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Administrators' newsletter – March 2021[edit]

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Administrator changes

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  • A request for comment is open that proposes a process for the community to revoke administrative permissions. This follows a 2019 RfC in favor of creating one such a policy.
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  • A request for comment seeks to grant page movers the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target. The full proposal is at Wikipedia:Page mover/delete-redirect.
  • A request for comment asks if sysops may place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions?
  • There is a discussion in progress concerning automatic protection of each day's featured article with Pending Changes protection.

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  • There have been a number of reported issues with Pending Changes. Most problems setting protection appear to have been resolved (phab:T273317) but other issues with autoaccepting edits persist (phab:T275322).

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Draft article on Waleran I, count of Arlon[edit]

These ideas about the notability of individuals leave me baffled, since we have perfectly legitimate pages about, well, ship's cats. (I DO love cats, I have three). This was a person known through a single contemporary source. He must have been quite a relevant individual in his time, who likely held sway as feudal seigneur on several thousand people at least, and was the most distant patrilineal ancestor we can trace with any degree of certainty for VERY important people in power in centuries to come (the Luxemburgian emperors of the Holy Roman Empire). Beyond that, this man already had his page in the German Wikipedia, from which I simply translated, almost word by word, to get news of it to what I see as the "global" Wiki: the English-language one, despite being myself an Italian. Therefore, I'd ask to reconsider rejecting this out of hand: not because the article is "mine"(?), but as a historian (not a professional one, an amateur with a degree). It can be added anyway later that the article's sources are poor and could/should be better corroborated; but this is true of most of what we know, or believe to know, before the Late Middle Ages and the explosion in literacy and the use of paper. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Basil II (talk • contribs) 21:45, 7 March 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Basil II, I agree with you that that this individual probably deserves an article, but I don't think I can accept the draft with only one source. Waleran I is mentioned in a lot of other webpages and books, so if you can find significant coverage from another reliable source the the draft will probably be accepted. I am not going to review the draft's merits again so that you get other reviewers' opinions. Personally, I find the basic standard of notability arbitrary myself, but it exists to make sure that we can maintain the encyclopedia and provide an objective standard of inclusion. — J947 ‡ message ⁓ edits 00:28, 8 March 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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User:Suffusion of Yellow/hidetopcontrib.js[edit]

Hi, J947. Can you please change User:Suffusion of Yellow/hidetopcontrib.js to User:Markhurd/hidetopcontrib.js in both User:J947/common.js and User:J947 Public/common.js? I did not intend to maintain a fork of that script; that was only for testing purposes and I'd like to delete it. The scripts are identical except for the comments. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 21:36, 21 March 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Redirects to pi[edit]

I noticed that you closed an RfD relating to various versions of pi with different numbers of decimal digits, but did not remove the RfD notices on most of the redirects. Also, your speedy close rationale only related to the first redirect and not the others. Did you miss the rest of them? I removed the notices since the discussion has been closed, but thought I should let you know. Lithopsian (talk) 20:21, 30 March 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  • @Lithopsian: The discussion wasn't correctly formatted and I assumed that only one of the redirects had been nominated. Thanks for catching that. But my speedy close still applied to the other redirects, as that discussion showed clear consensus to keep such redirects (and the one discussed at the old RfD was the longest one of those nominated at the new RfD, so one would imagine that the consensus would be equally great or stronger for the shorter redirects). — J947 ‡ message ⁓ edits 20:31, 30 March 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – April 2021[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2021).

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Guideline and policy news

  • Following a request for comment, F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a has been deprecated; it covered immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
  • Following a request for comment, page movers were granted the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.

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  • When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split and it might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. (T278350)
  • Code to support some very old web browsers is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. (T277803)

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In for a refactor?[edit]

Hey J947, while I stand by my points, I do agree that some of my statements need a re-factoring. If I do so, would you mind re-factoring some of your own comment too? Thanks, NotReallySoroka (talk) (formerly DePlume) 00:50, 22 April 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@NotReallySoroka: I would strongly recommend you read the guidelines on refactoring comments before continuing. Elli (talk | contribs) 00:56, 22 April 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I'm not going to refactor my comments. NotReallySoroka, I recommend that you clarify what you said in subsequent comments but do not alter any existing comments. — J947 ‡ message ⁓ edits 01:19, 22 April 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Just checking[edit]

In your final sentence of this edit, I think you might mean "yes" rather than "no"? Thryduulf (talk) 12:30, 26 April 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – May 2021[edit]

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Test Wikipedia[edit]

