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NASA called off a planned spacewalk of SpaceX Crew-11 ↗ on 8 January, and later cancelled the mission outright, after one of the crewmembers, Mike Fincke ↗, was reported to have a medical complication. This was the first time that this occurred in US history.

On 11 January, the Pandora spacecraft ↗ was successfully launched. Pandora is designed to study the atmospheres of transiting exoplanet ↗s, with the intention of identifying targets for future observation.

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<div style="font-size:20px; text-align:center;">'''Exoplanetary Circumstellar Environments and Disk Explorer ↗'''</div>
{{Excerpt|Exoplanetary Circumstellar Environments and Disk Explorer|references=no|hat=no|templates=no}}

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<div style="font-size:20px; text-align:center;">'''Wernher von Braun with the Rocketdyne F-1 engines'''</div>
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Pictured here are two titans of spaceflight history: Dr. Wernher von Braun ↗, one of the main figures of the early American space program and designer of both the Saturn V ↗ and V-2 ↗ rockets, and five (four visible) Rocketdyne F-1 ↗ engines, used on the Saturn V Dynamic Test Vehicle ↗. Dr. von Braun's career is noted for a great number of achievements in human spaceflight, including the Apollo mission ↗ which successfully put human beings on the moon; nevertheless, it is burdened with the shadow of his activities in the Nazi Party ↗, especially concerning his work on the V-2.

The engines behind him, in addition to being immense, have the honor of being the only engines used to get humans to the moon, as of the time of writing. Developed in the late 1950s, the {{Convert|8400|kg|lb}} engines are still the most powerful single combustion chamber liquid-propellant rocket ↗ ever made.
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New Members:

{{Noping|GiftedIceCream}} (24 January)

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#{{Flagicon|USA}}{{Flagicon|Canada}}{{Flagicon|UK}}{{Flagicon|Finland}}{{Flagicon|Germany}} Falcon 9 Block 5 ↗ — ''various, including Pandora ↗'' (11 Jan. at 13:44:50) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|India}}{{Flagicon|Thailand}}{{Flagicon|Spain}} PSLV-DL ↗ — ''various, including EOS-N1 ↗ and THEOS-2A ↗'' (12 Jan. at 04:48:30) ({{Color|red|launch failure}})
#{{Flagicon|PRC}} Ceres-2 ↗ — ''various'' (17 Jan. at 04:05) ({{Color|red|launch failure}})

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! colspan="8" class="ratingstabletitle" | Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
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! rowspan="2" style="vertical-align: bottom" | '''Quality'''
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! {{Top-Class|category=Category:Top-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
! {{High-Class|category=Category:High-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
! {{Mid-Class|category=Category:Mid-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
! {{Low-Class|category=Category:Low-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
! {{NA-Class|category=Category:NA-importance_spaceflight_pages}}
! {{Unknown-Class|category=Category:Unknown-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
! style="text-align: center;" | '''Total'''
|-
| {{FA-Class|category=Category:FA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 6
|| 30
|| 15
|| 8
||
||
|| '''59'''
|-
| {{FL-Class|category=Category:FL-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||
|| 3
|| 4
|| 4
||
||
|| '''11'''
|-
| {{FM-Class|category=Category:FM-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 124
||
|| '''124'''
|-
| {{A-Class|category=Category:A-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 1
||
|| 2
|| 1
||
||
|| '''4'''
|-
| {{GA-Class|category=Category:GA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 12
|| 26
|| 34
|| 59
||
|| 2
|| '''133'''
|-
| {{B-Class|category=Category:B-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 16
|| 77
|| 196
|| 236
||
|| 6
|| '''531'''
|-
| {{C-Class|category=Category:C-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 44
|| 170
|| 607
|| 860
|| 1
|| 58
|| '''1,740'''
|-
| {{Start-Class|category=Category:Start-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 15
|| 134
|| 1,026
|| 2,701
||
|| 499
|| '''4,375'''
|-
| {{Stub-Class|category=Category:Stub-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||
|| 5
|| 195
|| 1,986
||
|| 296
|| '''2,482'''
|-
| {{List-Class|category=Category:List-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 11
|| 119
|| 110
|| 239
|| 1
|| 44
|| '''524'''
|-
| {{Category-Class|category=Category:Category-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 1,282
||
|| '''1,282'''
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| {{Disambig-Class|category=Category:Disambig-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
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||
||
||
|| 48
||
|| '''48'''
|-
| {{File-Class|category=Category:File-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 275
||
|| '''275'''
|-
| {{Portal-Class|category=Category:Portal-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 55
||
|| '''55'''
|-
| {{Project-Class|category=Category:Project-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 109
||
|| '''109'''
|-
| {{Redirect-Class|category=Category:Redirect-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
|| 2
|| 43
|| 143
|| 1,248
||
|| '''1,436'''
|-
| {{Template-Class|category=Category:Template-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 534
||
|| '''534'''
|-
| {{NA-Class|category=Category:NA-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 2
||
|| '''2'''
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| style="text-align: center;" | '''Other'''
||
||
||
||
|| 34
||
|| '''34'''
|-
| {{Assessed-Class}}
|| 105
|| 566
|| 2,232
|| 6,237
|| 3,713
|| 905
|| '''13,758'''
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| {{Unassessed-Class|category=Category:Unassessed_spaceflight_articles}}
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|| 1
||
|| 8
||
|| 127
|| '''136'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Total'''
|| '''105'''
|| '''567'''
|| '''2,232'''
|| '''6,245'''
|| '''3,713'''
|| '''1,032'''
|| '''13,894'''
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Since December 2025, there are two fewer top-importance, two more high-importance, two more mid-importance, 19 more low-importance, 20 more NA-importance, and 31 more unknown-importance articles, for a total of 72 new articles. There are also three more GA-class, three more B-class, twelve more C-class, eleven more Start-class, and eleven more Stub-class articles, and three more lists.
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This week's article for improvement ↗ (week 11, 2026)

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''The Signpost'': 10 March 2026

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Books & Bytes – Issue 73

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''This Month in GLAM'': February 2026

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Belgium report ↗: A photo safari through Wiki Loves Fashion & a rescue mission with Mission Gourmande!

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This week's article for improvement ↗ (week 12, 2026)

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<span style="font-size:140%;">'''{{Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/2026/12/1}}'''</span>

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March 2026 meetup in Portland (online participation available!)

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Hey Wil540 art,

You're invited to the '''March 2026 meetup in Portland, Oregon ↗'''! Join us either in person at the Northwest Library ↗ or online at 10:00{{nbsp}}AM on Saturday, March{{nbsp}}28.

'''Please RSVP''' at the link above, even if you {{em|might}} be interested, so we can know how many people to expect. Hope to see you there!

<small>(To unsubscribe from these updates, remove yourself from this list ↗.) Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (talk)</small> <span class="nowrap">—<span style="color: #0b541f;">'''TechnoSquirrel69'''</span></span> <small>(<span style="color: #0b541f;">'''sigh'''</span>)</small> 01:45, 18 March 2026 (UTC)
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Two Wikicurious events in North Carolina this week

There are two Wikicurious events in North Carolina this coming week! These are great opportunities to meet other Wikipedians, help new editors get started, and learn more about subjects you might not be familiar with.

Wikicurious: WNC Women's History Month Edit-a-thon ↗ will be a hybrid event held at the Pack Memorial Library ↗ in Asheville on Tuesday, March 24, from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. This event is focused on amplifying the stories and figures of under-represented Appalachian artists, writers, and other creators, particularly women in honor of Women's History Month, as well as people of color, LGBTQ individuals, and other disenfranchised communities. Get the full details and register on the meetup page ↗.

Wikicurious: Country Music's Mythology ↗ will be an in-person event held at the historic Love House in downtown Chapel Hill on Wednesday, March 25, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. At the event, you'll have a chance to improve Wikipedia's coverage of emerging and underrepresented country musicians, see an exhibit of photos and fan culture from the Grand Ole Opry, and hear from special guest Rissi Palmer ↗, singer-songwriter and host of the podcast ''Color Me Country''. Get the full details and register on the meetup page ↗.

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Hope to see you at some of these events! -- Gaurav ↗ (talk ↗) 08:47, 21 March 2026 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement ↗ (week 13, 2026)

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<span style="font-size:140%;">'''{{Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/2026/13/1}}'''</span>

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''The Downlink'' Volume 4, Issue 2

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The first crewed spaceflight of 2026, SpaceX Crew-12 ↗, was launched on the 13th. Four astronauts were flown to the ISS in an atypical indirect handover that was caused by the early return of Crew-11 ↗ due to a medical emergency.

