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Wikipedia:Wikipe-tan

Is there a way you can incorporate File:Wikipe-tan pointing at the TV.png into a humorous essay? I'm asking this because there should be a criteria to deter against anybody uploading their fan made images on Wikipedia. My worry is this gives another reason for those against Wikipe-tan to want the information deleted from the encyclopedia. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 17:30, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, there is probably something I can throw it in, although today I am otherwise busy. jp×g 21:11, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 54

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 54, November – December 2022

• New collections:
  • British Newspaper Archive
  • Findmypast
  • University of Michigan Press
  • ACLS
  • Duke University Press
• 1Lib1Ref 2023
• Spotlight: EDS Refine Results

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Tech News: 2023-04

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Problems

• Last week, for ~15 minutes, all wikis were unreachable for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a timing issue. [1]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 January. It will be on all wikis from 26 January (calendar).
• If you have the Beta Feature for DiscussionTools enabled, the appearance of talk pages will add more information about discussion activity. [2][3]
• The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey (CWS), which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts on Monday 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC.

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Indentation

Hey how goes, wanted to bring to your attention WP:INDENT and WP:THREAD. With the new automated reply system it is all the more important to use the canonical indentation. —DIYeditor (talk) 20:21, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

No worries Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/2008 Board election et al

Was easy to fix! Thought I'd give you a quick note to thank you for self cleaning it up vs waiting for it to get randomly found at some point in the future. -- Tawker (talk) 01:40, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Citation templates now better at flagging free access content

If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.

You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.

A tag has been placed on Citation templates now better at flagging free access content, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to have no meaningful content or history, and the text is unsalvageably incoherent. If the page you created was a test, please use the sandbox for any other experiments you would like to do.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Mccapra (talk) 09:25, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of DYK, or proudly displaying incorrect information on the Main Page with alarming regularity

If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.

You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.

A tag has been placed on DYK, or proudly displaying incorrect information on the Main Page with alarming regularity, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to have no meaningful content or history, and the text is unsalvageably incoherent. If the page you created was a test, please use the sandbox for any other experiments you would like to do.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Mccapra (talk) 09:26, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

• Your bot appears to be creating a few articlespace pages instead of modules with alarming regularity. Would appear to be a good idea to tweak the code pretty much right now.User:Shirt58 (talk) 🦘 09:40, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

@Mccapra and Shirt58: Shit!!!!!!!!!! Sorry about that. I see on Xtools that it created two mainspace pages. I was running a null-edit script, which should not have been modifying page contents at all. Something stupid must have gotten into the purge list, I guess. Two out of 8,000 isn't bad, but this is still pretty embarrassing. I will make it throw errors if it retrieves nonexistent page contents. jp×g 10:32, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

This appears to be something to do with a Haitian syncretic religious practice (for those listening to radio station WSHIRT58, of course I've read Wide Sargasso Sea and Havana Bay) and... oh, crumbs. Lua, not Loa. --User:Shirt58 (talk) 🦘 11:05, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

lol Mccapra (talk) 12:11, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

And of course I've read The Madwoman in the Attic. (I've not actually read Jane Eyre. Shh, let's just keep this a little secret between the three of us, OK?) --User:Shirt58 (talk) 🦘 13:17, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

Time for some JWB Linter error work

I have made about 650 edits to Signpost pages to fix a few thousand Linter errors. In order to be able to make more progress, there are a couple of systemic problems with unbalanced <div>...</div> tags that need to be tidied up on a few thousand pages. I do not have AWB or JWB to be able to make those edits, and my sanity will not survive that volume of editing with other tools. I left you a couple of notes at the Signpost/Technical page. If you have time to make these div-tag-related edits, that will help me find and fix additional remaining errors that are essentially hiding behind the div tag noise in the error reports. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:26, 30 January 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-05

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• Last week, for ~15 minutes, some users were unable to log in or edit pages. This was caused by a problem with session storage. [4]

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 February. It will be on all wikis from 2 February (calendar).

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• Wikis that use localized numbering schemes for references need to add new CSS. This will help to show citation numbers the same way in all reading and editing modes. If your wiki would prefer to do it yourselves, please see the details and example CSS to copy from, and also add your wiki to the list. Otherwise, the developers will directly help out starting the week of February 5.

