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Welcome to the 2021 WikiCup!

Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The competition begins today and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. Any questions on the rules or on anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. We thank Vanamonde93 and Godot13, who have retired as judges, and we thank them for their past dedication. The judges for the WikiCup this year are Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:11, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

The Downlink Volume 2 Issue 3

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		1 December 2020 — 31 December 2020

Volume 2 — Issue 3
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News! The Chang’e 5 lander landed on the moon on December 1st, and started to gather lunar samples. The Chang’e 5 ascent module launched from the moons surface on December 3rd and later docked with the service module in lunar orbit. Hayabusa-2 has successfuly returned samples it collected from the asteroid 162173 Ryugu. It landed in South Australia on 5th December after a 6 year mission. SpaceX Starship SN8 completed a 12.5km flight and successfully made it back to the launch pad however was unable to slow down and hit the ground creating an impressive fireball. China becomes the third country to terurn samples from the moon. After the Chang'e-5 return capsule lands in Inner Mongolia at 01:59 local time on December 13th.
Article of the month. Mary Jackson Mary Jackson (née Winston, April 9, 1921 – February 11, 2005) was an American mathematician and aerospace engineer at NACA, which was succeeded by NASA. She worked at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, for most of her career. She started as a computer at the segregated West Area Computing division in 1951. She took advanced engineering classes and, in 1958, became NASA's first black female engineer.	Image of the month. With China becoming the third country to return moon samples back to earth, this is an image of the Apollo 11 Lunar Lander being worked on by Buzz Aldrin. This mission was the first time moon samples were brought back to earth. This image was taken over 51 years ago on July 21, 1969.
Members New Members: ExoEditor (Joined on the 14th December) XFalcon2004x (Joined on the 16th December) PythosIsAwesome (Joined on the 17th December) Number of active members: 97. Total number of members: 301. December Launches All times stated here are in UTC. Soyuz - Falcon Eye 2 (2nd at 01:33:28) Success Soyuz - Gonets-M (3rd at 01:14:36) Success Chang'e 5 (3rd at 15:10) Success Long March 3B - Gaofen 14 (6th at 03:58) Success Falcon 9 - SpaceX CRS 21 (6th at 15:17:08) Success Long March 11 - GECAM (9th at 20:14) Success Delta 4 Heavy - NROL 44 (11th at 1:09) Success Falcon 9 - SXM 7 (13th at 17:20) Success Angara A5 - Test Flight (14th at 5:50:00) Success Electron - The Owl's Night Begins (15th at 10:09:27) Success Rocket 3 - Test Flight (15th at 20:55) Failure PSLV-XL - CMS1 (17th at 10:11) Success Soyuz - OneWeb 4 (18th at 12:26:26) Success Falcon 9 - NROL-108 (19th at 14:00) Success Long March 8 - XJY 7 (22nd at 04:37:37) Success Long March 4C - Yaogan 33 (27th at 15:$4) Success Soyuz - CSO 2 (29th at 16:42:07) Success January Launches Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. Falcon 9 - Türksat 5A Falcon 9 - Transporter 1 LauncherOne - ELaNa 20 Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L16 Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L17 Firefly Alpha - Dream 1 Hyperbola-1 - (Second Flight) Jielong 1 - Hainan-1	Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 31 December 2020 Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 17 4 7 35 FA 7 17 4 7 35 FL 4 4 8 FM 96 96 GA 11 22 37 49 119 B 1 47 37 44 129 C 55 159 518 475 7 1,214 Start 38 158 1,124 2,207 369 3,896 Stub 8 248 2,175 225 2,656 List 14 130 78 208 430 Category 1,027 1,027 Disambig 47 47 File 196 196 Portal 55 55 Project 57 57 Redirect 1,121 1,121 Template 492 492 Other 27 1 28 Assessed 126 541 2,050 5,169 3,124 602 11,612 Unassessed 43 43 Total 126 541 2,050 5,169 3,124 645 11,655 Monthly Changes Since November, 99 new pages have been added to Spaceflight. 1 new file, with 2 more files reaching FM class. There 3 more articles have reached FA class, with an increase of 2 GA class articles. 4 more lists have been added to the project. While 13 articles have been improved to C class as well as 2 articles reaching start class and 66 new articles added to stub class.
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2020).

Administrator changes

Hammersoft

Andres • Brion VIBBER • Rkitko • Thatcher

CheckUser changes

Barkeep49 • BDD • CaptainEek • Primefac

Oversight changes

Barkeep49 • BDD • CaptainEek

Joe Roe

Guideline and policy news

• Speedy deletion criterion T3 (duplication and hardcoded instances) has been repealed following a request for comment.

Technical news

• You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time.

Arbitration

• By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes). The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason).
• Following the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, BDD, Bradv, CaptainEek, L235, Maxim, Primefac.

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Tech News: 2021-02

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

• You can choose to be reminded when you have not added an edit summary. This can be done in your preferences. This could conflict with the CAPTCHA. This has now been fixed. [1]
• You can link to specific log entries. You can get these links for example by clicking the timestamps in the log. Until now, such links to private log entries showed no entry even if you had permission to view private log entries. The links now show the entry. [2]
• Admins can use the abuse filter tool to automatically prevent bad edits. Three changes happened last week:
  • The filter editing interface now shows syntax errors while you type. This is similar to JavaScript pages. It also shows a warning for regular expressions that match the empty string. New warnings will be added later. [3]
  • Oversighters can now hide multiple filter log entries at once using checkboxes on Special:AbuseLog. This is how the usual revision deletion works. [4]
  • When a filter matches too many actions after it has been changed it is "throttled". The most powerful actions are disabled. This is to avoid many editors getting blocked when an administrator made a mistake. The administrator will now get a notification about this "throttle".
• There is a new tool to build new skins. You can also see existing skins. You can give feedback. [5]
• Bots using the API no longer watch pages automatically based on account preferences. Setting the watchlist to watch will still work. This is to reduce the size of the watchlist data in the database. [6]
• Scribunto's file metadata now includes length. [7]
• CSS and JavaScript code pages now have link anchors to line numbers. You can use wikilinks like w:en:MediaWiki:Common.js#L-50. [8]
• There was a new version of MediaWiki last week. You can read a detailed log of all 763 changes. Most of them are very small and will not affect you.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 January. It will be on all wikis from 14 January (calendar).

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15:41, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2021-03

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all wikis from 21 January (calendar).

Future changes

• The Growth team plans to add features to get more visitors to edit to more Wikipedias. You can help translating the interface.
• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on 26 January at 07:00 (UTC). [9]
• MassMessage posts could be automatically timestamped in the future. This is because MassMessage senders can now send pages using MassMessage. Pages are more difficult to sign. If there are times when a MassMessage post should not be timestamped you can let the developers know.

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Tech News: 2021-04

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Problems

• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on 26 January at 07:00 (UTC). You will not be able to read or edit Wikitech for a short time on 28 January at 09:00 (UTC). [10][11]

Changes later this week

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