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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - December 2024 Newsletter
- User group news
- User group meeting in December (minutes)
- We have adopted an annual plan for 2025!
- Other news
- Lightning talk by Adam Harangzo - National Institute for Health and Care Research on Wikipedia (SDG 3&13)
- Top photos of the special nomination “Human Rights and Environment” from Wiki Loves Earth 2024! (SDG 10&15)
- Two days, 15 editors, 750 edits (SDG 15)
- A Peekaboo Into Our Butterflying Trip from the Amazon of the East (SDG 15)
- Brooklyn College students bring ecology course content to Wikipedia (SDG 13&15
- Declaring crisis? Temporal constructions of climate change on WikipediaDeclaring crisis? Temporal constructions of climate change on Wikipedia (SDG 13)
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Deletion discussion about History influencer
Hello, Wil540 art
Welcome to Wikipedia! I edit here too, under the username 1ctinus and it's nice to meet you :-)
I wanted to let you know that I've asked for a discussion about the redirect History influencer, created by you. Your comments are welcome at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 January 3 § History influencer.
If you have any questions, please leave a comment here and prepend it with {{Re|1ctinus}}
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Wikipedia Day 2024 - January 19
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I have sent you a note about a page you started
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Sat Jan 25: Wikipedia Day NYC 2025
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This week's article for improvement (week 2, 2025)
Hello, Wil540 art. The article for improvement of the week is:
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Entomology • Architect Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 6 January 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Wikidata weekly summary #661
Books & Bytes – Issue 66
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 66, November – December 2024
- Les Jours and East View Press join the library
- Tech tip: Newspapers.com
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This Month in GLAM: December 2024
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This week's article for improvement (week 3, 2025)
Hello, Wil540 art. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation • Entomology Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 13 January 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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The Bugle: Issue 225, January 2025
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Wikidata weekly summary #662
Tech News: 2025-03
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The Signpost: 15 January 2025
- From the editors: Looking back, looking forward
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2024
- In the media: Will you be targeted?
- Technology report: New Calculator template brings interactivity at last
- Opinion: Reflections one score hence
- Serendipity: What we've left behind, and where we want to go next
- Arbitration report: Analyzing commonalities of some contentious topics
- Humour: How to make friends on Wikipedia
This week's article for improvement (week 4, 2025)
Hello, Wil540 art. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Pirn • South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 20 January 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Wikidata weekly summary #663
LA Wildfire edit-a-thons January 26 and February 2
Upcoming edit-a-thons focused on the Los Angeles Wildfires | |
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![]() In response to the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, WikiLA has organized three edit-a-thons to create or improve articles about the historically, culturally, and/or architecturally significant structures that were destroyed or damaged during the fires, and the organizations and entities that stepped up to help. Please join us.
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Tech News: 2025-04
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Women in Red February 2025
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This week's article for improvement (week 5, 2025)
Hello, Wil540 art. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Medical prescription • Pirn Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:36, 27 January 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Wikidata weekly summary #664
Tech News: 2025-05
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Downlink special issues notice
Hello! This is an announcement that The Downlink has been revived. Rather than simply start again, I have chosen to create two special issues recapping the past three years. The first special issue spans November 2021 to December 2023, while the second special issue spans January 2024 to December 2024.
Due to the size of these pages, as well as the fact that they are non-standard issues, I have instead had this notice sent out. The following issues of volume 3 (Jan - Dec 2025) should be significantly smaller.
Please be aware that, for a variety of reasons, the issues that I create may be published late.
Here are the issues:
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This week's article for improvement (week 6, 2025)
Hello, Wil540 art. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Gastropub • Medical prescription Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 3 February 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Weekly Summary #665
Tech News: 2025-06
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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2025 Newsletter
- User group news
- User group meeting 23 February
- User group meeting in January (minutes).
- The user group submitted an annual report in the new affiliate health criteria format, and as an activity report.
- The 2030 strategy for the user group was adopted.
- Other news
- Swiss server helped optimise Wikidata in the field of medicine (SDG 3)
- Photographers from Türkiye tell the story of award wining photos in Wiki Loves Earth 2024 (SDG 15)
- OpenStreetMap and Wikidata in Disaster Times - CEE Meeting 2024 Istanbul (SDG 11)
- Events
- 1-28 February: Wiki Loves Africa: Climate & Weather ISA campaign (SDG 13)
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This Month in Education: January 2025
February 19: WikiWednesday Salon
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The Signpost: 7 February 2025
- Recent research: GPT-4 writes better edit summaries than human Wikipedians
- News and notes: Let's talk!
