Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom/Community

Community

This page serves as a friendly gathering point for those interested in helping at the Signpost. In addition to writing articles and over-seeing the publishing process, there are many volunteer opportunities. Some of these ways to help are gleaned from various WikiProjects. Feel free to share your community-building your ideas here.

Recruitment ideas

List started by JoeHebda:

create Invitation to help at Signpost Done

(as a link from each edition? a new section on the talk page / the Submissions page?)

create a banner ad for Signpost

see {{Wikipedia ads}}, a plain one is #17, for RFC.

create a Signpost Welcome message, for new contributors, participants. Done
create a Signpost Thankyou Done
~~create~~ Populate this subpage with ideas for the Signpost community. (examples wanted!)
Talk page MassMessage. Ping me back! Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 09:17, 9 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation

The following is an example invitation to help at The Signpost. Feel free to copy & paste onto a user's Talk page, and change wording to personalize.

You are invited to help with Wikipedia's The Signpost online publication. You can see what's happening at our central hub, the Signpost Newsroom.

Welcome

Here is a plain introductory welcome message.

Welcome to Wikipedia's The Signpost online publication. Topics include: Recent Research, In the Media, Technology Report, Featured Content, Traffic Report, and other areas of interest to the Wikipedia community.

Thank you for contributing

The following general thankyou can be cut & paste to a user's talk page. Be sure to change the "xxxxx" to the user's name. It can be personalized noting the person's special contributions.

Hi xxxxxxxx! Thanks for contributing to The Signpost. We want to acknowledge your efforts and hope that your experience at The Signpost was a pleasant one.
There are many ways of contributing to Wikipedia's The Signpost. Feel free to invite your editor friends and associates to visit at the Signpost Newsroom to view what's happening. Again, thanks for your help.

Recognition

We can recognize Signpost contributors at:

Userboxes and barnstars

Userbox usage

This template should not be substituted.

This template has one unnamed parameter, which specifies what an editor does at The Signpost. The default is 'contributes to'.

{{User Signpost writer}} yields:

This user contributes to The Signpost. You can too!

{{User Signpost writer|writes at}} yields:

This user writes at The Signpost. You can too!

{{User Signpost writer|edits for}} yields:

This user edits for The Signpost. You can too!

{{Signpost user topicon}} for a small user icon on your userpage for articles that you helped to write

		*The Signpost* Barnstar**
		For intrepid and timely analysis in times of wikilamity

Subscribe inline

: 19 October 2024

If anyone's interested, I made an inline subscription template a while back: a small link to the latest issue that works well on personal dashboard pages. It'll show a small "new" icon () for a week after the issue goes live, and will show the issue date for a month. (Afterwards it'll just show the Signpost logo.) Enjoy, czar 06:44, 9 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]