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And someone will help you put it in the correct location. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 00:42, 11 April 2019 (UTC)Reply
How was this made? What is the source of all these old records?
I have sometimes seen a newsletter effort come and go but what a trap all this is! So much labor and likely so few readers, with so little hope of being sustained! Anyone thinking of starting a newsletter should have access to this to see the barriers they will face. Blue Rasberry (talk) 13:31, 11 April 2019 (UTC)Reply
I've made a posttoWikipedia:Village pump (idea lab) suggesting the development of a Meta-focused weekly newsletter, partly performing a new role unrelated to existing newsletters and partly filling the void left by the Signpost's recent change to become a monthly publication. Talk page watchers might be interested in that, or perhaps this talk page would be a better place to have that discussion (the idea lab page doesn't seem to be particularly active at the moment). Jc86035 (talk) 18:30, 8 May 2019 (UTC)Reply
See Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/About.
The Signpost is a monthly community-written and -edited online newspaper covering the English Wikipedia, its sister projects, the Wikimedia Foundation, and the Wikimedia movement at large. The original name of the newspaper was The Wikipedia Signpost; it was shortened to the The Signpost in August 2010 as a symbol of an expansion in scope beyond the English Wikipedia.
We have been a Newspaper for almost 15 years. See Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-01-10/From the editor, the 1st issue.
The name, The Wikipedia Signpost, was chosen to be like the name of a newspaper, since a newspaper is what I would call this project
and five other uses of the word "newspaper" in the first "From the editor" compared to no (zero) uses of "newsletter".
All this might seem like a tempest in a teacup - what's the difference between a newspaper and a newsletter? First, we've always been a newspaper, which implies that we're doing journalism. We self-identify as a newspaper. If we identify as a newspaper, rather than a newsletter, people should respect that and not do original research to impose their own POV.
Being a newsletter would imply that we simply collect press releases and similar from the official sources, e.g. the WMF, and reprint summaries. That's a PR type of operation that we don't identify with. There are no "official" sources on enwiki as far as we are concerned. We don't take orders from the WMF, ArbCom, admins, etc. We're an independent newspaper that reports on these entities.
Smallbones(smalltalk) 12:34, 11 November 2019 (UTC)Reply
Editor-in-chief
The Signpost
Definition of newsletter: a small publication (such as a leaflet or newspaper) containing news of interest chiefly to a special group
- Merriam Webster
Try "Sources for news" or "News sources" for the title. Smallbones(smalltalk) 22:37, 11 November 2019 (UTC)Reply
I agree with Headbomb that newsletters are not just collections of press releases or reprints (both in the real world, where some companies have specific staff generating new content, and on English Wikipedia, where for example WikiProject newsletters are neither), and can overlap in meaning with newspaper (think of a community newsletter, or the history of the printing press in distributing missives on topics of interest). If a different title is desired, however, how about "periodical"? Also, instead of "Signpost-like" as a category (which curiously omits the actual Signpost), how about "General news", or "News magazine"? isaacl (talk) 19:31, 19 November 2019 (UTC)Reply
I've gone through and checked all of the "active" newsletters in this template, and added edit-notes of their latest activity. Any that hadn't been updated since 2020 were moved to "inactive" (except for a couple that seemed like they were currently working on new issues). At present, only a few are active: 11 en.wp newsletters and 9 WikiProject newsletters. jp×g 04:10, 5 December 2021 (UTC)Reply
Wikipediapodden is a weekly podcast in Swedish with the recurring sections "News on Swedish Wikipedia", "International news", "Article of the week", and "Meetups". Occasionally, there are special interview episodes in English. Would that fit in this template, even though it is not a letter per se? For full disclosure, I am one of the recurring hosts of the podcast. Ainali (talk) 18:53, 20 March 2024 (UTC)Reply