On the 14th, the ESA ↗ lost contact with PROBA-3 ↗, a dual-probe technological demonstration ↗ mission for chronographic ↗ high-precision formation flying ↗. Specifically, the Chronograph Spacecraft lost orientation and drifted away from the Occulter.

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<div style="font-size:20px; text-align:center;">'''Parking orbit ↗'''</div>
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<div style="font-size:20px; text-align:center;">'''Space Shuttle Endeavour prior to rendezvous with the International Space Station'''</div>
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Total number of members: 446.}}
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<span style="font-size:22px;">'''February Launches'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list here ↗.</span>
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#{{Flagicon|RUS}}{{Flagicon|Iran}} Proton-M ↗/DM-03 ↗ — Elektro–L №5 ↗, Jam-e-Jam 1 (12 Feb. at 08:52:15) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|USA}} Vulcan Centaur VC4S ↗ — GSSAP ↗-7/-8, USA-584 ↗ (12 Feb. at 09:22:00) ({{Color|green|success}})
|style="padding:5px;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Article Statistics'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">This data reflects values from 28 February 2026.</span>
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! colspan="8" class="ratingstabletitle" | Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
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! {{High-Class|category=Category:High-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
! {{Mid-Class|category=Category:Mid-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
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|| 30
|| 15
|| 8
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| {{FL-Class|category=Category:FL-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
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|| 4
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|| '''11'''
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| {{FM-Class|category=Category:FM-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
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|| 124
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|| '''124'''
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| {{A-Class|category=Category:A-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 1
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|| 2
|| 1
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|| '''4'''
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| {{GA-Class|category=Category:GA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 12
|| 26
|| 34
|| 59
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|| 2
|| '''133'''
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| {{B-Class|category=Category:B-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||16
|| 77
|| 196
|| 238
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|| 7
|| '''534'''
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| {{C-Class|category=Category:C-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 44
|| 170
|| 609
|| 868
|| 1
|| 61
|| '''1,753'''
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| {{Start-Class|category=Category:Start-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 15
|| 134
|| 1,026
|| 2,713
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|| 503
|| '''4,391'''
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| {{Stub-Class|category=Category:Stub-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||
|| 5
|| 194
|| 1,976
||
|| 297
|| '''2,472'''
|-
| {{List-Class|category=Category:List-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 11
|| 119
|| 111
|| 242
|| 1
|| 44
|| '''528'''
|-
| {{Category-Class|category=Category:Category-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 1,284
||
|| '''1,284'''
|-
| {{Disambig-Class|category=Category:Disambig-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 48
||
|| '''48'''
|-
| {{File-Class|category=Category:File-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 274
||
|| '''274'''
|-
| {{Portal-Class|category=Category:Portal-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
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||
||
||
|| 55
||
|| '''55'''
|-
| {{Project-Class|category=Category:Project-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 109
||
|| '''109'''
|-
| {{Redirect-Class|category=Category:Redirect-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
|| 2
|| 43
|| 141
|| 1,248
||
|| '''1,434'''
|-
| {{Template-Class|category=Category:Template-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 533
||
|| '''533'''
|-
| {{NA-Class|category=Category:NA-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 2
||
|| '''2'''
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| style="text-align: center;" | '''Other'''
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||
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|| 1
|| 37
||
|| '''38'''
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| {{Assessed-Class}}
|| 105
|| 566
|| 2,234
|| 6,251
|| 3,716
|| 914
|| '''13,786'''
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| {{Unassessed-Class|category=Category:Unassessed_spaceflight_articles}}
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|| 1
||
|| 9
||
|| 128
|| '''138'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Total'''
|| '''105'''
|| '''567'''
|| '''2,234'''
|| '''6,260'''
|| '''3,716'''
|| '''1,042'''
|| '''13,924'''
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Women in Red – April 2026

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CEE women ↗

'''Tip of the month:'''

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This week's article for improvement ↗ (week 14, 2026)

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Wikimedia Apps Newsletter – First Quarter of 2026

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Hello, and welcome to the first newsletter of 2026!

In this edition, we’ll walk you through the main updates, experiments, and improvements in the Wikipedia mobile apps during January, February, and early March.

iOS

= Activity Tab (iOS) ↗ =

This quarter focused on scaling and improving the Activity Tab experience.

We released the Activity Tab to all users and continued refining it with:

New editing insights, including all-time impact, recent activity, and views.

Monthly highlights such as most viewed edits and contributions.

Improved onboarding and empty states for different user types.

Better navigation within reading history and timelines.

Continued survey collection (extended through April).

We also fixed several issues related to saved article syncing, timeline, and deleting items.

= Results from scaling =

Our goal was to increase account creation by 5%. The results significantly exceeded expectations:

Account creation increased by 91% after scaling.

25% of all new accounts were created through the Activity Tab.

18.5% of new users saved an article, and 2.9% made an edit.

We also observed stronger retention among Activity Tab users:

93.8% of logged-in users returned to the app.

91.8% of logged-out users returned.

Compared to overall app return rates of 81.9% and 72.1%.

= Learnings =

Personalization continues to drive account creation.

Users are more likely to engage in reading than editing.

Navigation changes need clearer communication.

= Next steps =

Improve clarity around the History location in Search.

Add clearer messaging and guidance, especially for logged-out users.

= Liquid Glass ↗ =

The team also focused on preparations for migrating the app to Liquid Glass, planned for April. We completed a gap analysis and audit, and then triaged and prioritized tasks.

= Tabbed Browsing (Tabs) ↗ =

Adding “close all tabs” functionality.

Highlighting the active tab.

Introducing long-press previews.

= Games ↗ =

iOS designs for the “Which came first?” game ↗ were completed.

= Navigation Refresh ↗ =

As part of ongoing improvements:

History was moved into the Search tab.

Adjustments are being made to better support logged-out users and reduce confusion.

= Other iOS Updates =

Integrated hCaptcha into account creation for test wiki.

Conducted Explore Feed audit and design groundwork.

Fixed multiple bugs, including issues with search, saved articles, and donation flows.

Android

= Hybrid (Semantic + Lexical) Search ↗ =

We began testing a new hybrid search experience that combines keyword-based and natural language search.

The experiment is now available in beta for Greek, English and Portuguese Wikipedia.

Users can opt in or out of the experience.

This is part of Phase 1 of the Information Retrieval project.

= Other Android Updates =

Continued work on hCaptcha integration for account creation on test wiki.

Improved donation clarity by adding ISO currency codes.

Updated image handling to match MediaWiki standards.

Ran an A/B test for the Google Play product page (Japanese users).

We also fixed several issues, including:

Background re-login issues.

Incorrect article titles in Year in Review.

Reading list syncing problems.

Translation and UI inconsistencies.

Cross-Platform

= Explore Feed Refresh ↗ =

Across both apps, we continued design and research work to rethink the Explore experience, with the design principles of:

Retention before depth: reasons to come back matter more than any single deep read.

Discovery through remixing: snippets and previews lead into articles, never replace them.

Transparent personalization: "Because you follow..." not a black box.

Calm, trustworthy browsing: productive and credible.

Design work continued on improving the Explore feed:

Two visual directions were developed and wireframed.

Different onboarding approaches were explored.

User testing is being prepared.

Our current hypothesis is that a more personalized and structured feed will help users better understand its value and increase daily usage. User testing will help determine the direction to move forward.

= Year in Review ↗ =

Both teams shared results on the Year in Review project pages (Android ↗, iOS ↗).

= Future of Editing on Mobile ↗ =

The Apps team has started conversations with communities to explore how editing should work on the mobile apps.

The goal is to better support both new and experienced editors, and to guide users toward the right editing tools.

Community input is welcome, and discussions ↗ are ongoing.

Looking Ahead

This quarter focused on scaling successful features, especially the Activity Tab, and continuing foundational work on Search and Explore feed.

We’re seeing strong signals around personalization, engagement, and new ways to guide users through reading and editing.

Thank you for following along, and stay tuned for the next updates later this year.

