Hello from the editors of The Signpost! Wikipedia is the encyclopedia which anyone can edit, and The Signpost is your Wikipedia community newsletter in which you are invited to share news and your views on the events and issues which affect the way that people read and edit Wikipedia. The new development at this time is that The Signpost is only accepting submissions which were entirely created by humans and not by artificial intelligence. If you are a human writer who feels strongly about this for any reason, then we invite you to submit an opinion piece sharing your views at The Signpost newsroom submission desk.

Now is a good time to review that The Signpost invites all Wikipedia community members to participate in sharing user perspectives and news in The Signpost. There are two directions for your participation: content creation and administering the newspaper.

If you have an article or views to share, then briefly in a sentence or two, describe your idea at the submissions desk, and get some feedback on when and how we help support you in developing your article. Editors try to make writing submissions accessible to everyone. Signpost readers love getting any stories about how their fellow Wikipedia editors develop the encyclopedia with any particular process, or in any specific topical field. Also if you have a hot take on a news story, Wikipedia community policy discussion, or Arbitration Committee ruling, then show gratitude for your right of self-expression by exercising it with a submission here. Whatever you are doing in Wikipedia, regardless of how experienced you are, if you tell it as a story, then other Wikipedians want to hear you tell that story. Just please do it without AI, and as usual, WP:Be nice.

If you want to join in the administration of The Signpost, then thanks for preserving journalism, and jump in by posting at the newsroom talk page. Every role that exists in any conventional publishing house also exists in The Signpost, and you are invited to serve in any of those roles. Helpful options include the following:

• Identifying interesting people doing interesting things in the Wikimedia platform, then recruiting them to make a submission about their project for publication. Discussion reports and updates from WikiProjects are always in demand.
• Identifying the most heated controversies in Wikipedia discussion forums, and coordinating participants to summarize those in The Signpost's "News and Notes" Column
• Watching for external media mentions in off-wiki journalism, and summarizing any one of those in The Signpost's "In the media" column
• Joining the editorial teams putting together any of Signpost's other regular columns, including the Traffic Report, Featured Content, Arbitration Report, Research Report, or any other column
• Helping to encourage and support people who make submissions for publication
• Joining in the editorial discussions on the newsroom talk page
• Standing by to give opinion when The Signpost has one of its frequent ethical dilemmas, like how to react to the technological horror of the month, or which side to take in a dilemma, or generally how to manage situations where we need to get news out and it is impossible to do it without some harm to someone

Having more editors in the newsroom, even if you only contribute just once a year, gives more stability to The Signpost in a time when journalism is under existential threat. If unforeseen crisis ever occurs and we lose The Signpost as an information channel for sharing news by Wikipedians, for Wikipedians, then it could happen that we do not establish a replacement. The Wikipedia community includes many information social networks for information sharing, and also there are off-wiki private communication forums. The Wikimedia Foundation publishes its own statements from a corporate and foundation perspective. However, as the English Wikipedia article for The Signpost describes, since 2005 this newspaper has been the channel by means of which Wikipedia editors share news for fun and also formalize whatever common, shared knowledge we want to establish in the public record. The Signpost routinely encounters all of the social and ethical decisions which occur in journalism, plus all the additional tough decisions which happen in Very Large Online Platforms (VLOP). Please remember Wikipedia's position in society: we are the only nonprofit VLOP, the only VLOP which is self-governed by its own user community, and the only VLOP which openly discusses its own social and ethical dilemmas publicly with the world. We are fortunate to have have community publications like the The Signpost when users wish to coordinate and organize to uplift and present the volunteer views of the Wikipedia community.

At this time, given the state of technology and society, The Signpost editors need to enforce the hard and practical decision to keep The Signpost for humans, by humans, and feeling human. Please as a human with your own brain and hands write every single word in any submission you make to The Signpost or any comment that you bring to the newsroom. Thanks.