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Welcome to Project Spaceflight! Please let me know if there's anything I can do to help. :) Neopeius (talk) 01:04, 3 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Neopeius: Thank you! Springfield2020 (talk) 14:59, 4 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Schrop Intermediate School (Lakemore, Ohio) (November 15)

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Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by DGG was:
This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of people). Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.
 The comment the reviewer left was:
Intermediate SChools are not considered notable at Wikipedia. unless there is something much more special than this.
Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.
DGG ( talk ) 05:47, 15 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@DGG: Since the intermediate school does not qualify for its own article, would it be acceptable to merge it with the page about its school district, Springfield Local School District (Summit County)? Springfield2020 (talk) 15:25, 16 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It would be acceptable to include it in the list, with a line or two of information--not only acceptable, but the preferred way of handling them. DGG ( talk ) 20:04, 16 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@DGG: I'll move it over there, then. Thank you for taking the time to review my draft! Springfield2020 (talk) 14:13, 17 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]



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B 2 48 40 52 142
C 56 160 545 510 12 1,283
Start 36 157 1,106 2,244 374 3,917
Stub 9 244 2,188 233 2,674
List 14 126 79 218 1 438
Category 1,032 1,032
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File 207 207
Portal 55 55
Project 68 68
Redirect 2 1 1 1,134 1 1,139
Template 501 501
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The Downlink The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
1 July 2021 — 31 July 2021
Volume 1 — Issue 10
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News!
  • On 11th July Virgin Galactic had their first fully crewed mission to the edge of space with Richard Branson onboard in SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity.
  • On 17th July NASA announced that scientific observations from the Hubble Space Telescope had resumed on a backup computer after being placed in a "safe mode" since June 13.
  • On 20th July Blue Origin had their first fully crewed mission to the edge of space with Jeff Bezos onboard in a New Shepard capsule.
  • On 26th July The Pirs module was the first permanent ISS module to be decommissioned. After docking to the ISS on 17th September 2001, just under 20 years ago.
  • On 29th July The ISS was moved out of its normal orientation after the Nauka module (a new Russian module) was docked and started firing its thrusters.
Article of the month.

Shuttle-Centaur was a version of the Centaur upper stage rocket designed to be carried aloft inside the Space Shuttle. Two variants were developed: Centaur G-Prime and Centaur G. The powerful Centaur upper stage allowed for heavier deep space probes, and for them to reach Jupiter sooner. However, neither variant ever flew on a Shuttle.

Image of the month.

This is an Extreme Deep Field image taken from the Hubble Space Telescope, released by NASA on September 25th, 2012. With exposure dates from July 2002 to March 2012.

Members

New Members:

Number of active members: 120. Total number of members: 333.

July Launches
All times stated here are in UTC.

  1. Russia Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 8 (1st at 12:48:33) Success Success
  2. China Long March 2D – Jilin-1 (3rd at 02:51) Success Success
  3. China Long March 4C – Fengyun 3E (4th at 23:28) Success Success
  4. China Long March 3C/E – Tianlian I-05 (6th at 15:53) Success Success
  5. China Long March 6 – Ningxia 1 (9th at 11:59) Success Success
  6. China Long March 2C – Yaogan 30-10 (19th at 00:19) Success Success
  7. Russia Proton-M – Nauka (21st at 14:58:25) Success Success
  8. China Long March 2D – Tianhui-1D (29th at 04:01) Success Success
  9. United States Electron – Monolith (29th at 06:00) Success Success
  10. European Union Ariane 5 ECA – SO-D2 & Eutelsat (30th at 21:00) Success Success

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

Article Statistics
This data reflects values from the 31 July 2021.
Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 7 19 5 7 38
FL 1 4 4 9
FM 102 102
GA 11 24 34 54 123
B 2 48 40 52 142
C 56 160 545 510 12 1,283
Start 36 157 1,106 2,244 374 3,917
Stub 9 244 2,188 233 2,674
List 14 126 79 218 1 438
Category 1,032 1,032
Disambig 49 49
File 207 207
Portal 55 55
Project 68 68
Redirect 2 1 1 1,134 1 1,139
Template 501 501
Other 31 31
Assessed 126 546 2,058 5,278 3,179 621 11,808
Unassessed 3 1 74 78
Total 126 546 2,058 5,281 3,180 695 11,886
Monthly Changes

Since June: 24 pages have been added to spaceflight. There are 4 more files. There is 1 more B class article, 5 more C class articles, 10 more start class articles & 2 more stub class articles.
The 2 additional FM class have been FM for a few years, they just registered this month.

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Winners and losers.
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The Downlink The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
1 August 2021 — 31 August 2021
Volume 1 — Issue 11
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News!
  • On 12th August a GSLV Mk.2 rocket with the EOS-03 Earth observation satellite as a payload encountered a third stage failure and crashed back into the ground after reaching a maximum altitude of 140km (87 miles).
  • On 20th August a 5 hour 55 minute spacewalk was completed by chinese astronauts Nie Haisheng and Liu Boming on the Tiangong space station.
  • On 28th August an Astra rocket had an engine failure at launch, but managed to recover and fly to the upper atmosphere before leaving its flight corridor, resulting in flight temination.
Article of the month.

Apollo 7 was the first crewed flight in NASA's Apollo program, and saw the resumption of human spaceflight by the agency after the fire that killed the three Apollo 1 astronauts. The Apollo 7 crew was commanded by Walter M. Schirra, with command module pilot Donn F. Eisele and lunar module pilot R. Walter Cunningham.

Image of the month.

Official portrait of Ilan Ramon, an astronaut killed during the failed re-entry of the Space Shuttle Columbia.

Members

New Members:

Number of active members: 122. Total number of members: 335.

August Launches
All times stated here are in UTC.

  1. China Hyperbola-1 – Jilin-1 (3rd at 07:39) Failure Failure
  2. China Long March 6 – KL-Beta A/B (4th at 11:01) Success Success
  3. China Long March 3B/E – ChinaSat 2E (5th at 16:30:05) Success Success
  4. United States Antares 230+ – Cygnus NG-16 (10th at 22:01:05) Success Success
  5. India GSLV Mk II – EOS-03 (GISAT-1) (12th at 00:13) Failure Failure
  6. Europe France Vega – Pléiades-Neo 4 (17th at 01:47:06) Success Success
  7. China Long March 4B – Tianhui-2 02 (18th at 22:32) Success Success
  8. Russia Kazakhstan Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 9 (21st at 22:13:40) Success Success
  9. China Long March 2C – RSW-01 (24th at 11:15) Success Success
  10. China Long March 3B/E – TJSW-7 (24th at 15:41) Success Success
  11. United States Rocket 3 – STP-27AD1 (28th at 22:35) Failure Failure
  12. United States Falcon 9 – CRS-23 (29th at 07:14:49) Success Success

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

Article Statistics
This data reflects values from the 31 August 2021.
Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 7 19 5 7 38
FL 1 4 4 9
FM 102 102
GA 10 24 34 54 122
B 4 48 41 53 146
C 57 160 546 530 1,293
Start 34 157 1,106 2,262 374 3,933
Stub 9 244 2,197 1 234 2,685
List 14 124 79 225 1 443
Category 1,033 1,033
Disambig 1 49 50
File 206 206
Portal 55 55
Project 58 58
Redirect 2 1,140 1,142
Template 504 504
Other 22 22
Assessed 126 544 2,059 5,333 3,170 609 11,841
Unassessed 53 53
Total 126 544 2,059 5,333 3,170 662 11,894
Monthly Changes

Since July: 8 pages have been added to spaceflight. There is 1 less file. There is 1 less GA class article and are 4 less B-class, 10 more C-class, 17 more start-class and 11 new stub-class articles.