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Wiki-Play Friday tomorrow, plus April 16 CUNY Archives Editathon and April 29 WikiWednesday Salon

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Next week on Thu April 16 at CUNY City Tech in Downtown Brooklyn (12:30-4pm):

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''This Month in GLAM'': March 2026

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From the team ↗: GLAM in Equinox

Albania report ↗: Wikigap 2026 in Tirana, Albania

Aruba report ↗: Celebrating 20 Years of Papiamentu/o Wikipedia

Bolivia report ↗: The Family Treasures Project Returns, with New GLAM Partners

Brazil report ↗: Wiki Loves Folklore Brazil defines six categories to represent Brazilian culture on Commons

Colombia report ↗: Architecture in the public domain in libraries in Nariño/Arquitectura en dominio público en bibliotecas nariñenses

Czech Republic report ↗: Main Wikimedian in Residence report for 2025 is here

Germany report ↗: Art History Loves Wiki 2026 – digital/local. collection loves wiki

India report ↗: Collaboration resumes with the British Library for Bangla Wikisource

Italy report ↗: 2026 winners projects

New Zealand report ↗: New Zealand Bioeconomy Science Institute Wikimedian in Residence update, a letter published in Nature & Architecture + Women NZ

North Macedonia report ↗: Wikimedia MKD's GLAM Highlights: Botany and Beyond

Portugal report ↗: March in Portugal

Serbia report ↗: March in Wikimedia Serbia

Sweden report ↗: Looking for similar images

Switzerland report ↗: GLAM Wiki Group, Donna, CoCreation PTT-Archive

UK report ↗: CILIP MDG 2026 Conference, Library meetups and the World's Enamels

Ukraine report ↗: Spring 2026 news from Ukraine – Wiki Loves Folklore & more #1Lib1Ref

USA report ↗: MoMA's International Traveling Exhibitions and Wikidata on the LD4 Arts Affinity Group April Community Call

Biodiversity Heritage Library report ↗: Updates on work by BHL-Wiki Working Group members

AvoinGLAM report ↗: Oulu Löyly

Memory of the World report ↗: Indigenous languages on the Main Page

Calendar ↗: April's GLAM events

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Guild of Copy Editors – April 2026 Newsletter

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Hello and welcome to the April 2026 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since December ↗. 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 ↗, incumbents Dhtwiki, GoldRomean, Miniapolis, and Mox Eden were reelected coordinators, and Wikieditor662 was newly elected coordinator, to serve through 30 June. Nominations for our mid-year Election of Coordinators ↗ will open on 1 June (UTC).

'''December 2025 Blitz:''' 16 of the 31 editors who signed up for the '''December 2025 Copy Editing Blitz''' ↗ edited 116,064 words in 47 articles. Barnstars awarded are '''here''' ↗.

'''January Drive:''' 35 of the 55 editors who signed up for the '''January Backlog Elimination Drive''' ↗ edited 498,397 words in 183 articles. Barnstars awarded are '''here''' ↗.

'''February Blitz:''' 19 of the 23 editors who signed up for the '''February Copy Editing Blitz''' ↗ edited 83,969 words in 43 articles. Barnstars awarded are '''here''' ↗.

'''March Drive:''' 28 of the 48 editors who signed up for the '''March Backlog Elimination Drive''' ↗ edited 210,064 words in 87 articles. Barnstars awarded are '''here''' ↗.

'''April Blitz:''' Sign up for our '''April Copy Editing Blitz''' ↗, which runs from 12 to 18 April. Barnstars will be awarded '''here''' ↗.

'''Progress report:''' As of 09:10, 10 April 2026 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 81 copyediting requests ↗ since 1 January 2026. The backlog of articles needing copyediting ↗ stands at 1,794 articles.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators {{noping|Dhtwiki|GoldRomean|Miniapolis|Mox Eden|Wikieditor662}}.

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<b>What:</b> <b>A Edit a thon in San Marcos, California</b> ↗.

<b>When:</b> Sunday 10 May 2026, 12:00PM PDT / 1200 until 4:00PM PDT / 1600

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You're invited to the '''May 2026 meetup in Portland, Oregon ↗'''! Join us at the Northwest Library ↗ at 2:00{{nbsp}}PM on Saturday, May{{nbsp}}2.

'''Please RSVP''' at the link above, even if you {{em|might}} be interested, so we can know how many people to expect. To participate online, register for the event, then contact yours truly, {{User-multi|user=TechnoSquirrel69|t|e}}, for the meeting details. Hope to see you there!

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This week's article for improvement ↗ (week 17, 2026)

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April 29: WikiWednesday NYC Salon

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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC ↗ community for our '''WikiWednesday Salon ↗''' at Prime Produce ↗ in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan ↗, with an online-based participation option also available. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome!

Featuring this salon, a facilitated discussion on Wikidata ↗, notability ↗, and GLAM ↗!

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct ↗ and Photography Policy ↗.

Meeting info:

Wednesday, April 29 '''WikiWednesday @ Prime Produce ↗ (optional RSVP on-wiki ↗)'''.

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This week's article for improvement ↗ (week 18, 2026)

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''The Downlink'' Volume 4, Issue 3

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On 22 March, Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31 ↗ was used for the first time since being damaged in November 2025. Progress MS-33 ↗, a resupply mission to the ISS, was launched from the site following substantial repairs.

ESA ↗ launched the first two satellites in the Celeste constellation ↗ on 28 March. They were launched aboard a Electron launch vehicle ↗, marking the first time ESA has used the vehicle.

China's Qingzhou ↗ cargo spacecraft was tested for the first time on 30 March. Launched on the maiden flight of the Kinetica 2 ↗, the prototype performed a number of tests in coordination with another satellite.

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<div style="font-size:20px; text-align:center;">'''STS-1'''</div>
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New Members: {{Noping|Swedmark111}} (26 March)

{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 220.
Total number of members: 447.}}
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<span style="font-size:22px;">'''March Launches'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list here ↗.</span>
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#{{Flagicon|USA}} Alpha Block 1 ↗ — ICOR SV (11 Mar. at 00:50:00) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|RUS}} Soyuz-2.1a ↗ — Progress MS-33 ↗ (22 Mar. at 11:59:51) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|USA}}{{Flagicon|EU}} Rocket Lab Electron ↗ — Celeste ↗ IOD-1/-2 (28 Mar. at 09:14:00) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|PRC}} Kinetica 2 ↗ — New March 01/02, TS 01 (30 Mar. at 11:00:00) ({{Color|green|success}})
|style="padding:5px;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Article Statistics'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">This data reflects values from 31 March 2026.</span>
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! rowspan="2" style="vertical-align: bottom" | '''Quality'''
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! {{High-Class|category=Category:High-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
! {{Mid-Class|category=Category:Mid-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
! {{Low-Class|category=Category:Low-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
! {{NA-Class|category=Category:NA-importance_spaceflight_pages}}
! {{Unknown-Class|category=Category:Unknown-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
! style="text-align: center;" | '''Total'''
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| {{FA-Class|category=Category:FA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 6
|| 30
|| 15
|| 8
||
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|| '''59'''
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| {{FL-Class|category=Category:FL-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
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|| 3
|| 4
|| 4
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|| '''11'''
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| {{FM-Class|category=Category:FM-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
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||
||
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|| 124
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|| '''124'''
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| {{A-Class|category=Category:A-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 1
||
|| 2
|| 1
||
||
|| '''4'''
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| {{GA-Class|category=Category:GA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 12
|| 26
|| 34
|| 59
||
|| 3
|| '''134'''
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| {{B-Class|category=Category:B-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 16
|| 77
|| 196
|| 239
||
|| 7
|| '''535'''
|-
| {{C-Class|category=Category:C-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 44
|| 170
|| 609
|| 875
|| 1
|| 68
|| '''1,767'''
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| {{Start-Class|category=Category:Start-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 15
|| 134
|| 1,026
|| 2,724
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|| 511
|| '''4,410'''
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| {{Stub-Class|category=Category:Stub-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
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|| 5
|| 194
|| 1,974
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|| 298
|| '''2,471'''
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| {{List-Class|category=Category:List-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 11
|| 119
|| 111
|| 244
|| 1
|| 45
|| '''531'''
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| {{Category-Class|category=Category:Category-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
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||
||
||
|| 1,285
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|| '''1,285'''
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| {{Disambig-Class|category=Category:Disambig-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
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||
||
||
|| 48
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|| '''48'''
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| {{File-Class|category=Category:File-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
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||
||
||
|| 274
||
|| '''274'''
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| {{Portal-Class|category=Category:Portal-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
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||
||
||
|| 55
||
|| '''55'''
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| {{Project-Class|category=Category:Project-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
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||
||
||
|| 109
||
|| '''109'''
|-
| {{Redirect-Class|category=Category:Redirect-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
|| 2
|| 43
|| 142
|| 1,250
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|| '''1,437'''
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| {{Template-Class|category=Category:Template-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
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||
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|| 533
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|| '''533'''
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| {{NA-Class|category=Category:NA-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
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||
||
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|| 2
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|| '''2'''
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| style="text-align: center;" | '''Other'''
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|| 45
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|| '''45'''
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| {{Assessed-Class}}
|| 105
|| 566
|| 2,234
|| 6,270
|| 3,727
|| 932
|| '''13,834'''
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| {{Unassessed-Class|category=Category:Unassessed_spaceflight_articles}}
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|| 1
||
|| 6
||
|| 121
|| '''128'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Total'''
|| '''105'''
|| '''567'''
|| '''2,234'''
|| '''6,276'''
|| '''3,727'''
|| '''1,053'''
|| '''13,962'''
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Since February 2026, there are 16 more Low-importance, eleven more NA-importance, and eleven more Unknown-importance articles, for a total of 38 new articles. There are also one more GA-class, one more B-class, 14 more C-class, 19 more Start-class, one fewer Stub-class articles, and three more lists.
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Wikimedians of Chicago: May 2026 Meetup

