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Please proposeSignpost stories you want to write (or have already begun writing). Submitted stories are published subject to the approval of the Editor-in-Chief,JPxG. We value the involvement of Wikipedians, and appreciate your submissions. If you have ideas or questions that don't fit neatly into this framework, don't hesitate to address us on our user talk pages, by email, or as a last resort, on the generalSignpost talk page.
The Signpost'scontent guidelines may be useful to aspiring writers. We encourage you to contact us early in the process of developing a story. Different writers have varying levels of interest in editorial input, and we pride ourselves on finding the right balance with each writer; but in most cases, a brief discussion early on can help all parties shape our expectations, and can help produce a strong finished piece. We aim to support Wikimedians wishing to share news with their peers, and look forward to working with you.
Discussion: I wrote a poem on Wikipedia's 25th birthday. My plan was to read it at the Wikipedia Day celebration. But alas! I wished for a snow day in 2026, and it happened on the one day I had plans I truly cared about.— Precedingunsigned comment added byMollystarkdean (talk •contribs)14:55, 6 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Discussion: I don't even know if you take submissions for these but I enjoy the stuff that gets posted in the Comix column and wanted to give it a shot myself. Hope you enjoy.📻NuclearSpuds🎙️02:21, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Discussion: Here’s another comic. I found the image on commons and couldn’t not do something with it. I’m open to titles; I was thinking something along the lines ofWP:BITE.📻NuclearSpuds🎙️19:55, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Discussion: Justin Knapp, known by his username Koavf and recognized as the first editor to reach 1 million edits on English Wikipedia, is currently serving an indefinite ban from editing as of July 2025. The block follows a history of multiple sanctions due to persistent disruptive and combative behavior. This submission is provided for coverage in the Signpost News column. This is my first letter here in the Signpost. Sure hope that it'll make the cut.Vinizex94🌍15:07, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your contribution! This does seem like potentially noteworthy information. However,this ban already dates from July 2024 (not 2025), i.e. over a year ago, so it does not quite appear to be in scope for the Signpost at this point (see also thecontent guidance page). Regards,HaeB (talk)06:37, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Discussion: This essay is about the tendency of Wikipedians to waste a lot of time and energy on resolving questions that don't really matter to readers, sometimes with explosive results like the loss of experienced editors. Before you participate in a dispute, you should think about whether the readers actually have a stake in the result, or if it's just minutia or debate for the sake of debate.theleekycauldron (talk • she/her)04:05, 15 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Submission: The Wikimedia Foundation has published its audit report covering the period from July 2024 - June 2025. Highlights include investments in product and technology, funding advocacy and awareness for Wikimedia projects, limited internal expense growth, and improved revenue diversification. Reporting on Wikimedia Enterprise is included in the report.More information is available on Diff.
Discussion: Andreas - I wanted to pitch this here in case it's of interest. I've suggested a simple bullet for News and Notes, so I added proposed text to the submission field above rather than linking to a separate page. Happy to discuss! --ELappen (WMF) (talk)21:53, 26 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Discussion:JPxG andSmallbones - hoping to add this (or some version of it) as a bullet to N&N for the upcoming issue, so that people who are interested have enough time to plan. Would this work?
Discussion: This article would be a 1 year review of my goal to add short descriptions to all articles lacking one. The article was published February 27, 2025 so ideally this article would come out around that time this year. I wanted to put forth the article submission early to ensure it can come out in this time frame.
Discussion: This draft article provides an in-depth look at the Volunteer Response Team (VRT), Wikipedia's volunteer-run email response system. It explains what kinds of emails VRT handles (from copyright permissions and identity verification to article subject requests, bias complaints, and more), the challenges volunteers face, the limits of VRT's role, and how it serves as Wikipedia's de facto public-facing "customer service". The piece is based on firsthand experience as a VRT volunteer and aims to raise awareness among editors about this often-invisible but important part of the project. Ready for review/copyedit.Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk)22:18, 7 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Discussion: This piece is about theWP:WikiProject Medicine/Vital Signs 2026, which seeks to bring all top-importance articles within the WikiProject up to B-class or above. I'm also touching on why it's important to edit these vital articles for the health of the community, as they can bring in readers and potential editors by the droves, but only if they pass Google's SEO test and are up-to-date.—Femke 🐦 (talk)21:27, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Discussion: Madhav Gadgil was a proponent of Wikimedia movement in India. He was among the very few Indian public intellectuals of his stature to engage directly with the Wikimedia movement, participating in its outreach and other activities. This piece is about him as he recently passed away.Pavan Santhosh (OKI) (talk)11:33, 14 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Discussion:AI slop is flooding the internet, and it is harder and harder to find reliable information. The digital divide of the future will be between people who can afford to pay for high quality, fact-checked content, and people who only have access to cheap, AI-generated texts full of hallucinations, promotional content and scams. In this world, the Wikipedia must remain a reliable and trustworthy source that is free to all users. To stay reliable, the Wikipedia has to keep relying on human editing, because LLMs are not reliable and they are not accountable for the words they generate.Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2026-01-15/Special report argues that using LLMs will help Wikipedia serve the Global South better. I disagree - to use LLMs means we will lower quality to the extent that the Wikipedia will lose its role as a reliable encyclopedia accessible to anyone. I'm both a Wikipedia editor and a professor doing research on LLMs and their cultural effect so would like to write something about this if it seems suitable for the Signpost.Lijil (talk)20:33, 18 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Discussion: We'd like to shareOKA's story — how we went from a small experiment in 2022 to coordinating translation work across 80+ editors who published 13k+ articles, what we've learned (sometimes the hard way) from community feedback, and what ourrecent empirical study revealed about which LLM models actually work well for translation versus which ones just make things worse.Recent ANI discussions surfaced real concerns about our quality control processes, and we want to walk through how we're addressing those issues, including our upcoming peer review system.7804j (talk)20:42, 27 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@7804j: Please develop your submission atUser:7804j/OKA: grants for translators assisted by LLMs. If it is not burdensome, then submit as much content as you would like, perhaps 500-2000 words. If you want interim feedback, then at least make a few section headings and put a few sentences under each, even if it does not tell a full story. I think you know your way around wiki and have a good sense of how to talk with the Wikimedia community, but this story does hit multiple hot topics including paid editing, inclusion of people in lower middle countries, AI, and putting a process on the table to address decades-old cross-wiki translation backlogs. I am grateful for your submission. Also I want to connect you with feedback before publication, to get some confirmation that you will not be misunderstood. Bluerasberry(talk)18:43, 11 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Discussion: An essay which reflects on my past and present tryst with thank-button clicks, and briefly outlines part of my purpose on the English Wikipedia.MSincccc (talk)17:31, 28 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@MSincccc: Would you like to submit this as an article for publication inThe Signpost, or would you like forSignpost to report and link to this piece as a Wikipedia user essay? This piece works as either format, but not both at once. If you want this to be forSignpost, then either grab a template from one of the article formats atWikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Newsroom and put your submission into that standard. Please add illustration from Commons; allSignpost pieces need images. I can help with the formatting, just ask if it takes you longer than 5 minutes because it should not take longer than that to figure out. Thanks for submitting. Bluerasberry(talk)18:33, 11 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@Bluerasberry I would like the essay to be featured in theSignpost.
