Upfront: Here’s the Administrators’ Noticeboard discussion.

Okay, this one apparently slipped under my radar, albeit it seems like they’re pretty small and only started in 2022. Here’s their 2025 report.

It seems like their limited focus is on using LLMs for interwiki translation; to what extent its paid editors are capable of that, I have no idea. We maintain a list of paid editing companies here (usually undisclosed against policy).

OKA asserts:

For example, articles in topics such as Science, technology, engineering, and Finance are lacking compared to topics such as History, Geography, and Humanities.

I have no idea how they reached this conclusion or how they think they’re qualified to translate anything given the random “totally not a Central European language” capitalization of words like that.

Per 404:

A job posting for a “Wikipedia Translator” from OKA offers $397 a month for working up to 40 hours per week. The job listing says translators are expected to publish “5-20 articles per week (depending on size).”

20 for any reasonable-size article could not adequately be vetted by one person in an 84-hour work week, for context, and that’s $9.90/hour at 40 hours. (edit: wait, sorry, I read that as $397 per week; $397 per month would be < $2.50/hour. What the fuck.)

Overall, before reading the discussion, the people at OKA seem like disruptive morons.

Edit: Into the discussion we go:

Cmon man, the training guide instructs translators to create multiple email accounts to get around LLM usage caps… — ExtantRotations

…yes, and? — 7804j [OKA founder]

Jesus christ. 🤦

Edit 2: 7804j just cannot stop themself from transparently using an LLM to participate in the discussion.

Edit 3: “we ensure they are above the minimum wage in the countries where the editors reside” oh my fucking god

Sure, let me just estimate your remaining lifespan and get back to you on that.

Danke. This should easily be fine for anyone who’s slightly-to-moderately interested; some of the nitty-gritty details like hyperlinks to the edit diffs are excluded from this copy–paste for those who really know their stuff and want to learn more.

Oh, fuck, this is going to be interesting to read about. Just to clarify: it seems like this wasn’t just Wikipedia but Wikimedia generally. So that’s also e.g. Wiktionary, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, etc.

Edit: Decided to check Reddit, and someone posted an ostensibly good summary on /r/wikipedia.

Nor batteries externally removable like used to be.

This would be a major sacrifice to form factor and would be strictly detrimental to 99.999% of users. Regarding benefits outside repairability, basically nobody in 2026 is going to think to carry around a second, fully-charged laptop battery. Regarding repairability, you might have to replace the battery once during the laptop’s lifespan, and the procedure is extremely straightforward.

With an external battery, you end up with a laptop that’s not only substantially thicker, but which – because it’s stuck with a large battery either on the back or on the bottom – likely has worse airflow.

Notably for this repair, there are seven captive Phillips-head screws (seen plenty of hexalobular etc.), you can just use your fingers to remove the base cover (seen plenty where you need/want a pry tool), removing the base cover already removes the battery’s screw(s), and most importantly, you just pinch to disconnect instead of lifting a fragile connector off the board. Swapping the replacement external battery once you have it is probably about 30 seconds; this is about five minutes – practically no difference accounting for how infrequently it’ll need to be done. There’s an exception for people with a physical disability like Parkinson’s, but if you can phone a friend, the process is straightforward enough for basically anyone else to do it on your behalf.

Edit: On a whim, I decided to look to Framework for a comparison. It’s worse there for battery replacement.

• You have to first undo five captive hexalobular screws on the bottom.
• Then you have to lift the magnetic top panel, being sure not to damage the ribbon cable while you disconnect it.
• You have to pull out the connector for the battery using a small, black flap.
• Then you unscrew three more captive hexalobular screws.

As far as I can tell, the T14 is the easiest battery replacement you’re going to find being sold today. If you’re able-bodied enough to use a screwdriver and it not being external is somehow still a serious concern for repairability, I don’t know what to tell you.

“The Strongest Jedi” definitely isn’t right. At best, he’s evenly matched with Obi-Wan. If you apply stupid “power scaling” rules, then sure, Obi-Wan got ganked by Dooku during their fight while Anakin handily beat him. But at the same time that Dooku pushes Obi-Wan, he easily kicks and downs Anakin who’s behind him; Obi-Wan was just the one he subdued by crushing him, ostensibly seeing him as the greater threat.

We’ve seen Anakin lose to Obi-Wan at the (inherent) height of his combat prowess, and it was his own fault. Windu and Yoda probably also take Anakin one-on-one. (Windu, of course, was totally defenseless when Anakin severed his arm.)

If we’re talking about things like the Force, Yoda is clearly much more powerful. There’s an argument Anakin was the most powerful pilot, but that combined with being very Force-sensitive and a very good duelist doesn’t make him “the most powerful” overall. Most potential? If he could keep his emotions under control, probably.

Also Saddam watching someone make a meme with that line break:

Wow, what elegant timing for AskYourUncle’s video about AC4.