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Women in Red – May 2026

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This week's article for improvement ↗ (week 19, 2026)

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This week's article for improvement ↗ (week 20, 2026)

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''This Month in GLAM'': April 2026

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From the team ↗: How the GLAM Community Can Shine in the 2026–27 Annual Plan

Albania report ↗: International Roma Day 2026 in Tirana, Albania

Argentina report ↗: WikiConf Argentina and GLAM projects

Asia report ↗: Documenting and citing oral knowledge in audio and video

Australia report ↗: WikiCon Australia, ICIP, Orphan works and Trans-Tasman partnerships

Brazil report ↗: Wikimedia Brasil publishes book on the power and challenges of free knowledge

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North Macedonia report ↗: Wikimedia MKD in Action: Digitization, Wikisource and Educational Workshops

Poland report ↗: GLAM-Wiki Developments: Residencies, Partnerships and Audiovisual Heritage

Serbia report ↗: April in Wikimedia Serbia

Switzerland report ↗: Le Donne di Villa Massimo

UK report ↗: A tenth-century Quran and Islamic Art in Urdu

USA report ↗: Wiki MIT launches and US meetups

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'''Backlog update'''

At the time of this message, there are 15,282 articles and 32,951 redirects awaiting review.

After the January–February drive the article backlog was reduced to 15,179 articles and the redirect backlog to 19,053 respectively. Great job! However, both queues are growing rapidly and any additional reviews are highly appreciated.

'''2024 and 2025 NPP Awards'''

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{{no ping|Hey man im josh}} and {{no ping|MPGuy2824}} won the Redirect Ninja Master Award for 2024 and 2025 respectively, for reviewing the most redirects.

Overall in 2024, one Platinum, two Gold, eight Silver, 12 Bronze and 45 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 66 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year. In 2025, one Platinum, ten Silver, 13 Bronze and 38 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 38 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year.

{{no ping|BoyTheKingCanDance}}, {{no ping|Rosiestep}}, {{no ping|SunDawn}}, and {{no ping|Vanderwaalforces}} were inducted into the NPP Hall of Fame ↗ for having two separate years of 2,000+ article reviews.

'''January–February backlog drive'''

The experimental two-month long backlog drive concluded with 183 reviewers patrolling over 27,761 articles and 35,309 redirects, earning over 36,836 points. Congratulations to {{no ping|JTtheOG}}, who achieved first place with 6,484.6 points in this drive.

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An article-only backlog drive is currently underway. We are hoping to make a big dent in the backlog. You can read more about it or join at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Backlog drives/May 2026 ↗.

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This week's article for improvement ↗ (week 21, 2026)

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May 27: WikiWednesday NYC Salon, focus on wiki+law school and wiki+ai

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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC ↗ community for our '''WikiWednesday Salon ↗''' at Prime Produce ↗ in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan ↗, with an online-based participation option also available. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome!

Featuring this salon, a presentation on on whether Wikipedia can replace law school. And also, a facilitated group discussion on the proper place of AI in the wiki-verse.

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This week's article for improvement ↗ (week 22, 2026)

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Women in Red - June 2026

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''New'': LGBTQ+ women ↗ <big>|</big> Alphabet run: Countries starting with I, J, K and L ↗

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Speedy deletion ↗ nomination of :"David H. Weinberg" ↗

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A tag has been placed on :"David H. Weinberg" ↗ requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section R3 of the criteria for speedy deletion ↗, because it is a recently created redirect from an implausible typo or misnomer, or other unlikely search term.

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June 2026 meetup in Portland (Online participation available!)

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You're invited to the '''June 2026 meetup in Portland, Oregon ↗'''! Join us at the Northwest Library ↗ at 2:00{{nbsp}}PM on Saturday, June{{nbsp}}13.

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''The Downlink'' Volume 4, Issue 4

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!rowspan=2 style="padding:0px 2em; font-size:42px; text-align:left;"|The Downlink
|The <span style="color:#1E90FF;">WikiProject Spaceflight</span> ↗ Newsletter
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| 2026 <br/> 1 — 30 April
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!colspan=2 style="color:white; background-color:black; padding:5px;"|Volume 4 — Issue 4
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|colspan=2 style="text-align:center; padding:5px;"|Spaceflight Project ↗{{•}}Project discussion ↗{{•}}Members ↗{{•}}Assessment ↗{{•}}Open tasks ↗{{•}}Popular pages ↗{{•}}The Downlink ↗
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|colspan=2 style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''In the News'''</span>
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Artemis II ↗, the first crewed mission to the moon since Apollo 17 ↗, was launched on 1 April. During the lunar flyby, it became the furthest spaceflight in human history on the 6th. ''Integrity'' ↗, the re-entry vehicle, splashed down southwest of San Diego ↗ on the 11th.

On 8 April, the first satellites of the Celeste (LEO-PNT) ↗ constellation began broadcasting navigation signals for the first time.

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|colspan=2 style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Featured Content'''</span>
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The image "STS-133 Space Shuttle Discovery after undocking ↗" was '''promoted ↗''' to ''Featured Media'' status on 30 April. It was nominated by {{Noping|Moonreach}}.
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|width=50% style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Article of the month'''</span>
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<div style="font-size:20px; text-align:center;">'''Gallaudet Eleven ↗'''</div>
{{Excerpt|Gallaudet Eleven|references=no|hat=no}}
|width=50% style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Image of the month'''</span>
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<div style="font-size:20px; text-align:center;">'''Clayton Anderson under weightlessness'''</div>
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A demonstration of weightlessness ↗ by astronaut Clayton Anderson ↗, particularly its effect on liquids. The water's surface tension ↗ keeps it in a sphere, which here results in the light reflecting off of Anderson being refracted in such a way that it appears upside-down. It is only upside-down relative to Anderson, as there is no "up" or "down" in a weightless environment beyond convention.
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|style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Members'''</span>
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New Members:

{{Noping|DevonHalDraedle}} (10 April)

{{Noping|SpooklesMan}} (11 April)

{{Noping|Kr0ndstat}} (15 April)

{{Noping|JerryAkpan5001}} (15 April)

{{Noping|ParanormalCaramel}} (16 April)

{{Noping|Nicknme}} (21 April)

{{Noping|AZenit3}} (30 April)

