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The Downlink Volume 3, Issue 2

	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 On 17 February, as part of a Commercial Lunar Payload Services mission, Intuitive Machines' lunar lander IM-2 was launched on board a Falcon 9. It was also launched with Lunar Trailblazer and Brokkr-2. The European Space Agency's space telescope INTEGRAL was retired on 28 February after 22 years, five months, and one day. It is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere in 2029.
Article of the month Family Portrait (Voyager) 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. Soyuz 2.1v and Volga — Kosmos-2581/-2582/-2583 (5 Feb. at 03:59) (success) Long March 8A — 9 Hulianwang Digui (11 Feb. at 09:30) (success) Falcon 9 Block 5 — 23 Starlink (18 Feb. at 23:21) (success) 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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Books & Bytes – Issue 67

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 67, January – February 2025

• East View Press and The Africa Report join the library
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The Signpost: 22 March 2025

• From the editor: Hanami

• Opinion: Talking about governments editing Wikipedia

• News and notes: Deeper look at takedowns targeting Wikipedia

• In the media: The good, the bad, and the unusual

• Recent research: Explaining the disappointing history of Flagged Revisions; and what's the impact of ChatGPT on Wikipedia so far?

• Traffic report: All the world's a stage, we are merely players...

• Gallery: WikiPortraits rule!

• Essay: Unusual biographical images

• Obituary: Rest in peace

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Voyager 1

I recently edited the voyager 1 page. The page states about voyagers future: “in about 40,000 years, it will pass within 1.6 light-years (0.49 parsecs) of the star Gliese 445, which is at present in the constellation Camelopardalis and 17.1 light-years from Earth.” Voyager 1 needs 17,000 years to cross one light-year. 17,000 years x 17 light years is 289,000 years. Without further explanation about the other star system moving towards our solar systems the math makes absolutely no sense. Did you actually read the edit or just undo everything anyone does automatically? 38.7.154.157 (talk) 14:31, 23 March 2025 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 13, 2025)

Hello, Benison. The article for improvement of the week is: Ipomoea Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Cove • Rake (tool) Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 24 March 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2025-13

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

Weekly highlight

• The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking your feedback on the drafts of the objectives and key results that will shape the Foundation's Product and Technology priorities for the next fiscal year (starting in July). The objectives are broad high-level areas, and the key-results are measurable ways to track the success of their objectives. Please share your feedback on the talkpage, in any language, ideally before the end of April.

Updates for editors

• The CampaignEvents extension will be released to multiple wikis (see deployment plan for details) in April 2025, and the team has begun the process of engaging communities on the identified wikis. The extension provides tools to organize, manage, and promote collaborative activities (like events, edit-a-thons, and WikiProjects) on the wikis. The extension has three tools: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation Lists. It is currently on 13 Wikipedias, including English Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, and Spanish Wikipedia, as well as Wikidata. Questions or requests can be directed to the extension talk page or in Phabricator (with #campaigns-product-team tag).
• Starting the week of March 31st, wikis will be able to set which user groups can view private registrants in Event Registration, as part of the CampaignEvents extension. By default, event organizers and the local wiki admins will be able to see private registrants. This is a change from the current behavior, in which only event organizers can see private registrants. Wikis can change the default setup by requesting a configuration change in Phabricator (and adding the #campaigns-product-team tag). Participants of past events can cancel their registration at any time.
• Administrators at wikis that have a customized MediaWiki:Sidebar should check that it contains an entry for the Special pages listing. If it does not, they should add it using * specialpages-url|specialpages. Wikis with a default sidebar will see the link moved from the page toolbox into the sidebar menu in April. [1]
• The Minerva skin (mobile web) combines both Notice and Alert notifications within the bell icon (). There was a long-standing bug where an indication for new notifications was only shown if you had unseen Alerts. This bug is now fixed. In the future, Minerva users will notice a counter atop the bell icon when you have 1 or more unseen Notices and/or Alerts. [2]
• View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• VisualEditor has introduced a new client-side hook for developers to use when integrating with the VisualEditor target lifecycle. This hook should replace the existing lifecycle-related hooks, and be more consistent between different platforms. In addition, the new hook will apply to uses of VisualEditor outside of just full article editing, allowing gadgets to interact with the editor in DiscussionTools as well. The Editing Team intends to deprecate and eventually remove the old lifecycle hooks, so any use cases that this new hook does not cover would be of interest to them and can be shared in the task.
• Developers who use the mw.Api JavaScript library, can now identify the tool using it with the userAgent parameter: var api = new mw.Api( { userAgent: 'GadgetNameHere/1.0.1' } );. If you maintain a gadget or user script, please set a user agent, because it helps with library and server maintenance and with differentiating between legitimate and illegitimate traffic. [3][4]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:39, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

