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It's been a long time, Captain (or is it Major now?)

I'm slowly easing back into WP after a relative hiatus due to overwork. You're really tearing up the place. Congratulations. It's an honor to know you. :) Neopeius (talk) 04:51, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

Hey Neopeius! Still a Captain (but I am selected for Major and expect to promote next summer). Definitely enjoying being a WP:WIKIGNOME, but looking for my next Wikipedia goal after getting Space Shuttle, Challenger disaster and Columbia disaster to FA. Glad you are getting back into it! Balon Greyjoy (talk) 01:38, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

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Twisted Metal

Hi Balon Greyjoy,

I was hoping if you saw my message about Twisted Metal. I said that you needed to have more words that is between 100 to 200 words for the episode 9 summary. I also give you some ideas such as naming their car Roadkill and Mike convincing Stu that Sweet Tooth is not his friend and that he could kill them in order to fit the 100 to 200 word length. Hope that helps. Mxhyn16 (talk) 18:27, 12 August 2023 (UTC)

@Mxhyn16: As I understand MOS:TVEPISODELIST, the 100 to 200 words is a guideline but not a requirement, as the wording is a "summary of the plot can be included and should be brief (100–200 words), but complete". You are free to improve, rewrite, and expand the plot summary, but not meeting 100 words is not reason alone to remove it. Balon Greyjoy (talk) 22:07, 12 August 2023 (UTC)

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regarding the battle of the trench

Hi, there was edit made by an Islamaphobe user by the name of Kaalakaa that falsely accused the Prophet Muhammad of having raiding and plundering caravans and falsely claiming that the battle was a Quryash victory.

For the date of the battle, the Hadith of the battle taking place in Shawwal 5 AH was used as the evidence for the date of the battle.

As for my other edits, Wikipedia only allowed me to edit section by section (I think its because I am on mobile) and that had caused duplicate sections to exist in the article. I tried to delete them but due to mobile and Wikipedia I could only delete section by section.

I hope that explains everything. Chxeese (talk) 01:40, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

If could revert your edit and also delete anything past the External links section of the article, that would be great. Chxeese (talk) 01:46, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
I reverted my previous edit. Balon Greyjoy (talk) 01:51, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

Restricting Kaalakaa's editing

I have noticed that Kaalakaa has done what was listed above on numerous articles regarding Islam.

Between May 25 and May 31st of 2023, he attacked the article on Quraysh, again bring the galse claim if Prophet Muhammed raiding Quraysh caravans.

As well, on the 31 March 2023, he did the same on the Invasion of Banu Qurayza, removing that the Tribe of Banu Qurayza had betrayed the Prophet Muhammed in the Battle of The Trench.

It is clear that this person has an Anti-Islamic bias, and you have more knowledge on Wikipedia than I do. Is it possible to restrict his account to edit articles relating to Islam? Chxeese (talk) 13:47, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

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WP:DATEVAR

WP:DATEVAR is not optional. On August 12, you manually changed the date format on Celina Mikolajczak from "Use mdy dates|cs1-dates=ly" to "Use mdy dates", changing numeric access dates (a standard date format allowed by MOS) to spelled-out access dates, a different format. At the same time, you used a script to change all the access dates in the source from numeric to spelled out. Do not do that. The script is broken, as should be obvious from your bad changes. The script developer refuses to fix it. As the user of a script, you are the one responsible for the bad behavior of the scripts you run. You should have detected that the script was changing the formats and stopped it from its bad edits. Please be more careful in future. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:38, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

Hello David Eppstein. It was my understanding that dates within citations should be consistent with one another, per MOS:DATEUNIFY, but don't necessarily have to be consistent with the body of the article. Prior to my edits, dates of articles were "mdy" and the access dates were "yyyy-mm-dd". Reading the guidance more closely after your comment, that guidance is specific to access and archive dates. If I remember correctly, I manually removed the cs1 style setting as the access date was not consistent with the date format of the sources and the rest of the article. It was a conscious choice on my part and not an oversight, but I'm happy to defer to your knowledge and experience. Balon Greyjoy (talk) 02:33, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
DATEUNIFY asks for publication dates to all be the same format as each other, and it asks for access dates to all be the same format as each other, but it does not require those two formats to be the same as each other. Otherwise, what would be the point of providing different requirements for what kinds of dates are allowed in these two contexts? I happen to prefer using spelled-out publication dates (to make the reader-facing information more prominent) while using numeric access-dates (to make editor-facing information less prominent). That choice is exactly what "|cs1-dates=ly" specifies. It if was not one of the allowed choices it would not be one of the allowed date template parameters. —David Eppstein (talk) 02:45, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