{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 225.
Total number of members: 454.}}
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<span style="font-size:22px;">'''April Launches'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list .</span>
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#{{Flagicon|USA}}{{Flagicon|Argentina}}{{Flagicon|South Korea}}{{Flagicon|Saudi Arabia}}{{Flagicon|Germany}} Space Launch System ↗ Block 1 — ''various, including'' Artemis II ↗ (1 Apr. at 22:35:12) ({{Color|green|success}})
#{{Flagicon|PRC}} Tianlong-3 ↗ — ''unknown'' (3 Apr. at 04:17:00) ({{Color|red|launch failure}})
#{{Flagicon|USA}} New Glenn ↗ — BlueBird 7 ↗ (19 Apr. at 11:25:00) ({{Color|red|launch failure}})
#{{Flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 Block 5 ↗ — USA-585 ↗ (21 Apr. 06:53:00) ({{Color|green|success}})
|style="padding:5px;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Article Statistics'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">This data reflects values from 30 April 2026.</span>
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{| class="ratingstable wikitable plainlinks" style="text-align: right;"
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! colspan="8" class="ratingstabletitle" | Spaceflight articles by quality and importance
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! rowspan="2" style="vertical-align: bottom" | '''Quality'''
! colspan="7" | '''Importance'''
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! {{Top-Class|category=Category:Top-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
! {{High-Class|category=Category:High-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
! {{Mid-Class|category=Category:Mid-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
! {{Low-Class|category=Category:Low-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
! {{NA-Class|category=Category:NA-importance_spaceflight_pages}}
! {{Unknown-Class|category=Category:Unknown-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
! style="text-align: center;" | '''Total'''
|-
| {{FA-Class|category=Category:FA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 6
|| 30
|| 15
|| 8
||
||
|| '''59'''
|-
| {{FL-Class|category=Category:FL-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||
|| 3
|| 4
|| 4
||
||
|| '''11'''
|-
| {{FM-Class|category=Category:FM-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 124
||
|| '''124'''
|-
| {{A-Class|category=Category:A-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 1
||
|| 2
|| 1
||
||
|| '''4'''
|-
| {{GA-Class|category=Category:GA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 12
|| 26
|| 34
|| 58
||
|| 3
|| '''133'''
|-
| {{B-Class|category=Category:B-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 16
|| 78
|| 196
|| 242
||
|| 8
|| '''540'''
|-
| {{C-Class|category=Category:C-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 44
|| 170
|| 613
|| 894
|| 1
|| 78
|| ''' 1,800'''
|-
| {{Start-Class|category=Category:Start-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 15
|| 133
|| 1,023
|| 2,727
||
|| 510
|| ''' 4,408'''
|-
| {{Stub-Class|category=Category:Stub-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||
|| 5
|| 193
|| 1,973
||
|| 323
|| '''2,494'''
|-
| {{List-Class|category=Category:List-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 11
|| 119
|| 111
|| 244
|| 1
|| 48
|| '''534'''
|-
| {{Category-Class|category=Category:Category-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 1,280
||
|| '''1,280'''
|-
| {{Disambig-Class|category=Category:Disambig-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 47
||
|| '''47'''
|-
| {{File-Class|category=Category:File-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 277
||
|| '''277'''
|-
| {{Portal-Class|category=Category:Portal-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 55
||
|| '''55'''
|-
| {{Project-Class|category=Category:Project-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 108
||
|| '''108'''
|-
| {{Redirect-Class|category=Category:Redirect-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
|| 2
|| 42
|| 145
|| 1,259
||
|| '''1,448'''
|-
| {{Template-Class|category=Category:Template-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 533
||
|| ''' 533'''
|-
| {{NA-Class|category=Category:NA-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 1
||
|| '''1'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Other'''
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||
||
|| 1
|| 45
||
|| '''46'''
|-
| {{Assessed-Class}}
|| 105
|| 566
|| 2,233
|| 6,297
|| 3,731
|| 970
|| '''13,902'''
|-
| {{Unassessed-Class|category=Category:Unassessed_spaceflight_articles}}
||
|| 1
||
|| 7
||
|| 110
|| '''118'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Total'''
|| '''105'''
|| '''567'''
|| '''2,233'''
|| '''6,304'''
|| '''3,731'''
|| '''1,080'''
|| '''14,020'''
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<div style="font-size:22px;">'''Monthly Changes'''</div>
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Since March 2026, there are one fewer Mid-importance, 28 more Low-importance, four more NA-importance, and 27 more Unknown-importance articles, for a total of 58 new articles. There are also one fewer GA-class, five more B-class, 33 more C-class, two fewer Start-class, 23 more Stub-class articles, and three more lists.
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This week's article for improvement ↗ (week 23, 2026)

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Books & Bytes – Issue 74

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"> <div style = "font-size: 1.5em; margin: 0 100px"> right|175px ↗</div> <div style = "line-height: 1.2"> <span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">'''The Wikipedia Library''': ''Books & Bytes''</span><br /> Issue 74, March–April 2026 </div> <div style = "margin-top: 1.5em; border: 3px solid #ae8c55; border-radius: .5em; padding: 1em 1.5em; font-size: 1.2em">

New partnership: Swissdox

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 10

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'''Highlights'''

'''Community Wishlist discussion''': Product & Technology introduced changes ↗ meant to increase the number and complexity of wishes fulfilled, including the disbanding of the Community Tech team. They are engaging in discussions ↗ about a proposed direction for the wishlist ↗ from community members. Includes ways to structure annual voting, better tracking of wishes, removing focus areas, and staffing updates ↗.

'''Digital Public Goods''': The Wikimedia Foundation has become a member ↗ of the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA).

'''Better bot detection''': A trial of hCaptcha ↗ on several Wikipedias, including English, French, and Japanese, showed it can effectively detect and deter bad-faith automated activity, on its own and by giving checkusers and stewards ↗ signals to look into. Based on these results, hCaptcha will be rolled out across all wikis. See the project page ↗ for technical information about the implementation and privacy protections.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br/><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Product Safety and Integrity ↗ · Readers ↗ · Research ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

right|thumb|200px|Example of the Attribution Framework recommendations. ↗

'''A better way to give credit''': The Wikimedia Attribution Framework and API ↗ makes it simple for developers to fairly credit volunteer contribution. When anyone encounters Wikimedia content, we want them to know that it comes from our projects, and they are invited to participate.

'''Baby Globe joins the Reading Challenge''': The Android and iOS Wikipedia apps released the 25-day reading challenge ↗, to drive readers engagement through reading milestones. To track their reading streak during the challenge, users can add a widget featuring Baby Globe to their home screen.

'''Account security''': The Foundation is technically enforcing that all privileges that enable users to take security- or privacy-sensitive actions ↗ can only be held by users who have enabled two-factor authentication ↗. Logging in with passkeys is quicker than logging in without two-factor authentication. In addition, logged-in users can see a banner encouraging them to confirm their email address. These changes secure individual accounts as well as communities and the wikis.

'''Incident reporting form''': The Foundation began a trial on English Wikipedia ↗ of the incident reporting form. 60% of unblocked logged-in users see a new Report button, allowing them to report conduct issues.

'''Encouraging account creation''': Following a successful account creation experiment ↗, an improved logged-out edit warning message will be deployed to all Wikimedia wikis this week. The change ↗ will only affect logged-out users on mobile web who open an editing session.

'''Wikimedia Android App''': The Wikipedia Android App is at the Phase 1 ↗ of redesigning its Home Feed. The new feed includes two tabs: ''Community,'' featuring refreshed Explore content, and ''For You,'' with personalized reading recommendations based on reader interests and activity. The ''For You'' feed refreshes daily with updated suggestions.

'''Better discovery of images''': The Image Browsing ↗ beta feature was rolled out for all Wikipedias on mobile following two successful experiments. The beta feature will include a carousel of all an article’s images at the top of the article, with controls for editors to exclude images from the article’s carousel or to exclude an article from the feature entirely ↗.

'''Reading Lists feature''': The Foundation is conducting an experiment to show the reading lists ↗ feature, which is still in development, to logged-out mobile readers to test whether it encourages account creation at a higher rate compared to the watchstar button. The experiment ↗ was launched on May 18 on German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, and Urdu wikis, and will run for a month.

right|thumb|200px|A design mockup of what the share card looks like. ↗

'''Testing Suggestion Mode''': Suggestion Mode ↗ was released as an A/B test ↗ for newcomer editors on the mobile website at ~15 Wikipedias ↗. The experiment will measure its impact on the proportion of newcomer mobile web edit sessions that result in constructive (un-reverted) article edits. It will also evaluate the feature’s impact on editor retention and monitor changes in revert and block rates.

'''Wikifunctions now supports Wikidata references''': References in Wikidata statements are now available on Wikifunctions ↗, and you now can use external links in Wikifunctions-generated citations ↗. This allows the use of more than 1.3 billion references available in Wikidata and adding them as citations to individual statements in Abstract Wikipedia.

'''Pilot wikis adopting Abstract Wikipedia:''' The Abstract Wikipedia team has identified five potential pilot wikis to assess their interest in adopting abstract articles on their wikis. The pilots are Malayalam, Bengali, Dagbani, Arabic, and Indonesian Wikipedia. If your community is interested in becoming a pilot, let us know on Meta ↗.

'''Latest experiments''': An upcoming experiment ↗ is testing whether we can serve readers better when a footnote click in read mode shows the full bibliographic information rather than flying them to the reference list. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology ↗.

'''Tech News''': The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 20 ↗, 21 ↗, 22 ↗, 23 ↗ include an experiment to test a new Share Card feature ↗ that allows readers to create visually engaging cards from Wikipedia articles and share them online See also the 92 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · list of movement events ↗''</small>

'''Tech blog moved to Diff''': The migration of the Techblog to Diff ↗ is now complete: 138 posts going back over a decade have been successfully migrated. Diff is now happy to welcome technology-focused blog posts with renewed vigor.

'''What’s new in the Wikipedia Library''': Access to the American Psychological Association was renewed and collections from the Harvard Business Review and Swiss Media Database (Swissdox) are now available to editors who are eligible for The Wikipedia Library ↗.

