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Featured content Real gangsters move in silence
2023-12-04
Quite literally, and other fascinating featured articles, pictures and lists
Gallery Before and After: Why you don't need to know how to restore images to make massive improvements
2023-10-23
The benefits of research.
Featured content Yo, ho! Blow the man down!
2023-10-23
These titles never make much sense even at the best of times, so why not be random?
In the media Taking it sleazy
2023-08-31
"Poli", which means "many", and "tics", which means "under-the-table Wikipedia article whitewashing campaigns".
Tips and tricks How to find images for your articles, check their copyright, upload them, and restore them
2023-08-15
Because one gets some secondary skills when one has 645 featured pictures,
In the media An accusation of bias from Brazil, a lawsuit from Portugal, plagiarism from Florida
2023-08-15
Harsh words from problematic fave Glenn Greenwald.
Featured content Featured Content, 1 to 15 July
2023-08-01
Due to unfortunate events, this issue is published as is, in its unfinished state
Featured content Scrollin', scrollin', scrollin', keep those readers scrollin', got to keep on scrollin', Rawhide!
2023-07-17
In which choices have been made™.
Featured content Incensed
2023-07-03
In which featured pictures have a pleasing orange/blue colour scheme for some reason.
Featured content Poetry under pressure
2023-06-05
Now is not this ridiculous, and is not this preposterous? A thorough-paced absurdity - explain it if you can.
Featured content A very musical week for featured articles
2023-05-22
Bird is the word for featured pictures
Featured content I wrote a poem for each article, I found rhymes for all the lists;
My first featured picture of this year now finally exists!
My first featured picture of this year now finally exists!
2023-05-08
...Layout lovers will hate this featured content's title.
Arbitration report "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" approaches conclusion
2023-05-08
There will likely be more to say next issue.
Special report Signpost statistics between years 2005 and 2022
2023-04-26
Signpost statistics statistics from 2005 to 2022: In this article, we will look at The Signpost statistics. More precisely: Signpost article statistics by year, TOP 20 titles of Signpost articles, TOP 20 article authors, and the home wikis of article authors.
Featured content In which we described the featured articles in rhyme again
2023-04-26
And somehow made it more readable than when it's not rhyming.
From the archives April Fools' through the ages
2023-04-03
A retrospective of the best and worst pranks.
Featured content Hail, poetry! Thou heav'n-born maid
2023-04-03
Thou gildest e'en the Signpost's trade.
In the media Paid editing, plagiarism payouts, proponents of a ploy, and people peeved at perceived preferences
2023-03-20
Everything is broken, again.
Technology report Second flight of the Soviet space bears: Testing ChatGPT's accuracy
2023-03-09
Using failed AI Galactica's worst mistakes to test a new AI.
In the media What should Wikipedia do? Publish Russian propaganda? Be less woke? Cover the Holocaust in Poland differently?
2023-03-09
Probable answers: No, no, maybe?
From the archives Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
2023-03-09
Wikizine, Wikipedia Zero, Single User Login, and Wales allegedly editing his girlfriend's article.
Featured content In which over two-thirds of the featured articles section needs to be copied over to WikiProject Military History's newsletter
2023-03-09
Thanks to the vagaries of the fortnightly schedule, I can already tell next issue's is going to be a bit overpacked
News and notes Terms of Use update, Steward elections, and Wikipedia back in Pakistan
2023-02-20
UCoC Enforcement Guidelines pass, Wikimedia Enterprise financials, GPTs gone wild, and a speedy deletion criterion removed.
In the media Arbitrators open case after article alleges Wikipedia "intentionally distorts" Holocaust coverage
2023-02-20
Also: Russ Baker's BLP, the digital commons, the NSA, and more on Pakistan.
From the archives 5, 10, and 15 years ago: Let's (not) delete the Main Page!
2023-02-20
Also: let's delete images of Muhammed! Let's delete portals!
Cobwebs Editorial: The loss of the moral high ground
2023-02-20
Yesterday's controversies, reported on today.