- Opinion: Fathoms Below, but over the moon
- Community view: 24th Wikipedia Day in New York City
- Arbitration report: Palestine-Israel articles 5 has closed
- Traffic report: A wild drive
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This Month in GLAM: January 2025
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This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2025)
Hello, Wil540 art. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Ice cream social • Gastropub Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 10 February 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Wikidata weekly summary #666
Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 2
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Tech News: 2025-07
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The Bugle: Issue 226, February 2025
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This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2025)
Hello, Wil540 art. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Peninsula • Ice cream social Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 17 February 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Wikidata weekly summary #667
Tech News: 2025-08
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The Downlink Volume 3, Issue 1
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The Downlink | The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter |
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2025 1 – 31 January |
Volume 3 — Issue 1 | |
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Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink | |
Introduction to Volume 3
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In the News
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Featured Content
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Article of the Month Soyuz programme
![]() The Soyuz programme (/ˈsɔɪjuːz/ SOY-yooz, /ˈsɔː-/ SAW-; Russian: Союз [sɐˈjus], meaning "Union") is a human spaceflight programme initiated by the Soviet Union in the early 1960s. The Soyuz spacecraft was originally part of a Moon landing project intended to put a Soviet cosmonaut on the Moon. It was the third Soviet human spaceflight programme after the Vostok (1961–1963) and Voskhod (1964–1965) programmes. The programme consists of the Soyuz capsule and the Soyuz rocket and is now the responsibility of the Russian Roscosmos. After the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011, Soyuz was the only way for humans to get to the International Space Station (ISS) until 30 May 2020, when Crew Dragon flew to the ISS for the first time with astronauts. |
Image of the Month Gene Cernan on the Moon
![]() Gene Cernan was the eleventh and (as of 2025) last person to ever step foot on the moon. In addition to being an astronaut, he was an aviator in the US Navy and engineer. Apollo 17 was his second Apollo mission, as he served as Apollo 10's lunar module pilot. He died in Houston on 16 January, 2017. He was the first astronaut to be buried at Texas State Cemetery. |
Members
New members:
Number of active members: 200. Total number of members: 426.
Launches
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Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 31 January 2025. Monthly Changes
Since December 2024, five new high-importance, eight new mid-importance, forty new low-importance, and 1,522 new NA-importance articles have been created. Fifteen unknown-importance articles have been removed, for a total of 1,560 more articles. One article has been promoted to Good Article status. There are also three more B-class articles, eleven more C-class articles, 23 more Start-class articles, four more Stub-class articles, 4 more lists, and 34 more files. |
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Concern regarding Draft:Rachel Stern
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Concern regarding Draft:Lane Stewart
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Chicago Meetup for March 15
Hello! This is Luiysia again. Welcome to everyone who joined the mailing list from our Wikipedia Day meetup! Here are the details for our March bimonthly meetup.
The meetup will start at Sipping Turtle Cafe, in the Logan Sqaure neighborhood, at 11 AM.
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This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2025)
Hello, Wil540 art. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Family cookbooks • Peninsula Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 24 February 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Wikidata weekly summary #668
Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 3
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Tech News: 2025-09
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Women in Red March 2025
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The Signpost: 27 February 2025
- Serendipity: Guinea-Bissau Heritage from Commons to the World
- Technology report: Hear that? The wikis go silent twice a year
- In the media: The end of the world
- Recent research: What's known about how readers navigate Wikipedia; Italian Wikipedia hardest to read
- Opinion: Sennecaster's RfA debriefing
- Tips and tricks: One year after this article is posted, will every single article on Wikipedia have a short description?
- Community view: Open letter from French Wikipedians says "no" to intimidation of volunteer contributors
- Traffic report: Temporary scars, February stars
Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - February 2025 Newsletter
- User group news
- User group meeting in February (minutes).
- Other news
- Time to get ready to organize Wiki Loves Earth (SDG 15)
- ‘Women of the Future’ – International Women’s Day 2025 (SDG 5)
- The Experts Behind the Edits: Expanding public understanding of healthcare (SDG 3)
- Wikimedia Enterprise and Ecosia Partner to Drive Sustainable Search Innovation (SDG 13)
- A subproject to WikiProject Climate Change about Climate Change Policies has just started on Wikidata (SDG 13)
- Events
- 1 March: Open Data Day 2025 in Côte d'Ivoire (SDG 8)
- 7 March Govdirectory Collab Hour - Open Data Day 2025 (SDG 16)
- 8 March–1 April: Shine Her Light Writing Contest 2025 (SDG 5)
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Guild of Copy Editors 2024 Annual Report
Guild of Copy Editors Annual Report
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This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2025)
Hello, Wil540 art. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Jewish deli • Family cookbooks Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 3 March 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Wikidata weekly summary #669
Tech News: 2025-10
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Growth Newsletter #33
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Nomination of High-risk people for deletion

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/High-risk people until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.Dan Leonard (talk • contribs) 22:20, 6 March 2025 (UTC)
Concern regarding Draft:Jerome Peel
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Wed March 12: Wiki Gala NYC
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This week's article for improvement (week 11, 2025)
Hello, Wil540 art. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Kerosene • Jewish deli Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 10 March 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Wikidata weekly summary #670
Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 4
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This Month in GLAM: February 2025
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Tech News: 2025-11
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