Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Coordination
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There is a very large articles backlog -
The articles backlog is growing rapidly (↑679 since last week)
Outreach and invitations
New Page Patrol needs more reviewers. Please invite users that you have noticed have a good understanding of Wikipedia policies and guidelines (or users on this list after you screen them) by placing {{subst:NPR invite}} on their talk page. This template looks like this:
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New Page Review Coordinators
NPR is a complex process. It requires a team of experienced editors–the coordinators–to keep it together.
Most importantly, the coordinator group avoids duplication of efforts by other users. If you wish to help with any of the coordination activities below, please make a post at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Coordination saying that you're interested in taking up a particular role. Then we'll give you feedback, perhaps have you work on the task for a bit, and potentially add you to the coordinator list.
The coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining the internal structure and processes of NPR. They coordinate activities, maintain our pages, and organize drives and conferring of all awards other than the standard barnstar. They have no authority over article content or editor conduct and have no special powers conferred by their coordinator or patrolling/reviewing activities.
The coordinators' main role is performing the maintenance and housekeeping tasks required to keep the project and its internal processes running smoothly. These include updating Omboxes, page top and edit notices , managing and maintaining the Bugs and Features Requests page, managing backlog drives and other events, drafting newsletters, and maintaining relations with the WMF when required. Theoretically much of this could be done by any editor—the coordinators have explicit roles in only a few processes—but since experience suggests people tend to assume someone else is doing essential tasks, the most efficient route has proven to be to delegate formal responsibility for this administrative work to a specified group of coordinators.
The coordinators have several other roles. They are explicitly listed as people to whom questions can be directed in a variety of places around the project. They lead the drafting of project guidelines and policies, oversee the implementation of project decisions, and help to informally resolve disputes and keep discussions from becoming heated and unproductive. 'NPR The team of coordinators is currently a de facto body, i.e. it is not an elective office. If NPP community consensus desires an election at any time, the coordinators will organise it and appoint a non-involved commissioner.
Current team
- MB — Joint lead coordinator; newsletter, general issues, WMF liaison
- Novem Linguae — Joint lead coordinator; technical issues, WMF liaison
- Buidhe and Zippybonzo — backlog drive coordinators
- MPGuy2824 — recognition (awards/barnstars), PCSI clerking, technical issues
- Atsme — NPP school coordinator, NPP school lead tutor. NPP liaison working with Board of Trustees,
- Kudpung — (NPP 'emeritus' - shoveled detrius 2010-2018), delivering pizza, making the tea, switching the lights off when everyone's gone home.
Former lead coordinators
- Kudpung ca. 2010–2018
- Insertcleverphrasehere ca. 2017–2018
- Barkeep49 ca. 2018–2019
Potential tasks for new coordinators
- Recruitment – By doing checks of folks on this list, and then using the template on that page to invite the promising ones
- Autopatrolled nominating and auditing – Check Wikipedia:Database reports/Editors eligible for Autopatrol privilege and other reports and nominate active and promising editors for autopatrolled. Check Special:NewPagesFeed and filter by "Edits by autopatrolled users" and look for folks that may be abusing autopatrol.
Coordinator tasks (detailed)
- Watch over all the pages connected with New Page Patrolling and reviewing (see page-top nav bar) and answer questions at any of the talk pages.
- Tech stuff
- Monitor the page at Discussion, to provide help with reporting bugs to Phab. Liaise with devs and/or WMF staff.
- Monitor the page at Page Curation/Suggested improvements and follow up on the Phabricator tasks.
- Recruitment
- Seek out and recruit new patrollers.
- Monitor (but do not clerk) the page at RFP/New page reviewer, but are welcome to add non-admin comments that might aid an admin's decision.
- Newsletter and mailing list:
- Act as editorial board for a quarterly (or any other period) newsletter (drafted in the newsletter archive below).
- Monitor the Newsletter mailing list. (sometimes the automated script is not used to add new names, sometimes blocked users need to be removed).
- Monitor and coordinate NPP School
- Patroller checks:
- Provide help to new patrollers.
- Warn patrollers when they are getting things wrong.
- Report abuse of the NPR user right, to ANI and/or report them directly to admins.