Featured content 20,000 Featureds under the Sea
2023-02-04
An exceptionally good period for featured articles.
In the media Court orders user data in libel case, Saudi Wikipedia in the crosshairs, Larry Sanger at it again
2023-01-16
Wikipedia's birthday, a cute dog, and nipplefruit.
Gallery What is our responsibility when it comes to images?
2023-01-16
When notability conflicts with what it might be used for.
From the archives Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
2023-01-16
The editor with five million edits, the death of Aaron Swartz, and rollback.
Featured content Flip your lid
2023-01-16
...and your ambigram. Also: Boring lava fields, birds of Tuvalu, and commelinid family names with etymologies.
From the archives Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
2023-01-01
Photographers, Sandy Hook, the shocking use of Nazi symbols in articles about Nazis, and "You wouldn't recognise a fact if it bit you in the ass".
Featured content Would you like to swing on a star?
2023-01-01
You head into the featured content report. Amongst the features you see astronauts, both Gilbert and Sullivan, Ursula K. Le Guin's incredibly talented mother, and Billboard charts. It is pitch black, you are likely to be eaten by a grue.
CommonsComix #4: The Course of WikiEmpire
2023-01-01
In which a couple sentences of text recontextualises an image.
Technology report Galactic dreams, encyclopedic reality
2022-11-28
Facebook's Galactica demo provides a case study in large language models for text generation at scale: this one was silly, but we cannot ignore them forever.
Obituary A tribute to Michael Gäbler
2022-11-28
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
News and notes English Wikipedia editors: "We don't need no stinking banners"
2022-11-28
Joe Roe's close sows dough woes, manifestos... vetoes? overthrows?
From the archives Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
2022-11-28
Search upgrades, lawsuits, paid editing, and personal reflection.
Featured content A great month for featured articles
2022-11-28
Do consider joining FPC, though: we need you.
Disinformation report Missed and Dissed
2022-11-28
Are government goons prowling our fair encyclopedia?
CommonsComix Joker's trick
2022-11-28
A toast to good health, a health to good hoax, a hoax to good toast.
From the archives Paid advocacy, a lawsuit over spelling mistakes, deleting Jimbo's article, and the death of Toolserver
2022-10-31
What tales echo in these hallowed halls.
Featured content Farm-fresh content
2022-09-30
This month: A FACBot upgrade, a completed list of lists.
Gallery A Fringe Affair (but not the show by Edward W. Feery that was on this year)
2022-08-31
Edinburgh in August.
From the archives 5, 10, and 15 years ago
2022-08-31
The Signpost looks back on The Signpost: New reports, conceived in a spirit of collaboration, and dedicated to the proposition of information and, uh, more information for all.
Featured content Our man drills are safe for work, but our Labia is Fausta.
2022-08-31
Also includes a campaign to "Suck for Luck".
In the media Censorship, medieval hoaxes, "pathetic supervillains", FB-WMF AI TL bid, dirty duchess deeds done dirt cheap
2022-08-01
Real news or silly season?
Gallery A backstage pass
2022-08-01
All the things about theatre that the general public misses out on.
Opinion Picture of the Day – how Adam plans to ru(i)n it
2022-06-26
Famed FP ace steps up to run main page outfit. Millions tremble in fear, or something.
Featured content Articles on Scots' clash, Yank's tux, Austrian's action flick deemed brilliant prose
2022-06-26
And who can forget the black-breasted buttonquail.
Featured content Featured content of April
2022-05-29
Featured Content of April: Showcasing the very best articles, pictures, videos, and other contributions from Wikipedians last month.
Featured content A Love of Knowledge, for Valentine's Day
2021-02-28
Stealing your heart, and Charles Darwin's notebooks.
Featured content New Year, same Featured Content report!
2021-01-31
...Except we changed the articles and pictures. Mostly.
Featured content Very nearly ringing in the New Year with "Blank Space" – but we got there in time.
2020-12-28
Very nearly ringing in the New Year with "Blank Space" – but we got there in time: Texas amphibia, mongeese, and Normandy invasion plans grateful.
