There is a lot of great news this week from Germany, in addition to our usual local content; primarily new developments involving Directmedia Publishing, the digital publishing house that has helped distribute the first CD and DVD editions of Wikipedia content.

Many interesting ideas for new Signpost articles have been proposed recently. Lotsofissues suggested covering new ideas presented on the Village pump, a beat that could include edits to other common discussion areas. Another suggestion was to cover new template and WikiProject developments on a regular basis. Readers interested in writing for the Signpost, or in developing regular columns, should continue to use the Newsroom to discuss their ideas.

-- Samuel Klein (filling in for Michael Snow)

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