March thanks

story · music · places

Thank you for improving article quality in March! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:13, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

Today: an opera, 100 years old OTD, on Bach's birthday. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:05, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

Thanks a lot, Gerda. :) — Benison (Beni · talk) 06:01, 23 March 2025 (UTC)

Today, 300 years of Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1! We sang works for (mostly) double choir by Pachelbel, Johann Christoph Bach, Kuhnau/Bach, Gounod and Rheinberger! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:51, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 14, 2025)

Jack Black in 2023 Hello, Benison. The article for improvement of the week is: Jack Black Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Ipomoea • Cove Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 31 March 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2025-14

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

Updates for editors

• The Editing team is working on a new Edit check: Peacock check. This check's goal is to identify non-neutral terms while a user is editing a wikipage, so that they can be informed that their edit should perhaps be changed before they publish it. This project is at the early stages, and the team is looking for communities' input: in this Phabricator task, they are gathering on-wiki policies, templates used to tag non-neutral articles, and the terms (jargon and keywords) used in edit summaries for the languages they are currently researching. You can participate by editing the table on Phabricator, commenting on the task, or directly messaging Trizek (WMF).
• Single User Login has now been updated on all wikis to move login and account creation to a central domain. This makes user login compatible with browser restrictions on cross-domain cookies, which have prevented users of some browsers from staying logged in.
• View all 35 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Starting on March 31st, the MediaWiki Interfaces team will begin a limited release of generated OpenAPI specs and a SwaggerUI-based sandbox experience for MediaWiki REST APIs. They invite developers from a limited group of non-English Wikipedia communities (Arabic, German, French, Hebrew, Interlingua, Dutch, Chinese) to review the documentation and experiment with the sandbox in their preferred language. In addition to these specific Wikipedia projects, the sandbox and OpenAPI spec will be available on the on the test wiki REST Sandbox special page for developers with English as their preferred language. During the preview period, the MediaWiki Interfaces Team also invites developers to share feedback about your experience. The preview will last for approximately 2 weeks, after which the sandbox and OpenAPI specs will be made available across all wiki projects.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• Sometimes a small, one line code change can have great significance: in this case, it means that for the first time in years we're able to run all of the stack serving maps.wikimedia.org - a host dedicated to serving our wikis and their multi-lingual maps needs - from a single core datacenter, something we test every time we perform a datacenter switchover. This is important because it means that in case one of our datacenters is affected by a catastrophe, we'll still be able to serve the site. This change is the result of extensive work by two developers on porting the last component of the maps stack over to kubernetes, where we can allocate resources more efficiently than before, thus we're able to withstand more traffic in a single datacenter. This work involved a lot of complicated steps because this software, and the software libraries it uses, required many long overdue upgrades. This type of work makes the Wikimedia infrastructure more sustainable.

Meetings and events

• MediaWiki Users and Developers Workshop Spring 2025 is happening in Sandusky, USA, and online, from 14–16 May 2025. The workshop will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users. Registration and presentation signup is now available at the workshop's website.

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Precious anniversary

Precious

One year!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:30, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

Wow, one year..!!??? Thanks a lot Gerda. May your kindness be always reciprocated anywhere you go. Thanks again :) — Benison (Beni · talk) 11:55, 2 April 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for a blessing. Isn't "always" asking a bit too much? Mirella Freni, a subject I admire, is in prep with a DYK hook that I don't admire. I suggested to use it for April 1, but the irony was not understood, and it didn't happen (although they pulled a hook). What do you think was not clear in my objection (on the article talk)? .. rather at the end: that she is not active, and interestingness only created by a famous man's name. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:00, 2 April 2025 (UTC)

Page move

In addition to Khaddama, the user The Intersider has also moved the page L2: Empuraan from Empuraan (directed by Prithviraj Sukumaran) without any explanation whatsoever. 2409:4073:4D9F:E889:6161:A5BB:4E68:4DC0 (talk) 15:17, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 15, 2025)

Hello, Benison. The article for improvement of the week is: Plate (dishware) Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Jack Black • Ipomoea Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 7 April 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Administrators' newsletter – April 2025

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2025).

