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Welcome to the central hub of The Signpost! This is The Signpost Newsroom, a place where The Signpost team can coordinate with writers, both regular and occasional, and people who have suggestions for topics to cover. See the boxes below if you have suggestions (something for the team to write about in regular columns), proposal/submissions (for articles you want to write/have written yourself), or want to create a pre-formatted draft article in your userspace, with helpful links and easy-to-edit syntax. Discussion occurs both here and in the Signpost Discord. Discussion of upcoming issues is done at the newsroom talk page. For general feedback on The Signpost as a whole, go to our talk page. To learn more about The Signpost, see our about page. The Signpost currently has 5671 articles, 709 issues, and 13835 pages (4529 talk and 9306 non-talk). Links: Current issue: Volume 21, Issue 4 (2025-03-22) · issue page · archive page · single-page edition · single-page talk (create) Suggest a topic To suggest a topic to be covered by The Signpost, simply click on the button below or post to our suggestions page manually. Example of good topics are Editors who have done something extraordinary/wonderful Ongoing discussions Media coverage of Wikipedia Technical news Updates to important tools and templates Wikipedia-related events but many more exist. Email a private tip to the EiC Propose/submit an article If you have an idea for an article you would like to write, you can submit it for review by the editorial team. You can do so by clicking the button below or by posting to our submissions page manually. News articles should be kept relatively neutral and report on a specific piece of actual news. They can be on any topic of interest to Wikipedians, from general events, to technical news. Opinion pieces are evaluate on originality, relevance to Wikipedians, and the quality of the arguments. They should provoke thought and encourage productive discussion. Special pieces cover things that don't fall neatly in the above two categories. If it's interesting to you, it's likely interesting to someone else as well. Check with us and we'll see what can be done! Create a draft To create a draft of an article in your userspace, simply copy-paste {{subst:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Story-preload}} at Special:MyPage/Signpost draft (replacing USERNAME with your own username). You can also use the button below. This will preload a form, which you can then save and edit. We recommend saving without making any edits to the preloaded form before starting to write your article. Calendar: current deadline is highlighted, and current UTC date is 2025-03-29 12:09:51. February 2025 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 27 28 29 30 31 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 01 02 March 2025 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 24 25 26 27 28 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 01 02 03 04 05 06 April 2025 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 31 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 01 02 03 04

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In the media In progress · 7,237b last edited 2025-03-29 01:39:26 by Bri Resources

Checklist N Headline N Subheading N Ready for copyedit N Copyedit done N Final approval by editor-in-chief Discussion Moved to draft Trump nominees "trashed", "smeared" Wikipedia posts updated to smear Patel, Hegseth, Gabbard: Watchdog from Washington Examiner; cites report from Media Research Center "How biased Wikipedia trashed Trump’s nominees — after he named them" New York Post, based on same MRC report Wikipedia Editors Place Moratorium on Controversial Sentence in Zionism Article from Jewish Journal; author says his prior reporting "highlighted how the [now locked-in] sentence [in the lede of 'Zionism'] resulted from anti-Israel editors primarily citing anti-Zionist historians" "Wikipedia for Palestine", cover story for print issue of March 21–27 Jewish Journal, repelete with full page white-green-red banded puzzle globe "How obscure is prospective Celtics buyer William Chisholm? He didn’t have a Wikipedia page until Thursday." Boston Globe claim confirmed - Special:Permalink/1281470505 created 20 March 15:something UTC https://sundayguardianlive.com/investigation/deconstructing-wikipedia-its-biased-lopsided-and-partisan Holding for next issue. ☆ Bri (talk) 20:47, 20 March 2025 (UTC) Moved verbatim to Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Next issue/In the media. ☆ Bri (talk) 16:00, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

News and notes In progress · 4,359b last edited 2025-03-29 09:25:03 by Soni Resources

Checklist N Headline N Subheading N Ready for copyedit N Copyedit done N Final approval by editor-in-chief Discussion I will be putting random stuff here that I see of note. jp×g🗯️ 22:31, 24 March 2025 (UTC) I added one ☆ Bri (talk) 05:26, 25 March 2025 (UTC) I've added a nice update about the WikiWikiWeb anniversary! Oltrepier (talk) 18:44, 27 March 2025 (UTC) @JPxG @Bri I definitely won't be able to go through that whole interview with Cunningham, but if you can, I hope it will be helpful! Oltrepier (talk) 18:48, 27 March 2025 (UTC) Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/43rd parallel south (114 articles batched -- is that a record?) WikiWikiWeb, the first wiki, launched March 25, 1995, 30 years ago; can we include this? It was not noted at WP:OTD. There's some coverage about this in the media, as well, and the wiki's founder, Ward Cunningham, has recently been interviewed by Yaron Koren on the "Between the Brackets" podcast!

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