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The Downlink – May 2021

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
	The Downlink	1 April 2021 — 30 April 2021

Volume 1 — Issue 7

Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink

In the News!

On April 9 at 07:42:41 (UTC), Soyuz MS-18 successfully launched from Baikonur Site 31 with Oleg Novitsky, Pyotr Dubrov and Mark T. Vande Hei arriving at the ISS 3 hours later to join Expedition 64 members.
April 12 marks the 60^th year of human spaceflight, since Vostok 1 launched in 1961 with Yuri Gagarin onboard.
April 12 also marks 40 years since the first space shuttle launch. STS-1 spent 2 days, 6 hours in space in 1981 landing on April 14.
On April 16, NASA selected the SpaceX Starship Human Landing System for crewed landing on the Moon.
On April 17 at 01:34 (UTC), Soyuz MS-17 departed from the ISS and landed at Kazakh Steppe over 3 hours later ending Sergey Ryzhikov, Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, Kathleen Rubins mission of 184 days and 23 hours.
Also on the 17^th, Expedition 64 on the ISS ended marking the start of Expedition 65.
On April 19, the Mars helicopter Ingenuity completed the first powered flight using atmospheric lift on another planet.
Earth Day came around for another year, 51 years after it was first held on April 22, 1970.
On April 23 at 09:49:02 (UTC), SpaceX Crew-2 launched at LC-39A with Shane Kimbrough, K. Megan McArthur, Akihiko Hoshide and Thomas Pesquet arriving at the ISS 1 day later to join Expedition 65 members.
Michael Collins who was the Apollo Command Module pilot, dies on April 28, 2021 aged 90.
On April 29, China launched a Tianhe station core module to low Earth orbit, starting a 2 year effort to build a space station.

Article of the month.

Michael Collins

Michael Collins was an American astronaut who flew the Apollo 11 command module Columbia around the Moon in 1969 while his crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, made the first crewed landing on the surface. He was selected as part of NASA's third group of 14 astronauts in 1963 and flew in space twice.

Image of the month.

The unofficial flag of earth day which is made of the "Blue Marble" image taken onboard of the Apollo 17 spacecraft with a blue background.

Members

New Members:

Anshuman~Potu~Tipu (Joined on the 1^st April)
DrifAssault (Joined on the 6^th April)
BeachFire (Joined on the 13^th April)
Wong Wei Hao (Joined on the 15^th April)
Canopyspaceadmirer (Joined on the 19^th April)
ThePolarcub (Joined on the 20^th April)
TheColourOfFear (Joined on the 27^th April)
StarshipSLS (Joined on the 29^th April)

Number of active members: 112.
Total number of members: 325.

April Launches
All times stated here are in UTC.

Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L23 (7^th at 16:34:18) Success
Long March 4B – Shiyan 6-02 (8^th at 23:01) Success
Soyuz-2.1a – MS-18 (9^th at 07:42:40) Success
Falcon 9 – Crew-2 (23^rd at 22:14:08) Success
Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 6 (25^th at 22:14:08) Success
Delta IV Heavy – NROL-82 (26^th at 20:47) Success
Long March 6 – Qilu 1 & Qilu 4 (27^th at 03:20) Success
Vega – Pléiades Neo 3 (29^th at 01:50:00) Success
Long March 6 – Tianhe 1 (29^th at 03:23:15) Success
Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L24 (29^rd at 03:44) Success
Long March 6 – Yaogan 34 (27^th at 03:20) Success

May Launches
Launch dates can change. See a current list: here.

Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L25
GSLV Mk.2 – GISAT 1
Long March 7 – Tianzhou 2
Atlas 5 – SBIRS GEO Flight 5
Soyuz – OneWeb 7

Article Statistics
This data reflects values from the 30 April 2021.

Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	7	18	4	7			36
FL			4	4			8
FM					97		97
GA	11	22	35	53			121
B	1	49	37	48			135
C	56	160	534	489		11	1,250
Start	37	158	1,115	2,235		373	3,918
Stub		7	244	2,191		226	2,668
List	14	130	79	211		1	435
Category					1,033		1,033
Disambig					48		48
File					202		202
Portal					55		55
Project					57		57
Redirect					1,131		1,131
Template					495		495
Other					38		38
Assessed	126	544	2,052	5,238	3,162	611	11,733
Unassessed						56	56
Total	126	544	2,052	5,238	3,162	667	11,789

Monthly Changes

Since March, 39 new pages have been added to Spaceflight. There is 1 less GA-class, with 3 more files, 4 more B-class, 6 more C-class, 7 more start-class and 5 new stub-class articles.