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Thanks Gerda Arendt!! Balon Greyjoy (talk) 23:48, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

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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.
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Do you know these Wikipedia quotes?
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The Signpost: 14 August 2024

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!
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The Signpost: 4 September 2024

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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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Picture this: medicine, drugs, JFK, Cleopatra, anachronism, and global catastrophe.
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"This user has been on Wikipedia for 10 years, 10 months and 10 days."

congrats! Arlo James Barnes 04:23, 28 September 2024 (UTC)

You say congrats, but I say "oof!"
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The Signpost: 19 October 2024

Find more about the new Trustees, the first election cycle for admins, and other news from the Wikimedia world.
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Perplexing persistence, pay to play, potential president's possible plagiarism, crossword crossover to culture, and a wish come true!
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Where do I even start?
Pasta, acronyms, and one computer-crashing talk page.
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New Page Patrol newsletter October 2022

Hello Balon Greyjoy,

Much has happened since the last newsletter over two months ago. The open letter finished with 444 signatures. The letter was sent to several dozen people at the WMF, and we have heard that it is being discussed but there has been no official reply. A related article appears in the current issue of The Signpost. If you haven't seen it, you should, including the readers' comment section.

Awards: Barnstars were given for the past several years (thanks to MPGuy2824), and we are now all caught up. The 2021 cup went to John B123 for leading with 26,525 article reviews during 2021. To encourage moderate activity, a new "Iron" level barnstar is awarded annually for reviewing 360 articles ("one-a-day"), and 100 reviews earns the "Standard" NPP barnstar. About 90 reviewers received barnstars for each of the years 2018 to 2021 (including the new awards that were given retroactively). All awards issued for every year are listed on the Awards page. Check out the new Hall of Fame also.

Software news: Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have connected with WMF developers who can review and approve patches, so they have been able to fix some bugs, and make other improvements to the Page Curation software. You can see everything that has been fixed recently here. The reviewer report has also been improved.

NPP backlog May – October 15, 2022

Suggestions:

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Backlog:

Saving the best for last: From a July low of 8,500, the backlog climbed back to 11,000 in August and then reversed in September dropping to below 6,000 and continued falling with the October backlog drive to under 1,000, a level not seen in over four years. Keep in mind that there are 2,000 new articles every week, so the number of reviews is far higher than the backlog reduction. To keep the backlog under a thousand, we have to keep reviewing at about half the recent rate!

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New Pages Patrol newsletter January 2023

Hello Balon Greyjoy,

New Page Review queue December 2022
Backlog

The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to WaddlesJP13 who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day.

2022 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2022 cup for 28,302 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 80/day. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. Rosguill led again for the 4th year by clearing 49,294 redirects. For the full details see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone!

Minimum deletion time: The previous WP:NPP guideline was to wait 15 minutes before tagging for deletion (including draftification and WP:BLAR). Due to complaints, a consensus decided to raise the time to 1 hour. To illustrate this, very new pages in the feed are now highlighted in red. (As always, this is not applicable to attack pages, copyvios, vandalism, etc.)

New draftify script: In response to feedback from AFC, the The Move to Draft script now provides a choice of set messages that also link the creator to a new, friendly explanation page. The script also warns reviewers if the creator is probably still developing the article. The former script is no longer maintained. Please edit your edit your common.js or vector.js file from User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js to User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft.js

Redirects: Some of our redirect reviewers have reduced their activity and the backlog is up to 9,000+ (two months deep). If you are interested in this distinctly different task and need any help, see this guide, this checklist, and spend some time at WP:RFD.

Discussions with the WMF The PageTriage open letter signed by 444 users is bearing fruit. The Growth Team has assigned some software engineers to work on PageTriage, the software that powers the NewPagesFeed and the Page Curation toolbar. WMF has submitted dozens of patches in the last few weeks to modernize PageTriage's code, which will make it easier to write patches in the future. This work is helpful but is not very visible to the end user. For patches visible to the end user, volunteers such as Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have been writing patches for bug reports and feature requests. The Growth Team also had a video conference with the NPP coordinators to discuss revamping the landing pages that new users see.

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New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023

Hello Balon Greyjoy,

New Page Review queue April to June 2023

Backlog

Redirect drive: In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with 23851 reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to 0 (momentarily). Congratulations to Hey man im josh who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by Meena and Greyzxq with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day.

Redirect autopatrol: All administrators without autopatrol have now been added to the redirect autopatrol list. If you see any users who consistently create significant amounts of good quality redirects, consider requesting redirect autopatrol for them here.

