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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.

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Clues

Across

Frequently-used sysop action   DELETE 
Initialism: Venue where drafts and userpages go to die   MFD 
Shortcut: WikiProject interested in source reliability and verifiability of articles, founded in 2011   WPRE 
Initialism: Assessing the value of pending edits   RPC 
Shortcut: Essay providing guidance for recent changes patrollers regarding vandalism and test edits   IDT 
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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Initialism: Venue for discussing modules (and possibly deleting them).   TFD 
"Wikiphilosophy": Middle ground between inclusionism and deletionism, Association founded in 2004   MERGISM 
Pseudo-namespace related to maintenance   CAT 
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