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• AstronautChristina Koch, akaUser:Astro Christina made the first direct edit from space onNovember 17, 2019, correcting an article about a space walk that she had made. Earlier edits have been composed in space, but had been relayed through an Earth-bound editor. For example, in a November 2017 edit thefirst content made for Wikipedia in space—a voice recording—was published. EditorDarenwelsh, who is an extravehicular activity flight controller atNASA, helped organize the new edit and first reported it onReddit. Darenwelsh and his coworkers haveset up 10 wikis at NASA.

• Amazon donates $1 million.
• .ORG registry sold to for-profit company: .ORG domain names will be registered by a new for-profit company, which is likely to cost the WMF some money.Sjreports that Ethos Capital—which has two staff—is buying the non-profit Public Interest Registry (PIR) at an estimated price of a billion dollars. TheElectronic Frontier Foundation objects, as does the Wikimedia Foundation and 25 other non-profits, in anopen letter to the Internet Society.
• New user-groups: TheAffiliations Committee announced the approval, on September 25, of three newWikimedia movement affiliates, theWikimedia Stewards User Group,Wikimedians of Santali Language User Group, andmeta:Wikimedians of Saint Petersburg User Group.
• Tim Berners-Lee approves: Tim Berners-Lee'sContract for the Web received notice inThe Guardian andThe Verge. He also wrotean op-ed forThe New York Times, saying the World Wide Web that he invented needs a re-do, although he lists Wikipedia as an example of what he's OK with.
• FRAMBAN denouement: WMF published a statement,"Community consultation on partial and temporary office actions".
• Translation pilot project: WMF ishiring up to six paid translators for each of these languages: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Russian and Spanish.
• UNC Edit-a-thon: TheUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill'sHussman School of Journalism and Media and the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center hosted aNewspapers in North Carolina Edit-a-thon on 24 October. The edit-a-thon sought to improve articles on newspapers in the U.S. state ofNorth Carolina to give readers context for the sources they use, and to combatfake news.
• New administrators:The Signpost welcomes the English Wikipedia's newest administrators,EvergreenFir andToBeFree (11 November 2019),Girth Summit (26 October 2019),Kees08 (14 October 2019),GermanJoe (6 October 2019),Nosebagbear (3 October 2019), andBarkeep49 (11 September 2019).

• Eek! CoI from orbit! The sky is falling!Jim.henderson (talk)01:02, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Yeah, the conflict of interest is so out there that I think everybody would realize it without a formal declaration. She did declare that she is an astronaut, however. Given that the working conditions are so dangerous (she had to talk to Trump during the spacewalk), I'm inclined to ignore the COI problem.Smallbones_(smalltalk)02:12, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    • Surely an astronaut editing neutrally about spacewalks is the kind ofexpert editor we welcome? ☆Bri (talk)03:47, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
      • Disclosure looks perfectly fineUser:Astro Christina Though it was made by someone else...Doc James (talk ·contribs ·email)03:21, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• From what I can see, its seems the sale of the Public Interest Registry has gone through. If so, is hope for having some sort of impact on the process regarding .ORG domains for the future lost? Also, what affects have occurred so far and what is expected to happen in the future? —The Editor's Apprentice (talk)15:30, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]