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There are other ways to subscribe here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Subscribe 2010/8/4 Mariano Cecowski <[email protected]>: > 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 > -- Jon Harald Søby http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
