Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom/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.
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Recruitment ideas[edit]
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.
- see
- create a Signpost Welcome message, for new contributors, participants.
Done
- create a Signpost Thankyou
Done
createPopulate 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)
Invitation[edit]
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.
Welcome[edit]
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[edit]
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.
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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.
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Recognition[edit]
We can recognize Signpost contributors at:
Userboxes and barnstars[edit]
Userbox usage[edit]
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
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The Signpost Barnstar | |
For intrepid and timely analysis in times of wikilamity |
Subscribe inline[edit]
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)