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

[Jon Harald Søby]

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2010/8/4 Mariano Cecowski <marianocecowski at yahoo.com.ar>:
> A RSS/Atom feed would be great.
>
> Thanks,
> MarianoC.-
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> 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.
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> --- El mar 3-ago-10, Wikipedia Signpost <wikipediasignpost at gmail.com> escribió:
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>> 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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