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team, consisting of Sam, Jason and Susana, and also some patches from Jon, has been hard at work updating PageTriage. They are focusing their efforts on modernising the extension's code rather than on bug fixes or new features, though some user-facing work will be prioritised. This will help make sure that this extension is not deprecated, and is easier to work on in the future. In the next month or so, we will have an opt-in beta test where new page patrollers can help test the rewrite of Special:NewPagesFeed, to help find bugs. We will post more details at WT:NPPR when we are ready for beta testers.

Articles for Creation (AFC): All new page reviewers are now automatically approved for Articles for Creation draft reviewing (you do not need to apply at WT:AFCP like was required previously). To install the AFC helper script, visit Special:Preferences, visit the Gadgets tab, tick "Yet Another AFC Helper Script", then click "Save". To find drafts to review, visit Special:NewPagesFeed, and at the top left, tick "Articles for Creation". To review a draft, visit a submitted draft, click on the "More" menu, then click "Review (AFCH)". You can also comment on and submit drafts that are unsubmitted using the script.

You can review the AFC workflow at WP:AFCR. It is up to you if you also want to mark your AFC accepts as NPP reviewed (this is allowed but optional, depends if you would like a second set of eyes on your accept). Don't forget that draftspace is optional, so moves of drafts to mainspace (even if they are not ready) should not be reverted, except possibly if there is conflict of interest.

Pro tip: Did you know that visual artists such as painters have their own SNG? The most common part of this "creative professionals" criteria that applies to artists is WP:ARTIST 4b (solo exhibition, not group exhibition, at a major museum) or 4d (being represented within the permanent collections of two museums).

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The Signpost: 6 November 2024

But not everybody is able to legally read Wikipedia, and not everybody is able to legally edit Wikipedia.
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Asian News International, the Delhi High Court, and the encyclopedia.
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IP address privacy tools, and mysterious archive sites.
Many such cases.
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The Signpost: 18 November 2024

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.
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The Signpost: 12 December 2024

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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New pages patrol January 2025 Backlog drive

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The Signpost: 24 December 2024

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

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.
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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:

Ships & Space(Edits) 02:36, 30 January 2025 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 7 February 2025

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.
Wikimedians and newbies celebrate 24 years of Wikipedia in the Brooklyn Central Library. Special guests Stephen Harrison and Clay Shirky joined in conversation.
Ending with some bans, and a new set of editing sanctions.
The start of the year was filled with a few unfortunate losses, tragic disasters, emerging tech forces and A LOT of politics.
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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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List of Wikipedians by number of edits - Charts

Hey there. Love the two charts you created here. As it's been more than five years since the last update, I just wanted to ask whether you are considering doing one in the near future. Thanks. NoWikiNoLife (talk) 05:45, 15 February 2025 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll work on it! I need to dig up the Python script and make the charts; hopefully will get it done in the coming weeks. 00:59, 26 February 2025 (UTC) Balon Greyjoy (talk) 00:59, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 February 2025

French Wikipedia defends a user against public threats, steward elections, and other news from the Wikimedia world.
"The only time I ever took photos in my entire life".
From patrolling new edits to uploading photos or joining a campaign, you can count on the Wikimedia platform to be up and running — in your language, anywhere in the world. That is, except for a couple of minutes during the equinoctes.
Or just the end of Wikipedia as we know it?
Of "hunters", "busybodies" and "dancers".
User Sennecaster shares her thoughts on her recent RfA and the aspects that might have played a role in making it successful.
What are they? Why are they important? How can we make them better? And what can you do to help?
Liberté, liberté chérie.
Grammys, politics and the Super Bowl.
Straight from the source's mouth. A source is a source, of course, of course!
Turkish linguist wrote about languages and plants; Brazilian informaticist studied Wikimedia projects and education.
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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 Signpost: 22 March 2025

It's an ecstasy, my spring.
Let them know what you think!
Read this, then forget all about it.
Life on the Wiki as usual!
And WMF invites multi-year research fund proposals
The Oscars, politics, and death elbow for the most attention.
The photographers are the celebrities!
And very unusual biographical images.
Send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.
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The Signpost: 9 April 2025

Fellow doctor Osama Khalid remains behind bars for "violating public morals" by editing.
Major changes to core content policy, or still-developing plan for new initiative?
Defeat, or just a setback?
Plus: 30-year anniversary of wiki software commemorated.
Our content is free, our infrastructure is not!
What is to be done?
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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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Articles for Creation backlog drive

Hello Balon Greyjoy:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive in June!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 1 month of outstanding reviews from the current 3+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 June 2025 through 30 June 2025.

You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.
There is a backlog of over 3200 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:25, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

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