You’ve got it reversed. Switching to Teams greatly hastened development, as the team’s newfound vitriol and frustration could be channeled toward the end user in a neverending feedback loop.

Yeah, I was pretty confused about what to do with my ferns when my house plant phase ended too. :/

What did you expect? It says “beyond fried” right there, as in “so far past fried that it’s condensed into rubber”. (I’m sorry, Beyond; I love you, and you’re perfect.)

Bleak but interesting interpretation of Antarctica circa 2065.

Less time than you take to discredit this can copy/paste the search terms yourself and choose

What the fuck are you even talking about? I provided the PC Gamer source because I personally have no trouble finding good sources but know some people do (nor should people have to go look for them in lieu of a content farm anyway), and the GameRant article linked in the OP credits PC Gamer as its singular source. I broke down why it’s preferable after reading both sources.

I don’t feel like being lectured on going out and finding better sources when 1) I did and 2) the lobotomist would’ve had to accidentally leave the ice pick in your head for you to be fucking stupid enough to find and present the LLM slop that you did. It’s pathetically clear you have no idea how to find good sources of information, and you should work on basic media literacy skills. (That’s a rude but real suggestion. If you want polite, you can start next time by not suggesting I have sinister ulterior motives for trying to help.)

This is transparently LLM-generated.

• I’ve never heard of this site. (I like to think that carries water given what I do for a hobby.)
• There’s no credited author on anything.
• There’s no source.
• The site name and layout are comically generic.
• The site churns out way too many articles per day for some no-name with no named authors.
• The prose itself is obvious, like:

“This decision could encourage more legal reforms and influence the strategies employed by law firms and corporations in handling patent disputes. As the legal community and the tech industry continue to navigate these challenges, the ruling in favor of Valve provides a noteworthy reference point in the evolving discourse on patent law.”

Thar’s 161 words straight of unadulterated “oh fuck, the deadline is in ten minutes and I haven’t reached the word count.”

Your call, OP, but it might be worth linking to the PC Gamer article that this GameRant article parasitizes and faintly credits as their lone source at the end. (“Valve wins lawsuit against Rothschild and associated entities, with a jury agreeing they violated an anti-patent troll protection act”)

• There’s no telephone game.
• The original author gets the credit.
• GameRant’s interface is obnoxious.
• GameRant is a content farm of dubious reliability. In Wikiproject Video Games on Wikipedia, we try not to use them in favor of other sources where possible.
• Giving GameRant clicks helps them on their race to the bottom – dragging everyone else along.

Edit: Rad.

I think you’re in the same boat I am where I fucking haaaaaaate the culture on link aggregators (and probably other social media) where people will bitch and moan to no end that their preferred format (publicly reacting to disconnected headlines whose articles they haven’t read) isn’t giving them literally all the information they need to form a cogent opinion.

• “I had time to write a 300-word short essay about this headline, but I’m going to whine if I get called for something in the first paragraph that invalides everything I said.”
• “I can’t believe this headline mentioned a pretty common thing I’m not personally familiar with but the publication’s target audience obviously is.”
• "Headline didn’t answer every single question I could possibly wonder? Uh, clickbait much?
• “The headline writer didn’t account for this batshit non sequitur I drew from it, so they’re basically lying.”

They genuinely think that the article body should be effectively superfluous to the headline – not just to have a basic gist of but to discuss and debate current events, which is insane. It reminds me of people who think they can learn math and physics by passively watching somebody else do it – which is true only to an utterly incosequential extent.

Speaking as someone who’s read thousands of articles for research, I feel confident saying that reading the article is an insane force multiplier to understanding. Any time you spent reacting to the headline would’ve been 3x as effective put into reading even just part of an article. This doesn’t just apply to current events, and even I haven’t thoroughly learned this lesson; so many times I’ve been editing Wikipedia and arrived at a point where reading one goddamn article for three minutes would’ve saved me half an hour of fucking around (“two hours of debugging can save you five minutes of reading the documentation”).

This is my way of pleading with you (you, the non-CombatWombat reader): it’s enriching once you can steel yourself and work through the initial dopamine drought, and it quickly becomes enjoyable. It’s not your fault it’s so hard psychologically; this was done to you by formats that value engagement with the platform over engagement with the material.

But if you don’t, please at least accept that headlines cannot always contain everything you want.

Yeah, there’s no fucking way “Well Grok told me these are the prompts they used” would be admissible as evidence of any kind.

Yes, and my comment was assuming the partner washed as a baseline – unless it’s to the standards I wash my fucking toilet bowl with at least.

Washing helps remove fecal matter, but anyone giving analingus is still lapping up microscopic shit particles off of someone’s asshole.

Agreed. Armpit fetishes are weird and gross to me, but they’re a distinct rung down from “I want to shove my face between someone’s asscheeks and aggressively mop up microscopic flecks of their shit with my tongue.” I’m giving ass-eating people the side-eye if they make fun of armpit people.

Raiden, turn the game console off right now.