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• Everyone interested in Signpost matters is invited to join the IRC channel #wikisignpost.^(webchat)

• I'm working on a "Quotation workshop" tutorial-like page for content writers generally. I will use some examples from The Signpost, which needs to manage quotations intensively. At this stage, could I quote here something I'll use on that page; it's a fragment from the "Ten rules for writing" by Elmore Leonard, American crime fiction writer, on which he was interviewed last year on ABC Radio National:

  "Never use a verb other than 'said' to carry dialogue'. Not 'stated', not 'declared', not 'exclaimed' ".

  PS, on exclamation points, you might be amused to hear his view: "I say you're allowed three per 100,000 words". :-) Tony (talk) 05:18, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

• I have created a template for use on Signpsot articles when they are undergoing a major edit. Please note the parameters: {{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Inuse|user=[[User:Example|Example]]}}. Regards, Rock drum _Ba-dum^Crash _{(Driving well?)} 13:28, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

• Thanks to everyone who contributed to this week's issue! Two remarks:
  • Publication time: After managing to keep it within Monday during the first half of this month, we have unfortunately slipped back deep into Tuesday with the last two issues. The main reason was, as on earlier occasions, the lack of designated writers for "In the news" and (especially) "News and notes" sections. In the end, we managed to put together some pretty good coverage of all the important news (only some smaller items, e.g. from the tip line, slipped through the cracks), thanks to Forty Two, Resident Mario and the others who stepped into the breach on Tuesday. But we do need good writers who each week try to cover the essential news by Sunday evening.
  • Arbitration Report: Following this discussion, I'd like to remind everyone that while we have bylines and writers who thankfully sign up under "Regular responsibilities" to cover a certain beat in a timely way, Signpost articles are not owned. If someone sees specific possibilities for improvement of an upcoming story, they are welcome to point it out here in the Newsroom discussion (as it is already being done) or to improve the story themselves.

Regards, HaeB (talk) 00:16, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Tell me, if I get a request from an editor on a foreign-language WP or the Commons, say, for auto-subscription, what do I tell them? Tony (talk) 03:15, 25 August 2010 (UTC) PS Publication was Wednesday, not Tuesday, for me. Tony (talk) 09:08, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

We're obviously talking UTC here (not my current time zone either).

Until someone sets up a delivery bot on that Wikipedia (see our earlier discussion), the RSS feed is probably the best option, see Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Subscribe.

Regards, HaeB (talk) 16:30, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Next issue Due for publication: !  Deadline this week is 3:00 UTC, Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Issue/Next. Once all tasks are complete, the editor-in-chief (or nominated deputy) should complete the publication process.

News and notes In progress	Anyone able to start this? I'm getting worried already about the deadline. Tony (talk) 09:58, 27 August 2010 (UTC) I'll do it, assuming I don't have to do any actual research :) ResMar 03:11, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

In the news In progress	Check status Bare links to one story atm. ResMar 04:22, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject report In progress	Check status

Features and admins In progress	Check status

Discussion report Not started	Check status

Arbitration report In progress

Technology report In progress	Recentchanges via XMPP might be worth covering. Regards, HaeB (talk) 18:27, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Sister projects On hiatus

Dispatches In progress

Hopefully we can work out all these issues before we get to the next publication? ResMar 21:39, 24 August 2010 (UTC) As I said there, this still seems a bit more like a Wikipedia list-style essay than a Signpost article at the moment. I think you're unnecessarily constraining yourself, and splitting it into a series might be one of the few ways of turning this into a Signpost-like article. Ncmvocalist (talk) 09:15, 27 August 2010 (UTC) Define "Signpost like article..." ResMar 00:29, 28 August 2010 (UTC) I think the issues will work themselves out if drafts are proposed and posted at WT:FCDW, as they always have been, where other editors collaborate to copyedit and make sure the Dispatch is up to snuff. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 03:15, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

Regular responsibilities

Signpost journalists can claim responsibility for regular features, and continue writing their beat for as long as they wish. If you would like to be a regular writer for The Signpost, add your name to the appropriate task. If you'd be willing to cover a story that is usually covered by another editor, or are willing to cover it sporadically when the normal writer can't, add your name to the Backup list so you can be contacted when the need arises – the more the merrier. If a beat is not assigned to anyone and no draft for the next issue is listed above, anyone should feel free to write it that week.

Task	User	Backup
News and notes		Pretzels, HaeB, Tarheel95, Resident Mario
In the news	Wackywace	Sk8er5000, Belugaboy, Tarheel95, HaeB, extransit, Theo10011, Diego Grez
WikiProject report	Coordinated at the WikiProject desk
Discussion report	Mono and Wackywace
Features and admins	seresin	Tony1, Dabomb87
Arbitration report	Ncmvocalist	Mabeenot, Jéské Couriano
Technology report	Jarry1250	Occasionally: TheDJ, Theo10011
Sister Projects		Forty two
Dispatches	WP:FCDW
Design & templates	Pretzels, Mono
Copy-editing team	Tony1, Pretzels, Tarheel95
Publication	HaeB	seresin
Talkpage deliveries	EdwardsBot

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