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15 January 2021

2021-01-15 Wikipedia 20th Anniversary meetup, Canberra

• CBR meetup 5.30pm
  • You're invited

    See you there. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:47, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXVII, January 2021

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 looks Australian artillery in World War I Op-ed: Hawkeye7 on no-win scenarios

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Tech News: 2021-03

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Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• The Growth team plans to add features to get more visitors to edit to more Wikipedias. You can help translating the interface.
• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on 26 January at 07:00 (UTC). [1]
• MassMessage posts could be automatically timestamped in the future. This is because MassMessage senders can now send pages using MassMessage. Pages are more difficult to sign. If there are times when a MassMessage post should not be timestamped you can let the developers know.

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16:09, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Galileo (spacecraft)

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Galileo (spacecraft) you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Tercer -- Tercer (talk) 21:20, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Galileo (spacecraft)

The article Galileo (spacecraft) you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Galileo (spacecraft) for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Tercer -- Tercer (talk) 07:20, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Galileo (spacecraft)

The article Galileo (spacecraft) you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Galileo (spacecraft) for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Tercer -- Tercer (talk) 22:22, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

Promotion of American logistics in the Northern France campaign

Congratulations, Hawkeye7! The article you nominated, American logistics in the Northern France campaign, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Ealdgyth (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:06, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

Four Award

		Four Award
		Congratulations! You have been awarded the Four Award for your work from beginning to end on American logistics in the Northern France campaign. — Bilorv (talk) 16:30, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

You know the drill by now. Well done on moving up one place in the leaderboard! — Bilorv (talk) 16:30, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-04

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

Problems

• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on 26 January at 07:00 (UTC). You will not be able to read or edit Wikitech for a short time on 28 January at 09:00 (UTC). [2][3]

Changes later this week

• Bracket matching will be added to the CodeMirror syntax highlighter on the first wikis. The first wikis are German and Catalan Wikipedia and maybe other Wikimedia wikis. This will happen on 27 January. [4]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar).

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18:29, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Harold Francis Loomis

On 29 January 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Harold Francis Loomis, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that American Brigadier General Harold Francis Loomis was in charge of the rearmament of French forces during World War II? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Harold Francis Loomis. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Harold Francis Loomis), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (ie, 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

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The Downlink – February 2021

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		1 January 2021 — 31 January 2021

Volume 2 — Issue 4
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News! The NASA Space Launch System test-fire of the core stage on 16 January triggered a shutdown due to an hydraulic system issue. The test which was intended to last eight minutes, lasted just over one minute. Space X sets a new world record for the number of satellites launched. 143 small satellites were launched on a Falcon 9 on 24 January.
Article of the month. Pete Conrad Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. (June 2, 1930 – July 8, 1999) was an American NASA astronaut, aeronautical engineer, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and commanded the Apollo 12 space mission, on which he became the third person to walk on the Moon. Conrad was selected in NASA's second astronaut class in 1962.	Image of the month. This is an image of Dr. von Braun standing infront of the five F-1 engines of the Saturn V Dynamic Test Vehicle on display at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The engines measured 19-feet tall by 12.5-feet at the nozzle exit and burned 15 tons of liquid oxygen and kerosene each second to produce 7,500,000 pounds of thrust.
Members New Members: Tell284 (Joined on the 10th January) N828335 (Joined on the 12th January) Alpacaaviator (Joined on the 13th January) BugWarp (Joined on the 18th January) Jogesh 69 (Joined on the 23rd January) giolibreak (Joined on the 24th January) Jared.h.wood (Joined on the 25th January) Number of active members: 98. Total number of members: 308. January Launches All times stated here are in UTC. Falcon 9 – Türksat 5A (8th at 02:15) Success LauncherOne – ELaNa-20 (17th at 19:38:51) Success Long March 3B/E – Tiantong 1-03 (19th at 16:25) Success Electron (rocket) – Another One Leaves the Crust (20th at 07:26) Success Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L16 (20th at 13:02) Success Falcon 9 – Transporter 1 (24th at 13:02) Success Long March 4C – Yaogan 31-02 (29th at 04:47) Success February Launches Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L17 Soyuz-2.1b – Lotos-S Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L18 Long March 3B/E – Tianhui-3 Soyuz-2.1a – Progress 77P Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L19 PSLV – Amazônia 1 Antares – NG 15	Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 31 January 2021 Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 17 4 7 35 FL 4 4 8 FM 96 96 GA 11 22 37 51 121 B 1 48 37 43 129 C 55 159 523 483 7 1,227 Start 38 159 1,122 2,203 371 3,893 Stub 7 245 2,175 225 2,652 List 14 131 78 209 432 Template:Book-Class 6 6 Category 1,029 1,029 Disambig 47 47 File 197 197 Portal 55 55 Project 57 57 Redirect 1,120 1,120 Template 493 493 Other 32 32 Assessed 126 543 2,050 5,175 3,132 603 11,629 Unassessed 1 48 49 Total 126 543 2,050 5,176 3,132 651 11,678 Monthly Changes Since December, 23 new pages have been added to Spaceflight. Including 1 new file. Unfortunately there are 8 less GA class articles however there was an increase of 13 articles at C class.
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Tech News: 2021-05

