A paid position to take care of the coordination of the publication might help. If such a position was not involved in content I would see less issue with the funds for it coming from a movement grant.
Translation of more from the German Kurier could also be another good source of content. And such a position could also involve setting up content for translation into other languages. J On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 11:54 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > During my time at the *Signpost*, there were large fluctuations in the > supply of people who had the time, willingness, and skills to write regular > features for the *Signpost* and work on the publication process. As far as > I know, the labor supply is still the biggest problem. The discussion on > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Signpost supports > that view, although there is also some discussion about technical problems > with the publication process. > > I think that the labor supply problem could be partially addressed by > making at least some Signpost work into part-time paid work. > > However, I'm not sure that anyone with the required financial resources > would be willing to fund this work. I think that is the biggest step that > would need to be addressed. > > If work on the *Signpost* isn't funded and if volunteer availability > continues to be limited at best, then unfortunately the *Signpost* may > become a shadow of its former self, or fade into memory indefinitely. I > would be sorry to see either of those outcomes. I think that the *Signpost* > performed a valuable community service as a reliable weekly or semi-weekly > publication with a variety of informative and interesting content. > > Pine > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
