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WikiCup 2021 May newsletter

The second round of the 2021 WikiCup has now finished; it was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 61 points to advance to Round 3. There were some impressive efforts in the round, with the top eight contestants all scoring more than 400 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 110 good articles achieved in total by contestants, as well as the 216 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures.

Our top scorers in Round 2 were:

• The Rambling Man, with 2963 points from three featured articles, 20 featured article reviews, 37 good articles, 73 good article reviews, as well as 22 DYKs.
• Epicgenius, with 1718 points from one featured article, 29 good articles, 16 DYKs and plenty of bonus points.
• Bloom6132, with 990 points from 13 DYKs and 64 "In the news" items, mostly recent deaths.
• Hog Farm, with 834 points from two featured articles, five good articles, 14 featured article reviews and 15 good article reviews.
• Gog the Mild, with 524 points from two featured articles and four featured article reviews.
• Lee Vilenski, with 501 points from one featured article, three good articles, six featured article reviews and 25 good article reviews.
• Sammi Brie, with 485 points from four good articles, eight good article reviews and 27 DYKs, on US radio and television stations.
• Ktin, with 436 points from four good articles, seven DYKs and 11 "In the news" items.

Please remember that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of Round 2 but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in Round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (except for at the end of each round, when you must claim them before the cut-off date/time). When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Judges: Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:27, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

The Downlink – June 2021

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

Volume 1 — Issue 8
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News! The Crew of SpaceX Crew-1 had a successful splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico on 2nd May at 06:56:33 UTC. After they launched in November 2020 and had spent 167 days in space. A LongMarch 5B rocket had an uncontrolled re-entery into the atmosphere on 4th May. With any debris being reported to have landed in the Indian Ocean. One of Rocket Labs Electron rockets expierienced a launch malfunction 2:30 into launch causing the mission to result in failure. Images have been released after the landing of Zhurong rover on Mars on 14th May. Featured Content The Apollo 7 article was featured as Today's featured article on May 16, 2021. The Lisa Nowak article was promoted to Featured Article status on May 6, 2021. After being nominated by Neopeius & Hawkeye7. The image: "Buzz Aldrin.jpg" was promoted to Featured Media status on May 16, 2021. After being nominated by TheFreeWorld.
Article of the month. Katherine Johnson Creola Katherine Johnson was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights. The space agency noted her "historical role as one of the first African-American women to work as a NASA scientist".	Image of the month. Astronaut Clayton Anderson wis shown as a water bubble floats in the middeck of space shuttle Discovery during the STS-131 mission.
Members New Members: NightWolf1223 (Joined on the 13th May) LemonSlushie (Joined on the 13th May) Dulliman (Joined on the 22nd May) The Unsinkable Molly Brown (Joined on the 29th May) Number of active members: 116. Total number of members: 329. May Launches All times stated here are in UTC. Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L25 (4th at 19:01:07) Success Long March 2C – Yaogan 30-08 (6th at 18:11) Success Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L27 (9th at 06:42) Success Electron – "Running Out of Toes" (15th at 11:11) Failure Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L26 (15th at 22:56) Success Atlas 5 – SBIRS-GEO 5 (18th at 17:37) Success Long March 4B – Haiyang 2D (19th at 04:03) Success Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L28 (26th at 18:59) Success Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 7 (28th at 17:38:39) Success Long March 7 – Tianzhou 2 (29th at 12:55:29) Success June Launches Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. Long March 3B/E – Fengyun 4B Falcon 9 – CRS-22 Falcon 9 – SXM 8 Minotaur 1 – NROL-111 Falcon 9 – GPS 3 SV05 Atlas 5 – STP 3 Soyuz-2.1a – Progress MS-17 Long March 2F – Shenzhou 12 GSLV Mk.II – GISAT 1 Falcon 9 – Transporter 2	Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 31 May 2021. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 19 4 7 37 FL 4 4 8 FM 98 98 GA 11 22 35 54 122 B 2 48 38 49 137 C 55 159 536 497 1 10 1,258 Start 37 158 1,112 2,238 372 3,917 Stub 7 245 2,190 231 2,673 List 14 130 79 211 1 435 Category 1,034 1,034 Disambig 48 48 File 202 202 Portal 55 55 Project 57 57 Redirect 1 1,133 1 1,135 Template 501 501 Other 1 38 39 Assessed 126 543 2,053 5,252 3,173 615 11,762 Unassessed 1 71 72 Total 126 543 2,053 5,252 3,174 686 11,834 Monthly Changes Since April, 45 pages have been added to Spaceflight. 1 article reached FA-Class and 1 image reached FM-Class. There is 1 more GA class article, with 2 more B-class, 8 more C-class, 1 less start-class and 5 new stub-class articles.
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WikiCup 2021 July newsletter

