Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Backlog drives

Backlog drives are conducted by the NPP team, whenever we feel that backlog is too high. Usually, they are a month long, and participants are awarded barnstars based on the number of reviews that they complete during the drive.

Upcoming drives

 * 2024-September
 * 2025-January
 * 2025-May
 * 2025-September

Past drives
Previous backlog drives have included:
 * 2024-May (articles)
 * 2024-January (articles)
 * 2023-October (articles and redirects)
 * 2023-May (redirects)
 * 2022-October (articles)
 * 2022-July (articles)
 * 2021-November (articles)
 * 2018-June (articles)
 * 2018-January (articles and redirects)

For the awards given out to participants in the backlog drives, go to New pages patrol/Backlog drives/Awards, and New pages patrol/Backlog drives/Redirect drive awards.

Userbox
Participants can place a drive userbox on their userpage using. Replace X with the number of drives you have participated in. It displays as follows:

Instructions for coordinators

 * Before the drive:
 * Setup the pages for the drive. Copy the pages from the old drive and make date corrections.
 * Move a shell (without a redirect) from Wikipedia talk:Mass message senders to the correct subpage, to use as a participant list.
 * Check with User:Tol whether their bot will be able to keep the leaderboard updated for this drive too.
 * Advertise the drive and send out a mass message to New Page Patrollers about 5–10 days before the drive starts. (request this on Wikipedia talk:Mass message senders, if none of the coordinators have the WP:MMS right).
 * During the drive:
 * Answer questions from participants on the drive/NPP talk page.
 * (Optional) Send weekly updates about the drive's progress to the drive talk page and the NPP Reviewer discussion board.
 * After the drive:
 * Update the NPP newsletter draft with the results of the drive.
 * Set a 3–4 day deadline for participants to submit their CSD logs.
 * Barnstar calculations.
 * Award barnstars.