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your bot working the module

Is this erasure? I'm not sure what this edit accomplishes. Chris Troutman (talk) 00:47, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

Well, I'm not sure what our lives on this Earth accomplish, but this specific edit is part of a campaign to eliminate some of the redundant tags in the module. For example, encyclopediabritannica → britannica, arbitrationcommittee → arbcom, wikimediamovementaffiliates → affiliates, award → awards, et cetera. Some of them, like ios, I removed because they only existed on one article. In this specific case, the tag was kind of strange: it was only on one article (Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2020-05-31/In the media) which was about COVID, Larry Sanger, top editors and French SPI cases, and does not contain the word "judaism", "jews", "jewish", et cetera anywhere.

I'm being a little aggressive with it because it's easy to reverse. I have records of every tag removal, and I have written a separate script that can add multiple tags to multiple articles from the command line (https://github.com/jp-x-g/wegweiser/blob/main/mass_tagger.py ). jp×g 02:17, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

Actually the bot's edit altered my edit tagging Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2020-04-26/In the media which has a section entitled "Jew-Tagging". You may have read about this issue as Wikipedia's biographies discuss or mention a subject's Jewishness. Signpost doesn't cover antisemitism or this biographical issue often, but I think the point of meta-tagging is supposed to help us identify coverage along these lines. I suggest you revert and re-consider your methodology. Chris Troutman (talk) 02:41, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

I apologize if I have fucked up some of the tags. It is pretty slow going with this, since there are still about 596 articles with no tags at all, and I am more or less working alone on most of it. I have written an improved search, which looks like it could turn up some more articles. Hopefully I will be finished with the series templates and pages in time for the Feb 1 issue. jp×g 05:46, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

DCGAR

JPxG, the effort at User:Iazyges/Doug GA Rewrite Claims had to be archived, as not everyone was following instructions. Could you have a look at the now more complete information and FAQ at Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/February 2023, with new instructions and a new place to post intent ? Thanks, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:40, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of GPT-4

The article GPT-4 has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

per WP:CRYSTAL. The whole article is based on "rumors"

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Ita140188 (talk) 13:42, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

User:JPxG/All essays by size/Transcluded

Hello, JPxG,

As you can see by looking at User:SDZeroBot/G13 eligible, your User page is showing up on our list of pages to delete because they are eligible for CSD G13. The editor who was tagging pages for deletion this morning when it became eligible skipped tagging your user page but it showed up on tonight's list.

I see three solutions here:

• a) Tag your User page for deletion, CSD G7
• b) Review the content and find the code that indicates that this page has been submitted to AFC. I tried unsuccessfully to locate this content/tag but it is an enormously long page and you might have more success locating what it is causing it to show up as an article draft.
• c) Make an edit to the page every 6 months so that it is no longer eligible for speedy deletion, CSD G13. This seems like the simplest solution if you want to retain this user page but you will have to remember to do this by February 3rd and August 3rd of each coming year.

I'd appreciate it if you could take some action regarding this page because otherwise it will continue to show up on the daily G13 eligible list. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:40, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

I have no idea what is going on with this page, but I will try to figure it out. If I can't figure it out I will just g7 it -- I don't want to clog up the cats! Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for letting me know. jp×g 02:17, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 4 February 2023

• From the editor: New for the Signpost: Author pages, tag pages, and a decent article search function

• News and notes: Foundation update on fundraising, new page patrol, Tides, and Wikipedia blocked in Pakistan

• Section 230: Twenty-six words that created the internet, and the future of an encyclopedia

• Disinformation report: Wikipedia on Santos

• Special report: Legal status of Wikimedia projects "unclear" under potential European legislation

• In the media: Furor over new Wikipedia skin, followup on Saudi bans, and legislative debate

• Op-Ed: Estonian businessman and political donor brings lawsuit against head of national Wikimedia chapter

• Opinion: Study examines cultural leanings of Wikimedia projects' visual art coverage

• Recent research: Wikipedia's "moderate yet systematic" liberal citation bias

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Organized Labour

• Tips and tricks: XTools: Data analytics for your list of created articles

• Featured content: 20,000 Featureds under the Sea

• Traffic report: Films, deaths and ChatGPT

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Tech News: 2023-06

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Recent changes

• In the Vector 2022 skin, logged-out users using the full-width toggle will be able to see the setting of their choice even after refreshing pages or opening new ones. This only applies to wikis where Vector 2022 is the default. [5]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 February. It will be on all wikis from 9 February (calendar).
• Previously, we announced when some wikis would be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. These switches will not be announced any more, as the read-only time has become non-significant. Switches will continue to happen at 7AM UTC on Tuesdays and Thursdays. [6]
• Across all the wikis, in the Vector 2022 skin, logged-in users will see the page-related links such as "What links here" in a new side menu. It will be displayed on the other side of the screen. This change had previously been made on Czech, English, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. [7]
• Community Wishlist Survey 2023 will stop receiving new proposals on Monday, 6 February 2023, at 18:00 UTC. Proposers should complete any edits by then, to give time for translations and review. Voting will begin on Friday, 10 February.

