Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Backlog drives/October 2023


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The October 2023 New Page Patrol Backlog Drive was a one-month-long effort to reduce the backlog of the new pages patrol articles and redirects feed. The coordinators for this drive were Hey man im josh, Illusion Flame, and DreamRimmer. The drive began on 1 October 2023 and ended on 31 October 2023. The ultimate goal of this backlog drive was to reduce the number of articles and redirects awaiting patrol, whilst maintaining quality reviews. Awards were given out to participants based on their contributions during the drive. This drive has ended.

Points
Points were calculated based on the month's total, according to the leaderboard. It was updated by TolBot Task 8, which counted patrols and deletion nominations, but could only detect deletion nominations when performed with the Page Curation tool. CSD logs made by Twinkle were also accepted and added to the leaderboard at the end of the drive, based on the principle of good faith.

The article reviews received 1 point, and the redirect reviews received 0.25 points. Reviewers were encouraged to patrol both articles and redirects.

Sign up
The users who participated in this drive can be seen here.

Backlog charts
There were 11,626 unreviewed articles and 16,985 unreviewed redirects, at the start of the drive (1 October 2023). At the end of the drive (31 October 2023), there were 7,609 unreviewed articles and 6,431 unreviewed redirects.

Closing
On November 1st, the coordinators will begin the process of closing the drive following these steps:

Leaderboard
''From User:TolBot/Task 8/Drives/2023-10 New Page Patrol/leaderboard

Awards
Awards were given out by the coordinators after the drive had ended. Participants could earn one point by marking an article as reviewed, moving an article not ready for mainspace to draft space, or by nominating articles that don't meet notability guidelines for deletion. Additionally, participants could earn 0.25 points for reviewing a redirect or nominating it for deletion.

This is the scheme for the awards:

Streak awards
For the streak awards, the weeks were defined as follows:
 * Week 1: October 1 – October 7
 * Week 2: October 8 – October 14
 * Week 3: October 15 – October 21
 * Week 4: October 22 – October 31

Re-reviewing
To re-review articles, list your name at New pages patrol/Backlog drives/October 2023/Re-reviews followed by a numbered list of the articles you have 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 to note the original reviewer and determine whether the original review was correct. If you found problems with the original review, please discuss it with the original reviewer on the backlog drive talk page.