- Report abuse of the Autopatrolled user right,
- Organise backlog drives where necessary, including monitoring of review quality and issuing awards.
- Awarding barnstars and other appreciation annually, to active reviewers.
- Maintain stats and/or coordinate with those who know how to quarry for them. ICPH's quarry profile has a number of useful NPR stats queries.
- Watching requests at PERM and commenting if necessary.
- Exchange feedback with other language Wikipedias.
- Maintain relations with the WMF and Phabricator.
- Start and/or moderate potential RfC on major issues and suggested policy changes
- Attend meetups, Wikimania, and other conferences whenever possible, to discuss the project.
- Organising polls and NPP surveys
- Organising coordinator elections (if required).
And if you think this is a lot of work, ask Kudpung who did it practically single handed for nearly 7 years (emeritus coordinator).
For notifying creators
Moved to draft: {{Uw-articletodraft}} Copy and paste: {{subst:Uw-articletodraft|old article location|New draft location}}
UW reviewer
Remember that page tagging can still be carried out by any user. Although they don't have access to the features of New Pages Feed, even IP users can tag pages. Tagged pages remain listed in the feed until marked as 'patrolled' by a New Page Reviewer who is able to identify and isolate poor patrolling.
Generally, level #1 is friendly enough and the effort is to be supportive rather than assertive. In persistent cases however, it will be necessary to escalate through the warning levels. At Level 4, a block is usually appropriate at the very next tagging. Preferably notify an admin. Only post a case at ANI if no admin is available to stop a disruptive spree.
For tagging too fast when CSD-A1 or CSD-A3 have been tagged within less than about 10 minutes:
- {{Uw-hasty}} Copy and paste: {{subst:Uw-hasty}}
Declining a CSD Speedy Deletion:
- {{Uw-csd}} Copy and paste: {{subst:Uw-csd}}
Requests for user to refrain from patrolling (non NPR users).
- {{Stop NPP}} Copy and paste: {{subst:Stop NPP}}
- {{Stop NPP 2}} Copy and paste: {{subst:Stop NPP 2}}
- {{Stop NPP 3}} Copy and paste: {{subst:Stop NPP 3}}
- {{Stop NPP 4}} Copy and paste: {{subst:Stop NPP 4}}
Admins
Reply to requests at PERM (granted) {{New Page Reviewer granted}} Copy and paste: {{subst:NewPage Reviewer granted}}. Add user to the mailing list. These actions are automated when the Helper Script is used.
Twinkle patroller template users: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:User_Newpages_with_Twinkle&hideredirs=1&hidelinks=1&limit=500
Newsletter message list
Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Reviewers/Newsletter list
Newsletters can be drafted by anyone but please check with coordinators before sending. The list will be updated from time to time as new permissions are granted. There are currently 807 New page reviewers. Check the master list before sending. Only Mass message senders can use the bot. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 00:15, 26 November 2016 (UTC)
Note that sending frequent newsletters often dilutes their impact - like all other frequent spam, they tend to get binned before they are even read, whoever they are from. Once a month is more than enough. Once every two or three months would be better. If there are any urgent announcements to make, please inform The Signpost nesroom - it has a far bigger distribution (well over 10,000 subscribers) than the NPR mailing list. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 23:42, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
Newsletter archive
Older newsletters from No.1 November 2016 to No.22 December 2019
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2016Newsletter 1
2017Newsletter 2
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Newsletter 8
Backlog Drive announcement
2018Newsletter 9
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Backlog elimination drive announcement
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2019Newsletter 17
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Newsletters since 2020
2020
Newsletter 23
No.23 February 2020
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Hello New pages patrol,
The first NPP source guide discussion is now underway. It covers a wide range of sources in Ghana with the goal of providing more guidance to reviewers about sources they might see when reviewing pages. Hopefully, new page reviewers will join others interested in reliable sources and those with expertise in these sources to make the discussion a success.
New to NPP? Looking to try something a little different? Consider patrolling some redirects. Redirects are relatively easy to review, can be found easily through the New Pages Feed. You can find more information about how to patrol redirects at WP:RPATROL.