The third round of the 2021 WikiCup has now come to an end. Each of the sixteen contestants who made it into the fourth round had at least 294 points, and our top six scorers all had over 600 points. They were:

• The Rambling Man, with 1825 points from 3 featured articles, 44 featured article reviews, 14 good articles, 30 good article reviews and 10 DYKs. In addition, he completed a 34-article good topic on the EFL Championship play-offs.
• Epicgenius, a New York specialist, with 1083 points from 2 featured article reviews, 18 good articles, 30 DYKs and plenty of bonus points.
• Bloom6132, with 869 points from 11 DYKs, all with bonus points, and 54 "In the news" items, mostly covering people who had recently died.
• Gog the Mild, with 817 points from 3 featured articles on historic battles in Europe, 5 featured article reviews and 3 good articles.
• Hog Farm, with 659 points from 2 featured articles and 2 good articles on American Civil War battles, 18 featured article reviews, 2 good articles, 6 good article reviews and 4 DYKs.
• BennyOnTheLoose, a snooker specialist and new to the Cup, with 647 points from a featured article, 2 featured article reviews, 6 good articles, 6 good article reviews and 3 DYKs.

In round three, contestants achieved 19 featured articles, 7 featured lists, 106 featured article reviews, 72 good articles, 1 good topic, 62 good article reviews, 165 DYKs and 96 ITN items. We enter the fourth round with scores reset to zero; any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (one contestant in round 3 lost out because of this). When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Judges: Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:30, 2 July 2021 (UTC)

The Downlink – July 2021

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		1 June 2021 — 30 June 2021

Volume 1 — Issue 9
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
Featured Content! The Shuttle-Centaur article was promoted to Featured Article status on June 10, 2021. After being nominated by Hawkeye7. The Spaceflight before 1951 list was promoted to Featured List status on June 21, 2021. After being nominated by Neopeius. The image: "Timothy Peake, official portrait.jpg" was promoted to Featured Media status on June 11, 2021. After being nominated by RoanokeVirginia. The image: "Ilan Ramon, NASA photo portrait in orange suit.jpg" was promoted to Featured Media status on June 11, 2021. After being nominated by TheFreeWorld.
Article of the month. Lisa Nowak Lisa Marie Nowak is an American aeronautical engineer, and former NASA astronaut and United States Navy captain. Nowak was selected by NASA for NASA Astronaut Group 16 in 1996. She flew in space aboard Space Shuttle Discovery during the STS-121 mission in July 2006. In 2007, Nowak was involved in an incident that led to her dismissal from NASA and the Navy. This article was promoted to featured status last month!	Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 30 June 2021. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 19 5 7 38 FL 1 4 4 9 FM 100 100 GA 11 24 34 54 123 B 2 48 39 52 141 C 55 159 544 509 1 10 1,278 Start 37 157 1,105 2,234 374 3,907 Stub 8 244 2,189 231 2,672 List 14 129 79 211 1 434 Category 1,032 1,032 Disambig 49 49 File 203 203 Portal 55 55 Project 68 68 Redirect 1 1 1,134 1 1,137 Template 501 501 Other 38 38 Assessed 126 545 2,055 5,261 3,181 617 11,785 Unassessed 1 76 77 Total 126 545 2,055 5,261 3,182 693 11,862
Image of the month. Offical portrait of Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. (Buzz Aldrin) who was the pilot on the Apollo 11 mission. This image was promoted to featured status last month! Members New Members: Schujack (Joined on the 3rd June) Frozenprakash (Joined on the 7th June) Number of active members: 118. Total number of members: 331.
Monthly Changes Since May 28 pages ahve been added to Spaceflight. 1 article reached FA-Class, 1 list reached FL-class & 2 images reached FM-Class. There is 1 more GA class article, as well as 1 more file page. There are 4 more B class articles, 20 more C class articles, 10 less start class articles & 1 less stub article. BOOKS are no longer supported by the WikiProject and are in the process of being deleted! See WP:BOOKSDEP & here for more.
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The Downlink – August 2021

