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New Page Patrol newsletter October 2022
Hello , 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 ), and we are now all caught up. The 2021 cup went to 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: and  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:
 * There is much enthusiasm over the low backlog, but remember that the "quality and depth of patrolling are more important than speed".
 * Reminder: an article should not be tagged for any kind of deletion for a minimum of 15 minutes after creation and it is often appropriate to wait an hour or more. (from the NPP tutorial)
 * Reviewers should focus their effort where it can do the most good, reviewing articles. Other clean-up tasks that don't require advanced permissions can be left to other editors that routinely improve articles in these ways (creating Talk Pages, specifying projects and ratings, adding categories, etc.) Let's rely on others when it makes the most sense. On the other hand, if you enjoy doing these tasks while reviewing and it keeps you engaged with NPP (or are guiding a newcomer), then by all means continue.
 * This user script puts a link to the feed in your top toolbar.

Backlog: Saving the best for last: From a July low of 8,500, the backlog climbed back to 11,000 in August and then reversed in September dropping to below 6,000 and continued falling with the October backlog drive to under 1,000, a level not seen in over four years. Keep in mind that there are 2,000 new articles every week, so the number of reviews is far higher than the backlog reduction. To keep the backlog under a thousand, we have to keep reviewing at about half the recent rate!


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New Pages Patrol newsletter January 2023
Hello , The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to 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. 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. 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!
 * Backlog
 * 2022 Awards

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. (As always, this is not applicable to attack pages, copyvios, vandalism, etc.)

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  to  '''

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 and  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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New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023
Hello , 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 who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by  and  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, and also some patches from , 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.

You can review the AFC workflow at WP:AFCR. It is up to you if you also want to mark your AFC accepts as NPP reviewed (this is allowed but optional, depends if you would like a second set of eyes on your accept). Don't forget that draftspace is optional, so moves of drafts to mainspace (even if they are not ready) should not be reverted, except possibly if there is conflict of interest.

Pro tip: Did you know that visual artists such as painters have their own SNG? The most common part of this "creative professionals" criteria that applies to artists is WP:ARTIST 4b (solo exhibition, not group exhibition, at a major museum) or 4d (being represented within the permanent collections of two museums).

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Question from Wired Shift (16:42, 27 June 2024)
how do i create tech website --Wired Shift (talk) 16:42, 27 June 2024 (UTC)


 * No idea, sorry, not my thing. Try Googling the query. Wikipedia is not a "How-to" site, it is an encyclopedia. Cheers, &middot; &middot; &middot; Peter Southwood (talk): 16:49, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

Question from Lucienity (05:19, 1 July 2024)
Hey, how do I add photos to some pages? (might need this in the future) --Lucienity (talk) 05:19, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi, We have a help page Help:Pictures which goes into the details, possibly more than you will need. There are also more straightforward explanations depending on whether you are using Visual Editor or Wiki markup, which are linked in the notice at the the top of that page. In short, you find an image on Wikimedia commons that suits the purpose, or upload a free-licensed image to Wikimedia commons, then link to it from the place in the article where you want to use it. Using a non-free picture under fair use is severely restricted and the image must be loaded into Wikipedia complete with the fair use rationale for its use which must specify which article it will be used in. If you have a more specific question, or have difficulty actually doing what you want when you get round to it, feel free to ask again. Hope this helps. Cheers, &middot; &middot; &middot; Peter Southwood (talk): 06:32, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
 * thanks! Lucienity (talk) 15:29, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

compromised account
Hi, my account candent_shlimazel was hacked. I got an email alert that my password and email were changed and that I should contact an administrator ASAP, and you are on the list of recently online administrators. Can you help me, please? Since 2007 I've been editing using the email address. Thank you very much for your attention. 192.162.146.111 (talk) 09:25, 3 July 2024 (UTC)


 * I made a new account, if it's easier to communicate this way. Candent shlimazel (unhacked) (talk) 09:41, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I have locked the account with the help of some admins in the unofficial Discord, so I don't think you can do anything more. Sorry for the unnecessary talk page clutter. Candent shlimazel (unhacked) (talk) 10:09, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi Candent shlimazel (unhacked) No problem about page clutter, I only noticed the messages now, so no inconvenience. Good luck, &middot; &middot; &middot; Peter Southwood (talk): 13:07, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2024
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Question from Orsgaba (11:19, 16 July 2024)
Hi, thanks for mentoring me!

Recently I've added some links to implementations of quantum algorithms in several pages, in the 'external links' section. Someone ('Fawli') has removed most of my edits. Here is my discussion with him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Fawly#c-Fawly-20240630185600-Orsgaba-20240630084800

All links are valuable in my opinion, they are to an open-source software with full implementations of the algorithms, which is a content that was not existing in the page itself.

do you think it was indeed a problem to add them? or is it arguable?

thanks a lot in advance! --Orsgaba (talk) 11:19, 16 July 2024 (UTC)


 * This is a a content dispute. It should be discussed on the article talk page, and a consensus reached among editors who have knowledge of the topic and of Wikipedia's policies and guidance. Cheers, &middot; &middot; &middot; Peter Southwood (talk): 03:43, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

Question from Lucienity (00:22, 19 July 2024)
Hi, how do people usually put things in their user page? e.g: This person speaks fluent English, etc. --Lucienity (talk) 00:22, 19 July 2024 (UTC)


 * A WP:userbox is a common method, but it is also possible to just provide the information in plain language.Cheers, &middot; &middot; &middot; Peter Southwood (talk): 03:50, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

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