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New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023

Hello Spicy,

Backlog

Redirect drive: In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with 23851 reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to 0 (momentarily). Congratulations to Hey man im josh who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by Meena and Greyzxq with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day.

Redirect autopatrol: All administrators without autopatrol have now been added to the redirect autopatrol list. If you see any users who consistently create significant amounts of good quality redirects, consider requesting redirect autopatrol for them here.

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team, consisting of Sam, Jason and Susana, and also some patches from Jon, has been hard at work updating PageTriage. They are focusing their efforts on modernising the extension's code rather than on bug fixes or new features, though some user-facing work will be prioritised. This will help make sure that this extension is not deprecated, and is easier to work on in the future. In the next month or so, we will have an opt-in beta test where new page patrollers can help test the rewrite of Special:NewPagesFeed, to help find bugs. We will post more details at WT:NPPR when we are ready for beta testers.

Articles for Creation (AFC): All new page reviewers are now automatically approved for Articles for Creation draft reviewing (you do not need to apply at WT:AFCP like was required previously). To install the AFC helper script, visit Special:Preferences, visit the Gadgets tab, tick "Yet Another AFC Helper Script", then click "Save". To find drafts to review, visit Special:NewPagesFeed, and at the top left, tick "Articles for Creation". To review a draft, visit a submitted draft, click on the "More" menu, then click "Review (AFCH)". You can also comment on and submit drafts that are unsubmitted using the script.

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Your block of 172.56.160.57

Do I hear a duck? –Skywatcher68 (talk) 13:56, 21 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Block evader

Thanks for blocking the one IP. They've hopped to a new one, and have taken a peculiar interest in vandalizing Robert E. Lee Day, as I have recently edited that one. A short page protection might help with that. Wes sideman (talk) 13:57, 21 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sock investigation

Hai Spicy

Sorry to bother you. But can you please expedite this sockpuppet investigation process? Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/MovieBuffIndia

Clerk assistance is required in the case.

(BangaloreNorth (talk) 11:21, 22 June 2023 (UTC))[reply]

Block evasion or sock puppetry?

Hi Spicy, do you have time to look at the contributions of User:Chilli Chin? They have created a large number of articles in the last day, some of which (as far as I can tell) seem to be copied directly from existing drafts, and at least two of those drafts were created by Hawaiian Lad who you blocked for spam and likely UPE. Thanks Melcous (talk) 04:45, 24 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, that's an obvious spam sock. It is pretty clearly the same operator as another account I recently blocked, Ana De Armani. I might look into it further and file a SPI when I'm not on mobile. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 04:59, 24 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]