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== Administrators' newsletter – June 2025 ==

== Te Rapa Co-generation ==

[[Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter|News and updates for administrators]] from the past month (May 2025).

Hi CoderThomasB, I have found several useful sources in newspaper articles available through Pro-Quest. I am able to login to ProQuest for free, using my Wellington City Libraries card details. Hopefully, you may have a library that also provides access to Pro-quest. If you can't get access to ProQuest, please get back to me and I will see if I can help. Here is what I have found so far. Some of these are more background about the dairy factory, but many deal directly with the Co-gen plant:

* [https://www.proquest.com/docview/313869807/Record/CC00CA2CD69F4556PQ/6 23 August 1997]

* [https://www.proquest.com/docview/313867801/E1E8EA92E2BA4E63PQ/86 25 August 1997]

* [https://www.proquest.com/docview/313858593/E1E8EA92E2BA4E63PQ/194 24 September 1997]

* [https://www.proquest.com/docview/315030104/21886C6A2605451APQ/1 27 November 1997]

* [https://www.proquest.com/docview/313469427/CC00CA2CD69F4556PQ/2 19 December 1997]

* [https://www.proquest.com/docview/313597878/CC00CA2CD69F4556PQ/4 9 August 1999]

* [https://www.proquest.com/docview/313585919/E1E8EA92E2BA4E63PQ/177 20 Sep 1999]

* [https://www.proquest.com/docview/313605399/E1E8EA92E2BA4E63PQ/206 10 March 2000]

* [https://www.proquest.com/docview/315176324/E1E8EA92E2BA4E63PQ/6 13 March 2000]

* [https://www.proquest.com/docview/313762844/E1E8EA92E2BA4E63PQ/267 24 April 2003]

* [https://www.proquest.com/docview/313310769/E1E8EA92E2BA4E63PQ/152 16 Jan 2007]

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The content about the dairy factory in the article [[Te Rapa]] could be expanded using some of the sources above, if you are keen. I will keep looking for different sources and get back to you later in the week, hopefully :) [[User:Marshelec|Marshelec]] ([[User talk:Marshelec|talk]]) 02:20, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

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:Thanks! Unfortunately, I can't seam to access those articles using my Christchurch library card. {{sad face}}

:But I have added a little bit more to the Article about Fonterra's consent to set up an auxiliary boiler that is used when the cogeneration plant isn't operating. [[User:CoderThomasB|CoderThomasB]] ([[User talk:CoderThomasB#top|talk]]) 10:33, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

::It appears I can download them from ProQuest as PDF's so I will put them into a folder in OneDrive that I will share with you.[[User:Marshelec|Marshelec]] ([[User talk:Marshelec|talk]]) 19:00, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

:::See if you can access the shared folder of PDFs I downloaded here: [https://1drv.ms/u/s!Aps5Nc0RjrzYge4DhseaTTwQYb5Mkw?e=oIaHTh]. However, I have found that you can access ProQuest using the Wikipedia library. :) Go to the Wikipedia library here: [https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/users/my_library/ ] (I suggest you save this link where you can find it again) . Just login with your Wikipedia credentials, then you can access multiple subscription databases, including ProQuest. Once you are in ProQuest, you will be able to find the sources I have listed (and others no doubt). Please get back to me to let me know how you get on. Note that when using a cite web template for a source that requires a subscription, you should include |url-access=subscription| into the citation....[[User:Marshelec|Marshelec]] ([[User talk:Marshelec|talk]]) 19:54, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

::::I have just searched again in ProQuest using the search terms '''Te Papa Cogeneration''', and got 40 hits. These includes several useful looking responses that are additional to those in the list above. Another point about citing these sources: it is recommended to add |via=[[ProQuest]]| in the citation...[[User:Marshelec|Marshelec]] ([[User talk:Marshelec|talk]]) 20:03, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

:::::Thank you! I'll get to work on using those articles. Your suggestion about the Wikipedia library works, and I am able to access those articles and search ProQuest! [[User:CoderThomasB|CoderThomasB]] ([[User talk:CoderThomasB#top|talk]]) 20:07, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