Administrator changes

• Giraffer
• Goldsztajn

Dennis Brown

• Cyclonebiskit
• Nohat
• Someguy1221

Bureaucrat changes

Barkeep49

CheckUser changes

0xDeadbeef

Oversighter changes

GB fan

Moneytrees

Miscellaneous

• Sign up for The Core Contest, a competition running from 15 April to 31 May to improve vital articles.

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Tech News: 2025-15

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

Updates for editors

• From now on, interface admins and centralnotice admins are technically required to enable two-factor authentication before they can use their privileges. In the future this might be expanded to more groups with advanced user-rights. [5]
• View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• The Design System Team is preparing to release the next major version of Codex (v2.0.0) on April 29. Editors and developers who use CSS from Codex should see the 2.0 overview documentation, which includes guidance related to a few of the breaking changes such as font-size, line-height, and size-icon.
• The results of the Developer Satisfaction Survey (2025)  are now available. Thank you to all participants. These results help the Foundation decide what to work on next and to review what they recently worked on.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• The 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon will take place in Istanbul, Turkey, between 2–4 May. Registration for attending the in-person event will close on 13 April. Before registering, please note the potential need for a visa or e-visa to enter the country.

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MediaWiki message delivery 18:50, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: March 2025

This Month in GLAM – Volume XV, Issue III, March 2025 Headlines Albania report: WikiGap in Albania 2025, and essential initiatives for free knowledge Argentina report: Archives and Human Rights activities Belgium report: International Women's Day, Wikipedia officially recognised as Digital Public Good and invitation for the General Assembly Brazil report: Every Book Its Reader is coming Czech Republic report: New Horizons of Czech GLAM Partnerships in 2025 France report: Archivist Forum 2025 Italy report: Ten winners of Wikimedia Italia 2025 GLAM call Netherlands report: International Womensday; New Wikimedian in Residence at Maastricht University New Zealand report: What's on at Auckland Museum, and International Women's Day at University of Otago Nigeria report: GLAM in Africa, a Nigerian narrative in knowledge decolonization a case study of Benin City Poland report: What's up in GLAM in Poland Switzerland report: Switzerland report UK report: Gold in Bengali and Diversity in Arabic USA report: Women's History month Biodiversity Heritage Library report: BHL-Wiki Working Group March monthly highlights Memory of the World report: Manuscripts of Mali Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: Creating an OpenRefine Wikimedia Group Calendar: April's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 9 April 2025

• Special report: Wikipedian and physician Ziyad al-Sufiani reportedly released from Saudi prison

• In focus: WMF to explore "common standards" for NPOV policies; implications for project autonomy remain unclear

• In the media: Indian judges demand removal of content critical of Asian News International

• News and notes: 35,000 user accounts compromised, locked in attempted credential-stuffing attack

• Op-ed: How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects

• Opinion: Crawlers, hogs and gorillas

• Debriefing: Giraffer's RfA debriefing

• Obituary: RHaworth, TomCat4680 and PawełMM

• Traffic report: Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho, off to report we go...

• News from Diff: Strengthening Wikipedia’s neutral point of view

• Comix: Thirteen

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Request to Review Deleted Article

Good evening,

I hope you are doing well. Are you able to share a previously deleted page with me? The page of Daniel Comeaux was soft deleted after consideration last year on October, 4, 2024. I am not asking for the deletion to be reconsidered, but I would like to receive a copy of the page that was deleted if possible.

Thank you so much for your time. BucketSky10 (talk) 21:17, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

@BucketSky10: Hey, thanks for dropping by. I'm not an administrator and hence can't help you with that. But, you can see Category:Wikipedia administrators willing to provide copies of deleted articles for that and contact anyone there. Thanks and happy editing. — Benison (Beni · talk) 06:42, 10 April 2025 (UTC)