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WikiCup 2021 May newsletter

The second round of the 2021 WikiCup has now finished; it was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 61 points to advance to Round 3. There were some impressive efforts in the round, with the top eight contestants all scoring more than 400 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 110 good articles achieved in total by contestants, as well as the 216 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures.

Our top scorers in Round 2 were:

The Rambling Man, with 2963 points from three featured articles, 20 featured article reviews, 37 good articles, 73 good article reviews, as well as 22 DYKs.
Epicgenius, with 1718 points from one featured article, 29 good articles, 16 DYKs and plenty of bonus points.
Bloom6132, with 990 points from 13 DYKs and 64 "In the news" items, mostly recent deaths.
Hog Farm, with 834 points from two featured articles, five good articles, 14 featured article reviews and 15 good article reviews.
Gog the Mild, with 524 points from two featured articles and four featured article reviews.
Lee Vilenski, with 501 points from one featured article, three good articles, six featured article reviews and 25 good article reviews.
Sammi Brie, with 485 points from four good articles, eight good article reviews and 27 DYKs, on US radio and television stations.
Ktin, with 436 points from four good articles, seven DYKs and 11 "In the news" items.

Please remember that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of Round 2 but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in Round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (except for at the end of each round, when you must claim them before the cut-off date/time). When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

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Tech News: 2021-18

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

Twinkle is a gadget on English Wikipedia. It can help with maintenance and patrolling. It can now be used on other wikis. You can get Twinkle on your wiki using the twinkle-starter GitHub repository.

Problems

The content translation tool did not work for many articles for a little while. This was because of a bug. [1]
Some things will not work for about a minute on 5 May. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This will affect the content translation tool and notifications among other things. This is because of an upgrade to avoid crashes. [2]

Changes later this week

Reference Previews will become a default feature on a number of wikis on 5 May. This is later than planned because of some changes. You can use it without using Page Previews if you want to. The earlier plan was to have the preference to use both or none. [3][4]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 May. It will be on all wikis from 6 May (calendar).

Future changes

The CSS classes .error, .warning and .success do not work for mobile readers if they have not been specifically defined on your wiki. From June they will not work for desktop readers. This can affect gadgets and templates. The classes can be defined in MediaWiki:Common.css or template styles instead. [5]

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15:42, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject Colorado Zoom meeting 05/12/2021

WikiProject Colorado

WikiProject Colorado will hold a Zoom meeting at 7:30 PM MDT on Wednesday, May 12, 2021, for those interested in working on Colorado Wikipedia articles. Your suggestions and comments are appreciated. Information about some of the things we need to do is located at Colorado things to do and Requested Colorado articles.

Topic: WikiProject Colorado May 2021
Time: May 12, 2021 07:30 PM MDT

Join Zoom Meeting https://us04web.zoom.us/j/78055623422?pwd=VUtPQVZrZzU1ZWVhZ0F1MExIeUQ2UT09

Meeting ID: 780 5562 3422
Passcode: WP:CO MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:07, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2021).

Administrator changes

Enchanter • Carlossuarez46

Interface administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

Following an RfC, consensus was found that third party appeals are allowed but discouraged.
The 2021 Desysop Policy RfC was closed with no consensus. Consensus was found in a previous RfC for a community based desysop procedure, though the procedure proposed in the 2021 RfC did not gain consensus.

Technical news

The user group oversight will be renamed to suppress. This is for technical reasons. You can comment at T112147 if you have objections.

Arbitration

The community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure was closed, and an initial draft based on feedback from the now closed consultation is expected to be released in early June to early July for community review.

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Tech News: 2021-19

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Kenneth C Griffin

Hello Matthew, I have recently joined wikipedia. My wife an I tried to create an article that was immediately marked for deletion. We have also submitted a proposed edits for Kenneth C Griffin. There is an user accusing us to be paid and connected to Mr Griffin, I have been replying to the user, but it seems to me that the user is taking my edits personal. Could you please check? There is a talk page and you can compare the edits as well. We really enjoyed our time on wikipedia the past few days, and it is my hope our contribution could be useful and worth it. Thank you so muchTrader john1 (talk) 12:20, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

Hello! It appears you've already been blocked. Please read the links provided in the block message for more help. ~ Matthewrbowker ^{Comments · Changes} 00:09, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

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