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Today is Monday, October 7, 2024; it is now 21:15 (UTC) The Signpost: 26 September 2024 In the media: Courts order Wikipedia to give up names of editors, legal strain anticipated from "online safety laws" Community view: Indian courts order Wikipedia to take down name of crime victim, editors strive towards consensus Serendipity: A Wikipedian at the 2024 Paralympics Opinion: asilvering's RfA debriefing News and notes: Are you ready for admin elections? Gallery: Are Luddaites defending the English Wikipedia? Recent research: Article-writing AI is less "prone to reasoning errors (or hallucinations)" than human Wikipedia editors Traffic report: Jump in the line, rock your body in time * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:10, 26 September 2024 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 40, 2024) Eight gold Spanish escudo (1687), issued during the reign of Carlos II of Spain Hello, Northamerica1000. The article for improvement of the week is: Currency of Spain Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Human geography • Polling station Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 30 September 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Administrators' newsletter – October 2024 News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2024). Administrator changes Asilvering Significa liberdade Good Olfactory Hesperian I JethroBT TommyBoy Woody CheckUser changes Barkeep49 Izno Doug Weller Spicy Guideline and policy news Administrator elections are a proposed new process for selecting administrators, offering an alternative to requests for adminship (RfA). The first trial election will take place in October 2024, with candidate sign-up from October 8 to 14, a discussion phase from October 22 to 24, and SecurePoll voting from October 25 to 31. For questions or to help out, please visit the talk page at Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections. Following a discussion, the speedy deletion reason "File pages without a corresponding file" has been moved from criterion G8 to F2. This does not change what can be speedily deleted. A request for comment is open to discuss whether there is a consensus to have an administrator recall process. Arbitration The arbitration case Historical elections has been closed. An arbitration case regarding Backlash to diversity and inclusion has been opened. Editors are invited to nominate themselves to serve on the 2024 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission until 23:59 October 8, 2024 (UTC). Miscellaneous If you are interested in stopping spammers, please put MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist and MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist on your watchlist, and help out when you can. Discuss this newsletter Subscribe Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:00, 2 October 2024 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 41, 2024) Hello, Northamerica1000. The article for improvement of the week is: Navy Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Currency of Spain • Human geography Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 7 October 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •