A RSS/Atom feed would be great. Thanks, MarianoC.-
PS: I know, the page's history's RSS would do, but you'd get every single change to the page instead of the weekly update. --- El mar 3-ago-10, Wikipedia Signpost <[email protected]> escribió: > De: Wikipedia Signpost <[email protected]> > Asunto: [Foundation-l] Announcing new "Signpost" issues on this list > Para: [email protected] > Fecha: martes, 3 de agosto de 2010, 20:56 > Hi all, > > some of you might know the "Signpost", a community-written > and > community-edited newspaper, based on the English Wikipedia > and > covering stories, events and reports related to Wikipedia, > its sister > projects and the Wikimedia Foundation: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/About > > The first issue came out on January 10, 2005 and it has > been appearing > (more or less) weekly ever since then, with a new issue due > every > Monday. > > While coverage of events on the English Wikipedia forms an > important > part of the "Signpost", our "News and notes", "In the news" > and > "Technology Report" sections regularly contain many news > items that > are relevant for other Wikipedias, or all Foundation > projects. In June > (around the time when Sage Ross left as editor-in-chief to > take up his > current job at the WMF, and I stepped into the breach), we > had a lot > of discussions about new ideas for the Signpost, including > proposals > to provide translations of our Foundation-wide coverage, or > even > moving it to Meta. While this still seemed a bit ambitious, > there was > consensus to emphasize our interwiki coverage more, and it > was > subsequently renamed from "Wikipedia Signpost" to > "Signpost". > [Commercial break: If you are an experienced member of a > WMF > project/community and would like to contribute to one of > our "Sister > project" stories, covering its history, characteristics and > recent > major events, contact us at this email address or at > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:POST/TIPS > .] And at Wikimania last > month, I talked to a lot of Wikimedians who are not > primarily active > on the English Wikipedia, but nevertheless know, read and > appreciate > the Signpost. > > On the other hand, there is currently no other independent > publication > (at least not in English) which regularly covers or > summarizes > WMF-related news. Wikizine was very informative and even > had several > translated editions, but has been inactive since the > beginning of this > year. Wikipedia Weekly was a well-informed podcast > disussing much > Foundation news, but there hasn't been a new episode since > October > 2009. Veterans might recall the Wikimedia Quarto, which had > some > excellent content and was widely translated, but stopped > after three > issues in 2004/2005. Of course there are other things which > are useful > for staying up to date, like the blog planets or Phoebe's > earlier list > summaries for this list, but they don't replace > journalism-style news > reporting. > > Following a suggestion by Phoebe, I am going to try out > sending > announcements of new Signpost issues to this list, > containing brief > headline summaries and links (see accompanying posting for > the current > issue). We hope that this will provide valuable and > on-topic > information for people interested in the kind of topics > that are being > discussed here, and perhaps it could also help to get more > people > involved in providing reader-oriented coverage of news from > WMF > projects to the whole Wikimedia community. > > Regards, HaeB > > -- > Wikipedia Signpost Staff > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
