When it started, the newsletter's title was "The Wikipedia Signpost". In 2011, the title became simply "The Signpost". From 2005 to March 2016, "The Signpost" came out every week. Then it changed to coming out every two weeks because it did not have enough editors. In March, April and May of 2016 it did not come out at all. As of 2019, it comes out once a month.