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The guts of this are at Template:Signpost/item/core (h · e).

Gets called with something like this:

{{Signpost/item
 |{{{1}}}
 |2
 |2025-06-24
 |In the media
 |Playing professor pong with prosecutorial discretion
 |0.4 MB
 |sub           = Pardon our alliteration!
 |by            = [[User:Bri|Bri]], [[User:Smallbones|Smallbones]], [[User:SashiRolls|SashiRolls]], and [[User:Jayen466|Andreas Kolbe]]
 |piccyfilename = File:Allan Alcorn in 2012 with first Pong ad.jpg
 |piccy-credits = Digital Game Museum
 |piccy-license = cc-by-2.0
 |piccy-scaling = 700
 |piccy-xoffset = 150
 |piccy-yoffset =
}}

Usage

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This is used to link or display a Signpost section (e.g. Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-08-23/Technology report) in various different formats.

  • {{{1}}} = display format. Possible values:
  • {{{2}}} = running number of the section in the issue, between 0 and 18
  • {{{3}}} = date of the Signpost issue, e.g. "2010-08-23". Forms part of the URL (page name in the wiki)
  • {{{4}}} = page name (short, generic), e.g. "Technology report". Forms part of the URL (page name in the wiki). Must be consistent with previous issues for linking between consecutive reports.
  • {{{5}}} = section headline (longer, generic or descriptive), e.g. "Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News" or (here:) "Pending changes poll, Public policy classes, Payment schemes debate, and more"

Esoterics

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  • {{{6}}} = This is not used anywhere in the template, but for some reason, the individual issue pages (i.e. Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2023-08-15) call this template with a useless sixth parameter, which is the pagesize of the article. Like this:
{{Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Cover-item|{{{1}}}|11|2023-08-15|Traffic report|'Cause today it just goes with the fashion|0.3 MB}}
Why on Earth does it do this? We don't know.
Note: it started in Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2019-04-30.
  • {{{sub}}} = Subheading, at least as called from the individual Signpost archive pages (e.g. Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-05-14). This won't always be present (because Signpost articles didn't always have subheds) but I backfilled a very large amount of them.

Additional formats

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As mentioned elsewhere earlier, I would like to use the flexibility of this system to add the following display formats (i.e. new values for {{{1}}}}). They would save a considerable amount of time in the weekly publication process and reduce the risk of errors. Mostly they are for generating ready-for-copypaste-text.


"5" for blog (RSS) announcements (example)

Required code:

| 6 = {{{4}}}: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/{{{3}}}/{{{4}}}" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/{{{3}}}/{{{4}}}">{{{5}}}</a><nowiki><br></nowiki>

will give e.g.

In the news: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-09-06/In_the_news" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-09-06/In the news">WikiLeaks and Wikipedia; Google–WP collaboration to translate health information</a><br>
"6" for Foundation-l mailing list announcements (example)

Required code:

| 7 = {{{4}}}: {{{5}}}<br/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/{{{3}}}/{{{4}}}<br/>

will give e.g.

In the news: WikiLeaks and Wikipedia; Google–WP collaboration to translate health information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-09-06/In_the_news
"7" for announcements via Global message delivery (example)

Required code:

| 8 = * {{{4}}}: [[w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/{{{3}}}/{{{4}}}|{{{5}}}<nowiki>]]</nowiki><br/>

will give e.g.

  • News and notes: [[w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-09-27/News and notes|French million, controversial content, Citizendium charter, Pending changes, and more]]

Please review and correct, I may have messed up one or two nowikis or line breaks.

If I understand the structure correctly, the four code lines above (for 4,5,7,8) will need to be inserted in the current version after " | 4 = " and before " | * {{{4}}}: ".