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Did German Wikipedia love parliaments a little too much? Plus fake-bacon and a ponzi scheme.
Emotional injury and rising standards against a backdrop of a dwindling sysop cadre: the 2021 Requests for adminship review grapples with tough issues.
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What Wikipedians can and cannot do.
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Section 230 in practice – this Black life should matter to us.
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The Downlink The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
1 September 2021 — 31 October 2021
Volume 1 — Issue 12
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
Featured Content!
Members

New Members: No new members.

Number of active members: 127. Total number of members: 340.

October Launches
All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list: here.

  1. Russia Kazakhstan Crewed mission Soyuz-2.1a – Soyuz MS-19 (5th at 08:55:02) Success Success
  2. Russia Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb (14th at 09:40:10) Success Success
  3. China Long March 2D – Solar Explorer (14th at 10:51) Success Success
  4. China Long March 2F – Shenzhou 13 (15th at 16:23:56) Success Success
  5. United States Atlas V – Lucy (16th at 09:34:00) Success Success
  6. South Korea Nuri – Dummy payload (21st at 08:00) Failure Failure
  7. China Long March 3B/E – Shijian-21 (24th at 01:27:03) Success Success
  8. Europe France Ariane 5 – SES-17 (24th at 02:10) Success Success
  9. Japan H-IIA – QZS-1R (26th at 02:19:37) Success Success
  10. China Kuaizhou – Jilin-1 Gaofen-02F (27th at 06:19) Success Success
  11. Russia Kazakhstan Soyuz-2.1a – MS-18 (28th at 00:00:32) Success Success

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

Article Statistics
This data reflects values from the 31 October 2021.
Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 7 21 6 7 41
FL 2 4 4 10
FM 103 103
GA 11 27 36 54 128
B 4 47 40 56 147
C 58 159 560 587 1,364
Start 33 160 1,108 2,331 334 3,966
Stub 11 243 2,186 217 2,657
List 15 126 85 230 1 457
Category 1 1,042 1,043
Disambig 51 51
File 212 212
Portal 55 55
Project 59 59
Redirect 1 1,147 1,148
Template 505 505
Other 23 23
Assessed 128 553 2,082 5,457 3,197 552 11,969
Total 128 553 2,082 5,457 3,197 552 11,969
Monthly Changes

Since August: 75 pages have been added to spaceflight. There are 3 more FA class articles, 1 more FL class page and 1 more FM class file. There are 6 less files. There are 6 more GA class articles and 1 more B-class article, 71 more C-class, 33 more start-class and 28 less stub-class articles.

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Will they deny non-fungible tokens next?
15th annual event closes with hundreds of articles improved
1,767 nominations in November... AN/Is... DRVs... The largest AfD in history, possibly ever!
Wikipedia democratizes knowledge, but is it in Jeopardy?
We should have at least one of these every year!
Editors propose modifications to Wikipedia's admin-making process.
How MediaWiki works with media files.
From the silver screen to your computer screen
A worthy pilot but the photo didn't match the article!
Sharing the wealth of information!
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Wrapping up 2021 with a pair of auctions, activity surrounding administrators, and an audit.
Wikipedia and the Oxford Dictionary of Music have different opinions.
Even for Wikipedia critics in nappies!
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Elections certified, bans unlifted, mailing lists restricted, but no new cases.
Commemorating a milestone: word count comparisons with other Wikipedias.
More hats than a rodeo: the best, worst, and gnarliest AfDs of 2021.
Some of 2021's most dramatic moments through Wikicommons images.
We'll always remember the Greek alphabet!
Answers to last month's puzzle included.
Helpful how-to for the prospective buyer. Why settle for a measly single edit, when you can buy the whole thing?
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Education, deletion and social media can be a volatile mix.
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Over 1,700 U.S. congressmen owned slaves. You can help document this.
More than you wanted to know about the massive NSPORTS RfC.
Interview with volunteers at the Unreviewed featured articles 2020 working group.
The spirit of 2006 is going strong.
Royals, Freddy and movies.
How many more photos are needed?
Rest in peace.
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Get down and party! But no COI editing!
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Copyright is almost always complicated, but we break it down for you.
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Bye-bye 'bones!
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Vive l'encyclopédie libre!
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"The first casualty when war comes is truth".
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Coffee in Teahouse and other secrets revealed in this interview with volunteers.
A fantastic diverse mix of a record-breaking amount of content.
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The report on lengthy litigation.
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Lenin did not say "Wow, check out those yachts"!
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The thought of cities being destroyed is unbearable.
The Discussion Report returns with a diverse mix of community proposals.
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Ukraine, Russia and Anna Sorokin.
Things that go "boom" in the night.
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The second case of Wikipedian persecution.
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"Our proud Sparta bleeds too."
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A multi-national encyclopedia tries to move forward.
Wiki Loves Monuments 2021 winners announced.
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Why not just link to an article to attribute famous photographers?
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The deceptively simple Strengthening Measures to Advance Rights Technologies Copyright Act of 2022.
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Your two new Signpost Editors in Chief.
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Community shortlisting in an affiliate-based process, and a poll for you to speak your mind.
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March 2020 WikiProject report interviewees return discussing project's evolution and future.
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Helpful advice from Tips of the Day.
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New regulations governing online censorship.
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Exploring Featured Pictures of the world's oceans.
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Just three for the history books this month (or not).
Famed FP ace steps up to run main page outfit. Millions tremble in fear, or something.
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Don't be dumb, says math whiz: avoid the gambler's fallacy. Illustrated for your pleasure.
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Google and Internet Archive sold on new product, more customers hoped to follow.
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The future of stuff? Who knows, but two articles were written by a computer this month.
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Was Minecraft YouTuber a GNG pass in life, or only in death?
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The last three months of arbitration through the eyes of a GPT-3
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The world shows its messy complexity.
More lists expected next month.
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PAC2 explains the item documentation template.
Education, climate change, and journalism.
Zoom and enhance.
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Ten years ago, Russian Wikipedia went dark in protest of new Russian laws. Today...
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Sometimes Citation bot is not enough.
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One exterior, one interior.
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Some articles aren't worth saving
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Candidates sign off and peel out – Sigalov is on and Peel is in.
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The latest from the Wikimedia Deutschland Movement Strategy & Global Relations Team.
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Find out firsthand what our newest admin, ScottishFinnishRadish, does with a chainsaw.
Some Articles for Deletion just drag on.
Suggestion: promote removal of visible copyright signs of images under a CC-BY license.
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501(c)(3) application approved, Amazon donates another million.
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I can has Kremlin sockfarms?
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The newest sysop speaks on the process that got them there.
Featured content from October.
The strength of Wikipedia is the peer review afterwards.
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Joe Roe's close sows dough woes, manifestos... vetoes? overthrows?
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An interview with Wikimedia's Chief Advancement Officer.
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Heather Ford's new volume on Wikipedia, knowledge and power in the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
Facebook's Galactica demo provides a case study in large language models for text generation at scale: this one was silly, but we cannot ignore them forever.
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A lost article from our deep annals
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Plus admin update and cool tools for the new year.
Sometimes you need to read more than just the headlines!
Interview of ComplexRational about their recent request for adminship.
Wikifunctions might drag it down.
Frustrations and successes.
Congratulations.
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How Iranian press agencies help Wikipedia to reflect football in a better way.
You head into the featured content report. Amongst the features you see astronauts, both Gilbert and Sullivan, Ursula K. Le Guin's incredibly talented mother, and Billboard charts. It is pitch black, you are likely to be eaten by a grue.
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Photographers, Sandy Hook, the shocking use of Nazi symbols in articles about Nazis, and "You wouldn't recognise a fact if it bit you in the ass".
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It's not just a phase! Well, maybe it is.
Long-time contributors imprisoned for 32 and 8 years after "swaying public opinion" and "violating public morals".
UCoC draws nearer, alongside the rise of the machines, in mainspace this time.
Wikipedia's birthday, a cute dog, and nipplefruit.
The depths of Commons, at your fingertips. Or eyetips.
Debunking widely-told myths about New York's grandest and centralest railway station.
The economics of Wikipedia.
When notability conflicts with what it might be used for.
7,000,000-year Landmasses for Subduction discussions considered "too long".
Allow us to bring you back, back, back, to days of Wikifun rampant.
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The editor with five million edits, the death of Aaron Swartz, and rollback.
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Last issue's vow for "something to show for these efforts" revisited.
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Section 230 before the Supreme Court in two cases, with broad implications for the web.
Or Santos on Wikipedia?
WMF issues salvo in latest battles of the Posting Wars
The good, the bad, and the ugly.
Isamaa party sponsor Parvel Pruunsild files claim in Tartu County Court against WMEE head Ivo Kruusamägi and Reform Party politicians.
English Wikipedia among most "global" and Thai Wikipedia's among most "Western", but non-Western works neglected overall.
And other new research publications.
An interview with those who pitch in together
Letting you find out about yourself (and others).
An exceptionally good period for featured articles.
Can we have a chat?
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The Signpost: 20 February 2023