::::::Great stuff. One observation is that the Fonterra plant is so significant in national terms that it warrants its own article - separate from [[Te Rapa]]. I recommend a split, leaving behind a brief summmary in the Te Rapa article, with a MAIN template. See [[WP:SUMMARY]] and [[WP:SPLIT]]. Are you interested in taking that on ? [[User:Marshelec|Marshelec]] ([[User talk:Marshelec|talk]]) 21:13, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

:::::::I'll have a read through of those guidelines and maybe consult with Schwede66, but I do think that is a sensible thing to do. I'll look into it once I have added what I want to add to the Te Rapa Co-generation article. [[User:CoderThomasB|CoderThomasB]] ([[User talk:CoderThomasB#top|talk]]) 22:32, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

::::::::Sure. I am happy to help out with guidance about the proposed splitting, but it is a good learning experience to do it yourself, if you have not done this before. Note that a split as proposed is not controversial, and does not warrant consultation on the talk pages. You can just go ahead and do it when you are ready. [[User:Marshelec|Marshelec]] ([[User talk:Marshelec|talk]]) 22:50, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

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== ''The Signpost'': 24 June 2025 ==

Thanks for your important work maintaining Wikipedia! And for checking [my edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WebAssembly&diff=prev&oldid=1149510377&diffmode=source) so quickly, and [letting me know that it might not be appropriate](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Chadoh#An_edit_that_you_recently_made_seemed_to_be_generated_using_a_large_language_model). I was unaware of the draft policy around LLM use; good to know.

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I believe this is actually a case where using text originally sourced from an LLM is ok. I'll go through the guidelines and explain how my edit adhered to each, but let me start by explaining why I wanted this edit: I was [https://github.com/stellar/soroban-docs/pull/381#discussion_r1164575876 working on documentation] for a new blockchain project that uses Wasm, and I wanted a single word of that documentation to link to an authoritative website or page that lists all of the places where Wasm is used. One of the first places I looked was, of course, the Wikipedia page, specifically the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebAssembly#Implementations Implementations] section. I and my collaborators know enough about WebAssembly to know that this section of the Wikipedia article was far from complete! Failing to find a better list, I thought the best possible place for the information would be Wikipedia.

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My teammate asked GPT-4 (I do not pay for it myself), and its list was a much better starting point than Wikipedia's. It had a couple small errors, which I corrected, and I added links to all of the projects it listed, so that any reader need only click them to verify that each does, in fact, use WebAssembly.

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Ok, now let's go through those guidelines:

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The "original content" was, in this case, mostly just a list. I edited this list and made it more appropriate for Wikipedia.

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I did.

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==== 4. You are responsible for making sure that using neural network will not be disruptive to Wikipedia. Therefore, you '''must''' denote that a neural network was used in the edit summary. ====

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I did.

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==== 5. LLMs are not [[Wikipedia:Verifiability#Reliable sources|reliable sources]]. Unless their outputs were published by reliable outlets with rigorous oversight, they should not be cited in our articles. ====

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I didn't cite one.

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I did not use Wikipedia as an experiment or trial.

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I did not.

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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Well done on approaching the Teahouse for help after identifying an article you thought did not belong on Wikipedia. I think you should consider going over to the Vandalism Academy and asking Cass to mentor you and train you on anti-vandalism. Anti-vandalism is quite a lot of fun to learn and you will get to work with a trained and experienced editor who can mentor you. The ant-vandalism course helps develop editors to detect people damaging the project. However it also teaches you a raft of tools and guidelines that any editor needs to know, For someone with 250 edits to pick up an article as you did and reach out correctly for help shows you have attention to detail and the temperament we need here. Welcome and please do stay with Wikipedia. [[User:MaxnaCarta|MaxnaCarta]] ([[User talk:MaxnaCarta|talk]]) 02:11, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

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==Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!==

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:::::'''Hi CoderThomasB!''' We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission. I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.

::::::* [[WP:TWA/Portal|The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page]]

::::::* [[WP:TWA/Lounge|The Wikipedia Adventure Lounge]]

::::::* [[WP:Teahouse|The Teahouse new editor help space]]

::::::* [[WP:Help|Wikipedia Help pages]]

-- 10:07, Sunday, April 30, 2023 ([[UTC]])

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