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

Volume 1 — Issue 10
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News! On 11th July Virgin Galactic had their first fully crewed mission to the edge of space with Richard Branson onboard in SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity. On 17th July NASA announced that scientific observations from the Hubble Space Telescope had resumed on a backup computer after being placed in a "safe mode" since June 13. On 20th July Blue Origin had their first fully crewed mission to the edge of space with Jeff Bezos onboard in a New Shepard capsule. On 26th July The Pirs module was the first permanent ISS module to be decommissioned. After docking to the ISS on 17th September 2001, just under 20 years ago. On 29th July The ISS was moved out of its normal orientation after the Nauka module (a new Russian module) was docked and started firing its thrusters.
Article of the month. Shuttle-Centaur Shuttle-Centaur was a version of the Centaur upper stage rocket designed to be carried aloft inside the Space Shuttle. Two variants were developed: Centaur G-Prime and Centaur G. The powerful Centaur upper stage allowed for heavier deep space probes, and for them to reach Jupiter sooner. However, neither variant ever flew on a Shuttle.	Image of the month. This is an Extreme Deep Field image taken from the Hubble Space Telescope, released by NASA on September 25th, 2012. With exposure dates from July 2002 to March 2012.
Members New Members: Itsfullofstars (Joined on the 10th July) James Denesuk (Joined on the 31st July) Number of active members: 120. Total number of members: 333. July Launches All times stated here are in UTC. Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 8 (1st at 12:48:33) Success Long March 2D – Jilin-1 (3rd at 02:51) Success Long March 4C – Fengyun 3E (4th at 23:28) Success Long March 3C/E – Tianlian I-05 (6th at 15:53) Success Long March 6 – Ningxia 1 (9th at 11:59) Success Long March 2C – Yaogan 30-10 (19th at 00:19) Success Proton-M – Nauka (21st at 14:58:25) Success Long March 2D – Tianhui-1D (29th at 04:01) Success Electron – Monolith (29th at 06:00) Success Ariane 5 ECA – SO-D2 & Eutelsat (30th at 21:00) Success August Launches Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. Atlas V N22 – Boeing Orbital Flight Test 2 Long March 3B/E – ChinaSat 2E Antares 230+ – Cygnus NG-16 Falcon 9 Block 5 – Starlink 2-1 GSLV Mk II – GISAT 1 Vega – Pléiades Neo 4 Long March 4C – Gaofen-3 02 EcoRocket – TBA Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 9 Falcon 9 Block 5 – CRS-23	Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 31 July 2021. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 19 5 7 38 FL 1 4 4 9 FM 102 102 GA 11 24 34 54 123 B 2 48 40 52 142 C 56 160 545 510 12 1,283 Start 36 157 1,106 2,244 374 3,917 Stub 9 244 2,188 233 2,674 List 14 126 79 218 1 438 Category 1,032 1,032 Disambig 49 49 File 207 207 Portal 55 55 Project 68 68 Redirect 2 1 1 1,134 1 1,139 Template 501 501 Other 31 31 Assessed 126 546 2,058 5,278 3,179 621 11,808 Unassessed 3 1 74 78 Total 126 546 2,058 5,281 3,180 695 11,886 Monthly Changes Since June: 24 pages have been added to spaceflight. There are 4 more files. There is 1 more B class article, 5 more C class articles, 10 more start class articles & 2 more stub class articles. The 2 additional FM class have been FM for a few years, they just registered this month.
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The Downlink – August 2021