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UCoC Enforcement Guidelines pass, Wikimedia Enterprise financials, GPTs gone wild, and a speedy deletion criterion removed.
Also: Russ Baker's BLP, the digital commons, the NSA, and more on Pakistan.
Gautam Adani and his companies possibly behind scheme featuring scores of socks, infiltration of articles for creation process.
GPT: friend or foe?
Your one-stop hooker's handbook.
But much else to be found.
Lovey-dovey stuff for Valentine's.
And maybe a side of AI.
Also: let's delete images of Muhammed! Let's delete portals!
Yesterday's controversies, reported on today.
A musical interlude.
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The Signpost: 9 March 2023

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A lack of transparency.
Using failed AI Galactica's worst mistakes to test a new AI.
Probable answers: No, no, maybe?
Seriously, even the chef has a major military history connection.
And other new research publications.
Wikizine, Wikipedia Zero, Single User Login, and Wales allegedly editing his girlfriend's article.
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The Signpost: 20 March 2023

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Be part of the Wikimania 2023 program!
One year in: volunteering, science, art, and candlelight.
Everything is broken, again.
Seriously, it's only a fortnight's worth!
An interview with Wikipedia's newest admin.
All the pop culture that's fit to print, with a sprinkling of cocaine (bear).
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The Signpost: 03 April 2023

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Errata regretted.
Skynet believed to be in violation of the new Universal Code of Conduct.
Taking the phrase "gaming the system" to the next level.
Desysop case request still in accept/decline phase.
Thou gildest e'en the Signpost's trade.
And a dataset of article revisions to provide a corpus for promotional content.
A retrospective of the best and worst pranks.
Do important banks sock? Maybe – but don't grab your money and run just yet!
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The Signpost: 26 April 2023

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Plus: Wikipedians get own Mastodon account, and Wikiprojects move to uniform quality assessment.
Covering Russia, Poland, the Vatican, the U.S., and the "perilously thin" boundary between real life and Wikipedia.
The prolific editor, former Arbitration Committee member and co-founder of Wikimedia New York City died in April.
No news is good news, and this isn't no news.
The problem we haven't solved.
Can Wikipedia help keep AI agents honest?
In this article, we will look at The Signpost statistics. More precisely: Signpost article statistics by year, TOP 20 titles of Signpost articles, TOP 20 article authors, and the home wikis of article authors.
First of a two part series summarising the priorities for the Wikimedia Foundation's next fiscal year (July 2022–June 2023) including staffing, budget and other changes, and how to provide your feedback.
And somehow made it more readable than when it's not rhyming.
2011 and on.
The Selfish Hatnote, the Disambiguation Singularity, and other information-theoretic conundra of encyclopedic note.
Wrestling bumps world-changing technology from the #1 spot, imagine that.
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The Signpost: 8 May 2023

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... and at WP:Mastodon.
Fake fines, false alarms and faux headlines!
And other new research publications.
...Layout lovers will hate this featured content's title.
There will likely be more to say next issue.
The second article in a series describing the priorities and work of the Wikimedia Foundation. The article invites Wikimedians to collaborate with the Foundation.
First national-level conference in the Indian subcontinent in seven years.
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The Signpost: 22 May 2023

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... and a referendum on Jimmy Wales' traditional role as a final court of appeal in arbitration policy.
Opposing scholars on ArbCom case.
Includes stronger sourcing restriction, and a nod to the UCoC.
And other new research results.
Bird is the word for featured pictures.
Celebs and Bollywood film dominated reader interest, as usual, but with a new persistent presence on the lists of a certain AI.
An online conference with 12 distributed trans-local in-person meetup "Nodes" on 5 continents.
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The Signpost: 5 June 2023

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Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Building Committee Commences Command By Convening.
Also: Goog gets delist ask for en-wp yt-dl ar-ticle, wacky football fails.
Now is not this ridiculous, and is not this preposterous? A thorough-paced absurdity - explain it if you can.
Plus mortalities, and movies about mermaids.
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The Signpost: 19 June 2023

