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The Signpost
Letter S symbol
Cover of The Signpost – February 24, 2016Cover of The Signpost (February 24, 2016)
TypeMonthly newspaper
FormatOnline
Owner(s)Misplaced Pages community
Founder(s)Michael Snow
PublisherEnglish Misplaced Pages
Editor-in-chiefVacant
LaunchedJanuary 10, 2005
LanguageEnglish
Websiteen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Misplaced Pages_Signpost
Free online archivesen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Misplaced Pages_Signpost/Archives/Years

The Signpost (formerly The Misplaced Pages Signpost) is the English Misplaced Pages's online newspaper. Managed by the Misplaced Pages community, it is published online with contributions from Misplaced Pages editors. The newspaper reports on the Misplaced Pages community and events related to Misplaced Pages, including Arbitration Committee rulings, Wikimedia Foundation issues, and other Misplaced Pages-related projects.

It was founded in January 2005 by Wikipedian Michael Snow. Originally called The Misplaced Pages Signpost, the newspaper's title was later shortened to The Signpost in August 2010. Snow continued as a contributor until his February 2008 appointment to the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees.

Former editor-in-chief, The ed17, noted that during his tenure from 2012 to 2015, the publication expanded its scope to report on the wider Wikimedia movement in addition to Misplaced Pages and its community. In January 2015, Misplaced Pages editors Gamaliel and Go Phightins! succeeded The ed17 as editors-in-chief, followed by Pete Forsyth in 2016 and Evad37 in 2017. After reporting on the changes to European freedom of panorama law in June 2015, The Signpost was referred to by a number of publications for further information.

The Signpost has been the subject of academic analysis in Sociological Forum, the social-movements journal Interface, and the New Review of Academic Librarianship, and was consulted for data on Misplaced Pages by researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory and Dartmouth College. It has been covered by The New York Times, The Register, Nonprofit Quarterly, and Heise Online. The book Misplaced Pages: The Missing Manual called The Signpost essential reading for ambitious new Misplaced Pages editors.

History

Casually dressed young man
Signpost founder Michael Snow later chaired the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees.

The online newspaper, first published in January 2005 as The Misplaced Pages Signpost, was later renamed The Signpost. It was founded by Michael Snow, a Wikipedian and later chair of the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees. Similar efforts had been made with Misplaced Pages:Announcements by Larry Sanger on November 20, 2001, Wikimedia News on Meta-Wiki November 14, 2002, and Misplaced Pages-Kurier in the German Misplaced Pages on December 10, 2003.

Snow wrote in its first issue: "I hope this will be a worthwhile source of news for people interested in what is happening around the Misplaced Pages community", and said that The Signpost's name was suggested by the Misplaced Pages practice of editors digitally signing talk-page posts. He stepped down as editor of The Signpost in August 2005, continuing to write for the newspaper until his February 2008 appointment to the Board of Trustees. Ral315 succeeded Snow as editor, writing in his first post: "I'd like to personally thank Michael for his work on the Signpost; it was a great idea that really helped Wikipedians learn more about the happenings on Misplaced Pages." He conducted a survey for The Signpost in September 2007, estimating a weekly readership of approximately 2,800 Misplaced Pages users based on survey results.

In July 2008, user Ral315 wrote about transparency for The Signpost, acknowledging that at the request of the Wikimedia Foundation, the newspaper had decided not to publish an article about a pending legal case against the foundation. According to the editor, "I feel this was an unfortunate, but necessary move"; because of the newspaper's affiliation with the Wikimedia Foundation, an article about the lawsuit "might have had a severe effect on the case." Ral315 expressed concern about the future impact of the decision: "I'm still rather troubled by the very nature of this situation, because it was the first time that I've felt pressured by the Wikimedia Foundation not to write or publish a story. This also leaves us with a dangerous precedent that I'm hoping only to keep in the most serious cases."

People sitting around a long table with laptop computers
Misplaced Pages community members working on The Signpost at a conference in New York City, 2009

The Signpost published its 200th issue in November 2008. A total of 1,731 articles had been published, written by 181 contributors. Misplaced Pages user Ragesoss took over as editor of the newspaper in February 2009, in an issue which featured a new layout. Ragesoss resigned as editor in June 2010, and HaeB took over as the newspaper debated changing its name from The Misplaced Pages Signpost to The Signpost. That year, sister Misplaced Pages publications managed by volunteer contributors included The Misplaced Pages Weekly, a podcast, and The Wikizine, a news bulletin.

HaeB resigned as editor after he was hired by the Wikimedia Foundation in July 2011: "It would make it too much of a conflict of interest if I were to continue to make final editorial decisions for a community-run publication." After three interim editors-in-chief, Misplaced Pages user The ed17 took over in May 2012 as The Signpost's eighth editor. He previously edited The Bugle, the publication of the WikiProject dedicated to improving the encyclopedia's military history articles. The International Business Times noted in a 2013 article that The Signpost's investigative journalism uncovered a link between the Wiki-PR firm and conflict-of-interest editing on Misplaced Pages.

