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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{{Wikipedia ads}}, a plain one is #17, for RFC. Done Done{{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 09:17, 9 June 2017 (UTC)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.
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. |
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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We can recognize Signpost contributors at:
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 |
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 (
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