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Problems with emergency emails sent to WMF.
... and an AI writer explains why he just bought a paper encyc.
Poetry still present.
And other new research findings.
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The Signpost: 3 July 2023

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... and a new Elections Committee.
A few editors who fought many times to keep advertisements out.
Are you now, or have you ever been, a Wikipedia editor?
In which featured pictures have a pleasing orange/blue colour scheme for some reason.
Don't worry, they are mostly harmless.
Mission to ensure stability in conflict-ridden area.
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The Signpost: 17 July 2023

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Gitz666 unglocked, Wikimania scholarships given and a new admin anointed.
Ruwiki on the Ruinternet, Rauwerda on TEDx, and Jimbo on Fridman.
Philadelphians and Tanzanians say goodbye.
The collaboration process for the 2023 English fundraising campaign is kicking off now, right from the start of the fiscal year.
Wikidata queries investigate nepo babies.
A summary of various tools designed over the years.
And various other research on large language models and Wikipedia.
Bold move intended to "get some variety" into Wikipedia arguments.
The annual report that tries to understand the Signpost through data, written in 2020, which never saw the light of day until now.
In which choices have been made™.
Sex, drugs and violence, English, math and science.
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The Signpost: 1 August 2023

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And French gov't proposes legislation to slam Wikipedia, others.
Or just another brouhaha?
Hot damn, it's damned hot!
Three editors have departed.
You don't really want to do this stuff by yourself, do you?
A serious visual investigation.
A compilation of over 3M citations.
Possible solutions after being re-harassed.
Due to unfortunate events, this issue is published as is, in its unfinished state.
Oppenheimer, Barbie, and a couple other scandals.
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The Signpost: 15 August 2023

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Jimbo promises more transparency, Wikimania in Singapore, move away from Tides still planned, and Wikifunctions rolls out.
Harsh words from problematic fave Glenn Greenwald.
Rigorous Review of Content for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Wikipedia.
Damn kids need to get off our lawn and onto RfA.
Because one gets some secondary skills when one has 645 featured pictures.
The innards of the Signpost received a major overhaul in March/April 2019. Here's how we reduced behind-the-scenes busywork and improved writers resources.
For whom does the Creative Commons enforcement clause toll?
An announcement of 335,000 new images on Wikimedia Commons.
Some improvement on last week.
Case request cited misuse of tools by administrator who last used tools in 1661.
Barbenheimer, Pee-Wee Herman and the Women's World Cup.
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The Signpost: 31 August 2023

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News for the editoriat. Stuff that matters.
Wikipedia really comes into its own, editorially and artistically.
"Poli", which means "many", and "tics", which means "under-the-table Wikipedia article whitewashing campaigns".
And other recent research publications.
The good, the bad, and the nonsense.
A message from the Counter-Fun Unit.
I just poured HOT GRITS down my pants ohh yeah
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The Signpost: 16 September 2023

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Plus: Africa news, funding report, U4C draft, roads fork and another ChatGPT block.
Plus a new judge, an "unimportant" record, and staying in the swim!
A Wikipedian and a friend.
Non-flammable, BPA-free, and really whips the llama's ass.
Covering all of August. Pretty much.
The Signpost brings you the latest from the source.
Sports, film and singers. We've got it all!
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The Signpost: 3 October 2023

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Finances during Tides Foundation management of the endowment are shown for the first time.
Plus Harvard, Yale, Lords and Commons, partners and trolls!
And other new research publications
The first issue to feature two poetry article
Material must be written with the greatest care and attention; the level of detail and commentary regarding the antlers of living persons is to be kept to a minimum.
Tamzin reflects on the hunt.
Taylor Swift with an NFL tight end and Lauren Boebert with a Democrat?
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The Signpost: 23 October 2023

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Long time passing
Also: High fives, Wikipedia as a guide for counterfeiters and crossword makers, and Iskander at the UN.
The benefits of research.
These titles never make much sense even at the best of times, so why not be random?
They are still fighting.
Sounds good!
"Cite altered state" to join the distinguished ranks of CS1 templates
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The Signpost: 6 November 2023

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"Is this an ArbCom case request or an M. Night Shyamalan movie?"
Plus Gaza bias, Speaker Johnson, Maher, the music of websites, and antisemitism.
And three new admins!
You should learn some of our rules!
The winner is...
Do you ever wonder where Wikipedia articles come from?
And other new research findings.
Only literally.
A systematic approach.
Plus Kollywood, Killers of the Flower Moon, and ongoing war.
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The Signpost: 20 November 2023

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Comic-con, Media summit, and a classic!
Plus: Sockpuppet investigators asking for help.
Or if it's Indian sport or cinema.
And other new research findings.
Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2024 are now open!
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The Signpost: 4 December 2023

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Just as his term was ending!
Plus Apple Pay, fiction, registration, expulsion, and elimination!
An analysis of a literary mystery.
Continuing years of efforts to improve free-to-read access.
"I think we ought to read only the kind of comics that wound or stab us. If the comic we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for?" — Franz Kafka
And so are you.
Quite literally, and other fascinating featured articles, pictures and lists
If you don't fancy the sport that occupies over 25% of the slots in these lists, there's always movies, celebrities, and political follies to fall back on – or an unusual fired-for-the-weekend CEO.
This page in a nutshell: Whether or not someone has denied unsavory allegations — though such a denial may not merit being given equal weight in an article — a worthless shitpost should still be included.
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The Signpost: 24 December 2023

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Wikipedia article histories are public records that can be easily examined, so unlike other websites, we can answer this question thoroughly.
Not the best of times for Wikipedians across the world, but there are still glimpses of hope...
Forky on forky on forky, plus a strange donation scheme and other interesting bits of news.
Wiki goes dark and adopts Palestine flag logo; intellectual property rumblings from the bowels of the law.
Wikimedia Russia closes after founder is declared a "foreign agent".
No more must Wikipedia always be a lightbulb in the dark — except metaphorically of course.
And other new research publications.
Peace on earth, goodwill to all!
the dilution makes it stronger.
The Signpost Crossword is a 2018 online multiplayer social deduction game that takes place in space-themed settings where players are colorful, armless cartoon astronauts.
Bollywood, Hollywood, and both kinds of football to close out December.
The debugging will continue until performance improves.
Heartwarming — MUST READ — You Won't BELIEVE #4!!!!!
Winner receives a special prize!
Edit summary: "Only need this page for about 30 minutes to demonstrate to a friend how easy it is to create a Wikipedia page. Then it will be deleted."
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The Signpost: 10 January 2024

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The Signpost can now drink beer and chant slogans in Canada. What slogans should we chant for the next nineteen years?
Mickey & You: What can you do?
A techie looks at the big questions.
Let the games begin! The 2024 WikiCup is off to a strong start. With copyright enforcement, AI training and freedom of expression, it's another typical week in the wiki-sphere!
The first of two installments, regarding a process of many installments.
Watch out for those space ships!
What are the editorial processes behind covering some of the most politically polarizing and contentious topics on English Wikipedia?
Rest in peace.
Around the world in 365 days (with many stops in India).
The good news is that I've perfected the templates that allow other people to make actually good crosswords.
Getting down to brass tacks &c.
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The Signpost: 31 January 2024

