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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.
This template is meant to be used in situations where the bot is not able to automatically publish the Signpost and so the responsible editors have to do so manually. The proper usage is as follows: The proper usage is as follows:
Special reports are features which, much like op-eds, attempt to outline a specific issue before the community in the expository and in-depth way that a long-form article allows, but do so in a more explicitly neutral way. Though critical commentary and criticism is allowed in special reports it is kept to a minimum, as the primary purpose of a ...
What to write in The Signpost. The Signpost is a monthly community magazine written and edited by users like you—every month of successful publications is the result of the effort of a group of individuals, comprising writers, reviewers, tipsters, copyeditors, technologists and publishers alike.
This master template was introduced in March 2015 by Res Mar to greatly increase the efficiency with which series may be generated and used within Signpost articles. The core of this template is Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Article list maker, a Lua-and-Python-enabled template that uses Module:Signpost and an off-wiki Pythonic web ...
News in brief: Signpost stories in regular reports—In the media, News and notes, Technology report, others—often or usually have a section "in brief" where small but nevertheless notable news is touched upon. The formatting of this section escapes a bit from that of the other sections, but will be handled for you when you start a story out ...
If the template has a separate documentation page (usually called "Template:template name/doc"), add [[Category:Wikipedia Signpost templates]] to the <includeonly> section at the bottom of that page.
Automatically generates a {{Signpost/snippet}} for a given article, using {{Template parameter value}} to automagically extract the template params from the page itself. Takes three params: {{{1}}} - either draft, article, or article-old, to specify which it is (as there are different templates to pull params for depending on which it is).