Who founded The Signpost, the English Wikipedia's online newspaper?

Michael Snow founded The Signpost, the English Wikipedia’s online newspaper. He launched the publication in January 2005 under its original name, The Wikipedia Signpost, to report news and developments from the Wikipedia community.

Snow was a lawyer and Wikipedian who later became chair of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Board of Trustees. In the first issue, he described the publication as a source of news for people interested in what was happening around Wikipedia. The name “Signpost” reflected the practice of editors signing messages on discussion pages.

The newspaper was initially published weekly and was produced by volunteer contributors rather than by Wikipedia’s nonprofit foundation as an editorial department. Over time, its coverage broadened from English Wikipedia affairs to the wider Wikimedia movement. Its schedule later changed from weekly to fortnightly and then monthly as contributor availability shifted. Florence Devouard and Jimmy Wales were major Wikimedia figures, but neither founded The Signpost.