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Administrators' newsletter – December 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2020).

Administrator changes

Andrwsc • Anetode • GoldenRing • JzG • LinguistAtLarge • Nehrams2020

Interface administrator changes

Izno

Guideline and policy news

• There is a request for comment in progress to either remove T3 (duplicated and hardcoded instances) as a speedy deletion criterion or eliminate its seven-day waiting period.

Technical news

• Voting for proposals in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey, which determines what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year, will take place from 8 December through 21 December. In particular, there are sections regarding administrators and anti-harassment.

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2020 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 7 December 2020 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

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The Downlink Volume 2 Issue 2

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		1 November 2020 — 30 November 2020

Volume 2 — Issue 2
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News! The ISS has been continuously occupied for the last 20 years! Expedition 1 arrived on 2 November 2000 with the first long-term residents. That’s longer then Wikipedia has existed. Crew-1 successfully launched from LC-39A on 16th November 2020, at 00:11:15 (UTC). Later, on 17th November 2020, 04:00 (UTC) Michael S. Hopkins, Victor J. Glover, Soichi Noguchi and Shannon Walker joined Expedition 64 and the crew of MS-17 on the ISS. Arianespace had a launch failure after liftoff of its Vega rocket on the 17th November. Two satellites were lost due to an integration error of the fourth stage.
Article of the month. Apollo 12 Apollo 12 was the sixth crewed flight in the United States Apollo program and the second to land on the Moon. It was launched on November 14, 1969, from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, four months after Apollo 11. Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad and Apollo Lunar Module Pilot Alan L. Bean performed just over one day and seven hours of lunar surface activity while Command Module Pilot Richard F. Gordon remained in lunar orbit. The landing site for the mission was located in the southeastern portion of the Ocean of Storms.	Image of the month. This is an image of the ISS from December 9, 2000. Almost 20 years ago, this image is one of a series of 70mm frames taken onboard Space Shuttle Endeavour. With the ISS being continuously occupied for the last 20 years, this shows how the space station has developed over the years.
Members New Members: Springfield2020 (Joined on the 2nd November) Helwr (Joined on the 12th November) Hportfacts5 (Joined on the 28th November) Number of active members: 94. Total number of members: 298. November Launches All times stated here are in UTC. Falcon 9 - GPS 3 SV04 (5th at 23:24:23) Success Long March 6 - ÑuSat 9-18 (6th at 3:19) Success Ceres-1 - Tianqi-11 (7th at 7:12) Success PSLV-DL - EOS 1 (7th at 9:41 Success Long March 3B - Tiantong 1-02 (12th at 15:59:04) Success Atlas 5 - NROL-101 (13th at 22:32) Success Falcon 9 - Crew-1 (16th at 00:27:17) Success Vega - SEOSat-Ingenio & Taranis (17th at 01:52:20) Failure Electron - "Return to Sender" (20th at 01:44) Success Falcon 9 - Sentinel 6-Michael Freilich (21st at 17:71:08) Success Long March 5 - Chang’e 5 (23rd at 20:30:12) Success Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L15 (25th at 02:13:12) Success H-IIA - Optical Data Relay Satellite (29th at 7:25) Success December Launches Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. Soyuz - Falcon Eye 2 Soyuz - Gonets M Falcon 9 - SpaceX CRS 21 Long March 11 - GECAM Falcon 9 - Turksat 5A Soyuz - Progress 77P Angara A5 - Test Flight Electron - The Owl's Night Begins PSLV-XL - CMS 1 Soyuz - OneWeb 4 LauncherOne - ELaNa 20 Long March 8 - XJY 7 Soyuz - CSO 2 Delta 4 Heavy - NROL-44 Delta IV Heavy - NROL-82 Falcon 9 - NROL-108 Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L16 Falcon 9 - SXM 7 SSLV - Demonstration Launch	Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 30 November 2020 Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 16 2 7 32 FL 4 4 8 FM 94 94 GA 11 23 36 47 117 B 1 46 38 46 131 C 55 160 517 464 5 1,201 Start 37 158 1,125 2,204 370 3,894 Stub 8 247 2,110 225 2,590 List 14 128 77 207 426 Category 1,023 1,023 Disambig 46 46 File 197 197 Portal 55 55 Project 63 63 Redirect 1,116 1,116 Template 491 491 Other 27 27 Assessed 125 539 2,046 5,089 3,118 600 11,517 Unassessed 39 39 Total 125 539 2,046 5,089 3,118 639 11,556 Monthly Changes Since October, 43 new pages have been added to Spaceflight. There has been 2 more images which have reached FM class, both GA and B classes have 1 more article. 5 more lists have been added to the project. While 25 articles have been improved to C class as well as 24 articles reaching start class and 5 new articles added to stub class.
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• You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time. Some wikis already had this function. [1][2]

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• You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey between 8 December and 21 December. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on.

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