Hi. I don't believe the closer of the discussion would have accidentally ticked out the "suppress redirect" button when moving Test Wikipedia, especially given they were explicit in their closure statement that there was consensus for this not to be in mainspace. – Uanfala (talk) 12:57, 9 May 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  • @Uanfala: there were a lot of ambiguous statements in the discussion (including the close). By straight count (which is often a reasonable metric at RfD despite its failings) I thought that there were 4 people supporting deletion of Test Wikipedia and 6 supporting it to be kept in some form, so I inferred that the redirect should've been kept. I don't think that those counts are correct now anyway. (The closure I interpreted, likely wrongly, as should not exist as a mainspace disambiguation page.) I suppose I'm happy for the redirect to be deleted now as I likely misinterpreted parts of the discussion, but at the time I had thought that suppressredirect was missing the point – to be perfectly honest, I still think that to an extent: I think that a redirect to a helpful project-space disambiguation page is better than leaving readers and non-namespace-knowing new editors with these unhelpful search results, but YMMV. — J947 ‡ message ⁓ edits 21:18, 9 May 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    • Hi. My suppression of the redirect was not a mistake and Uanfala was correct that my closing statement alluded to the why. It would seem that if you disagree with a close, there are better ways to go about it. I'm not going to delete the redirect you created. I suspect someone will come along and send it to RFD again. Thank you for the ping, Uanfala. Killiondude (talk) 21:05, 10 May 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 21[edit]

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2021[edit]

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  • Consensus has been reached to delete all books in the book namespace. There was rough consensus that the deleted books should still be available on request at WP:REFUND even after the namespace is removed.
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Articles for Creation July 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive[edit]

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2021[edit]

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  • Last week all wikis were very slow or not accessible for 30 minutes. This was due to server lag caused by regenerating dynamic lists on the Russian Wikinews after a large bulk import. (T287380)

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2021[edit]

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New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021[edit]

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New Page Review queue September 2021

Hello J947,

Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.

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At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.

There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.

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ARS Public School (3rd nomination)[edit]

You were a participant in the just closed 2nd nomination for deletion.
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Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 November 12#Draft:Soviet Boris Yeltsin[edit]

Why would you close Draft:Soviet Boris Yeltsin without having a discussion? Personally, I don't see how your position is "obvious" and think it would be better left as a comment instead of a close. I do agree with the nominator that I see no reason for keeping this as a redirect and would like to see it deleted, possibly as a vandalism-ish creation. -- Tavix (talk) 01:43, 14 November 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  • @Tavix: I just simply don't see any point in having a wasteful discussion. Keep it or delete it; there's utterly negligible difference and only one of those buttons is available to me. G6 it if you want, I won't complain. — J947 ‡ message ⁓ edits 18:48, 14 November 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User:Inclusionist~enwiki/test5 RfD closure[edit]

Hi J947, I reverted your blanking of the redirect and closure of that RfD because nobody even suggested blanking as an option (hence no opposition) and because it was not even a day old. I don't see any basis for that close in policy and it reads to me as a left-field supervote of a discussion that has barely started, let alone drawn to a close. eviolite (talk) 03:43, 17 November 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  • (sorry, was making a response as you removed it – I think it's important) @Eviolite: not discussing the redirect anymore but the entire point of the close was as a left-field supervote. I would have preferred if one of the participants had disagreed with my close, given I chose an option which I assume would satisfy all. It's completely out of procedure, I acknowledge that, but I saw the discussion as pointless. — J947 ‡ message ⁓ edits 03:52, 17 November 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 22[edit]

Hello everyone, and welcome to the 22nd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter. This issue will be covering new and updated user scripts from the past seven months (June through December 2021).

Scripts Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!