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Plus WMF child rights impact assessment, Chinese Wikipedia changes admin rules
A stream of consciousness about plagiarism on Wikipedia from the perspective of a user who directly witnessed it.
And how you can stop them!
Another wobble, more Ackman, our usual pathological optimist, and football in dirty pants!
Everything you really wanted to know about writing featured articles.
And other new research publications.
Writing a good subheading for a one-sentence joke is basically like writing an entire second joke so I'm not going to do it.
Job changes, death, sex, murder, suicide and a vacation!
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The Signpost: 13 February 2024

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"the exact extent of the obligations" unclear... many such cases!
Lower, trust me!
Finding the right bumblebee among all the bumblebees!
The usual odd articles about Wikipedia.
The hunt for Bertil Ragnar Anzén.
Plus films, Grammys and a rumble!
&c.
That's more than weakly!
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The Signpost: 2 March 2024

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Plus, the U4C Charter keeps planting seeds, the RfA process is set to become more sustainable, and more news from the Wikimedia ecosystem.
And other new findings
Plus, naughty politicians, Federal judge not a fan, UFOs and beavers.
Rest in peace.
If you say it loud enough the views will come your way!
135 battle it out; 67 advance
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The Signpost: 29 March 2024

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Much effort was spent drafting a movement charter about becoming "essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge". How much is spent maintaining it?
Signpost interviews Wikimedia Foundation leadership on fundraising banners
And does it have anything to do with the unusual decision to let a zero-edit user open an arbitration request?
Can we compete with social media? Will aoomers forget Wikipedia?
And several papers look at climate change on Wikipedia
WLM winners announced, Wikimania 2024, a new Wikimedia movement affiliate, and active enwp admins reach a record low.
Worldwide women turned blue and controversies on Serbian & French Wikipedia.
Let me take you to the movies.
The only worthwhile grievance is the one that prompts satire.
margin: 0 auto !important;
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The Signpost: 25 April 2024

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Plus, tribute songs and shout-outs outweighing vandalism and hoaxes, a dispute about the real king of the platform and other bits of news.
Plus, new updates on the privacy and research ethics whitepaper and the graphs outage situation, and an Iranian former steward is globally banned from Wikimedia projects
Outcomes of the event including newly published videos and photos, the archived conference website and program, and some attendee reflections on its significance.
A WikiProject report on the 📰🌍 globe's finest news source!
And other recent research publications
Plus Godzilla meets Francis Scott Key!
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The Signpost: 16 May 2024

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WMF trustee elections, U4C results, Italian ArbCom, WMF and Endowment annual reports.
We don't know yet, but there is some encouraging news, nevertheless.
Some go out with a bang, some with a whimper, few with much of a comprehensible explanation.
Plus, the WMF joins the Unicode Consortium, Chris Albon talks about AI tools on Wikipedia, communities address under-representation on the site.
More queries are failing, and more frequently, so what is to be done?
It do be like that sometimes.
With cricket and some cute baby reindeer!
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The Signpost: 8 June 2024

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The Form 990, as well as highlights and FAQs, are now available for review.
A new model for collaboration between the WMF and the community?
Hoaxes and the genesis of information.
First line, sixth paragraph, body text or unified Reich?
Outlining progress against the four key goals
A letter.
And various research findings about Wikidata and knowledge graphs.
No we didn't write it, but we tried to cite it
An essay.
... and flagging your articles with big ugly red notices! (This is a good thing.)
Movies, deaths, elections (but no cricket).
Some stuff's only okay in the privacy of the home.
Project in shambles – "it had never occurred to us that this was possible".
Hypertext.
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The Signpost: 4 July 2024

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Three new admins, but overall numbers still shrinking.
Will we weather the storm?
Unbundling, automation, fighting spirit, and a bot named Reimu Hakurei.
Debate unsettled after seventeen years.
Advocacy organizations, a journalist, mycophobes, conservatives, leftists, photographers, and a disinformation task force imagine themselves in Wikipedia.
A journey to a sister project.
Rest in peace.
An article about Etika's appeal and legacy in pop culture.
A virtual visit to the Inland Northwest.
"Simply not good enough".
How well do you know the main page (no peeking)?
...!
Special:Diff/1 and related techno-trivia more complicated than you'd think.
And other new publications on systemic bias and other topics.
Elections, movies, sports.
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The Signpost: 22 July 2024

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Iconic photograph, invalid fair use exemption criterion #3a claimant, or both?
Establishment of power-sharing agreement between WMF corporation and volunteer user community in limbo.
Natalia Tymkiv, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, on the Charter vote results, the resolution, meeting minutes, and proposed next steps.
A lost Signpost submission from fifteen years ago brought into the light, as good and true now as it was then.
Failing forks, smart and well-researched stories, LGBT rights, and oral sex!
Rest in peace.
Do you know these Wikipedia quotes?
Dems in disarray, GOP in chaos — analysts say news expected, but few can predict how race will shape up from here.
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The Signpost: 14 August 2024

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A STORM over an AI that writes articles. And other notes of interest.
And other findings.
Musk's Twitter acquisition and rebranding have caused long debates on Wikipedia.
And Movement Charter ratification vote comments have been published
Possibly paid articles.
HouseBlaster's reflections on his RfA. In particular, do not ask superlative questions.
Just normally weird!
Come in, you whippersnapper, have a cup of tea.
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The Signpost: 4 September 2024

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JCW compilation now tracks free DOIs, Wiki Loves Monuments getting started, WMF's status as UN observer stymied by China for fourth time.
Updates from the Portland pol's case, the war in Gaza, and other Wiki-related reports.
And other new research findings
Who are they, why are they running and what are they bringing to the Board?
What all happened in Katowice?
Hannah Clover shares her fondest memories of her first Wikimania.
The Olympics (yay!) and the American election (oh no).
"I can't remember whether he is an incompetent moron, or an incorrigible POV warrior, or some other thing, but either way, to hell with him."
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The Signpost: 26 September 2024

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ANI (but probably not the one you're thinking of), bias and bans, crisis and Clover, Engelhorn's euros, and will the zoomers inherit the project?
In response to a takedown request, Wikipedia editors reached a consensus on how to handle it appropriately.
User Hawkeye7 opens up on his experience as a media representative following the Australian team at the latest Summer Paralympics in Paris.
User asilvering reflects on their recent successful request for adminship.
More changes to RfA on the way in October, final results for the U4C elections revealed, and other news from the Wikimedia world.
Picture this: medicine, drugs, JFK, Cleopatra, anachronism, and global catastrophe.
And other recent research publications.
Band reunions and Beetlejuice!
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The Signpost: 19 October 2024

