[Foundation-l] Announcing new "Signpost" issues on this list

[Mariano Cecowski]

A RSS/Atom feed would be great.

Thanks,
MarianoC.-


PS: I know, the page's history's RSS would do, but you'd get every single change to the page instead of the weekly update.


--- El mar 3-ago-10, Wikipedia Signpost <wikipediasignpost at gmail.com> escribió:

> De: Wikipedia Signpost <wikipediasignpost at gmail.com>
> Asunto: [Foundation-l] Announcing new "Signpost" issues on this list
> Para: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Fecha: martes, 3 de agosto de 2010, 20:56
> Hi all,
> 
> some of you might know the "Signpost", a community-written
> and
> community-edited newspaper, based on the English Wikipedia
> and
> covering stories, events and reports related to Wikipedia,
> its sister
> projects and the Wikimedia Foundation:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/About
> 
> The first issue came out on January 10, 2005 and it has
> been appearing
> (more or less) weekly ever since then, with a new issue due
> every
> Monday.
> 
> While coverage of events on the English Wikipedia forms an
> important
> part of the "Signpost", our "News and notes", "In the news"
> and
> "Technology Report" sections regularly contain many news
> items that
> are relevant for other Wikipedias, or all Foundation
> projects. In June
> (around the time when Sage Ross left as editor-in-chief to
> take up his
> current job at the WMF, and I stepped into the breach), we
> had a lot
> of discussions about new ideas for the Signpost, including
> proposals
> to provide translations of our Foundation-wide coverage, or
> even
> moving it to Meta. While this still seemed a bit ambitious,
> there was
> consensus to emphasize our interwiki coverage more, and it
> was
> subsequently renamed from "Wikipedia Signpost" to
> "Signpost".
> [Commercial break: If you are an experienced member of a
> WMF
> project/community and would like to contribute to one of
> our "Sister
> project" stories, covering its history, characteristics and
> recent
> major events, contact us at this email address or at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:POST/TIPS
> .] And at Wikimania last
> month, I talked to a lot of Wikimedians who are not
> primarily active
> on the English Wikipedia, but nevertheless know, read and
> appreciate
> the Signpost.
> 
> On the other hand, there is currently no other independent
> publication
> (at least not in English) which regularly covers or
> summarizes
> WMF-related news. Wikizine was very informative and even
> had several
> translated editions, but has been inactive since the
> beginning of this
> year. Wikipedia Weekly was a well-informed podcast
> disussing much
> Foundation news, but there hasn't been a new episode since
> October
> 2009. Veterans might recall the Wikimedia Quarto, which had
> some
> excellent content and was widely translated, but stopped
> after three
> issues in 2004/2005. Of course there are other things which
> are useful
> for staying up to date, like the blog planets or Phoebe's
> earlier list
> summaries for this list, but they don't replace
> journalism-style news
> reporting.
> 
> Following a suggestion by Phoebe, I am going to try out
> sending
> announcements of new Signpost issues to this list,
> containing brief
> headline summaries and links (see accompanying posting for
> the current
> issue). We hope that this will provide valuable and
> on-topic
> information for people interested in the kind of topics
> that are being
> discussed here, and perhaps it could also help to get more
> people
> involved in providing reader-oriented coverage of news from
> WMF
> projects to the whole Wikimedia community.
> 
> Regards, HaeB
> 
> -- 
> Wikipedia Signpost Staff
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost
> 
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