Wikipedia News and Gossip

Like any place with lots of action (Hollywood and Washington, D.C. come to mind), Wikipedia generates a body of news and gossip. When people are interested in something, they crave reading and talking about it. If you’ve been bitten by the Wikipedia bug, you’ll be glad to know there’s plenty of official news and unofficial gossip to satisfy your craving to know more.

News

If you expect to continue editing at Wikipedia for any length of time, by all means subscribe to the weekly internal newsletter, the Wikipedia Signpost. You can get it in any of three ways:

  • If you want to read the newsletter at your user talk page (User Talk Page Postings), go to the Signpost’s main page (shortcut:WP:POST), click “About the Signpost”, then “Tools”, and then “Spamlist”.

  • If you want the latest issue displayed on your user page (see Uses for Your User Page), go to the Signpost’s main page, click “About the Signpost”, then “Tools”, and then “Story template”.

  • If you want the newsletter delivered by email, go to http://wikipediasignpost.com/signup.php.

Another way to keep up with what’s happening with Wikipedia is to read the page within Wikipedia that tracks news stories, Wikipedia:Press coverage (shortcut WP:PC).

Gossip

You can also get information about Wikipedia-related goings-on from the following sources (which Wikipedia’s guidelines define as not reliable sources).

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