Geographic regions, areas and places generally do not need general notability guideline type sourcing. When evaluating whether an article meets this notability guideline please also consider whether it might actually be a form of WP:SPAM for a development project (e.g. PR for a large luxury residential development) and not actually covered by the guideline. Six Month Queue Data: Today – 7095 Low – 4991 High – 7095 To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here |
Newsletter 24
No.24 June 2020
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Hello New pages patrol,
NPP Sorting, done by SDZeroBot, can be a great way to find pages needing new page patrolling that match your strengths and interests. Using ORES, it divides articles into topics such as Literature or Chemistry and on Geography. Take a look and see if you can find time to patrol a couple pages a day. With over 10,000 pages in the queue, the highest it's been since ACPERM, your help could really make a difference.
In late February, Google added 5 new languages to Google Translate: Kinyarwanda, Odia (Oriya), Tatar, Turkmen and Uyghur. This expands our ability to find and evaluate sources in those languages.
Six Month Queue Data: Today – 10220 Low – 4991 High – 10220 To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here |
Newsletter 25
No.25 December 2020
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Hello New pages patrol,
It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by Rosguill who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to JTtheOG and Onel5969 who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to John B123, Hughesdarren, and Mccapra who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by DannyS712 which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.
 
John B123 has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.
As a special recognition and thank you DannyS712 has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition. Six Month Queue Data: Today – 2262 Low – 2232 High – 10271 To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here |
2021
Newsletter 26
No.26 September 2021
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 Hello New pages patrol, Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs. Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy to follow advice on COPYVIO detection here. At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages. There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers. If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software. Various awards are due to be allocated by the end of the year and barnstars are overdue. If you would like to manage this, please let us know. Indeed, if you are interested in coordinating NPR, it does not involve much time and the tasks are described here. To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here. Sent to 827 users. 04:12, 16 September 2021 (UTC) |
2022
Newsletter 27
No.27 May 2022 (sent 22 May)
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 Hello New pages patrol, At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue. Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant. In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently 807 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 852 administrators automatically have this permission, but there are only about a dozen who significantly contribute to NPP. This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear. If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software. To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here. |
Newsletter 28
No.28 June 2022 (sent 22 June)
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 Hello New pages patrol,
At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000[a] at the end of May. Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.[b] In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month). While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).
A backlog reduction drive, coordinated by buidhe and Zippybonzo, will be held from July 1 to July 31. Sign up here.
Many new articles on schools are being created by new users in developing and/or non-English-speaking countries. The authors are probably not even aware of Wikipedia's projects and policy pages. WP:WPSCH/AG has some excellent advice and resources specifically written for these users. Reviewers could consider providing such first-time article creators with a link to it while also mentioning that not all schools pass the GNG and that elementary schools are almost certainly not notable.
There is a new template available, Very high unreviewed pages backlog: 11653 articles, as of 16:00, 7 November 2024 (UTC), according to DatBot There has been significant discussion at WP:VPP recently on NPP-related matters (Draftification, Deletion, Notability, Verifiability, Burden). Proposals that would somewhat ease the burden on NPP aren't gaining much traction, although there are suggestions that the role of NPP be fundamentally changed to focus only on major CSD-type issues.
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Newsletter 29
No.29 August 2022 (sent 6 Aug)
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 Hello New pages patrol,
After the last newsletter (No.28, June 2022), the backlog declined another 1,000 to 13,000 in the last week of June. Then the July backlog drive began, during which 9,900 articles were reviewed and the backlog fell by 4,500 to just under 8,500 (these numbers illustrate how many new articles regularly flow into the queue). Thanks go to the coordinators Buidhe and Zippybonzo, as well as all the nearly 100 participants. Congratulations to Dr vulpes who led with 880 points. See this page for further details. Unfortunately, most of the decline happened in the first half of the month, and the backlog has already risen to 9,600. Understandably, it seems many backlog drive participants are taking a break from reviewing and unfortunately, we are not even keeping up with the inflow let alone driving it lower. We need the other 600 reviewers to do more! Please try to do at least one a day.
