User talk:Miniapolis

This is the talk page for Miniapolis (who is proud to be a Wikipedia editor) and is in fond memory of Corinne, one of WP's very best copyeditors. Although I can be reached by email, I prefer keeping discussions on-wiki as much as possible. Due to time constraints, I no longer accept direct copyedit requests; please list articles requiring copyediting for GAN, FAC and the like on the Guild of Copy Editors request page (and consider pitching in with the GOCE, which can always use more help!) Since I take the occasional wikibreak, feel free to undo any administrative action I've taken as you see fit.

Requests for adminship and bureaucratship update No current discussions. Recent RfAs, recent RfBs: (successful, unsuccessful) *Archives December 2010 – March 2012

Guild of Copy Editors – September 2026 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors – September 2026 Newsletter Hello, and welcome to the September newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since June. Election news: Project coordinators play an important role in our WikiProject. Following the mid-year Election of Coordinators, we welcomed TNM101 to the coordinator team. Dhtwiki remains as lead coordinator, and Miniapolis, Mox Eden and GoldRomean return as coordinators. We said goodbye to Wikieditor662 and thank them for their service. If you'd like to help out behind the scenes, please consider taking part in our December election – watchlist our ombox for updates. Information about the role of coordinators can be found here. Reviewing system: The Guild is adopting a new system of scoring copy edit reviews. A point will be given for each review, and barnstars for reviewing will be awarded. These changes will take effect from this month's drive, and we encourage experienced copy editors to sign up for reviewing. For more details, see here. June 2026 blitz: 18 of the 20 editors who signed up for the June 2026 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited a total of 69,606 words comprising 30 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. July 2026 drive: 30 of the 44 editors who signed up for the July 2026 Backlog Elimination Drive copy edited a total of 531,346 words comprising 252 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. August 2026 Blitz: 13 of the 16 editors who signed up for the August 2026 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited a total of 192,712 words comprising 64 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. September 2026 Drive: Sign up here to earn barnstars in our month-long, in-progress September Backlog Elimination Drive. Progress report: As of 23:47, 13 September 2026 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 207 requests since 1 January, and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 1,511 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we do without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2026

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2026).

Administrator changes

Dclemens1971

• Lectonar

• Bucketsofg
• Keenan Pepper
• The Wordsmith
• Caknuck

Oversight changes

• Richwales

Guideline and policy news

• Speedy deletion criteria G15 has been renamed from "LLM-generated pages without human review" to "Unambiguously LLM-generated pages" and has an additional sign of detection added to it following a RfC.

Miscellaneous

• The September 2026 New Pages Patrol backlog drive is ongoing. Help tackle the 30,000+ article backlog!
• This week's article for improvement will be added to the Main Page to try converting readers into editors following a RfC.

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The Signpost: 16 September 2026

• News and notes: The Balance of Power
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A barnstar for you!

	The Copyeditor's Barnstar
	For your recent review, I present to you this Barnstar to you and other guild members. May you display it with honor. Cheers, In solidarity Wikipedian12512 (Talking is fine | contribs) 20:07, 28 September 2026 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2026

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2026).

Administrator changes

• Cleared as filed
• Dante Alighieri
• Doug Weller
• Gentgeen
• Vacant0

Oversight changes

• Doug Weller
• ToBeFree

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, the good article criteria have been amended to add accessibility requirements.
• Following an RfC, late signatures added to administrator recall petitions after 720 hours from opening are reverted or struck and do not count towards the threshold, even if the petition has not yet been formally closed.
• The post-May 2026 administrator elections RfCs concluded with consensus for election monitors to curate blatantly inappropriate questions after posting, and to remove or merge true duplicates, clearly marking merged questions. Calls for candidates will include advisory guidance that users with less than one year’s experience or 5,000 edits generally lack a realistic chance of success.

Technical news

• Interface administrators no longer need to specify the ResourceLoader option in the definitions for gadgets on MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition as gadgets are always loaded through ResourceLoader. (T298199)
• The list=abusefilters API module now supports formatversion=2 and includes breaking changes to its responses. In particular, the actions property is now a JSON array rather than a string, regardless of the format version. Maintainers of user scripts and other code using this module should check compatibility and update their code as needed. (T435828)

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Gun control 2 has been closed.

