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Community-produced news publications include The Signpost.

[46] The Signpost (previously known as The


Wikipedia Signpost)[47] is the English Wikipedia's newspaper.[46][48][49] It is managed by the Wikipedia community
and is published online weekly.[46][50] Each edition contains stories and articles related to the Wikipedia community.
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The publication was founded in January 2005 by Wikipedia administrator and later Chair of the Wikimedia
Foundation Board of Trustees, Michael Snow.[46][47][53] Originally titled The Wikipedia Signpost, it was later
shortened to The Signpost.[47][54] The newspaper reports on Wikipedia events including Arbitration Committee
rulings,[55] Wikimedia Foundation issues,[56] and other Wikipedia-related projects.[57] Snow continued to contribute
as a writer to The Signpost until his appointment to the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation in February
2008.[58]

Investigative journalism by The Signpost in 2015 on changes to freedom of panorama copyright restrictions in
Europe was covered by publications in multiple languages including German,[59] Italian,[60] Polish,[61] and Russian.
[62] Wikipedia users Gamaliel and Go Phightins! became editors-in-chief of The Signpost in January 2015; prior
editor-in-chief The ed17 noted that during his tenure the publication expanded its scope by including more reporting
on the wider Wikimedia movement and English Wikipedia itself.[63] In a letter to readers upon the newspaper's tenth
anniversary, the co-editors-in-chief stressed the importance of maintaining independence from the Wikimedia
Foundation in their reporting.[64]

The Signpost has been the subject of academic analysis in publications including Sociological Forum,[65] the social
movements journal Interface,[66] and New Review of Academic Librarianship;[67] and was consulted for data on
Wikipedia by researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory and Dartmouth College.[68] It has garnered "
positive" reception from some media publications including The New York Times,[69] The Register,[70] Nonprofit
Quarterly,[71] and Heise Online.[72] John Broughton's 2008 book Wikipedia: The Missing Manual called The
Signpost "essential reading for ambitious new Wikipedia editors".[73]

Other community news publications include the "WikiWorld" web comic, the Wikipedia Weekly podcast, and
newsletters of specific WikiProjects like The Bugle from WikiProject Military History and the monthly newsletter from
The Guild of Copy Editors. There are a number of publications from the Wikimedia Foundation and multilingual
publications such as the W

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