about the history of Wikipedia.[1]

Reception

The Register's executive editor Andrew Orlowski describes the The Signpost as "Wikipedia's own plucky newsletter."[11] Writing about an incident at the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization which supports Wikipedia, the editor-in-chief of Nonprofit Quarterly, Ruth McCambridge, referred to the Signpost and directed her more technically minded readers to its pages "to better understand what was being planned."[12]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Phoebe Ayers; Charles Matthews; Ben Yates (2008). How Wikipedia Works: And how You Can be a Part of it. No Starch Press. pp. 345–. ISBN 978-1-59327-176-3.
  2. ^ Koebler, Jason (February 16, 2016). "The Secret Search Engine Tearing Wikipedia Apart". Vice.
  3. ^ Geoffroy, Romain (January 16, 2014). "Une employée de Wikipédia débarquée pour avoir monnayé ses articles". Les Inrockuptibles.
  4. ^ Dobusch, Leonhard (January 12, 2014). "Interview mit Dirk Franke über „Grenzen der Bezahlung" in der Wikipedia". Netzpolitik.org.
  5. ^ Rosen, Rebecca (February 6, 2013). "If You Want Your Wikipedia Page to Get a TON of Traffic, Die While Performing at the Super Bowl Half-Time Show". The Atlantic. Retrieved February 21, 2016.
  6. ^ Dariusz Jemielniak (2014). Common Knowledge?: An Ethnography of Wikipedia. Stanford University Press. pp. 231–. ISBN 978-0804797238.
  7. ^ Cohen, Noam (March 5, 2007). "A Contributor to Wikipedia Has His Fictional Side". The New York Times. Retrieved February 21, 2016.
  8. ^ McCarthy, Caroline (July 18, 2008). "Wikimedia Foundation edits its board of trustees". CNET.
  9. ^ a b John Broughton (25 January 2008). Wikipedia: The Missing Manual: The Missing Manual. "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". pp. 454–. ISBN 978-0-596-55377-7.
  10. ^ Sotirios Paroutis; Loizos Heracleous; Duncan Angwin (1 February 2013). Practicing Strategy: Text and Cases. SAGE Publications. pp. 237–. ISBN 978-1-4462-9047-7.
  11. ^ Orlowski, Andrew (January 12, 2016). "Wikimedia Foundation bins community-elected trustee". The Register.
  12. ^ McCambridge, Ruth (February 16, 2016). "Knight Foundation Grant Request Tears at Wikipedia's Community". Nonprofit Quarterly.
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