'''New course on WikiLearn''': A free self-paced online course ↗, designed for researchers who want to make their field more visible on Wikipedia, was launched on WikiLearn. Share "Wikipedia for Researchers ↗” if you work with early-career researchers, teach in an academic institution, or support open knowledge communities.

'''Wiki Mentor Africa:''' The first edition of Wiki Mentor Africa - Women Tech Summit ↗ brought together over 315 registered participants across Africa to learn, explore, and grow in tech together.

'''Let's Connect Learning Clinic''': If you missed it, you can now watch the recording ↗ of the Let's Connect Learning Clinic "How to support up-and-coming groups in the movement as a long-time Wikimedian" with Wikimedistas El Salvador.

'''Community Conferences''': Registration for WikiConference North America ↗ and Queering Wiki Conference ↗ is now opened. Call for Speakers ↗ for the Queering Wiki is also opened until June 30.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Sharing the Form 990s:''' The Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia Endowment published their Form 990s, covering the fiscal year that ran from July 2024 to June 2025. The Form 990 is an annual form required of all nonprofit organizations in the United States. You can read the highlights ↗ on Form 990 for the Foundation ↗ and Form 990 for the Endowment ↗ on Meta-Wiki.

'''Wikimedia Enterprise''': Wikimedia Enterprise's free API accounts gets a substantial upgrade ↗ across the Snapshot and On-demand APIs, including free access to Structured Contents Snapshots.

'''Structured Contents''': How Databricks Parsed Wikipedia ↗ to Markdown with Python.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Board selection process''': The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is reviewing and improving how it selects new members ↗. The goal is to ensure that there is the right mix of expertise and community representation on the board. Join the conversation on 16 June at 17:00 UTC ↗, and share your ideas on the talk page ↗.

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''The Downlink'' Volume 4, Issue 5

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| 2026 <br/> 1 — 31 May
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|colspan=2 style="text-align:center; padding:5px;"|Spaceflight Project ↗{{•}}Project discussion ↗{{•}}Members ↗{{•}}Assessment ↗{{•}}Open tasks ↗{{•}}Popular pages ↗{{•}}The Downlink ↗
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|colspan=2 style="padding:5px; vertical-align:top;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''In the News'''</span>
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On 15 May, NASA ↗'s ''Psyche ↗'' flew {{Convert|4500|km|mi}} above the surface of Mars ↗ while performing a gravity assist ↗.

SMILE ↗ was launched on 19 May. A joint mission of ESA ↗ and CAS ↗, SMILE aims to study the effects of solar wind ↗ on Earth's magnetosphere ↗.

On 22 May, Starship flight test 12 ↗ was performed. This was the first use of both the Block 3 ↗ and Starbase's second launch pad ↗.

The ICARUS Initiative ↗ launched the first of its ICARUS 2.0 constellation's satellites on 3 May. The satellite, named RAVEN, was constructed by EnduroSat ↗, and is built to track animal migration ↗s.

{{Noping|ThePrehistoricBlob12345}} (19 May)

{{Noping|RockyKT}} (21 May)

{{Noping|A Random Hylian}} (21 May)

{{Noping|Analemnas}} (26 May)

{{Noping|The Boat Boy}} (31 May)

{{Noping|Doeze}} (31 May)

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# {{Flagicon|PRC}} Zhuque-2E ↗ — ''Dingzhihua Shiyan Zaihe'' (14 May at 03:00:00) ({{Color|green|success}})
# {{Flagicon|ITA}}{{Flagicon|China}}{{Flagicon|EU}} Vega C ↗ — SMILE ↗
|style="padding:5px;"|<span style="font-size:22px;">'''Article Statistics'''</span><br/><span style="font-size:12px;">This data reflects values from 31 May 2026.</span>
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! rowspan="2" style="vertical-align: bottom" | '''Quality'''
! colspan="7" | '''Importance'''
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! {{Top-Class|category=Category:Top-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
! {{High-Class|category=Category:High-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
! {{Mid-Class|category=Category:Mid-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
! {{Low-Class|category=Category:Low-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
! {{NA-Class|category=Category:NA-importance_spaceflight_pages}}
! {{Unknown-Class|category=Category:Unknown-importance_spaceflight_articles}}
! style="text-align: center;" | '''Total'''
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| {{FA-Class|category=Category:FA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 6
|| 30
|| 15
|| 8
||
||
|| '''59'''
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| {{FL-Class|category=Category:FL-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
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|| 3
|| 4
|| 4
||
||
|| '''11'''
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| {{FM-Class|category=Category:FM-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
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||
||
||
|| 124
||
|| '''124'''
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| {{A-Class|category=Category:A-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 1
||
|| 2
|| 1
||
||
|| '''4'''
|-
| {{GA-Class|category=Category:GA-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 12
|| 26
|| 34
|| 58
||
|| 3
|| '''133'''
|-
| {{B-Class|category=Category:B-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 17
|| 78
|| 197
|| 245
||
|| 8
|| '''545'''
|-
| {{C-Class|category=Category:C-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 42
|| 171
|| 617
|| 904
|| 1
|| 76
|| '''1,811'''
|-
| {{Start-Class|category=Category:Start-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 15
|| 133
|| 1,025
|| 2,731
||
|| 510
|| '''4,414'''
|-
| {{Stub-Class|category=Category:Stub-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
||
|| 5
|| 192
|| 1,975
||
|| 340
|| '''2,512'''
|-
| {{List-Class|category=Category:List-Class_spaceflight_articles}}
|| 11
|| 117
|| 112
|| 244
|| 1
|| 50
|| '''535'''
|-
| {{Category-Class|category=Category:Category-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 1,281
||
|| '''1,281'''
|-
| {{Disambig-Class|category=Category:Disambig-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
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||
||
||
|| 47
||
|| '''47'''
|-
| {{File-Class|category=Category:File-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 276
||
|| '''276'''
|-
| {{Portal-Class|category=Category:Portal-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 55
||
|| '''55'''
|-
| {{Project-Class|category=Category:Project-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 108
||
|| '''108'''
|-
| {{Redirect-Class|category=Category:Redirect-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
|| 2
|| 43
|| 144
|| 1,258
||
|| '''1,447'''
|-
| {{Template-Class|category=Category:Template-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 534
||
|| '''534'''
|-
| {{NA-Class|category=Category:NA-Class_spaceflight_pages}}
||
||
||
||
|| 1
||
|| '''1'''
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| style="text-align: center;" | '''Other'''
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||
||
|| 1
|| 47
||
|| '''48'''
|-
| {{Assessed-Class}}
|| 104
|| 565
|| 2,241
|| 6,315
|| 3,733
|| 987
|| '''13,945'''
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| {{Unassessed-Class|category=Category:Unassessed_spaceflight_articles}}
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||
||
|| 6
||
|| 113
|| '''119'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Total'''
|| '''104'''
|| '''565'''
|| '''2,241'''
|| '''6,321'''
|| '''3,733'''
|| '''1,100'''
|| ''' 14,064'''
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Since April 2026, there are one fewer Top-importance, two fewer High-importance, eight more Mid-importance, 17 more Low-importance, two more NA-importance, and twenty more Unknown-importance articles, for a total of 44 new articles. There are also five more B-class, eleven more C-class, six more Start-class, 18 more Stub-class articles, and one more list.
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Guild of Copy Editors – June 2026 Newsletter

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'''Election news:''' Nominations for the '''mid-year coordinator election''' ↗ ends at 23:59 on 15 June. Voting will last from 00:00 on 16 June to 23:59 on 30 June. Results will be announced on the election page.

'''April Blitz:''' 18 of the 21 editors who signed up for the '''April 2026 Copy Editing Blitz''' ↗ copy edited 122,993 words in 56 articles. Barnstars awarded are '''here''' ↗.

'''May Drive:''' 34 of the 66 editors who signed up for the May 2026 Backlog Elimination Drive ↗ copy edited 543,972 words in 211 articles. Barnstars awarded are '''here''' ↗.

'''June Blitz:''' Our '''June 2026 Copy Editing Blitz''' ↗ will start on 14 June and finish on 30 June. Barnstars awarded will be posted '''here''' ↗.

