Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight

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Welcome to WikiProject Spaceflight! Your help on this project will be greatly appreciated. Please feel free to join the effort in any way.

Goals

This project works to assess and improve the quality of articles related to spaceflight and space exploration, to maintain and improve the Spaceflight Portal, and to improve the organization of the spaceflight and space exploration categories.

Scope

The term "spaceflight" refers to all craft and missions to cross the Karman line. This includes human spaceflight missions, satellites, space exploration probes and sub-orbital missions, such as sounding rocket flights. Although military vehicles that have entered space are within this project's scope, those articles are also within the scope of Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history. The project has a special emphasis on "space exploration", referring to the scientific investigation of space by both crewed and robotic spacecraft.

Contents 1 Related pages 2 Article assessment 3 Open tasks 3.1 Portal tasks 3.2 Categories for discussion 4 Members

[edit] Related pages

Userbox

If you would like to indicate on your user page your participation in this effort, you can do so with our project's userbox.

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight/Userbox}}

WikiProject tag

For articles considered to be within the scope of this project, place a banner on the talk page associated with the article.

{{WPSpace|spaceflight=yes}} -- use {{WPSpace|space_exploration=yes}} ^[discuss]

Portal

In addition to the encylopedia articles which are within the scope of this project, we maintain the Spaceflight portal. Please join us in finding content for this portal that will make it a valuable entry point into the encylopedia's coverage of spaceflight and space exploration topics.

Portal:Spaceflight

[edit] Article assessment

The assessment department of WikiProject Spaceflight focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Spaceflight and Space Exploration articles. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are made in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WPSpace}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Space exploration articles by quality and Category:Space exploration articles by importance.

See the full list of assessed articles here. You can help by improving the quality of these articles - in particular the ones in the lower left corner of this table need some attention. You can also help by assessing articles which have not been assessed, or re-assessing articles which may have been improved since their original assessment. It is also helpful to find new articles which are related to spaceflight and space exploration, and assessing them for this project.

Quality

The articles are rated for quality based on the assessment standards of the Version 1.0 Editorial Team. When the scopes of our project and Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history overlap, we rely on e.g. their criteria for B-Class status.

Importance

The articles are rated for their importance to spaceflight and space exploration. When making importance assessments, it may be helpful to ask, "How important would it be to include this article in an abridged version of the encyclopedia?"

[edit] Open tasks

[edit] Portal tasks

Things you can do, taken from Portal:Spaceflight/Tasks:

Here are some open tasks: Copyedit: Mir, More... Wikify: Space Generation Advisory Council, More... Merge: Mars Express Orbiter, Difference between sub-orbital and orbital spaceflights, More... Requests: Dynamics Explorer, Ruschmeyer, Kurs (docking system), More... Stubs: Italian Space Agency, Mars Scout Program, Project Horizon, Space toilet, Wizard's eye, More... Updating current missions: STEREO, Expedition 14, New Horizons, Venus Express, More... Updating future missions: LRO, Shenzhou 7, More... Assess: More... Spaceflight featured article candidates: No current candidates Spaceflight articles for which peer review has been requested: No current requests Spaceflight articles for which deletion has been requested: No current requests

[edit] Categories for discussion

• Category:WikiProject Space exploration and Category:WikiProject Space Exploration

[edit] Members

You don't have to be a member to contribute, but please feel free to add your name to the list here.