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Find more about the new Trustees, the first election cycle for admins, and other news from the Wikimedia world.
And other searchings and findings.
Perplexing persistence, pay to play, potential president's possible plagiarism, crossword crossover to culture, and a wish come true!
Can it be fun to address systemic bias? Eighty participants say yes, it can!
Help me make it through the night!
A novel about us, from the point of view of three of us.
Where do I even start?
Pasta, acronyms, and one computer-crashing talk page.
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The Signpost: 6 November 2024

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But not everybody is able to legally read Wikipedia, and not everybody is able to legally edit Wikipedia.
Defamation, privacy, censorship, and elections.
Plus human knowledge and Ozzie places!
Asian News International, the Delhi High Court, and the encyclopedia.
Your photos are more valuable than you may realize.
What is going on?
And Tata too!
IP address privacy tools, and mysterious archive sites.
Many such cases.
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The Signpost: 18 November 2024

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Many cases: many such cases.
Publisher versus intermediary, bias versus verifiability, and probing questions about Gwern's personal finances.
And other recent publications.
An overview of the finances and an explanation of what the numbers mean.
It's so over.
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The Signpost: 12 December 2024

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New arbs to be seated in January.
Will the fifth try at achieving peace be a mudfight, or something better?
Should old acquaintance be forgot?
An editor's reflection on social capital and their changing relationship with Wikipedia culture.
by Tamzin
Wikipedia aims to represent the sum of all knowledge. Is there an imbalance between Western countries and the rest of the world.
Ballooning British bias bombast!
Fighting and killing – on screen, in politics, and in the ring – competes for attention with Disney.
The importance of feedback.
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The Signpost: 24 December 2024

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What the VLOP – findings of an outside auditor for "responsibilization" of Wikipedia. Plus, new EU Commissioners for tech policy, WLE 2024 winners, and a few other bits of news from the Wikipedia world.
A personal essay.
Explanations for what led to it and what it was like to undergo it.
Plus, the dangers of editing, Morrissey's page gets marred, COVID coverage critique, Kimchi consultation, kids' connectivity curtailed, centenarian Claudia, Christmas cramming, and more.
Who's news?
And other new research findings.
Good faith edits REVERTED and accounts BLOCKED.
Peace on earth, goodwill to all!
Wicked war, martial law, killing, death and an Indian movie with a new chess champ!
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The Signpost: 15 January 2025

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The 20th anniversary of The Signpost.
A lot of psephology!
HUMINT or humbug?
Hallelujah!
Johnny Au has edited for 17 years straight without missing a day.
Some thoughts from the original editor-in-chief.
Public Domain Day 2025, Women in Red hits 20% biography milestone, Spanish Wikipedia reaches two million articles, and other news from the Wikimedia world.
The Signpost staff on achievements of '24 and hopes for '25.
The latest crusade?
Our alumni speak!
Applying the scientific method to a model of conflict that leads to arbitration.
This post fact-checked by real Wikipedian patriots.
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Hello! This is an announcement that The Downlink has been revived. Rather than simply start again, I have chosen to create two special issues recapping the past three years. The first special issue spans November 2021 to December 2023, while the second special issue spans January 2024 to December 2024.

Due to the size of these pages, as well as the fact that they are non-standard issues, I have instead had this notice sent out. The following issues of volume 3 (Jan - Dec 2025) should be significantly smaller.

Please be aware that, for a variety of reasons, the issues that I create may be published late.

Here are the issues:

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The Signpost: 7 February 2025

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But an open language model is ready to help.
The WMF executive team delivers a new update; plus, the latest EU policy report, good-bye to the German Wikipedia's Café, and other news from the Wikimedia world.
Editor Fathoms Below reminisces over their successful RfA from February 2024.
Plus, reports on the ARBPIA5 case, new concerns over projects targeting Wikipedia editors, John Green gets his sponsor flowers, and other news.
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The Downlink The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
2025
1 – 31 January
Volume 3 — Issue 1
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
Introduction to Volume 3
Initially launched in late 2010/early 2011 for a run of four months, The Downlink was unpublished for more than nine years, after which a second volume was published from October 2020 to October 2021. This second volume was very different from the first volume, both in style and structure. A December issue was planned (for some reason, the second volume became volume 1 in April 2021), but was never finished. Like with volume 2, this volume 3 was intended to come with changes, though primarily to style.
Volume 3 will not feature any significant changes to style or structure. This both provides continuity with the previous volume and allows the contributors to construct each issue relatively easily. However, following volumes may see changes to style, format, and upload schedule. As it is still very early in the year, a discussion on this is not yet necessary, but suggestions of all kinds are always welcome at the talk page.
In the News
  • Blue Ghost Mission 1 and Hakuto-R Mission 2 were launched from Kennedy Space Center on 15 January. They are planned to land in March and April, respectively.
  • On 30 January, Sunita Williams broke Peggy Whitson's record for most time spent on spacewalks by a woman, at 62 hours and 6 minutes total.
  • ISRO successfully docked two SpaDeX satellites on 16 January, making India the fourth country (including the EU) to dock two vehicles in space.
  • Blue Origin's New Glenn launch vehicle completed its maiden flight on 16 January. The payload was successfully placed in orbit, while the first staged failed to land on the recovery ship.
Featured Content
Article of the Month
Soyuz programme
Artist's impression of the Soyuz 19 spacecraft from the Apollo–Soyuz mission

The Soyuz programme (/ˈsɔɪjuːz/ SOY-yooz, /ˈsɔː-/ SAW-; Russian: Союз [sɐˈjus], meaning "Union") is a human spaceflight programme initiated by the Soviet Union in the early 1960s. The Soyuz spacecraft was originally part of a Moon landing project intended to put a Soviet cosmonaut on the Moon. It was the third Soviet human spaceflight programme after the Vostok (1961–1963) and Voskhod (1964–1965) programmes.

The programme consists of the Soyuz capsule and the Soyuz rocket and is now the responsibility of Roscosmos. After the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011, the Soyuz was the only way for humans to get to the International Space Station (ISS) until 30 May 2020 when Crew Dragon flew to the ISS for the first time with astronauts.

Image of the Month
Gene Cernan on the Moon

Gene Cernan was the eleventh and (as of 2025) last person to ever step foot on the moon. In addition to being an astronaut, he was an aviator in the US Navy and engineer. Apollo 17 was his second Apollo mission, as he served as Apollo 10's lunar module pilot. He died in Houston on 16 January, 2017. He was the first astronaut to be buried at Texas State Cemetery.

Members

New members:

Number of active members: 200. Total number of members: 426.

Launches
All times stated here are in UTC. For a complete list, see here: List_of_spaceflight_launches_in_January–June_2025#January.