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''This Month in GLAM'': May 2026

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From the team ↗: May Global GLAM Call Recording and June Call Announcement

Australia report ↗: Celebrating #1Lib1Ref Australasia

Brazil report ↗: GLAM Connection: Fashion, History, and Biodiversity in May

France report ↗: New Wikimedian in Residence

Italy report ↗: Connecting the Arctic and Sicily through Wikimedia Projects

Mexico report ↗: How the cultural, governmental, educational, and museum sectors contributed in unison to Wikimedia projects

Netherlands report ↗: Setting up your own platform (part 1): from wish to the creation of a wiki

New Zealand report ↗: ESEAP Conference 2026 and the NZBSI WiR update

North Macedonia report ↗: Wikimedia MKD Shares GLAM Experience at International Conferences

Poland report ↗: Partnerships, Participation, and Open Knowledge

Serbia report ↗: May in Wikimedia Serbia

Spain report ↗: El Prado en femenino III

Switzerland report ↗: Museum for Communication, Panel IMD, Wikipedia Day

UK report ↗: Early Qurans on the front page of Wikipedia

Biodiversity Heritage Library report ↗: Updates on work by BHLWiki Working Group members

Special story ↗: New tools for multilingual audio, video and metadata

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 11

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[[File:Baby Globe in Paris.gif|thumb|150px|The Wikimania program is now live ↗!]]

'''Community Wishlist''': Weigh in on proposals and open questions on how the wishlist will operate in the future. ↗

'''Simplifying account creation:''' The Foundation is working on improving the account creation process ↗ to reduce potential friction for newcomers to create an account. Improvements include making "Create Account" icon more prominent on mobile, simplifying the registration form, and introducing real-time username validation.

'''New U4C members elected:''' The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) has new members ↗ and has two remaining vacancies in Middle East & North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa.

'''Wikimania conference program''': The Wikimania 2026 program is now live ↗! Take a moment to review the program, and, if you are logged in, you can mark your "must see” sessions with a star to start building your personal schedule. Register for a virtual ticket ↗ here, if you haven't signed up yet.

'''Neutral Point of View''': A proposal for a baseline NPOV standard ↗ for Wikipedias that do not have one was published, with a community discussion ↗ open until July 15, 2026.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br/><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Product Safety and Integrity ↗ · Readers ↗ · Research ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

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'''App Explore feed''': The redesigned App Explore feed ↗, now called "Home", has been released to all Android users. The update introduces a refreshed feed experience along with the first set of new content modules, including Did You Know, Places of Interest, Random Article, and a new end-of-feed experience. Additional content and improvements are planned in future releases.

'''Wikipedia games''': The Which came first? ↗ daily trivia game is now available in the beta version of the Wikipedia iOS app in English, German, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish. The game uses historical events from Wikipedia’s “On This Day” content and challenges readers to guess which of two events happened first.

'''Reusing references''': Sub-referencing ↗, a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details, has been rolled out to Group 1 wikis ↗ and French Wikipedia following a successful pilot phase.

'''Article guidance''': The Article guidance ↗ feature is being tested with some editors creating new articles on the Simple English, French, and Turkish Wikipedias. The experiment will soon begin on the Arabic and Bangla Wikipedias as well. The outlines guide less experienced editors in creating high-quality articles. A quick guide to markups used in outlines can be found on this page ↗. Example outlines ↗ that can be adapted and instructions for how to adapt them are on this section ↗ of the project page.

'''Mobile Page Previews''': The Page Previews experiment ↗ on mobile web has concluded with the decision not to roll out the feature. The results showed no statistically significant impact on reader retention – the primary success metric. Page Previews, which are already available on desktop and in the apps, display a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and link to the full article when readers tap a blue link.

'''Wikifunctions''': You can now add images ↗ to Abstract Wikipedia and the loading and display of test results when viewing Functions has been improved.

'''Wikidata''': The Foundation is migrating the Wikidata Query Service ↗ (WDQS) away from the Blazegraph backend since it no longer scales efficiently with Wikidata’s growth. The migration will take place in several phases. Here is the timeline ↗.

'''Growth features:''' Growth features are now available at Wikidata ↗!''' ''' Wikidata administrators are still configuring the features through Community Configuration, but this update enables access to Mentorship (if configured ↗), Impact, the Help Panel, and a simplified Newcomer Homepage (without Suggested Edits).

'''Mentors' management''': The Growth team will soon provide a system to automatically suspend or remove inactive mentors from the list of mentors ↗. Communities can already start configuring the process in the Community Configuration.

'''Collaborative''' '''Contributions''': If you need help setting up the Collaborative Contributions and the Goal setting features, check out these video guides ↗. These features allow you to view which edits are made during an event and allows the group to track progress against a goal with a public progress bar. Learn more ↗.

'''Latest experiments''': An upcoming experiment ↗ is testing whether we can serve readers better when a footnote click in read mode shows the full bibliographic information rather than flying them to the reference list. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology ↗.

'''Tech News''': The latest highlights from Tech News week 24 ↗ and 25 ↗ include how the user interface icon library ↗ is being updated. ↗ Most of the ~300 icons have been slightly refined and ~30 new icons have been added. See also the 62 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support ↗'''<br /><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · list of movement events ↗''</small>

'''Digital Safety''': Join a conversation about Using AI Safely. ↗ It'll explore risks & concerns of using AI tools in personal and organisational contexts and practical strategies to reduce those risks. It will take place at 03:30 UTC & 14:30 UTC on June 26. This session is not about using AI to edit Wikipedia. It's focused entirely on safe personal and organisational use.

'''Don't Blink''': Read the latest developments ↗ from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values. Highlights include exploring the implications that new child safety regulations have on privacy online.

'''Grantmaking strategy & Affiliate model''': Members of the Global Resources Distribution Committee ↗ (GRDC) and the Affiliations Committee (AffCom) ↗ met to advance two key movement initiatives: the development of a new Grantmaking strategy and a refreshed Affiliate Model. They produced initial proposals and advanced work on both initiatives ahead of broader conversations planned for Wikimania 2026.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Enterprise''': SimPPL Uses Wikimedia Enterprise ↗ to Map Online Conversations and Fact-Check Social Media.

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'''Events:'''

''New'': Crime & law ↗ <big>|</big> Alphabet run: Countries starting with M ↗

''Continuing (year-long initiatives)'': #1day1woman ↗ <big>|</big> Sports ↗

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Women in Red celebrates its 11 Year Anniversary on July 18!

Eiffel women ↗

Developing Countries WikiContest ↗

'''Tip of the month:'''

Working on a group of linked articles? Have you thought about creating a navigation box ↗ for the footer of those pages?

'''Other ways to participate:'''

Become a member ↗. You can always opt-out of notifications ↗.

Join the conversations on our talkpage ↗.

Help us plan future events ↗ and add any general ideas on developing the project.

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<section begin="title"/>Wikimedia Apps Newsletter – Second Quarter of 2026<section end="title"/>

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Hello, and welcome to the second Wikimedia Apps newsletter of 2026!

In this edition, we’ll walk you through the main updates, launches, experiments, and improvements in the Wikipedia mobile apps during March, April,May, and June.

iOS ↗

=Liquid Glass migration =

A major focus this quarter was the transition to Apple’s new Liquid Glass design system.

The team completed extensive design, infrastructure, and implementation work, culminating in the release of Wikipedia iOS 8.0.0 with Liquid Glass support. This represented one of the largest visual updates to the app in recent years and required coordinated work across navigation, interface components, theming, and platform-specific behaviors.

The Apps team plans continued modernization of the app’s design system and navigation patterns.

= Activity Tab ↗ =

Following the successful rollout of the Activity Tab earlier this year, the team continued refining the experience based on user feedback.

One recurring theme was confusion around the relocation of reading history. Some users believed history had been removed or required an account to access.

To address this:

Additional guidance was added explaining that History is now available within Search.

Search from article view was updated to provide easier access to reading history.

Ongoing improvements were made to onboarding and user education.

= Games ↗ =

Development continued on the new "Which Came First?" daily trivia game.

The game became available on 11 June 2026.

= Other iOS improvements =

Additional work this quarter included:

hCaptcha instrumentation and rollout preparation.

Explore Feed Refresh design and infrastructure work.

Performance improvements and stability updates.

Resolution of numerous bugs affecting search, reading lists, login flows, article viewing, donations, widgets, and accessibility.

Android ↗

= Hybrid Search ↗ =

The Android team continued work on Hybrid Search, combining traditional keyword search with semantic search capabilities.

The experiment expanded to English, French, Portuguese, and Greek Wikipedias and completed its first MVP phase.

== Results ==

Increased search engagement.

Stable retention.

Strong signals supporting continued investment in semantic search experiences.

The experiment also generated valuable datasets and user insights that will guide future development.

== Learnings ==

One key learning was that users need clearer explanations of how hybrid search works. Existing onboarding and provenance indicators were not sufficient at larger scale.

= Games Hub ↗ =

Android introduced a new Games Hub, providing a centralized location for games and interactive experiences within the app.