Future changes

• Gadgets and user scripts will be changing to load on desktop and mobile sites. Previously they would only load on the desktop site. It is recommended that wiki administrators audit the gadget definitions prior to this change, and add skins=… for any gadgets which should not load on mobile. More details are available.

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Template:Inflation/FR/dataset

Hi. I presume in edit [8] for the year 1540, the trailing UK is a typo? — DaxServer (t · m · c) 11:20, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

@DaxServer: Yeah, I have no idea what the hell happened there. That is an error. Fixing whitespace should not have done that. Feel free to revert if you haven't already. jp×g 11:39, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

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Good article reassessment for Clam Lake Canal

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Tech News: 2023-07

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Problems

• On wikis where patrolled edits are enabled, changes made to the mentor list by autopatrolled mentors are not correctly marked as patrolled. It will be fixed later this week. [9]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 February. It will be on all wikis from 16 February (calendar).
• The Reply tool and other parts of DiscussionTools will be deployed for all editors using the mobile site. You can read more about this decision. [10]

Future changes

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [11][12][13]

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Byline changed

Hi JPxG. Sometime between my last edit of the last issue's Special report and publication, my name was removed from the Special Report. Hopefully this was a mistake and it can just be restored. Would you mind doing so? ☆ Bri (talk) 20:38, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

@Bri: This was a fuckup, sorry. jp×g 08:52, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 February 2023

• News and notes: Terms of Use update, Steward elections, and Wikipedia back in Pakistan

• In the media: Arbitrators open case after article alleges Wikipedia "intentionally distorts" Holocaust coverage

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• Essay: Machine-written articles: a new challenge for Wikipedia

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Tech News: 2023-08

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Problems

• Last week, during planned maintenance of Cloud Services, unforeseen complications forced the team to turn off all tools for 2–3 hours to prevent data corruption. Work is ongoing to prevent similar problems in the future. [14]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 February. It will be on all wikis from 23 February (calendar).
• The voting phase for the Community Wishlist Survey 2023 ends on 24 February at 18:00 UTC. The results of the survey will be announced on 28 February.

Future changes

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [15][16][17]

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Signpost

Hey JPxG! A random thought came into my mind and i was thinking about possibly contributing to the Signpost (yes I know I had decided to work on the WPVG newsletter but that's currently on hold indefinitely until I decide what to do with it). I looked at the stuff that has "Help needed!" and I'm considering possibly doing a "WikiProject Report" but given my limited availability due to things in real life I"m not sure if it would be a good idea since I think I read in a previous issue that the Signpost is now published fortnightly which would severely limit the time I have to work on it. What are your thoughts on this? Also I noticed on your userpage you have this: "It seems today that all you see is violence on the talk page and edit wars in the history. But where are those good old-fashioned sources, on which we've come to rely?" which I believe is a reference to Family Guy? ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 20:33, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

@Blaze Wolf: This is a fairly late reply, but yes, it'd be good. How has the WP:VG newsletter gone? jp×g 08:59, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

A Barnstar for you!!!

		The Teamwork Barnstar
		For your participation and help at Wikipedia:Good Article proposal drive 2023. It wouldn't have been such a success without you. 🏵️Etrius ( Us) 03:47, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-09

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Problems

• Last week, in some areas of the world, there were problems with loading pages for 20 minutes and saving edits for 55 minutes. These issues were caused by a problem with our caching servers due to unforseen events during a routine maintenance task. [18][19]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 March. It will be on all wikis from 2 March (calendar).
• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. [20]

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Dead link

FYI, es:Wikimarketing has a link to a Signpost thing that you moved without a redirect, Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Paid editing. Probably the es.wiki article should be updated, or a redirect should be created. Do you think so? ☆ Bri (talk) 20:54, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