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

Volume 1 — Issue 10
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News! On 11th July Virgin Galactic had their first fully crewed mission to the edge of space with Richard Branson onboard in SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity. On 17th July NASA announced that scientific observations from the Hubble Space Telescope had resumed on a backup computer after being placed in a "safe mode" since June 13. On 20th July Blue Origin had their first fully crewed mission to the edge of space with Jeff Bezos onboard in a New Shepard capsule. On 26th July The Pirs module was the first permanent ISS module to be decommissioned. After docking to the ISS on 17th September 2001, just under 20 years ago. On 29th July The ISS was moved out of its normal orientation after the Nauka module (a new Russian module) was docked and started firing its thrusters.
Article of the month. Shuttle-Centaur Shuttle-Centaur was a version of the Centaur upper stage rocket designed to be carried aloft inside the Space Shuttle. Two variants were developed: Centaur G-Prime and Centaur G. The powerful Centaur upper stage allowed for heavier deep space probes, and for them to reach Jupiter sooner. However, neither variant ever flew on a Shuttle.	Image of the month. This is an Extreme Deep Field image taken from the Hubble Space Telescope, released by NASA on September 25th, 2012. With exposure dates from July 2002 to March 2012.
Members New Members: Itsfullofstars (Joined on the 10th July) James Denesuk (Joined on the 31st July) Number of active members: 120. Total number of members: 333. July Launches All times stated here are in UTC. Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 8 (1st at 12:48:33) Success Long March 2D – Jilin-1 (3rd at 02:51) Success Long March 4C – Fengyun 3E (4th at 23:28) Success Long March 3C/E – Tianlian I-05 (6th at 15:53) Success Long March 6 – Ningxia 1 (9th at 11:59) Success Long March 2C – Yaogan 30-10 (19th at 00:19) Success Proton-M – Nauka (21st at 14:58:25) Success Long March 2D – Tianhui-1D (29th at 04:01) Success Electron – Monolith (29th at 06:00) Success Ariane 5 ECA – SO-D2 & Eutelsat (30th at 21:00) Success August Launches Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. Atlas V N22 – Boeing Orbital Flight Test 2 Long March 3B/E – ChinaSat 2E Antares 230+ – Cygnus NG-16 Falcon 9 Block 5 – Starlink 2-1 GSLV Mk II – GISAT 1 Vega – Pléiades Neo 4 Long March 4C – Gaofen-3 02 EcoRocket – TBA Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 9 Falcon 9 Block 5 – CRS-23	Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 31 July 2021. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 19 5 7 38 FL 1 4 4 9 FM 102 102 GA 11 24 34 54 123 B 2 48 40 52 142 C 56 160 545 510 12 1,283 Start 36 157 1,106 2,244 374 3,917 Stub 9 244 2,188 233 2,674 List 14 126 79 218 1 438 Category 1,032 1,032 Disambig 49 49 File 207 207 Portal 55 55 Project 68 68 Redirect 2 1 1 1,134 1 1,139 Template 501 501 Other 31 31 Assessed 126 546 2,058 5,278 3,179 621 11,808 Unassessed 3 1 74 78 Total 126 546 2,058 5,281 3,180 695 11,886 Monthly Changes Since June: 24 pages have been added to spaceflight. There are 4 more files. There is 1 more B class article, 5 more C class articles, 10 more start class articles & 2 more stub class articles. The 2 additional FM class have been FM for a few years, they just registered this month.
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The Downlink – September 2021