Wikicup report Lee Vilenski wins the 2020 WikiCup
2020-11-29
Gog the Mild and The Rambling Man in second and third!
Featured content Frontonia sp. is thankful for delicious cyanobacteria
2020-11-29
The Réunion swamphen is a lot less thankful.
Featured content The "Green Terror" is neither green nor sufficiently terrifying. Worst Hallowe'en ever.
2020-11-01
A hairy starfish flower might help!
Wikicup WikiCup report
2016-11-04
WikiCup winners: Winners of the tenth annual WikiCup competition announced and profiled
WikiCup report First round of the WikiCup finishes
2016-03-09
Your detailed look at one of Wikipedia's largest contests.
Featured content When angels and daemons interrupt the vicious and intemperate
2015-07-15
One featured article, seven featured lists, and 14 featured pictures were promoted this week.
Featured content Pyrénées, Playmates, parliament and a prison...
2015-07-08
12 featured articles, 2 featured lists, and 15 featured pictures were promoted this week.
Featured content One eye when begun, two when it's done
2015-06-24
Four articles and nine pictures were promoted to featured status this week.
Featured content Great Dane hits 150
2015-06-17
Six featured articles, seven featured lists, and seven featured pictures were promoted this week.
Featured content Just the bear facts, ma'am
2015-06-10
Four featured articles, two featured lists, one featured topic, and twenty-eight featured pictures were promoted this week.
Featured content It's not over till the fat man sings
2015-06-03
Two featured articles and ten featured pictures were promoted this week.
Featured content Four first-time featured article writers lead the way
2015-05-13
Eight articles, one list, and five pictures were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia in a slow week.
Featured content The amorous android and the horsebreeder; WikiCup round two concludes
2015-05-06
Seven articles, three lists, and ten pictures were promoted to "featured" status this week. The second round of the WikiCup has ended.
Featured content Apartheid and related topics, awards and accolades, and a bunch of tough journeys
2015-04-29
Ten featured articles, nine featured lists, and twenty-eight featured pictures were promoted this week.
Featured content Vanguard on guard
2015-04-22
Six featured articles and fifteen featured pictures were promoted this week.
Featured content Au-delà des Alpes, la chienlit de Saint-Bernard. Sous les pavés, les trimes d'argent ! Mes enfants, suivez-moi !
2015-04-15
Au-delà de les Alpes, le chien lit de Sainte Bernard. Sous les pavés, les trimes d'argent! Mes enfants, suivez-moi!: Six featured articles, four featured lists, and fourteen featured pictures were promoted this week.
Featured content Partisan arrangements, dodgy dollars, a mysterious union of strings, and a hole that became a monument
2015-04-08
Four featured articles, seven featured lists, and 23 featured pictures were promoted this week.
Featured content Stop Press. Marie Celeste Mystery Solved. Crew Found Hiding In Wardrobe.
2015-04-01
Six featured articles, first featured lists, and twenty-four featured pictures were promoted this week.
Featured content Here they come, the couple plighted –
2015-03-11
Here they come, the couple plighted –: Six featured articles, three featured lists, and forty featured pictures were promoted this week.
Featured content Ploughing fields and trading horses with Rosa Bonheur
2015-03-04
Two featured articles, four featured lists, and 38 featured pictures were promoted this week..
Featured content The Moon, Mars, Venus, and Saturn, in no particular order. Also, Kaiser Kong.
2015-02-25
Eleven articles and twenty pictures were promoted in the week covered by this report.
Featured content A load of bull-sized breakfast behind the restaurant, Koi feeding, a moray eel, Spaghetti Nebula and other fishy, fishy fish
2015-02-18
A load of bull-sized breakfast behind the restaurant, Koi feeding, a moray eel, Spaghetti Nebula and other fishy, fishy fish: Five pictures, six lists, and seventeen pictures were promoted
Featured content A grizzly bear, Operation Mascot, Freedom Planet & Liberty Island, cosmic dust clouds, a cricket five-wicket list, more fine art, & a terrible, terrible opera...