Discussion: I wanted to have something about the annual plan. I think the community would prefer an independent reporting to a straight up republication of what the WMF wants to say. This is my take on something like a News from the WMF but independently made. It is a start as I expect the conversation to evolve more before publication.Czarking0 (talk)21:20, 31 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
I tried a couple things with the template. I am not sure how to format the piccy thing but I have the image I want there. My interviews are still awaiting some responses.Czarking0 (talk)19:08, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Ok I am more or less happy with the article. If I get additional interview responses, I may need to update that section. What should I take as a next step. Do you think it is ready for copy-edit?Czarking0 (talk)19:22, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, you've asked to answer a couple of questions about the annual plan. You wrote aboutsome meta-commentary and I wondered whether you could also cover the thread I started there called "The problem that underlies most issues and challenges noted here and elsewhere" which includes ideas how to get more community wishes implemented and some analysis of WMF work on the Community Wishlists (I intend to work on the statistics / chart further later). On the other hand, Isuggested the subject of concerns about too little technical development or potential ways to increase software development / wish implementations to be covered separately. Nevertheless, at least if you do mention meta things, I think it may be good to at least mention this or this aspect of technical development being required for tackling most community concerns and goals, there being too little of it, and this analysis+set of ideas regarding this underlying problem there. Thanks for your consideration,Prototyperspective (talk)01:29, 14 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Discussion: I don't have a page to show for this yet, since it's mostly an idea that I'd like feedback on before starting to write (apologies if this is in the wrong place): I had an idea of writing a short report on howNYT Games (like the crosswords,Wordle, andConnections) drive Wikipedia article views. For example, whenmyrrh was the Wordle answer on 19 December 2025,the pageviews report shows a massive spike due to a decent amount of people being unfamiliar with the word. I like looking at statistics and I play NYT Games a lot, so I'd enjoy writing it, but I don't know if people would enjoy reading it, so I'd like feedback before committing to writing. (It's possible it could focus on other platforms as well as NYT Games, to avoid seeming promotional, but I'm not familiar with others and NYT Games is the most popular by far afaik.)Suntooooth, it/he (talk |contribs)20:30, 5 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@Suntooooth: Sure, we can find a way to publish that. This is a secret so do not tell anyone, butSignpost editorBri has a newSignpost crossword game in development atUser:Bri/Signpost. If you can get a draft of something going, then your story and the presentation of this newSignpost crossword could coincide. Also, if you have any interest in being a contributing editor forSignpost crossword Wikipedia clues, then I think there is an opening for a crossword fan.
Discussion: This piece examines the recent problems in the community and makes a modest proposal: Spend 25% on the community. We show how currently WMF is spending about 15% of its budget on the community in terms of grants and awards. We outline what essentially doubling the funds for community could do in terms of solving the problems outlined recently, and look at where the funds could come from.
I think it is a relevant and much needed piece to start a discussion about equality and investing in the community to the same extent that WMF invests in its staff.
@NabuKudurru: I helped with formatting atWikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Next issue/Concept. Can you give a go at cleaning up the design and selecting appropriate images from Wikimedia Commons? Also I need you to respond to agree that you wanted me to copy/paste your text from the Google Doc into the Wikimedia platform, in the context of you being a Wikimedia user who understands this copyright issue. Bluerasberry(talk)18:10, 11 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
+1 thank you for that. I will try to go through the submission portal, but it is not clear for me how to add the pictures, should i add them to commons first? they are both from wikimedia, so i guess ccby. Best, BrettNabuKudurru (talk)13:07, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Discussion: I have a conflict of interest in this submission as it relates to my research at theUniversity of Virginia School of Data Science where I am Wikimedian in Residence. I am a long-time contributor to themeta:WikiCite project and this is an update of things. I have sought external review already from other people in the WikiCite community. I think I have sufficiently communicated that these are my words. Bluerasberry(talk)02:15, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Done@NuclearSpuds: Queued up, thanks for the submission!jp×g🗯️00:49, 2 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]