As articulated by the last editor-in-chief Jarry1250 in his outgoing address, The Signpost aspires to evolve beyond mere transmission of news, to challenging and provocative treatments of issues of importance to the English Wikipedia and the associated infosphere.
Alas, of late, many areas of interest on which we'd like to deliver high-quality coverage are underserved by our current volunteer resources, and in recent months, maintaining quality of service in the most basic reports has been a struggle. For this week's edition, this shortfall in manpower unfortunately resulted in us having to drop the 'News and notes' section.
This is a call for fellow Wikipedians to help us ensure The Signpost can be as consistently excellent and ambitious as its readership deserves. Are you a keen follower of the topics The Signpost covers, capable of thinking critically while writing objectively about those topics? If so, we ask for you to step forward now. Areas of potential contribution are as follows:
Other news beats, such as Featured content, the WikiProject report, the Arbitration report, and the Technology report, tend to be comparatively well served, but could always use further assistance and review.
The bulk of The Signpost is compiled weekly by a half a dozen volunteers from an editing community of thousands. Imagine what we could accomplish with two dozen.
Thank you for your continued support,
Skomorokh and
SMasters (managing editors)
As articulated by the last editor-in-chief Jarry1250 in his outgoing address, The Signpost aspires to evolve beyond mere transmission of news, to challenging and provocative treatments of issues of importance to the English Wikipedia and the associated infosphere.
Alas, of late, many areas of interest on which we'd like to deliver high-quality coverage are underserved by our current volunteer resources, and in recent months, maintaining quality of service in the most basic reports has been a struggle. For this week's edition, this shortfall in manpower unfortunately resulted in us having to drop the 'News and notes' section.
This is a call for fellow Wikipedians to help us ensure The Signpost can be as consistently excellent and ambitious as its readership deserves. Are you a keen follower of the topics The Signpost covers, capable of thinking critically while writing objectively about those topics? If so, we ask for you to step forward now. Areas of potential contribution are as follows:
Other news beats, such as Featured content, the WikiProject report, the Arbitration report, and the Technology report, tend to be comparatively well served, but could always use further assistance and review.
The bulk of The Signpost is compiled weekly by a half a dozen volunteers from an editing community of thousands. Imagine what we could accomplish with two dozen.
Thank you for your continued support,
Skomorokh and
SMasters (managing editors)
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Dispatch andOpinion sections. Since it mostly involves finding other people with interesting and important things to say, then placing everything in their proper Signpost templates, I don't see it as being a particularly major time commitment, so it would be easy to fit into my current schedule. Also, since I spent large amounts of time on Wikipedia on a nearly daily basis, I can have things ready well before publishing. Sven Manguard Wha? 02:47, 25 October 2011 (UTC) reply