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Special invitation message
reminder (sent 20 Aug)
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Hi New pages patrol,
For those who may have missed it in our last newsletter, here's a quick reminder to see the letter we have drafted, and if you support it, do please go ahead and sign it. If you already signed, thanks. Also, if you haven't noticed, the backlog has been trending up lately; all reviews are greatly appreciated. To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here. |
Newsletter 30
No.30 October 2022 (sent 16 Oct)
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Hello New pages patrol, Much has happened since the last newsletter over two months ago. The open letter finished with 444 signatures. The letter was sent to several dozen people at the WMF, and we have heard that it is being discussed but there has been no official reply. A related article appears in the current issue of The Signpost. If you haven't seen it, you should, including the readers' comment section. Awards: Barnstars were given for the past several years (thanks to MPGuy2824), and we are now all caught up. The 2021 cup went to John B123 for leading with 26,525 article reviews during 2021. To encourage moderate activity, a new "Iron" level barnstar is awarded annually for reviewing 360 articles ("one-a-day"), and 100 reviews earns the "Standard" NPP barnstar. About 90 reviewers received barnstars for each of the years 2018 to 2021 (including the new awards that were given retroactively). All awards issued for every year are listed on the Awards page. Check out the new Hall of Fame also. Software news: Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have connected with WMF developers who can review and approve patches, so they have been able to fix some bugs, and make other improvements to the Page Curation software. You can see everything that has been fixed recently here. The reviewer report has also been improved.  Suggestions:
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2023
Newsletter 31
No.31 January 2023 (sent 3 Jan)
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Hello New pages patrol, 
The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to WaddlesJP13 who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day.
Onel5969 won the 2022 cup for 28,302 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 80/day. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. Rosguill led again for the 4th year by clearing 49,294 redirects. For the full details see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone! Minimum deletion time: The previous WP:NPP guideline was to wait 15 minutes before tagging for deletion (including draftification and WP:BLAR). Due to complaints, a consensus decided to raise the time to 1 hour. To illustrate this, very new pages in the feed are now highlighted in red. New draftify script: In response to feedback from AFC, the The Move to Draft script now provides a choice of set messages that also link the creator to a new, friendly explanation page. The script also warns reviewers if the creator is probably still developing the article. The former script is no longer maintained. Please edit your edit your common.js or vector.js file from Redirects: Some of our redirect reviewers have reduced their activity and the backlog is up to 9,000+ (two months deep). If you are interested in this distinctly different task and need any help, see this guide, this checklist, and spend some time at WP:RFD. Discussions with the WMF The PageTriage open letter signed by 444 users is bearing fruit. The Growth Team has assigned some software engineers to work on PageTriage, the software that powers the 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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Newsletter 32 (draft)
Community Wishlist Survey
Below is a list of times NPP has participated in the meta:Community Wishlist Survey. This is typically to get WMF software engineers to work on mw:Extension:PageTriage.
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| 2016 | meta:Community Wishlist Survey 2016/Categories/Moderation tools#New pages Feed/Page Curation | Kudpung | 40 | #35 | No action | ||
| 2019 | meta:Community Wishlist Survey 2019/Admins and patrollers/Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements | Insertcleverphrasehere | 153 | #1 | Worked on by WMF | meta:Community Tech/Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements | 13 tickets resolved
6 tickets declined |
PageTriage was also worked on at other times, but not through the wishlist.
| Year | Notes | WMF software engineers |
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| 2012 | After discussions between Kudpung and Eric Moeller (WMF), the PageTriage extension was created. | Kaldari, Bsitu |
| 2018 | Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/AfC Process Improvement May 2018. Resulted in ORES and AFC being added to PageTriage. | Growth Team |
Essential further reading
- Field guide to proper speedy deletion
- Wikipedia:Speedy deletions
- Ten Commandments for Speedy Deletion
- Common A7 mistakes
- Wikipedia:Why I Hate Speedy Deleters
Related projects
- Wikimedia research into patroller performance
- NPP survey 2011
- Lists of new pages patrollers as at various dates
See also
- User:Looie496/Watchlist pinging
- User:Uncle G/Wikipedia triage
- Wikipedia:Autopatrolled
- Wikipedia:Deletion of newly created pages
- Wikipedia:Drawing attention to new pages
- Wikipedia:Patrols
- Wikipedia:New pages patrol/patrolled pages
- Wikipedia:Random page patrol
- Wikipedia:Recent changes patrol
- Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Backlog drives
- Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Coordination/2022 WMF letter