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{{AFI/Picture box|week=2025/15}} Hello, TimothyBlue. The article for improvement of the week is:

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

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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.

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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.
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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 [https://www.mfa.gov.tr/turkish-representations.en.mfa visa] or [https://www.mfa.gov.tr/visa-information-for-foreigners.en.mfa e-visa] to enter the country.

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The Downlink Volume 3, Issue 3

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1 — 31 March

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  • 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.
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InSight lander testing

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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.

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New Members:

  • {{Noping|Desertroseflora}} (6 March)
  • {{Noping|Nowhed}} (13 March)
  • {{Noping|4-RAZOR 01}} (15 March)
  • {{Noping|Orion.Project}} (28 March)

{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 206.

Total number of members: 430.}}

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March Launches
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  1. {{Flagicon|FRA}} Ariane 62 — CSO-3 (6 Mar. at 16:24 UTC) ({{Color|green|success}})
  2. {{Flagicon|USA}} SpaceX Starship — four Starlink simulators (6 Mar. at 23:30 UTC) ({{Color|red|launch failure}})
  3. {{Flagicon|USA}}{{Flagicon|JAP}} Rocket Lab Electron — QPS-SAR 9/SUSANOO-1 (15 Mar. at 00:00 UTC) ({{Color|green|success}})
  4. {{Flagicon|GER}} Spectrum — no payload (30 Mar. at 10:30 UTC) ({{Color|red|launch failure}})

|style="padding:5px;"|Article Statistics
This data reflects values from the 28 February 2025.

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colspan="8" class="ratingstabletitle" | Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
rowspan="2" style="vertical-align: bottom" | Quality

! colspan="7" | Importance

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! {{High-Class|category=Category:High-importance_spaceflight_articles}}

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{{FA-Class|category=Category:FA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}72814857
{{FL-Class|category=Category:FL-Class_spaceflight_articles}}34411
{{FM-Class|category=Category:FM-Class_spaceflight_pages}}123123
{{A-Class|category=Category:A-Class_spaceflight_articles}}1326
{{GA-Class|category=Category:GA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}112733551127
{{B-Class|category=Category:B-Class_spaceflight_articles}}15841992171516
{{C-Class|category=Category:C-Class_spaceflight_articles}}43161577764301,575
{{Start-Class|category=Category:Start-Class_spaceflight_articles}}181451,0212,5694414,194
{{Stub-Class|category=Category:Stub-Class_spaceflight_articles}}92032,0552452,512
{{List-Class|category=Category:List-Class_spaceflight_articles}}10116108236128499
{{Category-Class|category=Category:Category-Class_spaceflight_pages}}1,2631,263
{{Disambig-Class|category=Category:Disambig-Class_spaceflight_pages}}4747
{{File-Class|category=Category:File-Class_spaceflight_pages}}223223
{{Portal-Class|category=Category:Portal-Class_spaceflight_pages}}5555
{{Project-Class|category=Category:Project-Class_spaceflight_pages}}109109
{{Redirect-Class|category=Category:Redirect-Class_spaceflight_pages}}2421291,2411,414
{{Template-Class|category=Category:Template-Class_spaceflight_pages}}528528
{{NA-Class|category=Category:NA-Class_spaceflight_pages}}33
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{{Assessed-Class}}1055752,2046,0393,62174613,290
{{Unassessed-Class|category=Category:Unassessed_spaceflight_articles}}19134153
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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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Guild of Copy Editors April 2025 Newsletter

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Hello and welcome to the April 2025 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since December. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. We extend a warm welcome to all of our new members. We wish you all happy copy-editing.

Election results: In our December 2025 coordinator election, Wracking stepped down as coordinator; we thank them for their service. Incumbents Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, and Mox Eden were reelected coordinators, and IQR and WikiEditor5678910 were newly elected coordinator, to serve through 30 June. Nominations for our mid-year Election of Coordinators will open on 1 June (UTC).

Drive: 55 editors signed up for our January Backlog Elimination Drive 33 claimed at least one copy-edit and copy-edited 611,404 words in 237 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

Blitz: 14 editors signed up for our February Copy Editing Blitz. 10 claimed at least one copy-edit and copy-edited 46,749 words in 18 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

Drive: 47 editors signed up for our March Backlog Elimination Drive. 28 claimed at least one copy-edit and copy-edited 479,172 words in 207 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

Blitz: Sign up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, which runs from 13 to 19 April. Barnstars will be awarded here.

Progress report: As of 9:45, 12 April 2024 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 89 requests since 1 January 2024, and the backlog stands at 2,264 articles.

