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The Signpost: 3 October 2023

• News and notes: Wikimedia Endowment financial statement published

• In the media: History is written by whoever can harness the most editors

• Recent research: Readers prefer ChatGPT over Wikipedia; concerns about limiting "anyone can edit" principle "may be overstated"

• Featured content: By your logic,

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• Poetry: "The Sight"

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* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:30, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

Hi Miniapolis

Thanks for tagging the page Axial Twist hypothesis with {{Copy edit}}. I used Grammarly to make corrections and removed the tag again. I hope I did well enough, otherwise, I am grateful for further suggestions! Marci68 (talk) 12:56, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

Hi, Marci68, and thanks for your help. The page was listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Database Report here:

• 13 - Axial Twist theory - "aurofacial", "aurofacial", "aurofacial", "dorvsoventral", "poroblem", "aurofacial", "aurofacial", "cSnR", "asymmtries", "n.II", "n.III", "n.IV", "aurofacial"

Thanks for correcting "poroblem". The other hits seem to be technical terms, and I'll alert Beland. I tweaked your link to the copy-edit tag so the tag wouldn't display. All the best, Miniapolis 19:18, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

I have trimmed some jargon from the article and made a redirect for aurofacial asymmetry so this article (now Axial twist theory) should not show up on future reports. Thanks for flagging this! -- Beland (talk) 01:09, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, Beland, and I presume you moved the page to fix the capitalization too. All the best, Miniapolis 01:15, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2023).

Administrator changes

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• Alex Bakharev
• CorbieVreccan
• Cyphoidbomb
• Davodd
• Hog Farm
• JamesR
• KnightLago
• Mark Ironie
• Nosebagbear (deceased)
• Rschen7754
• Tamzin
• TonyBallioni

CheckUser changes

DatGuy

• Ferret
• RickinBaltimore

• TonyBallioni
• Worm That Turned

Oversighter changes

RickinBaltimore

• TonyBallioni
• Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open regarding amending the paid-contribution disclosure policy to add the following text: Any administrator soliciting clients for paid Wikipedia-related consulting or advising services not covered by other paid-contribution rules must disclose all clients on their userpage.

Technical news

• Administrators can now choose to add the user's user page to their watchlist when changing the usergroups for a user. This works both via Special:UserRights and via the API. (T272294)

Arbitration

• Remedy 9 ("MarioProtIV topic ban") of the WikiProject Tropical Cyclones case has been rescinded.

Miscellaneous

• The 2023 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of one new CheckUser.
• Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections opens on 2 October and closes on 8 October.

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The Signpost: 23 October 2023

• News and notes: Where have all the administrators gone?

• In the media: Thirst traps, the fastest loading sites on the web, and the original collaborative writing

• Gallery: Before and After: Why you don't need to know how to restore images to make massive improvements

• Featured content: Yo, ho! Blow the man down!

• Traffic report: The calm and the storm

• News from Diff: Sawtpedia: Giving a Voice to Wikipedia Using QR Codes

• Humour: New citation template introduced for divine revelations, drug use, and really thinking about it

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November Articles for creation backlog drive

Hello Miniapolis:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.

You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.

There is a backlog of over 2700 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:24, 31 October 2023 (UTC)