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

Volume 1 — Issue 11
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News! On 12th August a GSLV Mk.2 rocket with the EOS-03 Earth observation satellite as a payload encountered a third stage failure and crashed back into the ground after reaching a maximum altitude of 140km (87 miles). On 20th August a 5 hour 55 minute spacewalk was completed by chinese astronauts Nie Haisheng and Liu Boming on the Tiangong space station. On 28th August an Astra rocket had an engine failure at launch, but managed to recover and fly to the upper atmosphere before leaving its flight corridor, resulting in flight temination.
Article of the month. Apollo 7 Apollo 7 was the first crewed flight in NASA's Apollo program, and saw the resumption of human spaceflight by the agency after the fire that killed the three Apollo 1 astronauts. The Apollo 7 crew was commanded by Walter M. Schirra, with command module pilot Donn F. Eisele and lunar module pilot R. Walter Cunningham.	Image of the month. Official portrait of Ilan Ramon, an astronaut killed during the failed re-entry of the Space Shuttle Columbia.
Members New Members: Akrasia25 (Joined on the 21st August) Number of active members: 122. Total number of members: 335. August Launches All times stated here are in UTC. Hyperbola-1 – Jilin-1 (3rd at 07:39) Failure Long March 6 – KL-Beta A/B (4th at 11:01) Success Long March 3B/E – ChinaSat 2E (5th at 16:30:05) Success Antares 230+ – Cygnus NG-16 (10th at 22:01:05) Success GSLV Mk II – EOS-03 (GISAT-1) (12th at 00:13) Failure Vega – Pléiades-Neo 4 (17th at 01:47:06) Success Long March 4B – Tianhui-2 02 (18th at 22:32) Success Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 9 (21st at 22:13:40) Success Long March 2C – RSW-01 (24th at 11:15) Success Long March 3B/E – TJSW-7 (24th at 15:41) Success Rocket 3 – STP-27AD1 (28th at 22:35) Failure Falcon 9 – CRS-23 (29th at 07:14:49) Success September Launches Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. Firefly Alpha – DREAM Long March 4C – Gaofen-5 02 Long March 3B/E – ChinaSat 9B Ceres-1 – Fangzhou-2F (SPARK-02F) Long March 2C – Yaogan 32-02A Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 10 Falcon 9 – Inspiration4 Kuaizhou – Jilin-1 Gaofen-02F Long March 7 – Tianzhou 3 Atlas V – Landsat 9 Kuaizhou – Jilin-1 Gaofen-02D Electron – BlackSky Falcon 9 – Starlink Long March 4C – Daqi-1 (Atmosphere-1) PSLV-XL – EOS-04 (RISAT-1A) Soyuz-2.1v – Razbeg №1 (Kosmos 2551)	Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 31 August 2021. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 19 5 7 38 FL 1 4 4 9 FM 102 102 GA 10 24 34 54 122 B 4 48 41 53 146 C 57 160 546 530 1,293 Start 34 157 1,106 2,262 374 3,933 Stub 9 244 2,197 1 234 2,685 List 14 124 79 225 1 443 Category 1,033 1,033 Disambig 1 49 50 File 206 206 Portal 55 55 Project 58 58 Redirect 2 1,140 1,142 Template 504 504 Other 22 22 Assessed 126 544 2,059 5,333 3,170 609 11,841 Unassessed 53 53 Total 126 544 2,059 5,333 3,170 662 11,894 Monthly Changes Since July: 8 pages have been added to spaceflight. There is 1 less file. There is 1 less GA class article and are 4 less B-class, 10 more C-class, 17 more start-class and 11 new stub-class articles.
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WikiCup 2021 September newsletter

The fourth round of the competition has finished with over 500 points being required to qualify for the final round. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants, The Rambling Man and Epicgenius, each scoring over 3000 points, and six contestants scoring over 1000. All but one of the finalists achieved one or more FAs during the round, the exception being Bloom6132 who demonstrated that 61 "in the news" items produces an impressive number of points. Other contestants who made it to the final are Gog the Mild, Lee Vilenski, BennyOnTheLoose, Amakuru and Hog Farm. However, all their points are now swept away and everyone starts afresh in the final round.

Round 4 saw the achievement of 18 featured articles and 157 good articles. Bilorv scored for a 25-article good topic on Black Mirror but narrowly missed out on qualifying for the final round. There was enthusiasm for FARs, with 89 being performed, and there were 63 GARs and around 100 DYKs during the round. As we start round 5, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it to the final round; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. For other contestants, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.

If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:02, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

The Downlink – October 2021

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		1 September 2021 — 31 October 2021