  1. United States New Glenn — DarkSky-1 (16 Jan. at 07:03) (success)
  2. United States SpaceX Starship — 10 Starlink simulators (16 Jan. at 22:37) (launch failure)
 Article Statistics
This data reflects values from the 31 January 2025.
Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 7 28 14 8 57
FL 3 4 4 11
FM 123 123
A 1 2 2 5
GA 11 27 34 55 1 128
B 15 83 201 217 1 517
C 43 161 574 754 29 1,561
Start 18 146 1,022 2,558 434 4,178
Stub 9 203 2,052 243 2,507
List 10 116 108 236 1 26 497
Category 1,228 1,228
Disambig 47 47
File 223 223
Portal 55 55
Project 109 109
Redirect 1 42 131 1,238 1,412
Template 525 525
NA 5 5
Other 39 39
Assessed 105 574 2,204 6,017 3,593 734 13,227
Unassessed 19 133 152
Total 105 574 2,204 6,036 3,593 867 13,379
Monthly Changes

Since December 2024, five new high-importance, eight new mid-importance, forty new low-importance, and 1,522 new NA-importance articles have been created. Fifteen unknown-importance articles have been removed, for a total of 1,560 more articles. One article has been promoted to Good Article status. There are also three more B-class articles, eleven more C-class articles, 23 more Start-class articles, four more Stub-class articles, 4 more lists, and 34 more files.

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The Downlink The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
2025
1 — 28 February
Volume 3 — Issue 2
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News
Article of the month
The Family Portrait of the Solar System taken by Voyager 1

The Family Portrait, or sometimes Portrait of the Planets, is an image of the Solar System acquired by Voyager 1 on February 14, 1990, from a distance of approximately 6 billion km (40 AU; 3.7 billion mi) from Earth. It features individual frames of six planets and a partial background indicating their relative positions. The picture is a mosaic of 60 frames. The frames used to compose the image were the last photographs taken by either Voyager spacecraft (which continued to relay other telemetry afterward). The frames were also the source of the famous Pale Blue Dot image of the Earth. Astronomer Carl Sagan, who was part of the Voyager imaging team, campaigned for many years to have the pictures taken.

Image of the month
STS-98 following liftoff

Launched on 7 February 2001, STS-98 delivered to the Destiny laboratory module of the International Space Station. Flown by Atlantis, it was the first human spaceflight mission of the 21st century. The shuttle landed at Edwards Air Force Base on 20 February after being docked with the ISS for almost seven days. The crew consisted of Kenneth Cockrell, commander, Mark L. Polansky, pilot, Robert Curbeam, mission specialist 1, Marsha Ivins, mission specialist 2 and flight engineer, and Thomas David Jones, mission specialist 3.

Members

New Members: No new members.

Number of active members: 200. Total number of members: 426.

February Launches
All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list: here.

  1. Russia Soyuz 2.1v and Volga — Kosmos-2581/-2582/-2583 (5 Feb. at 03:59) (success)
  2. China Long March 8A — 9 Hulianwang Digui (11 Feb. at 09:30) (success)
  3. United States Falcon 9 Block 5 — 23 Starlink (18 Feb. at 23:21) (success)
  4. United States Falcon 9 Block 5 — multiple (27 Feb. at 00:02) (launch success)
 Article Statistics
This data reflects values from the 28 February 2025.
Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 7 28 14 8 57
FL 3 4 4 11
FM 123 123
A 1 3 2 6
GA 11 27 33 55 1 127
B 15 83 200 217 1 516
C 43 162 575 760 30 1,570
Start 18 146 1,022 2,565 440 4,191
Stub 9 203 2,054 244 2,510
List 10 116 108 236 1 27 498
Category 1,262 1,262
Disambig 47 47
File 223 223
Portal 55 55
Project 109 109
Redirect 1 42 131 1,238 1,412
Template 527 527
NA 3 3
Other 1 34 35
Assessed 105 575 2,204 6,033 3,622 743 13,282
Unassessed 19 136 155
Total 105 575 2,204 6,052 3,622 879 13,437
Monthly Changes

Since January 2025, one new high-importance, sixteen new low-importance, nineteen new NA-importance, and twelve new unknown-importance articles have been created, for a total of 58 new articles. One article has been demoted from Good Article status. There are also one more A-class article, one more B-class article, nine fewer C-class articles, thirteen more Start-class articles, three more Stub-class articles, and one more list.

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The Downlink The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
2025
1 — 31 March
Volume 3 — Issue 3
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News
  • Firefly Aerospace became the first commercial company to successfully achieve a soft landing on the moon on 2 March with the landing of Blue Ghost Mission 1 near Mons Latreille. It lasted the intended length of one lunar day before losing power on 16 March. It was launched with the Hakuto-R Mission 2 lander Resilience and rover Tenacious, which are planned to land in the Mare Frigoris.
  • On 6 March, the IM-2 mission's lunar lander Athena landed on Mons Mouton. Although intact, it landed sideways, preventing it from generating enough power to operate as designed. The mission was declared over the following day.
  • SpaceX Crew-9 splashed down near Tallahassee, Florida on 18 March. Initially planned to launch with a full complement, the extension of Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams' stay on the ISS resulted in it being launched with only two crew members.
Article of the month

The Phootprint mission is a candidate for the Mars Robotic Exploration Preparation Programme 2 (MREP-2) at ESA. During 2014, ESA funded a pre-phase A feasibility study and industrial system studies of 8-month duration. Currently, it is in phase A, meaning 'mission definition study.'

The mission would last about 3.5 years, including cruise, mapping orbit, 7 days on the surface, and sample return cruise time. The spacecraft would be powered by solar arrays.

In August 2015, the ESA-Roscosmos working group on post-ExoMars cooperation, completed a joint study for a possible future Phobos Sample Return mission, and preliminary discussions were held.

Image of the month
InSight lander testing

The InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) lander was selected from among three options in August 2012. Initially planned to launch in March 2016, an instrument issue delayed the launch to May 2018, the next Earth-Mars launch window. It was successfully launched on 5 May, and landed on Elysium Planitia on 26 November 2018. Taking seismographic and thermographic readings, InSight operated for a total of 4 years and 19 days instead of its planned 2 year mission. The mission was declared over on 21 December, 2022 after contact was lost on 15 December. A re-analysis of some of its data indicates that there may be significant amounts of groundwater in Mars' crust.

Members

New Members:

Number of active members: 206. Total number of members: 430.

March Launches
All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list: here.