Blacked-out London Eye Ferris wheel, illustrating the effect of removing freedom of panorama
2015 reporting by The Signpost on changes to freedom of panorama copyright restrictions in Europe was covered by publications in several languages, including German, Italian, Polish, and Russian.

After its June 2015 reporting on the likelihood of increased copyright restrictions in Europe involving changes to freedom of panorama, The Signpost was consulted for information by publications in several languages, including English, German, Italian, Polish, and Russian.

Black smoke coming from the Sistine Chapel chimney before the election of Pope Benedict XVI
Heise Online highlighted the use of a papal conclave image in a Signpost article about controversy with Wikimedia Foundation executive director Lila Tretikov, saying that it symbolized pressure on the foundation's Board of Trustees.

Misplaced Pages users Gamaliel and Go Phightins! became editors-in-chief of The Signpost in January 2015. The ed17 noted that during his tenure, the newspaper expanded its scope beyond the English Misplaced Pages to the wider Wikimedia movement. In a January 2015 tenth-anniversary retrospective, Gamaliel emphasized that further improvements to the newspaper depended on collaboration and involvement by the Misplaced Pages community and invited users to contribute suggestions and join the editing team. In their first issue of the newspaper as editors-in-chief, Go Phightins! and Gamaliel wrote about the unique role of The Signpost: "We will strive to maintain our voice and standing as an independent entity, separate from the WMF, Wikimedia chapters, WikiEd, or other entities."

In January 2016, Fortune and Ars Technica relied on The Signpost in reporting a vote of no confidence by Misplaced Pages editors against Arnnon Geshuri joining the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. While reporting in February 2016 about controversy and confusion at the Wikimedia Foundation concerning executive director Lila Tretikov remaining in her position, The Signpost illustrated its article with a photo of black smoke emanating from a chimney in reference to the papal conclave used to select a pope. According to Heise Online, the photo indicated pressure on the board to take action. Andreas Kolbe wrote for The Signpost "that the creation of a successful search engine would transform volunteers into 'unpaid hamsters.'"

Content

The Signpost publishes stories relating to the Misplaced Pages community, the Wikimedia Foundation, and other Misplaced Pages-related projects, and is provided free of charge. The Misplaced Pages community manages the newspaper. From 2005 to March 2016, The Signpost was published on a weekly basis. In April 2016, the nominal periodicity was changed to "fortnightly" (every two weeks) due to a shortage of contributors. But in January and February 2017 only three issues were published, and none in March, April or May. It is now published monthly. Readers may choose to be notified of a new issue by email or, with a Misplaced Pages account, on their user talk page.

The newspaper informs Misplaced Pages editors about ongoing collaborative projects to improve articles on the site, and is a location for centralized notices of recent academic studies about Misplaced Pages. The Signpost includes an arbitration report, formerly known as "The Report on Lengthy Litigation", which details proceedings by Misplaced Pages's Arbitration Committee.

The Signpost archives are publicly available, facilitating study of the history of Misplaced Pages.

Analysis

In a 2009 article in the peer-reviewed academic journal, Sociological Forum, Piotr Konieczny called The Signpost an example of a subcommunity within the larger Misplaced Pages community. In the social-movements journal Interface that year, Konieczny cited The Signpost as part of the "complexity and richness of those organizations" in which individuals can volunteer their time on the website.

Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory and Dartmouth College relied on Signpost archives to track Misplaced Pages editing outages, presenting their findings at the 2011 IEEEIWIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence. In her 2013 study of Misplaced Pages and its reputation in higher education in the journal New Review of Academic Librarianship, Gemma Bayliss reviewed the Signpost Twitter feed to confirm the timeliness of her research.

Reception

If you expect to continue editing at Misplaced Pages ... subscribe to ... The Misplaced Pages Signpost.

 —John Broughton, Misplaced Pages: The Missing Manual

In 2007 The New York Times called The Signpost a "mocked-up newspaper", with a retro style characteristic of Misplaced Pages and "its own special brand of kitsch". In his 2008 book, Misplaced Pages: The Missing Manual, John Broughton recommended The Signpost as essential reading for aspiring Misplaced Pages contributors: "If you expect to continue editing at Misplaced Pages for any length of time, by all means subscribe to ... The Misplaced Pages Signpost."

Fortune called The Signpost "Misplaced Pages's insider newspaper". In a 2016 article The Register's executive editor, Andrew Orlowski, described The Signpost as "Misplaced Pages's own plucky newsletter." According to Ars Technica tech-policy editor Joe Mullin, documents were leaked to (and published by) The Signpost about the Knight Foundation's Knowledge Engine grant for a Wikimedia Foundation search-engine project in February 2016. Writing about the Knowledge Engine controversy, Nonprofit Quarterly editor-in-chief Ruth McCambridge directed technically-minded readers to The Signpost "to better understand what was being planned." In his article for the German magazine Heise Online, Torsten Kleinz wrote: "When official communications ground to a halt, The Signpost ... jumped into the breach, brought unknown facts to light and initiated an informed discussion."

See also

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