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The Downlink The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
1 April 2021 — 30 April 2021
Volume 1 — Issue 7
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In the News!
Article of the month.

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:

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

April Launches
All times stated here are in UTC.

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

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]
  • Recurrent item 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

  • Advanced item 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)

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Grogudicae👽 23:28, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

This is the way. GeneralNotability (talk) 23:29, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Checkuser

Good night GeneralNotability, I saw that I was mentioned here, however, as you probably noticed, I have no relationship with this MarquinhosWikipediano. In my contributions, this is the first edition since December 2020. Perhaps I was mentioned because my account had a different name until March 27 of that year (my full name). In February I asked to globally rename my account so that it had a shorter username, but as there was a Commons account with that name, it was necessary to wait a month for my account to be effectively renamed. My English is bad and, since I don't speak Portuguese, I had to use the translator to write this message, but I believe I understood what I meant. Finally, pleasure to speak, I am sysop in Wikipedia in Portuguese. Marcos (talk) 06:51, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

Marquinhos, I understand what you meant. I think this was just a mistake by the user who filed the sockpuppet investigation, I am not concerned that you are MarquinhosWikipediano. I have removed the page that was associated with your name. Pleasure to speak with you as well~ GeneralNotability (talk) 22:22, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

Found a Zenmate proxy

Hi here. I found a Zenmate proxy 146.70.13.0/16, but because disruption from it is still nonexistent yet, I feel that anon-blocking would be better at the moment. 146.70.13.8 (talk) 09:50, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

Confirmed at WPOP (though the actual range is smaller), someone just needs to hit the block button. Blablubbs|talk 12:38, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
The /24 has been globally blocked and I'll deal with the WPOP report in a bit. GeneralNotability (talk) 22:54, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

Username

I decided to block that username, I was pronouncing it with a shorter o and didn't think of what you pointed out, which makes sense to me. 331dot (talk) 08:08, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

331dot, somewhere out there there's a Richard Gobbler, born 4/20/1969, and his life is a living hell. SubjectiveNotability a GN franchise (talk to the boss) 13:06, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
Is that because his name's pronunciation is a bit of a mouthful? Cabayi (talk) 18:44, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2021

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

Administrator changes

removed Enchanter • Carlossuarez46

Interface administrator changes

removed Ragesoss

Guideline and policy news

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #467

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
  • Development
    • Omaha-Ponca language is now available for monolingual text properties. (phab:T265296)
    • Added a meaningful error message when trying to use Special:EntityData with a Lexeme subentity like L123-F1 in cases where the Lexeme L123 was redirected to another Lexeme (phab:T257494)
    • Changed the “type” and “value type” constraints to ignore deprecated values (phab:T170401)
    • Working on rendering empty claims in JSON as `claims: {}` instead of `claims: []` (phab:T241422)
    • Investigating some issues with page_props missing on Commons wiki after adding sitelinks to Commons categories (phab:T280627)
    • Removed Google Knowledge Graph Id (P2671) and Wolfram Language entity code (P4839) from the Property Suggestions as they are usually not useful suggestions (phab:T280779)

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Tech News: 2021-19

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

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 May. It will be on all wikis from 13 May (calendar).

Future changes

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15:08, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

Testing something

Hey, you're near the top of the "recently active admins" list. If you see this in next few minutes, can you locally disable the global block on 45.32.248.0/21, leaving the local block in place? I want to see how block messages display in the (possibly now fixed) Android app. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 23:41, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

Suffusion of Yellow, global block is locally disabled, local block is in place (well, okay, I first misunderstood what you wanted and locally unblocked the /21, but the /20 is still locally blocked) GeneralNotability (talk) 23:44, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
Urghh, IP changed already! Thanks, but I'll try to come up with a better way of doing this... You can reblock. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 23:54, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
All righty, exemption removed - let me know if you have any other ideas. GeneralNotability (talk) 23:56, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

Muhammad Zaid

Hi. Thanks for helping to sort that mess out! Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 14:58, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

Happy to help. GeneralNotability (talk) 16:39, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

Feedback request: Religion and philosophy request for comment

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Tech News: 2021-20

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

Changes later this week

  • Advanced item MediaWiki:Pageimages-blacklist will be renamed MediaWiki:Pageimages-denylist. The list can be copied to the new name. It will happen on 19 May for some wikis and 20 May for some wikis. Most wikis don't use it. It lists images that should never be used as thumbnails for articles. [12]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 May. It will be on all wikis from 20 May (calendar).