Volume 1 — Issue 12
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
Featured Content! The NASA Astronaut Group 2 article was promoted to Featured Article status on . After being nominated by Hawkeye7. The Apollo 16 article was promoted to Featured Article status on . After being nominated by Wehwalt. The Apollo 4 article was promoted to Featured Article status on . After being nominated by Wehwalt. The 1951 in spaceflight list was promoted to Featured List status on 23 October 2021. After being nominated by Neopeius. The image: "Mars Pathfinder Presidential Panorama.jpg" was promoted to Featured Media status on 19 October 2021. After being nominated by Artem.G.
Members New Members: No new members. Kilawyn Punx (Joined on the 5th September) CactiStaccingCrane (Joined on the 6th September) Rainclaw7 (Joined on the 15th September) KarenWrite (Joined on the 16th September) ColtHood08 (Joined on the 20th September) Number of active members: 127. Total number of members: 340. October Launches All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list: here. Soyuz-2.1a – Soyuz MS-19 (5th at 08:55:02) Success Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb (14th at 09:40:10) Success Long March 2D – Solar Explorer (14th at 10:51) Success Long March 2F – Shenzhou 13 (15th at 16:23:56) Success Atlas V – Lucy (16th at 09:34:00) Success Nuri – Dummy payload (21st at 08:00) Failure Long March 3B/E – Shijian-21 (24th at 01:27:03) Success Ariane 5 – SES-17 (24th at 02:10) Success H-IIA – QZS-1R (26th at 02:19:37) Success Kuaizhou – Jilin-1 Gaofen-02F (27th at 06:19) Success Soyuz-2.1a – MS-18 (28th at 00:00:32) Success November Launches Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. Falcon 9 – SpaceX Crew-3 Long March 2C – Yaogan 32-02A Rocket 3 – STP-27AD2 Epsilon – RAISE-2 Electron – BlackSky 10 Vega – CERES × 3 Falcon 9 – CSG-2 Atlas V – STPSat-6 Falcon 9 – DART Soyuz-2.1b – Prichal (Progress M-UM) Electron – BlackSky 12 Falcon 9 – Starlink Group 2-2 Falcon 9 – Starlink Group 2-3 RS1 – Orbital Test Range × 2 Soyuz-2.1a – Neitron №1	Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 31 October 2021. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 21 6 7 41 FL 2 4 4 10 FM 103 103 GA 11 27 36 54 128 B 4 47 40 56 147 C 58 159 560 587 1,364 Start 33 160 1,108 2,331 334 3,966 Stub 11 243 2,186 217 2,657 List 15 126 85 230 1 457 Category 1 1,042 1,043 Disambig 51 51 File 212 212 Portal 55 55 Project 59 59 Redirect 1 1,147 1,148 Template 505 505 Other 23 23 Assessed 128 553 2,082 5,457 3,197 552 11,969 Total 128 553 2,082 5,457 3,197 552 11,969 Monthly Changes Since August: 75 pages have been added to spaceflight. There are 3 more FA class articles, 1 more FL class page and 1 more FM class file. There are 6 less files. There are 6 more GA class articles and 1 more B-class article, 71 more C-class, 33 more start-class and 28 less stub-class articles.
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WikiCup 2021 November newsletter

The WikiCup is over for another year and the finalists can relax! Our Champion this year is The Rambling Man (submissions), who amassed over 5000 points in the final round, achieving 8 featured articles and almost 500 reviews. It was a very competitive round; seven of the finalists achieved over 1000 points in the round (enough to win the 2019 contest), and three scored over 3000 (enough to win the 2020 event). Our 2021 finalists and their scores were:

1. The Rambling Man (submissions) with 5072 points
2. Lee Vilenski (submissions) with 3276 points
3. Amakuru (submissions) with 3197 points
4. Epicgenius (submissions) with 1611 points
5. Gog the Mild (submissions) with 1571 points
6. BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 1420 points
7. Hog Farm (submissions) with 1043 points
8. Bloom6132 (submissions) with 528 points

All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.

• The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the featured article prize, for 8 FAs in round 5.
• Lee Vilenski (submissions) wins the featured list prize, for 3 FLs in round 5.
• Gog the Mild (submissions) wins the featured topic prize, for 13 articles in a featured topic in round 5.
• Epicgenius (submissions) wins the good article prize, for 63 GAs in round 4.
• The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the good topic prize, for 86 articles in good topics in round 5.
• The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the reviewer prize, for 68 FAC reviews and 213 GAN reviews, both in round 5.
• Epicgenius (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 30 did you know articles in round 3 and 105 overall.
• Bloom6132 (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 71 in the news articles in round 1 and 284 overall.

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition, not forgetting User:Jarry1250, who runs the scoring bot.

