Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Newsletter/Archive/33
Hello New pages patrol/Newsletter/Archive,
- Backlog
In the October backlog drive, an impressive 9,700 articles were reviewed and we achieved 0 backlog! Congratulations to WaddlesJP13 who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. Since the drive ended, we have slowly crept upwards to 1,600. Although that is historically low, it would be great if <2,000 is the “new normal”. If you haven't been that active since the backlog drive, please consider coming back.
- 2022 Awards
The 2022 cup went to Onel5969 for leading with 28,302 article reviews last year. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. For redirects, Rosguill, with 49,294, led for the fourth consecutive year, and six others did 2,000 or more redirects and earned the "Redirect Ninja" award. Congratulations to everyone. More details are at the Awards page and the Hall of Fame.
- Minimum deletion time
In the past, the WP:NPP page has provided the guidance to front-of-queue reviewers to "wait 15 minutes from article creation" before tagging an article for any kind of deletion (including draftification and WP:BLAR). Due to noticeboard complaints, an NPP consensus was reached to raise this threshold to "wait 1 hour from article creation", and we may raise this further. Please do not tag articles that are less than an hour old for any kind of deletion. To assist with this, these articles are now highlighted red in Special:NewPagesFeed, and the new Draftify script now gives a notice (see next section).
- Draftify script
Updates have been made to the Move to Draft script. In response to feedback from AFC, the script now steers the user to leave specific reasons for the author about what needs to be changed rather than a default message which was often not customized. The script also warns if the article has been edited within the past hour, so articles being actively improved are not immediately moved. This update requires you to switch to the newer version of the script. The "Evad37" version is no longer maintained. Please edit your edit your common.js file from User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js to User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft.js
- Redirects
Some of our redirect reviewers have pulled back from feverishly reviewing redirects and consequently the backlog there is up to 9,000+ / two months deep, so we could also use a few more people doing redirects. If you are interested in this distinctly different task and need any help, review this guide, this checklist, and spend some time at WP:RFD.
Discussions with the WMF
The PageTriage open letter is bearing fruit. The Growth Team has assigned some software engineers to work on PageTriage, the software that powers Special:NewPagesFeed and the Page Curation toolbar. WMF has submitted dozens of patches in the last few weeks to modernize PageTriage's code, which will make it easier to write patches in the future. This work is helpful but is not very visible to the end user. For patches visible to the end user, volunteers such as Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have been writing patches for bug reports and feature requests. The Growth Team also had a video conference with the NPP coordinators to discuss revamping the landing pages that new users see.
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