2015-02-11
Two articles, three lists, and twenty five pictures became featured.
Featured content It's raining men!
2015-02-04
It's raining men!: Three featured articles, five featured lists, and thirty-nine featured images were promoted this week.
Featured content Like Jack Kerouac's On The Road, this week's issue was written on amphetamines
2015-01-28
Ten featured articles, three featured lists, and 22 featured images were promoted this week.
Featured content Yachts, marmots, boat races, and a rocket engineer who attempted to birth a goddess
2015-01-21
Nine articles, one list, and ten pictures were promoted.
Featured content Citations are needed
2015-01-14
Citations are needed: Six featured articles, five featured lists, and sixteen featured pictures were promoted this week.
Featured content A bit fruity
2014-12-31
Three articles, three lists, fifteen pictures, and one topic were promoted.
Featured content Tripping hither, tripping thither, Nobody knows why or whither; We must dance and we must sing, Round about our fairy ring!
2014-12-17
And other featured content.
Featured content Honour him, love and obey? Good idea with military leaders.
2014-12-10
And other featured content.
Featured content ABCD: Any Body Can Dance!
2014-12-03
And the feelings of a young man about to go to war! Yeh, is he not afraid?
Featured content Orbital Science: Now you're thinking with explosions
2014-11-26
Four articles, four lists, eleven pictures, and one topic were promoted.
Featured content To Canaan via Jordan
2014-11-19
Two articles, five lists, and twenty-six featured pictures are noted in this week's report, along with disclosures about many movies that our correspondent hasn't seen.
Featured content Wikipedia goes to church in Lithuania
2014-11-12
Nine articles, two lists, and 55 featured pictures were promoted during the week of 26 October.
Featured content Go West, young man (By the way, there is a monster at the end of this article)
2014-10-29
Go West, young man: By the way, there is a monster at the end of this article
Featured content Admiral on deck—a modern Ada Lovelace
2014-10-22
Four articles, four lists, and fifty-three pictures were promoted to featured status.
Featured content Bells ring out at the Temple of the Dragon at Peace
2014-10-15
Nine articles and twenty-six pictures were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia.
Featured content From a wordless novel to a coat of arms via New York City
2014-10-08
2 Featured articles, 4 Featured lists, 62 Featured pictures, and 2 Featured portals were promoted.
Featured content Oil paintings galore
2014-09-24
Six articles, four lists, one topic, and 17 pictures were promoted to "featured" status this week on the English Wikipedia.
Featured content Which is not like the others?
2014-09-17
Four articles, two lists, and 51 pictures were promoted to "featured" status this week on the English Wikipedia.
Featured content The louse and the fish's tongue
2014-09-10
The amazing and strange tongue-eating louse replacing a fish's tongue! Because isopods, the subject of a new featured article, are both awesome and really damn weird!
Featured content 1882 × 6 in gold, and thruppence more
2014-09-03
1882 × 5 in gold, and thruppence more: Two articles, one list, and ten pictures were promoted
Featured content Cheats at Featured Pictures!
2014-08-27
Sixteen articles, five lists, five pictures, and one topic were promoted.
Featured content English Wikipedia departs for Japan
2014-08-20
Ten articles and three pictures were promoted to featured status last week.
Featured content Cambridge got a lot of attention this week
2014-08-13
Cambridge got a lot of attention this week: Eight article, six lists, and two topics were promoted to featured status last week.
Featured content Bottoms, asses, and the fairies that love them
2014-08-06
Bottoms, asses, and the fairies that love them: Eight articles, fifteen pictures, and two topics were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia last week.
Featured content Skeletons and Skeltons
2014-07-30
Two articles, four lists, and seven pictures attained featured status on the English Wikipedia last week.
Featured content Why, they're plum identical!
2014-07-23
Ten articles, five lists, and 25 pictures were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia last week.
Wikicup Wikicup's third round sees money, space, battleships and more
2014-07-09
After an extremely close race, round three is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years—321 was required in 2013, and 243 points in 2012.