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This week's [[Wikipedia:Articles for improvement|article for improvement]] (week 16, 2025)

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{{AFI/Picture box|week=2025/16}} Hello, TimothyBlue. The article for improvement of the week is:

{{Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/2025/16/1}}

Please be bold and help improve it!

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Tech News: 2025-16

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

  • Later this week, the default thumbnail size will be increased from 220px to 250px. This changes how pages are shown in all wikis and has been requested by some communities for many years, but wasn't previously possible due to technical limitations. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T355914]
  • File thumbnails are now stored in discrete sizes. If a page specifies a thumbnail size that's not among the standard sizes (20, 40, 60, 120, 250, 330, 500, 960), then MediaWiki will pick the closest larger thumbnail size but will tell the browser to downscale it to the requested size. In these cases, nothing will change visually but users might load slightly larger images. If it doesn't matter which thumbnail size is used in a page, please pick one of the standard sizes to avoid the extra in-browser down-scaling step. [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Images#Thumbnail_sizes][https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T355914]

Updates for editors

  • The Wikimedia Foundation are working on a system called Edge Uniques which will enable A/B testing, help protect against Distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS attacks), and make it easier to understand how many visitors the Wikimedia sites have. This is so that they can more efficiently build tools which help readers, and make it easier for readers to find what they are looking for.
  • To improve security for users, a small percentage of logins will now require that the account owner input a one-time password emailed to their account. It is recommended that you check that the email address on your account is set correctly, and that it has been confirmed, and that you have an email set for this purpose. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T390662]
  • "Are you interested in taking a short survey to improve tools used for reviewing or reverting edits on your Wiki?" This question will be asked at 7 wikis starting next week, on Recent Changes and Watchlist pages. The Moderator Tools team wants to know more about activities that involve looking at new edits made to your Wikimedia project, and determining whether they adhere to your project's policies.
  • On April 15, the full Wikidata graph will no longer be supported on [https://query.wikidata.org/ query.wikidata.org]. After this date, scholarly articles will be available through [https://query-scholarly.wikidata.org/ query-scholarly.wikidata.org], while the rest of the data hosted on Wikidata will be available through the [https://query.wikidata.org/ query.wikidata.org] endpoint. This is part of the scheduled split of the Wikidata Graph, which was announced in September 2024. More information is available on Wikidata.
  • The latest quarterly Wikimedia Apps Newsletter is now available. It covers updates, experiments, and improvements made to the Wikipedia mobile apps.
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''The Bugle'': Issue 228, April 2025

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This week's [[Wikipedia:Articles for improvement|article for improvement]] (week 17, 2025)

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{{AFI/Picture box|week=2025/17}} Hello, TimothyBlue. The article for improvement of the week is:

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Tech News: 2025-17

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Updates for editors

  • Wikifunctions is now integrated with Dagbani Wikipedia since April 15. It is the first project that will be able to call functions from Wikifunctions and integrate them in articles. A function is something that takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, such as adding up two numbers, converting miles into metres, calculating how much time has passed since an event, or declining a word into a case. Wikifunctions will allow users to do that through a simple call of a stable and global function, rather than via a local template. [https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikifunctions:Status_updates/2025-04-16]
  • A new type of lint error has been created: {{int:linter-category-empty-heading}} (documentation). The Linter extension's purpose is to identify wikitext patterns that must or can be fixed in pages and provide some guidance about what the problems are with those patterns and how to fix them. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T368722]
  • File:Octicons-sync.svg View all {{formatnum:37}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:37|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Following its publication on HuggingFace, the "Structured Contents" dataset, developed by Wikimedia Enterprise, is [https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/blog/kaggle-dataset/ now also available on Kaggle]. This Beta initiative is focused on making Wikimedia data more machine-readable for high-volume reusers. They are releasing this beta version in a location that open dataset communities already use, in order to seek feedback, to help improve the product for a future wider release. You can read more about the overall [https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/blog/structured-contents-snapshot-api/#open-datasets Structured Contents project], and about the [https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/blog/structured-contents-wikipedia-infobox/ first release that's freely usable].
  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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  • The Editing and Machine Learning Teams invite interested volunteers to a video meeting to discuss Peacock check, which is the latest Edit check that will detect "peacock" or "overly-promotional" or "non-neutral" language whilst an editor is typing. Editors who work with newcomers, or help to fix this kind of writing, or are interested in how we use artificial intelligence in our projects are encouraged to attend. The meeting will be on April 28, 2025 at [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1745863200 18:00–19:00 UTC] and hosted on Zoom.

