Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2024-02-13/Crossword
- Note: the last crossword's answers have now been posted.
This crossword has a mix of initialisms, shortcuts, and full-length words. It uses all of JPxG's hard work developing the crossword templates for the final issue of The Signpost in 2023.
Type in each cell to insert a letter. Pressing enter is, as always, not advised. Answers available if and when I remember them.
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| 1 | Frequently-used sysop action | DELETE |
| 3 | Initialism: Venue where drafts and userpages go to die | MFD |
| 4 | Shortcut: WikiProject interested in source reliability and verifiability of articles, founded in 2011 | WPRE |
| 5 | Initialism: Assessing the value of pending edits | RPC |
| 7 | Shortcut: Essay providing guidance for recent changes patrollers regarding vandalism and test edits | IDT |
| 8 | User whose powers were subject to a May 2023 petition and subsequent referendum | JIMBO |
| 11 | Initialism: That thing where someone whispers in your ear and crinkles a wrapper or whatever | ASMR |
| 13 | Initialism: What you use to go on the computer if you aren't a command-line enjoyer | GUI |
| 14 | Language spoken on the British Isles whose Wikipedia edition was started in 2003 | WELSH |
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| 2 | Initialism: Venue for discussing modules (and possibly deleting them). | TFD |
| 3 | "Wikiphilosophy": Middle ground between inclusionism and deletionism, Association founded in 2004 | MERGISM |
| 6 | Pseudo-namespace related to maintenance | CAT |
| 9 | The one for this article is a WebP, but Commons allows about a half-dozen different types | IMAGE |
| 10 | 8-across's website prior to the whole Wikipedia business, which everyone was surely just reading for the articles | BOMIS |
| 12 | Initialism: System where logging in on one project logs you in everywhere | SUL |
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great work guys!! some of these were pretty challenging, which makes it fun :) sawyer * he/they * talk 19:15, 13 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]