Featured content Three cheers for featured pictures!
2014-07-09
Five articles, six lists, and nine pictures were promoted to 'featured' status last week on the English Wikipedia.
Featured content Ship-shape
2014-07-02
Six articles, five lists, seventeen pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
Featured content Showing our Wörth
2014-06-25
Ten articles and eleven pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
Featured content Worming our way to featured picture
2014-06-18
Five articles, five lists, 22 pictures, and one portal were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.
Featured content Politics, ships, art, and cyclones
2014-06-11
Five articles, one list, twelve pictures, and one topic were promoted to 'featured' status last week on the English Wikipedia.
Featured content Ye stately homes of England
2014-06-04
David Iliff, or Diliff, as he is known on here outside of the file pages for his many, many, excellent photographs, is one of Wikipedia's longest-standing professional-standard photographers. This week, the Signpost salutes him.
Featured content Zombie fight in the saloon
2014-05-28
Wikipedia editor Sven Manguard's work is quite underappreciated a lot of the time, most likely because people haven't heard of it yet: He's developed good relationships with game companies, and is thus able to get full-resolution screenshots released under a Creative Commons license for use on Wikipedia and elsewhere. This week's trove of new featured items on the English Wikipedia comprises seven articles, three lists, and four pictures.
Featured content Staggering number of featured articles
2014-05-21
Thirteen articles, sixteen pictures, and one topic were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.
Featured content On the rocks
2014-05-14
Six articles, seven lists, and four pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week.
WikiCup 2014 WikiCup enters round three
2014-05-07
Round 3 of the 2014 WikiCup has just begun; 32 competitors remain.
Featured content Wikipedia at the Rijksmuseum
2014-05-07
Four articles, two lists, and five pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.
Featured content Browsing behaviours
2014-04-30
Four articles and sixteen featured pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.
Featured content There was I, waiting at the church
2014-04-23
Fourteen articles, four lists, seven pictures, and one topic attained "featured" status on the English Wikipedia over the last two weeks.
Featured content Snow heater and Ash sweep
2014-04-09
Snow heater and Ash sweep: Five article, five lists, and ten pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.
Featured content April Fools
2014-04-02
The Signpost<nowiki/>'s "Featured content" writers had a bit of fun this week.
Featured content Winter hath a beauty that is all his own
2014-03-26
Four articles, two lists, and twelve pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
Featured content Spot the bulldozer
2014-03-19
Twelve articles, fourteen lists, and six pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.
Featured content Ukraine burns
2014-03-12
Five articles, two lists, and 52 pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
Technology report What can Wikidata do for Wikipedia?
2013-09-18
In this week's "Technology report", we look at how the growth of Wikidata can benefit Wikipedia. Gerard Meijssen is a highly active contributor and frequent blogger about Wikidata. We asked him to share his thoughts on how the new project benefits Wikipedia.
Technology report Making Wikipedia more accessible
2013-09-04
In this week's "Technology report", we explore ways of making Wikipedia more accessible to users of screen readers. Graham87 is a highly active contributor who is also blind and accesses the site through a screen reader.
Featured content Bridging the way to a Peasants' Revolt
2013-09-04
Four articles, four lists, and eight pictures were promoted to 'featured' status this week on the English Wikipedia
Technology report Gallery improvements launch on Wikipedia
2013-08-28
Wikipedia's traditional image gallery format, produced by the markup, has remained largely unchanged for years. The resulting layout, seen below, does not adapt well to variations in image size, and has been characterized by some critics as aesthetically unappealing.
Technology report Generating musical scores with LilyPond
2013-08-21
Thanks to a new MediaWiki extension, editors can now use the popular LilyPond format to embed musical scores in articles.
Op-ed It's time to stop pretending the English-language Wikinews is a viable project
2013-07-10
This is Wikinews' fundamental problem: it can neither do a good job providing a summary of world news, nor does it have any special focus that it does well. It's a collection of random articles, with only the occasional, passing resemblance to important current events.