A tour through Signpost Formatting
The Signpost takes advantage of CSS styling to increase the readability and visual attractiveness of the articles that we publish. This page serves as a visual reference on how we use the various templates and techniques available to us to achieve this, and is a recommended resource for anyone that wishes to publish an article in the Signpost. The formatting of articles published in the Signpost is complex, so beginning an article manually is heavily discouraged. Instead you should use one of our pre-formatter tools. If you are writing a regular feature you can start the article from a button in the newsroom. For instance, hitting the Start article button for the News and notes section will, as of writing, generate the following code: <noinclude>
{{Signpost draft}}
{{Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-header|||}}
</noinclude>
{{Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-article-header-v2
|{{{1|(Your article's descriptive subtitle here)}}}
|By [[User:{{subst:REVISIONUSER}}|]]
|{{subst:#time:j F Y|{{subst:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Issue|4}}}}
}}
{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-block-start-v2}}
{{Signpost inline image|image=File:Gypful.jpg|caption=Example inline image and caption.}}
===Lead story one===
The story begins here.
===Lead story two===
The story begins here.
{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-block-end-v2}}
{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-block-start-v2}}
===Brief notes===
{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Filler image-v2|image=File:T-Rex Modell.JPG|size=300px|caption=Example filler image and caption.}}
*'''New user-groups''': The [[meta:Affiliations Committee|Affiliations Committee]] announced the approval of this week's newest [[meta:Wikimedia movement affiliates|Wikimedia movement affiliate]], the .
*'''New administrators''': ''The Signpost'' welcomes the English Wikipedia's newest administrators,
*'''Milestones''': The following Wikipedia projects reached milestones this week:
{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-block-end-v2}}
<noinclude>
{{Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-article-end-v2}}
{{Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-article-comments-end
|
|{{subst:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Issue|1}}
|{{subst:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Issue|5}}
}}
</noinclude>
</nowiki>
Do you want to do all of that manually? Of course not! Articles should be started using newsroom buttons, using script assistance, or using irregular desk controls. This will minimize setup headaches both for you and for the managing editors that have to repair draft pages' formatting before publication. Everything except for the article title and the byline is filled out for you automatically when you start the article correctly.
.jpg) Meripilus giganteus, also called the "giant polypore" or "black-staining polypore", because people are sometimes terrible at names. | ||||||||