If you have views on whether the rules or scoring need adjustment for next year's contest, please comment on the WikiCup talk page. Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2022 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:55, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

Welcome to the 2022 WikiCup!

Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2022 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. Any questions on the rules or on anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:37, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Welcome to the 2022 WikiCup!

Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2022 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. Any questions on the rules or on anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:02, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

WikiCup 2022 March newsletter

And so ends the first round of the WikiCup. Last year anyone who scored more than zero points moved on to Round 2, but this was not the case this year, and a score of 13 or more was required to proceed. The top scorers in Round 1 were:

• Epicgenius, a finalist last year, who led the field with 1906 points, gained from 32 GAs and 19 DYKs, all on the topic of New York buildings.
• AryKun, new to the contest, was second with 1588 points, having achieved 2 FAs, 11 GAs and various other submissions, mostly on the subject of birds.
• Bloom6132, a WikiCup veteran, was in third place with 682 points, garnered from 51 In the news items and several DYKs.
• GhostRiver was close behind with 679 points, gained from achieving 12 GAs, mostly on ice hockey players, and 35 GARs.
• Kavyansh.Singh was in fifth place with 551 points, with an FA, a FL, and many reviews.
• SounderBruce was next with 454 points, gained from an FA and various other submissions, mostly on United States highways.
• Ktin, another WikiCup veteran, was in seventh place with 412 points, mostly gained from In the news items.

These contestants, like all the others who qualified for Round 2, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews of a large number of good articles as the contest ran concurrently with a GAN backlog drive. Well done all! To qualify for Round 3, contestants will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two participants.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Anything that should have been claimed for in Round 1 is no longer eligible for points. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:07, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

WikiCup 2022 March newsletter

And so ends the first round of the WikiCup. Last year anyone who scored more than zero points moved on to Round 2, but this was not the case this year, and a score of 13 or more was required to proceed. The top scorers in Round 1 were:

• Epicgenius, a finalist last year, who led the field with 1906 points, gained from 32 GAs and 19 DYKs, all on the topic of New York buildings.
• AryKun, new to the contest, was second with 1588 points, having achieved 2 FAs, 11 GAs and various other submissions, mostly on the subject of birds.
• Bloom6132, a WikiCup veteran, was in third place with 682 points, garnered from 51 In the news items and several DYKs.
• GhostRiver was close behind with 679 points, gained from achieving 12 GAs, mostly on ice hockey players, and 35 GARs.
• Kavyansh.Singh was in fifth place with 551 points, with an FA, a FL, and many reviews.
• SounderBruce was next with 454 points, gained from an FA and various other submissions, mostly on United States highways.
• Ktin, another WikiCup veteran, was in seventh place with 412 points, mostly gained from In the news items.

These contestants, like all the others who qualified for Round 2, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews of a large number of good articles as the contest ran concurrently with a GAN backlog drive. Well done all! To qualify for Round 3, contestants will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two participants.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Anything that should have been claimed for in Round 1 is no longer eligible for points. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:55, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

WikiCup 2022 May newsletter

The second round of the 2022 WikiCup has now finished. It was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 115 points to advance to round 3. There were some very impressive efforts in round 2, with the top seven contestants all scoring more than 500 points. A large number of the points came from the 11 featured articles and the 79 good articles achieved in total by contestants.

Our top scorers in round 2 were:

1. Epicgenius, with 1264 points from 2 featured article, 4 good articles and 18 DYKs. Epicgenius was a finalist last year but has now withdrawn from the contest as he pursues a new career path.
2. AryKun, with 1172 points from two featured articles, one good article and a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews.
3. Bloom6132, with 605 points from 44 in the news items and 4 DYKs.
4. Sammi Brie, with 573 points from 8 GAs and 21 DYKs.
5. Ealdgyth, with 567 points from 11 GAs and 34 good and featured article reviews.
6. Panini!, with 549 points from 1 FA, 4 GAs and several other sources.
7. Lee Vilenski, with 545 points from 1 FA, 4 GAs and a number of reviews.

The rules for featured and good article reviews require the review to be of sufficient length; brief quick fails and very short reviews will generally not be awarded points. Remember also that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:39, 1 May 2020 (UTC)