Examples

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Listed by display format, with the following parameters. {{Signpost/item |(varies by example number) |2 |2025-06-24 |In the media |Playing professor pong with prosecutorial discretion |0.4&nbsp;MB |sub = Pardon our alliteration! |by = [[User:Bri|Bri]], [[User:Smallbones|Smallbones]], [[User:SashiRolls|SashiRolls]], and [[User:Jayen466|Andreas Kolbe]] |piccyfilename = File:Allan Alcorn in 2012 with first Pong ad.jpg |piccy-credits = Digital Game Museum |piccy-license = cc-by-2.0 |piccy-scaling = 700 |piccy-xoffset = 150 |piccy-yoffset = }}

1 (plain list)
  • In the media
  • 2 (two-column format)
    3 (two-column format of anchor links)
    4 (full transclusion)
    Extended content

    File:Allan Alcorn in 2012 with first Pong ad.jpg
    Digital Game Museum
    cc-by-2.0
    150
    700
    doc

    Playing professor pong with prosecutorial discretion

    Four-dimensional pong

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    Three-way pong, anyone?

    There is a three-way pong match taking place, concerning the 2023 article "Wikipedia’s Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust" published in The Journal of Holocaust Research and the conclusions that should be drawn from it.

    To enter the fourth dimension, you can sample "Wikipedia's War on Truth: The Fight Against Bias Toward Israel" (2:45:36 duration) in which Boaz Hepner hosts a panel of Wikipedia experts, including journalists and Justapedians, on the assumed role of Wikipedia's neutrality, and how far it appears to have veered from that path[, e]specially when analyzed by its stance on the Israel/Palestinian conflict, and Zionism. It was filmed in February 2025 and presented by The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles in May. Or "Taking Sides: Wikipedia Advances Anti-Israel Narratives" in RealClearInvestigations, released after our writing deadline, which finds The plethora of anti-Israel academics makes it easy to present anti-Israel narratives under the guise of neutrality.

    For prior Signpost coverage see 2023-03-09 Recent research, 2023-05-22 In the media, 2023-05-22 Arbitration report, and 2023-06-05 In the media. – B, SR, AK

    Ed Martin's record

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    The New York Times reports on Ed Martin's record as acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia ending, with his high jinks trying to get the WMF's tax-free status revoked. The Times described Martin's action as being radically opposed to the accepted standards of prosecutorial discretion.

    At another point, Mr. Martin said he viewed himself as being engaged in a "war over information." He cited a letter he had written to Wikipedia accusing it of bias and improperly shielding itself from scrutiny through its tax-exempt status.

    He never suggested that Wikipedia had broken the law. He indicated that his letter was to air his view of their actions in the public arena.

    "A prosecutor saying that about Wikipedia is vastly different than Tucker Carlson saying it," Mr. Martin said. "And that’s the point of the job."

    The role of a prosecutor, he claimed, "is not just to find the right guy to prosecute" but to publicize their purported wrongdoing in public.

    In a landmark 1940 speech, a top Justice Department official offered another vision.

    Robert H. Jackson, then the attorney general, told department employees that the "greatest danger of abuse of prosecuting power" was when an official "finds some person whom he dislikes or desires to embarrass, or selects some group of unpopular persons and then looks for an offense."

    Meanwhile, the Senate failed to vote to confirm Trump's appointment of Martin as US Attorney for DC, so Martin was instead appointed to the positions of the head DOJ Pardon Attorney and director of the DOJ's Weaponization Working Group, which don't require Senate confirmation. To be clear, the Weaponization Working Group's job is to counter weaponization that allegedly occured during the Biden administration. – S

    In brief

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    Donald Trump in the Oval Office, February 11, 2025 (public domain)



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    Reader comments
    5 (for blog announcements)
    Playing professor pong with prosecutorial discretion
    6 (mailing list announcements)

    In the media: <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2025-06-24/In_the_media" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-06-24/In the media">Playing professor pong with prosecutorial discretion</a><br />

    7 (global message delivery announcements)

    In the media: Playing professor pong with prosecutorial discretion
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2025-06-24/In_the_media

    default (most-used view)
    Pardon our alliteration!