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

Problems

• IPv6 addresses were written in lowercase letters in diffs. This caused dead links since Special:Contributions only accepted uppercase letters for the IPs. This has been fixed. [5]

Changes later this week

• You can soon use Wikidata to link to pages on the multilingual Wikisource. [6]
• Often editors use a "non-breaking space" to make a gap between two items when reading but still show them together. This can be used to avoid a line break. You will now be able to add new ones via the special character tool in the 2010, 2017, and visual editors. The character will be shown in the visual editor as a space with a grey background. [7][8]
• Wikis use abuse filters to stop bad edits being made. Filter maintainers can now use syntax like 1.2.3.4 - 1.2.3.55 as well as the 1.2.3.4/27 syntax for IP ranges. [9]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).

Future changes

• Minerva is the skin Wikimedia wikis use for mobile traffic. When a page is protected and you can't edit it you can normally read the source wikicode. This doesn't work on Minerva on mobile devices. This is being fixed. Some text might overlap. This is because your community needs to update MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext to work on mobile. You can read more. [10][11]
• Cloud VPS and Toolforge will change the IP address they use to contact the wikis. The new IP address will be 185.15.56.1. This will happen on February 8. You can read more.

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22:38, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

Douglas MacArthur

I don't understand why I need to "take it to the talk page". I explained my reasoning very simply. The "Category:American anti-communists" was deleted due due to WP:TNT and it stated that "delete without prejudice to re-creation, either with this name or 'activists'" LittleJerry (talk) 02:01, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

I don't know what that means, and I don't know what the category means either. Membership in a particular organisation? Precisely define the criteria for membership in the category, and I'll tell you whether MacArthur belongs in it or not. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:09, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-06

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Recent changes

• The Wikipedia app for Android now has watchlists and talk pages in the app. [12]

Changes later this week

• You can see edits to chosen pages on Special:Watchlist. You can add pages to your watchlist on every wiki you like. The GlobalWatchlist extension will come to Meta on 11 February. There you can see entries on watched pages on different wikis on the same page. The new watchlist will be found on Special:GlobalWatchlist on Meta. You can choose which wikis to watch and other preferences on Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings on Meta. You can watch up to five wikis. [13]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).

Future changes

• When admins protect pages the form will use the OOUI look. Special:Import will also get the new look. This will make them easier to use on mobile phones. [14][15]
• Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [16]
• Last week Tech News reported that the IP address Cloud VPS and Toolforge use to contact the wikis will change on 8 February. This is delayed. It will happen later instead. [17]

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17:40, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: January 2021

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue I, January 2021 Headlines Belgium report: The Public Domain Tool; Data Donations; Wiki Loves Heritage Belgium 2020 Brazil report: Heading 2021 with new (and renewed!) GLAM-Wiki projects Colombia report: Public domain day in Colombia Finland report: AvoinGLAM France report: #1lib1ref; Training courses; What's next ?; Wikidata and archaeology vocabulary Germany report: Coding da Vinci Niedersachsen wraps up Serbia report: A month in the spirit of references Sweden report: Record numbers of digital museum visits UK report: Protests & Suffragettes - Wikipedia work in 2020; Khalili Collections USA report: Wiki 20 WMF GLAM report: Digital Public Library of America makes an impact in 2020 Calendar: February'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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Tech News: 2021-07

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

Problems

• There were problems with recent versions of MediaWiki. Because the updates caused problems the developers rolled back to an earlier version. Some updates and new functions will come later than planned. [18][19]
• Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [20]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (calendar).

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17:54, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Manned Orbiting Laboratory

This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for March 28, 2021. Please check the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/March 28, 2021. Congratulations on your work!—Wehwalt (talk) 21:03, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

I am pretty happy with that blurb. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:42, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

Congratulations from the Military History Project

		The Military history A-Class cross with Oak Leaves
		On behalf of the Military History Project, I am proud to present the A-Class cross with Oak Leaves for American logistics in the Northern France campaign, United States war plans (1945–1950), Strategic Air Command in the United Kingdom, Lisa Nowak, and Revolt of the Admirals. Hog Farm (talk) via MilHistBot (talk) 00:30, 21 February 2021 (UTC)