Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2023-01-16/From the team
We heard zoomers liked fortnights: the biweekly Signpost rides again
Above, you can see (and scroll across) a beautiful timeline of every interval between the 645 Signpost issues, from 2005-01-10 to today. Notice anything? Besides the tasteful graphic design, I mean.
Yes, that's right: this used to be a weekly rag! Not always – there was a 102-day drought between February and June 2017 (and more recently a 63-day skip between April and June 2021). But the average interval over the whole period has been a little over ten days: with a couple of exceptions, the Signpost maintained a weekly schedule until 2016, when it switched to fortnightly publication. That lasted, more or less, until the "death knell" of 2018, when rumours of the Signpost's demise flourished; and it seemed to be in terminal decline, and we arrived at a sedate monthly schedule.
But things have been speeding up lately. We had a couple of thick issues in 2022 – so thick, in fact, that they broke the
So anyway, we're going to take a shot at running the presses every two weeks, until we either run out of stuff to say (i.e. never), get bored of it, or become too employed to commit to a biweekly schedule (or is it semiweekly? It turns out nobody actually knows).
In other news, editor-in-chief JPxG fails to finish his sentences so gets them finished by his copyeditor is embarking on a deep odyssey into the
Despite the rush to get this published, we have quite the full issue. Some regular columns don't appear, but not to worry: those columns are remaining monthly, so will appear every other issue. So, welcome to this [ NEW ERA | QUICKLY ABANDONED EXPERIMENT ] (delete as appropriate), from all of us at the Signpost!
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