Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Coordination

New page review coordinators
NPR is a complex process. It requires a team of experienced editors–the coordinators–to keep it together. Most importantly, the coordinator group avoids duplication of efforts by other users.

Becoming an NPP coordinator
If you wish to help with any of the coordination activities below, please make sure you have the NPP permission without expiration and have a couple month's experience with NPP. Then make a post at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Coordination saying that you're interested in taking up a particular role. The coordination team will get back to you shortly with a decision. The lead coordinator makes the final decision on issues involving new and existing coordinators.

What the coordinators do
The coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining the internal structure and processes of NPR. They coordinate activities, maintain our pages, and organize drives and conferring of all awards other than the standard barnstar. They have no authority over article content or editor conduct and have no special powers conferred by their coordinator or patrolling/reviewing activities.

The coordinators' main role is performing the maintenance and housekeeping tasks required to keep the project and its internal processes running smoothly. These include updating Omboxes, page top and edit notices, managing and maintaining the Bugs and Features Requests page, managing backlog drives and other events, drafting newsletters, and maintaining relations with the WMF when required. Theoretically much of this could be done by any editor—the coordinators have explicit roles in only a few processes—but since experience suggests people tend to assume someone else is doing essential tasks, the most efficient route has proven to be to delegate formal responsibility for this administrative work to a specified group of coordinators.

The coordinators have several other roles. They are explicitly listed as people to whom questions can be directed in a variety of places around the project. They lead the drafting of project guidelines and policies, oversee the implementation of project decisions, and help to informally resolve disputes and keep discussions from becoming heated and unproductive.

Accountability and elections
The team of coordinators is currently a de facto body, i.e. it is not an elected office. If NPP community consensus desires an election at any time, the coordinators will organize it and appoint a non-involved commissioner.

Current team

 * Novem Linguae — Lead coordinator, PageTriage developer, WMF liaison, NPP Discord
 * MPGuy2824 — PCSI clerking, PageTriage developer
 * Hey man im josh – backlog drive coordinator
 * Sohom Datta – PageTriage developer
 * MarioGom – Sockpuppet investigations
 * DreamRimmer – assistant backlog drive coordinator
 * Raydann – NPP recruitment, autopatrol recruitment

Semi-active or inactive

 * Atsme — NPP school coordinator, NPP school lead tutor. NPP liaison working with Board of Trustees
 * Dr vulpes — recognition (awards/barnstars)
 * Illusion Flame — Newsletter coordinator, assistant backlog drive coordinator, massmessages, Discord games

Special recognition
Below is an incomplete list of new page patrollers who have been lead coordinators or received reviewer of the year awards. We would like to honor and recognize their outstanding service by listing them here. Thank you so much for your efforts.


 * Barkeep49 – Lead coordinator 2018–2019
 * Insertcleverphrasehere – Lead coordinator 2017–2018
 * John B123 – Reviewer of the year 2020, 2021
 * Kudpung – Lead coordinator 2010–2018
 * MB – Lead coordinator 2022–2023
 * Onel5969 – Reviewer of the year 2018, 2022, 2023
 * PRehse – Reviewer of the year 2017
 * Rosguill – Reviewer of the year 2019

Chat room software (Discord)
Want to text chat with other new page patrollers in real time? As of 2023, we have an active Discord server. Use this invite link to join.

Moderators
The current moderators are:


 * Hey man im josh
 * Insertcleverphrasehere (server admin)
 * Novem Linguae (server admin)
 * ONUnicorn

Recruitment
New Page Patrol needs more reviewers. Please invite users that you have noticed have a good understanding of Wikipedia policies and guidelines (or users on this list after you screen them) by placing  on their talk page. This template looks like this:

Other similar templates can be found here.

Anytime anyone sends out a batch of user talk messages, you must add the folks you contacted to New pages patrol/Coordination/List of users already invited. Care should be taken to remove these folks from future message lists, so that we do not spam them with multiple invites.

Coordinator userbox
Coordinators can also use this userbox on their userpage to help promote this project:

Community Wishlist Survey
Below is a list of times NPP has participated in the Community Wishlist Survey. This is typically to get WMF software engineers to work on mw:Extension:PageTriage. PageTriage was also worked on at other times, but not through the wishlist.