Obituaries

• Doug Weller passed away on 30 September 2026. Doug Weller began editing Wikipedia in 2006 and became an administrator in 2008, making nearly 275,000 edits over two decades. He served on the Arbitration Committee from 2015 through 2018 and was also a longtime CheckUser and Oversighter.

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• The October 2026 administrator elections are scheduled to run from September 29 to October 19. The call for candidates ends October 5.
• Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2026 Arbitration Committee elections is opened and closes on 8 October.
• The Good Article Nominations backlog drive has begun and is scheduled to end on November 3.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:31, 3 October 2026 (UTC)

GOCE leaderboard question

Hi, Miniapolis … on my Talk page, I left you a reply to one of the awards you posted there for me on the 4th but I'm not sure you were notified of because it's several days later now and the message wasn't very complicated. Because I've had the same difficulty on occasion—though in reverse (messages sent to my own Talk page that weren't listed in my notifications)—however, I thought to tell you just in case. Augnablik (talk) 05:42, 7 October 2026 (UTC)

I didn't see your original message two days ago because you didn't ping me; I keep my watchlist short. According to the barnstar page (which I work from when giving out the barnstars), you were part of a three-way tie for fifth in 5K articles and in fifth place for longest article. Lfstevens had moved into third in 5K, and I was fourth. In solidarity, Miniapolis 13:53, 7 October 2026 (UTC)

@Miniapolis, what you're seeing on the September leaderboard, 5k+ Articles row and what I'm seeing there are completely different. I cannot understand what's going on. Here's what I see for the row in question—and yes, I refreshed my browser as well as checked the leaderboard on two different browsers:

5k+ Articles—   3rd place, LfStevens & Miniapolis ... 4th place, Augnablik ... 5th place, blank

By the way, I didn't ping you when I replied to your barnstar messaging on my Talk page because I assumed a message that was sent in reply to a sender's message would automatically be listed in the sender's notifications. Augnablik (talk) 18:10, 7 October 2026 (UTC)

I linked to the barnstar page in my previous post. IDK why its leaderboard differs from that of the drive page; you'd have to ask Dhtwiki, who created the barnstar page. I also don't understand why this is such a big deal. In solidarity, Miniapolis 23:16, 7 October 2026 (UTC)

The leaderboard at the signup page is different from that at the barnstar page. The latter page should be taken as definitive, as it's the result of calculating figures for barnstars; and it should have been copied back to the signup page for consistency's sake (and will be shortly). For example, I upped Lfstevens number to 3 upon examining his signup entry and found two more deserving of 5k awards who apparently hadn't listed themselves on the signup board. Dhtwiki (talk) 04:32, 8 October 2026 (UTC)

Gosh, I never thought of this as a "big deal," @Miniapolis, just something to straighten out. I would have done exactly the same even if I'd been awarded a higher-level barnstar but believed it should have been a lower one. Or none at all.

Thanks for the idea of asking Dhtwiki about the page discrepancy, as it seems worth following up on to try to prevent any more such situations, so I'll do that (privately). Augnablik (talk) 04:54, 8 October 2026 (UTC)

The two pages are now the same, my having back-copied as promised, but the discrepancy can still be seen via the signup/drive page's edit history. Dhtwiki (talk) 05:08, 8 October 2026 (UTC)

Thank you, @Dhtwiki, for solving the mystery! And I didn't even need to write you ...

@Miniapolis, it seems our conversation in this thread has had another benefit besides just clearing up the page mystery, considering that Dhtwiki discovered two more copy editors eligible for the September 2026 5k+ Articles fifth place award when he became involved with my question. I guess that does make it a "big deal" after all. 🙂 Augnablik (talk) 11:29, 8 October 2026 (UTC)

The Signpost: 13 October 2026

• News and notes: AELECT returns, Jimbo gives a union update, VisualEditor is now default
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• Serendipity: From a rare portrait of a female millionaire in Nancy to a Japanese painter in Lyon
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• Obituary: Doug Weller
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