The hub lays the groundwork for future expansion of game-based engagement features, including the upcoming trivia experience.

Cross-platform

= Explore Feed Refresh ↗ =

One of the largest initiatives this quarter was the rollout of Phase 1 of the Explore Feed Refresh on Android.

The redesign introduces a new Home experience built around two primary feeds.

== Community Feed ==

center|thumb|700px|Community Feed ↗
The Community Feed highlights curated Wikipedia and Wikimedia content, including:

Featured Article

Top Read

In the News

On This Day

Picture of the Day

== For You feed ==

center|thumb|700px|For You Feed ↗
The For You feed introduces personalized content through:

Article recommendations based on selected interests.

Because You Read recommendations.

Continue Reading suggestions.

== Additional improvements ==

Additional work included:

New onboarding flows.

Feed preference selection.

Redesigned settings.

Re-onboarding for existing users.

Improved feed controls and personalization transparency.

The redesign was released through a holdout experiment, enabling the team to measure its impact while continuing iterative improvements.

== Early learnings ==

Users respond positively to structured onboarding.

Topic selection can help personalize discovery experiences.

Recommendation quality remains a critical factor for user trust and satisfaction.

The Explore Feed Refresh was then released to 50% of app users before being fully released to all users starting on 15 June 2026.

The refreshed experience is planned to launch in the Wikipedia iOS app during July 2026.

= Wikipedia 25th Birthday Reading Challenge ↗ =

thumb|Mock-up of the Wikipedia app Reading Challenge ↗

This quarter we launched the Wikipedia 25th Birthday Reading Challenge across Android and iOS.

The challenge included:

Challenge enrollment experiences.

Daily reading goals.

Reading streak tracking.

Challenge completion flows.

Home screen widgets.

App Store and Play Store promotional events.

CentralNotice promotion.

Instrumentation and analytics support.

Translation support across target languages.

Following launch, the team implemented several improvements based on early feedback and usage patterns, while resolving onboarding and widget-related issues.

Early results showed encouraging participation, increased account creation, positive community reception, and opportunities for continued iteration.

= Year in Review learnings ↗ =

Following the conclusion of the 2025 Year in Review experience, both teams completed a comprehensive analysis of the feature.

== Key findings ==

Both apps achieved an 86% return rate.

Account creation increased significantly year over year.

Approximately half of all new accounts during the campaign period were created through Year in Review.

User satisfaction exceeded targets, with over 95% of surveyed users reporting neutral or positive experiences.

Donations increased substantially, particularly among users exposed to personalized experiences.

== Learnings ==

Personalization significantly improves engagement.

Logged-out users benefit from receiving limited personalized experiences.

Account-gated personalization remains a strong driver of account creation.

Users continue to request richer insights, improved sharing capabilities, and cross-platform statistics.

The findings will help shape future iterations of Year in Review and other personalized experiences within the apps.

Looking ahead

This quarter focused on launching major experiences while laying the groundwork for future growth.

The rollout of the Explore Feed Refresh, launch of the Reading Challenge, continued investment in Hybrid Search, and preparation for new games all reflect the team's broader focus on helping users discover, engage with, and contribute to knowledge in new ways.

We're excited to continue iterating on these experiences and look forward to sharing more updates in the next edition of the newsletter.

Thank you for reading!

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~~ARamadan-WMF11:59, 29 June 2026 (UTC)

''In The Loop'' – Quarter 2, 2026

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Coasting into announcement season

Operation B&M: Rescuing other-language B&M articles

Screening articles for notability

<span style="font-variant:small-caps;text-decoration:underline;font-weight:bold">Article News</span>

Operation B&M

Featured content

Goals and statistics

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Fun Spot Atlanta and ArieForce One are closing

Coaster rethemings and openings

New thrill rides announced

<span style="font-variant:small-caps;text-decoration:underline;font-weight:bold">Member spotlight</span>

New members

Outstanding contributions

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July 10: Free Culture Friday / Wiki Loves Fútbol Watch Party

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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC ↗ community for our '''Free Culture Friday / Wiki Loves Fútbol World Cup Watch Party ↗''' at Prime Produce ↗ in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan ↗. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome!

This special event will feature starting at 1:30 pm a Wikimedia Foundation ↗ meet-and-greet bringing together local staff and community, and then at 3 pm a Wiki Loves Fútbol ↗ watch party and edit-a-thon for the {{Q|137545497}}.

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct ↗ and Photography Policy ↗.

Meeting info:

Friday, July 10 '''Free Culture Friday / World Cup Watch Party @ Prime Produce ↗ (optional RSVP on-wiki ↗)'''.

:''1:30 pm – 3:00 pm'' (Wikimedia Foundation staff + community meet-and-greet)

:''3:00 pm – 7:00 pm'' (Wiki Loves Fútbol ↗ Watch Party + Edit-a-thon)

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 12

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'''Highlights'''

'''Wikipedia 25''': Wikipedia's 25th birthday was celebrated with various projects designed to grow awareness and support for Wikipedia and the people who make it possible. This includes the virtual birthday event on January 15, which garnered 10,000 live viewers and 15,000 reactions. Find more details on all related projects and results in the program report ↗.

'''Sustainable use of Wikimedia infrastructure''': A valid user-agent string will now be required for automated dumps downloads from the dumps.wikimedia.org website. Automated requests that provide a generic or empty user-agent will be blocked. This extends enforcement ↗ of the long standing user-agent policy ↗. Access to dumps through Wikimedia Cloud Services will not change.

'''Increasing account creation''': The experiment ↗ providing direct access to “Create account” and “Log in” actions on mobile increased account creation by about 20% without negatively affecting edit quality. The feature will now be rolled out to all wikis ↗ on mobile web.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Engage ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Growth ↗ · Product Safety and Integrity ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · list of movement events ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗''</small>
thumb|250px|With Sub-referencing editors can reuse and add details to a main reference. ↗

'''Add A Link''': The Foundation deployed Add A Link ↗ as a default-on suggestion within Suggestion Mode ↗. It is now launched on all wikis to all editors who have opted in to the Suggestion Beta Feature.

'''Reusing references''': Sub-referencing ↗, the new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details, was deployed to most small and medium-sized Wikipedia language versions.

'''Wikifunctions''': Check out the 71 new functions ↗ with implementations to get a taste of what functions have been created.

'''Range calculator''': The special page Special:RangeCalculator ↗ has been created. It allows users to find an IP range without needing to rely on external tools. Until now, this tool was only available to CheckUsers.

'''Captcha verification''': Abuse filters that are set to “require CAPTCHA verification” now also affect users ↗ with the <code>skipcaptcha</code> right, which includes most autoconfirmed users. Bots are exempted. This change only affects edits that trigger an abuse filter.

'''Latest experiments''': An upcoming experiment ↗ is testing two variations of a "thank you" badge shown to donors after a recent donation to deepen the relationship between donors and the Wikimedia movement. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology ↗.

'''Account security on private wikis''': Two-factor authentication ↗ will become mandatory for user accounts on private wikis. This will protect private information from being exposed by an account with a compromised password.

'''Tech News''': The latest highlights from Tech News week 26 ↗ and 27 ↗ include users will now get a notification when they are blocked or unblocked from editing, or if this block changes. See also the 65 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Team Challenges''': The core organizing team for Wikimania is introducing Team Challenges ↗, a different approach to Wikimania Hackathon. This year, Wikimedians and professionals from other fields will join forces to undertake one of the 2026 technical challenges.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Enable ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Research newsletter ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

'''Wikimedia Hackathon''': A look at the 2026 edition of Wikimedia Hackathon ↗ which brought together 216 participants from 29 countries building, collaborating, and shaping the future together.

'''Wikimedia Hubs''': The Hub Fund ↗ will pause funding for new pilots ↗ in fiscal year 2026–2027 to align with the work on the Ecosystem of Movement Organizations and the Global Resource Distribution Committee. Existing pilots in transition will be offered an additional year of funding.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Protect ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗''</small>

'''Open Knowledge And Digital Rights''': Wikimedians shared their reflections ↗ on how Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum reinforced the role of our movement within broader digital rights conversations.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Reach ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Readers ↗''</small>

'''Journalism Award''': Wikimedia Foundation announced ↗ three journalists from Africa as recipients of the Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards, ↗ run in partnership with the International Center for Journalists ↗ (ICFJ). The awards celebrate the essential role journalists play in creating well-researched articles that volunteer editors can use as source materials to develop content on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. In total, 320 submissions were received from 40 African countries.

'''Other Movement-curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l'actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗''</small>

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