  1. France Ariane 62 — CSO-3 (6 Mar. at 16:24 UTC) (success)
  2. United States SpaceX Starship — four Starlink simulators (6 Mar. at 23:30 UTC) (launch failure)
  3. United StatesJapan Rocket Lab Electron — QPS-SAR 9/SUSANOO-1 (15 Mar. at 00:00 UTC) (success)
  4. Germany Spectrum — no payload (30 Mar. at 10:30 UTC) (launch failure)
 Article Statistics
This data reflects values from the 28 February 2025.
Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 7 28 14 8 57
FL 3 4 4 11
FM 123 123
A 1 3 2 6
GA 11 27 33 55 1 127
B 15 84 199 217 1 516
C 43 161 577 764 30 1,575
Start 18 145 1,021 2,569 441 4,194
Stub 9 203 2,055 245 2,512
List 10 116 108 236 1 28 499
Category 1,263 1,263
Disambig 47 47
File 223 223
Portal 55 55
Project 109 109
Redirect 2 42 129 1,241 1,414
Template 528 528
NA 3 3
Other 28 28
Assessed 105 575 2,204 6,039 3,621 746 13,290
Unassessed 19 134 153
Total 105 575 2,204 6,058 3,621 880 13,443
Monthly Changes

Since February 2025, six new low-importance and one new unknown-importance articles have been created. One NA-importance article has been removed, for a total of six new articles. There are also five more C-class articles, three more Start-class articles, two more Stub-class articles, and one more list.

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The Downlink The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
2025
1 — 30 April
Volume 3 — Issue 4
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News
  • On 1 April, Fram2 became the first crewed mission to enter into a retrograde orbit around Earth's poles.
Article of the month

The Apollo Abort Guidance System (AGS, also known as Abort Guidance Section) was a backup computer system providing an abort capability in the event of failure of the Lunar Module's primary guidance system (Apollo PGNCS) during descent, ascent or rendezvous. As an abort system, it did not support guidance for a lunar landing.

The AGS was designed by TRW independently of the development of the Apollo Guidance Computer and PGNCS.

It was the first navigation system to use a strapdown Inertial Measurement Unit rather than a gimbaled gyrostabilized IMU (as used by PGNCS). Although not as accurate as the gimbaled IMU, it provided satisfactory accuracy with the help of the optical telescope and rendezvous radar. It was also lighter and smaller in size.

Image of the month
Falcon 9 Full Thrust

Starting development in 2014, the Falcon 9 Full Thrust is a variant of the Falcon 9 that is the first orbital rocket to have a first stage successfully land vertically after launch. The stage shown here is from the April 2016 SpaceX CRS-8 mission, after landing on the autonomous spaceport drone ship Of Course I Still Love You.

Members

New Members:

Number of active members: 208. Total number of members: 433.

April Launches
All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list: here.

  1. United States Falcon 9 Block 5 — Fram2 (1 Apr. at 00:46 UTC) (success)
  2. China Long March 2F/G — Shenzhou 20 (24 Apr. at 09:17 UTC) (success)
  3. United States Atlas V 551 — 27 KuiperSats (28 Apr. at 23:01) (success)
  4. United States Firefly Alpha — LM-400 Demo (29 Apr. at 13:37) (launch failure)
 Article Statistics
This data reflects values from 30 April 2025.
Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 7 28 15 8 58
FL 3 4 4 11
FM 123 123
A 1 2 2 5
GA 11 27 33 55 1 127
B 15 84 200 221 1 521
C 45 162 581 774 31 1,593
Start 16 144 1,017 2,584 444 4,205
Stub 9 204 2,049 244 2,506
List 10 120 108 236 1 30 505
Category 1,264 1,264
Disambig 47 47
File 223 223
Portal 55 55
Project 109 109
Redirect 2 42 131 1,243 1,418
Template 528 528
NA 1 1
Other 29 29
Assessed 105 579 2,206 6,064 3,623 751 13,328
Unassessed 14 125 139
Total 105 579 2,206 6,078 3,623 876 13,467
Monthly Changes

Since March 2025, four new high-importance, two new mid-importance, twenty new low-importance, and two new NA-importance articles have been created. Four unknown-importance articles have been removed, for a total of 24 new articles. One article has been promoted to Featured Article status. There are also five more B-class articles, eighteen more C-class articles, eleven more Start-class articles, six fewer Stub-class articles, and six more lists.

Special thanks to Neopeius for significantly working on some of the Timeline of spaceflight articles (specifically 1953, 54, 55, and most recently 56). Thanks also to Sotakarhu for table work in the latter.

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The Downlink The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
2025
1 — 31 May
Volume 3 — Issue 5
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News
Article of the month
Artist's impression of the Mars Odyssey spacecraft

2001 Mars Odyssey is a robotic spacecraft orbiting the planet Mars. The project was developed by NASA, and contracted out to Lockheed Martin, with an expected cost for the entire mission of US$297 million. Its mission is to use spectrometers and a thermal imager to detect evidence of past or present water and ice, as well as study the planet's geology and radiation environment. The data Odyssey obtains is intended to help answer the question of whether life once existed on Mars and create a risk-assessment of the radiation that future astronauts on Mars might experience. It also acts as a relay for communications between the Curiosity rover, and previously the Mars Exploration Rovers and Phoenix lander, to Earth. The mission was named as a tribute to Arthur C. Clarke, evoking the name of his and Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Odyssey was launched April 7, 2001, on a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, and reached Mars orbit on October 24, 2001, at 02:30 UTC (October 23, 19:30 PDT, 22:30 EDT). As of March 2025, it is still collecting data, and is estimated to have enough propellant to function until the end of 2025. It currently holds the record for the longest-surviving continually active spacecraft in orbit around a planet other than Earth, ahead of the Pioneer Venus Orbiter (served 14 years) and the Mars Express (serving over 20 years), at 23 years, 8 months and 28 days. As of October 2019 it is in a polar orbit around Mars with a semi-major axis of about 3,800 km or 2,400 miles.

Image of the month
International Space Station after LF1

Starting with Zarya in November 1998, the assembly of the International Space Station continued on a regular basis until the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, which resulted in a nearly three-year pause from November 2002 to July 2005. This image shows the ISS following the installation of the second External stowage platform. ESP-2 was launched on 26 July 2005 on board Discovery as part of STS-114.

Members

New Members:

Number of active members: 209. Total number of members: 434.

May Launches
All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list: here.

  1. United States Starship — 8 Starlink Simulators (27 May at 23:36:28 UTC) (partial failure)
  2. China Long March 4B — Tianwen-2 (28 May at 04:00 UTC) (success)
 Article Statistics
This data reflects values from 30 May 2025.
Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 7 28 15 8 58
FL 3 4 4 11
FM 123 123
A 1 2 2 5
GA 11 27 33 55 1 127
B 15 84 200 220 1 520
C 45 163 583 784 32 1,607
Start 16 143 1,017 2,591 444 4,211
Stub 9 205 2,043 245 2,502
List 10 120 108 236 1 33 508
Category 1,266 1,266
Disambig 46 46
File 223 223
Portal 55 55
Project 109 109
Redirect 2 42 132 1,244 1,420
Template 527 527
NA 1 1
Other 28 28
Assessed 105 579 2,209 6,075 3,623 756 13,347
Unassessed 12 123 135
Total 105 579 2,209 6,087 3,623 879 13,482
Monthly Changes

Since April 2025, three new mid-importance, nine new low-importance, and three new unknown-importance articles have been created, for a total of 15 new articles. There is also one less B-class article, 14 more C-class articles, six more Start-class articles, four less Stub-class articles, and three more lists.

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