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New pages patrol May 2025 Backlog drive

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Journal lists

Hi, there's a good reason that we only include notable journals in these lists. There are tens of thousands academic journals. Unfortunately, a large proportion of them are scams (see predatory publishing. And nothing is nicer for the scammers then to have their journals listed in WP. Preferably in the form of a stand-alone article, but if that doesn't work, then having their rags included in lists is a good second. Accepting any publication that claims to be an academic journal opens the floodgates for spam for shady journals. Of course one can argue that we'll keep an eye on this and remove any suspicious journals. This is rather cumbersome, though: we don't want a situation where it is WP editors who are going to decide what gets into a list or not, based on their personal opinions. At the WikiProject Academic Journals it has therefor become standard practice to only include notable journals, as scam journals never meet NJournals and only meet GNG if there are reliable sources discussing their fishy habits. --Randykitty (talk) 13:48, 26 April 2025 (UTC)

  • First since you bring up predatory publishing, what journal did I include that is predatory or scams?

:The reason for the inclusion criteria which I wrote is to exclude predatory journals. All of the entries are published by academic intuitions or presses and are archived in academic databases, such as JSTOR or ProjectMUSE. None are predatory, none are minor, all have decades of history in the above databases. It is also a short list, not a long one. The guidelines are clear that individual items do not have to be notable. There is no reason to remove legitimate academic journals from this list. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TimothyBlue (talk • contribs)

::*Nobody accused you of adding predatory journals. But if you retire from WP (given the banner on top of this page), other editors might add those and if nobody "polices" this list, it could degenerate quickly. Also, your criteria just move the problem from having WP editors deciding what is a decent journal to what is a decent academic society. Adding only notable journals with an article is just a practical solution to this problem. In any case, I don't want to deal with that, so I am removing this list from my watchlist and leave it up to others to keep this list clean. --Randykitty (talk) 09:36, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

:* I am in agreement with Timothy. None of the journals you have been removing from that list are considered predatory journals. In the absence of a dedicated article, one could simply add a reference to a third party description of the journal to confirm it is respected within its field. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Academic Journals/Writing guide#Getting started section you may be referring to doesn't have lists in mind, while the more authoritative Wikipedia:Notability (academic journals)#No inherited notability simply states, "{{tq|These general rules-of-thumb do not prohibit the creation or maintenance of list articles that contain information about non-notable journals. However, such lists are still subject to Wikipedia's content policies, such as verifiability and no original research, and editorial decisions to exclude non-notable journals from such lists can apply.}}" In this case, the author of the list has {{emphasis|not}} chosen to exclude non-notable journals, not that any of your removals did not meet the standalone notability criteria. Ivan (talk) 21:44, 26 April 2025 (UTC)

This week's [[Wikipedia:Articles for improvement|article for improvement]] (week 18, 2025)

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{{AFI/Picture box|week=2025/18}} Hello, TimothyBlue. The article for improvement of the week is:

{{Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/2025/18/1}}

Please be bold and help improve it!

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Tech News: 2025-18

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

Updates for editors

  • Event organizers who host collaborative activities on multiple wikis, including Bengali, Japanese, and Korean Wikipedias, will have access to the CampaignEvents extension this week. Also, admins in the Wikipedia where the extension is enabled will automatically be granted the event organizer right soon. They won't have to manually grant themselves the right before they can manage events as requested by a community.
  • File:Octicons-sync.svg View all {{formatnum:19}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:19|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • The release of the next major version of Codex, the design system for Wikimedia, is scheduled for 29 April 2025. Technical editors will have access to the release by the week of 5 May 2025. This update will include a number of breaking changes and minor visual changes. Instructions on handling the breaking and visual changes are documented on this page. Pre-release testing is reported in T386298, with post-release issues tracked in T392379 and T392390.
  • Users of Wiki Replicas will notice that the database views of ipblocks, ipblocks_ipindex, and ipblocks_compat are now deprecated. Users can query the block and block_target new views that mirror the new tables in the production database instead. The deprecated views will be removed entirely from Wiki Replicas in June, 2025.
  • File:Octicons-sync.svg Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

Meetings and events

  • The Let's Connect Learning Clinic will take place on [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1745937000 April 29 at 14:30 UTC]. This edition will focus on "Understanding and Navigating Conflict in Wikimedia Projects". You can register now to attend.
  • The 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which brings the global technical community together to connect, brainstorm, and hack existing projects, will take place from May 2 to 4th, 2025, at Istanbul, Turkey.

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