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13:47, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

A request from a blocked editor for talk page access to be restored

Hi, General. On 9 November 2020 you removed talk page access from indefinitely-blocked editor Core2012. (In my opinion you were totally right to do so.) After waiting 6 months, the editor has now posted an appeal at UTRS. What the editor says in that appeal is not, in my opinion, in itself enough to unblock, but it goes a good deal towards being more like a reasonable appeal than any of what they said in their talk page before you removed talk page access. The UTRS appeal also says "Please reinstate my talk page access so that I can appeal my block". How do you feel about reinstating talk page access? JBW (talk) 21:32, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

JBW, I see you went ahead and restored TPA (sorry, I've been pretty busy and haven't had much Wikipedia time the past few days) - for the record, no objections here. I have my doubts that they'll actually end up being a productive editor, but I'm willing to extend some rope. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:15, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
Thanks 😊 for your reply. I too have doubts that we will get a productive editor out of this, but I feel there's just about enough of a possibility that it's worth giving them a chance to prove us both wrong, in view of the change in approach shown in the UTRS appeal. (Though that may be no more than saying what they think we want to hear.) JBW (talk) 13:13, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

SPI question

Hey! Not challenging your close, I am trying however to learn more on SPI and relevant policy. Why did you state that this is not sockpuppetry? Doesn't Wikipedia:BADSOCK point-6:

"Contributing to the same page or discussion with multiple accounts: Editors may not use more than one account to contribute to the same page or discussion in a way that suggests they are multiple people. Contributing to the same page with clearly linked, legitimate, alternative accounts (e.g. editing the same page with your main and public computer account or editing a page using your main account that your bot account edited) is not forbidden."

apply in relation to Draft:Ethide Laboratories edits? This also potentially avoid scrutiny as non-admins can't easily see who previously created speedy deleted articles, and multiple recreations of promotional articles is grounds for reporting and blocking.--Eostrix  (🦉 hoot hoot🦉) 06:02, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

Eostrix, as a rule we don't consider the use of multiple accounts to be sockpuppetry if they aren't used at the same time and aren't actively pretending to be different people. The general assumption is that they lost access to their account, forgot their password, something like that. In this case, the last edit of the older account was 3-4 days before the first edit of the newer account. There are limits to this, of course - if someone switches accounts right after getting several warnings and then resumes their problematic behavior, that's evasion of scrutiny and will probably earn them a block. GeneralNotability (talk) 16:16, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
Thanks! So WP:AGF for returning accounts with no significant warnings.--Eostrix  (🦉 hoot hoot🦉) 16:37, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
Eostrix, exactly. Now, sometimes they're obviously the same person but trying to pretend that they're not (my personal favorite is when someone makes an obvious autobiography, it gets deleted, they get warned for making autobios and they subsequently create a new account that totally isn't the same person), and that isn't something we look at favorably...but as long as they're not evading something and aren't pretending they're multiple people we'll let it slide. GeneralNotability (talk) 16:44, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

DS 2021 Review Update

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The Bugle: Issue CLXXXI, May 2021

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Your IP block

Hi there. I see you blocked this IP. I'm wondering if this is also this registered account. I tried to run it through the Editor Interaction Analyzer, but it wouldn't work with the IP. Lots of similar edits from some of the IPs. Thanks! Magnolia677 (talk) 22:09, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

My mistake, I was only able to find one match. Cheers. Magnolia677 (talk) 09:52, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #469

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Designing and planning for the first version of a tool to compare Wikidata's data against other databases and find mismatches that might need fixing
    • Looking into unit conversion for the Commons Query Service (phab:T281468)
    • Improving RDF export performance problems for very large Items (phab:T281272)
    • Fixed entity suggestions not showing all Items defined in that Property's constraint (phab:T280650)
    • Removed edit buttons that had reappeared on old revisions of Items where they shouldn't be (phab:T281587)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Tech News: 2021-21

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

Changes later this week

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17:05, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

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