@Bri: Looks like someone took care of it in April ("elimino links rotos o no seguros"), proving once and for all that ignoring problems is the best way to deal with them (?). jp×g 09:00, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-10

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• The Community Wishlist Survey 2023 edition has been concluded. Community Tech has published the results of the survey and will provide an update on what is next in April 2023.
• On wikis which use LanguageConverter to handle multiple writing systems, articles which used custom conversion rules in the wikitext (primarily on Chinese Wikipedia) would have these rules applied inconsistently in the table of contents, especially in the Vector 2022 skin. This has now been fixed. [21]

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 March. It will be on all wikis from 9 March (calendar).
• A search system has been added to the Preferences screen. This will let you find different options more easily. Making it work on mobile devices will happen soon. [22]

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Signpost activity

I confess to being confused by this comment. The general community isn't going to make you party to a case as a result of decisions you didn't make, and text you didn't write, edit, or review. The group that might apportion some degree of responsibility to you is the Signpost team... but you chose to post to the incidents noticeboard first instead of the newsroom talk page, and were critical of the decisions made in your absence. If you were trying to find a humourous way to take responsibility, I don't feel it was effective. isaacl (talk) 18:16, 11 March 2023 (UTC)

@Isaacl: I mean, that's what I signed up for. If my writers and editors get shitcanned or sitebanned or whatever for writing an article, and I'm unable to intercede to prevent the incident from happening or to take the blame onto myself, I might as well resign because so much for my integrity as an editor in chief. jp×g 09:07, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

To be able to intercede effectively, you have to be involved in the preparation of the issue. Otherwise, when you say an article needed more oversight, then you are criticizing those who were involved, which excludes you. Furthermore, by not participating in the corresponding discussion on the newsroom talk page, you seem to be leaving the Signpost editors to fend for themselves, without providing overall editorial guidance.

Note there have been discussions about the importance of sticking to deadlines and the need for the editor-in-chief to co-ordinate production, such as Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom/Archive 35 § Publication schedule. Of course, unexpected changes can occur, but as much as feasible, availability to perform the necessary tasks ought to be forecast, and alternative plans be put in place if an absence is unavoidable. isaacl (talk) 17:27, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

When I said the article could have used more copyediting, I meant that I should have been around to participate in it and help out more than I did. This was a rather embarrassing incident I hope not to be repeated. jp×g 23:05, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

Censorship attempts

Please read how Holocaust studies was started by the Israeli embassy in a secret meeting. Then please read about the recent initiative of Grabowski to censor Wikipedia: [23], [24]. Wikipedia shouldn't censor Polish scholars who cover the heroic efforts of the Poles to fight Germany and rescue Jews. 188.147.175.5 (talk) 09:28, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-11

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 March. It will be on all wikis from 16 March (calendar).
• Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Chavacano de Zamboanga Wikipedia, Min Dong Chinese Wikipedia, Chechen Wikipedia, Cebuano Wikipedia, Chamorro Wikipedia, Cherokee Wikipedia, Cheyenne Wikipedia, Central Kurdish Wikipedia, Corsican Wikipedia, Kashubian Wikipedia, Church Slavic Wikipedia, Chuvash Wikipedia, Welsh Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [25][26]

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Books & Bytes – Issue 55

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Guild of Copy Editors March 2023 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors March 2023 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the March 2023 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since December and our Annual Report for 2022. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. We extend a warm welcome to all of our new members, including those who have signed up for our current March Backlog Elimination Drive. We wish you all happy copy-editing. Election results: In our December 2022 coordinator election, Reidgreg and Tenryuu stepped down as coordinators; we thank them for their service. Incumbents Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybonzo were returned as coordinators until 1 July. For the second time, no lead coordinator was chosen. Nominations for our mid-year Election of Coordinators open on 1 June (UTC). Drive: 21 editors signed up for our January Backlog Elimination Drive, 14 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 170 articles totaling 389,737 words. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: Our February Copy Editing Blitz focused on October and November 2022 requests, and the March and April 2022 backlogs. Of the 14 editors who signed up, nine claimed at least one copy-edit; and between them, they copy-edited 39,150 words in 22 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: Sign up now for our month-long March Backlog Elimination Drive. Barnstars awarded will be posted here after the drive closes. Progress report: As of 12:08, 19 March 2023 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 73 requests since 1 January 2023, all but five of them from 2022, and the backlog stands at 1,872 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybonzo. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.