Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Backlog drives/November 2021


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The November 2021 New Page Patrol Backlog Drive was a one-month-long effort to reduce the backlog of the new pages patrol feed. The co-ordinators for this drive are Buidhe, Elli, and Tol. If you have any questions, leave a message on this drive's talk page. The drive began on 1 November 2021 and ended on 30 November 2021. The ultimate goal of this backlog elimination drive is to reduce the number of articles awaiting patrol. Awards will be given out to those individuals who do the most work in helping reduce the size of the backlog. The drive is intended to promote a faster rate of decreasing the backlog whilst maintaining quality reviews. Sign up here.

Basic guidelines

 * 1) Points: Points will be calculated based on the 30-day total according to the leaderboard. It is updated by TolBot Task 8, which counts patrol, draftification, and deletion nomination, but can only detect deletion nominations when performed with the Page Curation tool. We will also accept CSD logs made by Twinkle, which will be added to the leaderboard at the end of the drive, based on the principle of good faith.
 * 2) Re-reviewing: As usual, rather than speed, quality and depth of patrolling and the use of correct CSD criteria are essential to good reviewing. To ensure quality reviews, we are also giving credit to re-reviews, with the aim that everyone completes around 10% as many re-reviews as reviews, and around 10% of each person's reviews are re-reviewed. To find articles to re-review, go to Database reports/Top new article reviewers, pick any editor, and visit the log to find articles that they have reviewed since the start of the drive. Make sure that the article is not already listed below in the re-review section to avoid duplication.

Signing up
Sign up by adding your user talk page to the participants list. You must sign up to participate in the drive. In order to participate, you must already have New Page Patrol rights.

Awards
Awards will be given by the co-ordinators after this drive ends. You can earn one point either by reviewing an article or re-reviewing an article.

This is the scheme for the awards:

At least 5 points: The Invisible Barnstar

At least 10 points: The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar

At least 25 points: The Tireless Contributor Barnstar

At least 50 points: The Reviewer Barnstar

At least 100 points: The Patroller's Barnstar

At least 200 points: The New Page Patrol Medal of Merit

At least 500 points: The Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia

Re-reviewing at least 25 articles: The Teamwork Barnstar