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FlyingAce ✈hello 16:07, 17 June 2022 (UTC) 331dot (talk )09:40, 18 June 2022 (UTC) 331dot : I just tried it but the issue persists. Out of curiosity I checked the IP on my desktop computer (connected to the same router via ethernet cable) and it shows the same IP address and block message. Oddly enough, connecting my computer to my job's VPN solves the issue thereFlyingAce ✈hello 18:32, 18 June 2022 (UTC) The Signpost : 26 June 2022Office actions to secretly delete stuff when told to? Well, at least not if they're Putin's.
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Some Articles for Deletion just drag on.
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Repeat after me: I solemnly swear not to put "oh my!" in a headline.
This month: A FACBot upgrade, a completed list of lists.
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501(c)(3) application approved, Amazon donates another million.
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The newest sysop speaks on the process that got them there.
Featured content from October.
The strength of Wikipedia is the peer review afterwards.
More serial killers than you can shake a stick at!
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Bastique ☎ call me! 05:28, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
Bastique : my apologies, I was going to move the information myself once I had a chance to sit down at the computer (which hasn't happened yet, unfortunately). Having said that, I explicitly did not use rollback on your edit; I used undo precisely because I wanted to leave an explanation in the edit summary. Not sure why it was tagged as a revert – I even avoided using Twinkle. –FlyingAce ✈hello 05:42, 28 November 2022 (UTC) Bastique ☎ call me! 05:47, 28 November 2022 (UTC) The Signpost : 28 November 2022Joe Roe's close sows dough woes, manifestos... vetoes? overthrows?
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Heather Ford's new volume on Wikipedia, knowledge and power in the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
Facebook's Galactica demo provides a case study in large language models for text generation at scale: this one was silly, but we cannot ignore them forever.
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Search upgrades, lawsuits, paid editing, and personal reflection.
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7,000,000-year Landmasses for Subduction discussions considered "too long".
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Section 230 before the Supreme Court in two cases, with broad implications for the web.
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Isamaa party sponsor Parvel Pruunsild files claim in Tartu County Court against WMEE head Ivo Kruusamägi and Reform Party politicians.
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The Signpost : 20 February 2023UCoC Enforcement Guidelines pass, Wikimedia Enterprise financials, GPTs gone wild, and a speedy deletion criterion removed.
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Gautam Adani and his companies possibly behind scheme featuring scores of socks, infiltration of articles for creation process.
GPT: friend or foe?
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