New scripts New scripts

  • Ahecht:
  • Awesome Aasim:
    • Infiniscroll adds infinite scrolling to user contributions, page histories, and log pages.
    • Quick create allows for the fast creation of red-linked pages with two clicks.
  • Caburum:
    • UTCclock adds a clock displaying the current UTC time.
  • Chlod:
  • DaxServer:
    • BooksToSfn adds a portlet link in Visual Editor's source mode editing, in main namespace articles or in the user's Sandbox. When clicked, it converts one {{cite book}} inside a <ref>...</ref> tag block into an {{Sfn}}.
  • FlightTime:
  • Jon Harald Søby:
    • diffedit enables editing directly from viewing a diff "when, for instance, you notice a tiny mistake deep into an article, and don't want to edit the entire article and re-find that one line to fix that tiny mistake".
    • warnOnLargeFile warns you if you're about to open a very large file (width/height >10,000px or file size >100 MB) from a file page.
  • JPxG:
    • PressPass adds a collection of tools for Newspapers.com including configurable automatic citation generation in five different formats.
    • CurrentSwitcher gives you links on the contribs page to hide duplicate entries, current revisions, rollbacks, huggles, twinkles, and redwarns.
    • TrackSum lets you automatically sum the lengths of tracks in templates like {{track listing}} and get total runtimes.
  • Nardog:
    • CopySectLink adds a button to copy the unencoded page title or section path next to each heading.
    • IPAInput allows you to type in IPA symbols by directly looking at an IPA key like Help:IPA/English and clicking on the symbols.
    • TemplatePreviewGuard warns when you try to use "Preview page with this template" with a page that doesn't transclude the template.
  • NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh:
    • ContribsTabVector adds "Contributions" and "Statistics" tabs to user and user talk pages on the Vector skin.
    • CopyvioChecker adds a "CopyvioCheck" tab to all pages, except Special (Vector skin only).
    • LiveDiffLink is a version of Equazcion's LiveDiffLink which shows a wikilink instead of a URL.
    • QuickDiff (by OneTwoThreeFall at Fandom) lets you quickly view any diff link on a wiki, whether on Recent Changes, contribs pages, history pages, the diff view itself, or elsewhere. For more information, view its page on Fandom.
  • Novem Linguae:
    • DetectSNG scans a list of 1,600 SNG keywords and displays them at the top of the article.
    • NotSoFast highlights recently created articles in the new pages feed, to discourage patrolling them too quickly.
    • UserRightsDiff concisely displays what perm was added or removed when viewing Special:UserRights.
    • VoteCounter displays a rough count of keeps and deletes at XFDs, RFCs, etc.
    • WatchlistAFD automatically watchlists the AFDs of any pages you AFC accept or NPP patrol, to help you calibrate your reviewing.
  • P.T.Đ:
  • Qwerfjkl:
    • editRedirect adds a → link after redirects to edit them.
    • RegExTypoFix, a script for fixing typos, is a wrapper for User:Joeytje50/RETF.js.
    • talkback creates links after user talk page links like this: |C|TB (with the first linking to the user's contributions, and the latter giving the option of sending a {{talkback}} notice). It also adds a [copy] link next to section headers.
  • Rublov:
    • diff-link shows "copy" links on history and contributions pages that copy an internal link to the diff (e.g., Special:Diff/1026402230) to your clipboard when clicked.
  • Rummskartoffel:
    • auto-watchlist-expiry automatically watchlists every page you edit for a user-definable duration (you can still pick a different time using the dropdown, though).
    • generate pings generates the wikitext needed to ping all members of a category, up to 50 editors (the limit defined by MediaWiki).
    • share ExpandTemplates url allows for easy sharing of your inputs to Special:ExpandTemplates. It adds a button that, when clicked, copies a shareable URL to your exact invocation of the page, like this. Other editors do not need to have this script installed in order to access the URL generated.
    • show tag names shows the real names of tags next to their display names in places such as page revision histories or the watchlist.
  • Tol:
  • Venkat TL:
    • ColourContrib color-codes the user contributions page so that pages you've edited last are sharply distinguished from pages where another editor was the last to edit the page.
  • Vukky:

All in all, some very neat scripts were written in these last few months. Hoping to see many more in the next issue -- drop us a line on the talk page if you've been writing (or seeing) anything cool and good. Filling in for DannyS712, this has been jp×g. Take care, and merry Christmas! jp×g 07:30, 24 December 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Merry Christmas[edit]

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And a Happy New Year!
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May your holidays be filled with peace and joy. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year! CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 08:13, 26 December 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2021).

Guideline and policy news

  • Following consensus at the 2021 RfA review, the autopatrolled user right has been removed from the administrators user group; admins can grant themselves the autopatrolled permission if they wish to remain autopatrolled.

Arbitration

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  • The functionaries email list (functionaries-en@lists.wikimedia.org) will no longer accept incoming emails apart from those sent by list members and WMF staff. Private concerns, apart from those requiring oversight, should be directly sent to the Arbitration Committee.
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WP:AFC Helper News[edit]

Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.

  • AFCH will now show live previews of the comment to be left on a decline.
  • The template {{db-afc-move}} has been created - this template is similar to {{db-move}} when there is a redirect in the way of an acceptance, but specifically tells the patrolling admin to let you (the draft reviewer) take care of the actual move.

Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Happy Birthday![edit]

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Wishing J947 a very happy birthday on behalf of the Birthday Committee!   Chris Troutman (talk) 11:07, 6 April 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thank you all! :) — J947 ‡ message ⁓ edits 22:55, 6 April 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022[edit]

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Hello J947,

At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.

Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.

In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently 718 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 897 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.

This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.

If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing {{subst:NPR invite}} on their talk page.

If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.

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New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022[edit]

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New Page Review queue June 2022

Hello J947,

Backlog status

At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000[a] at the end of May.

Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.[b]

In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).

While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).

Backlog drive

A backlog reduction drive, coordinated by buidhe and Zippybonzo, will be held from July 1 to July 31. Sign up here. WikiProject Barnstar Hires.png Barnstars will be awarded.

TIP – New school articles

Many new articles on schools are being created by new users in developing and/or non-English-speaking countries. The authors are probably not even aware of Wikipedia's projects and policy pages. WP:WPSCH/AG has some excellent advice and resources specifically written for these users. Reviewers could consider providing such first-time article creators with a link to it while also mentioning that not all schools pass the GNG and that elementary schools are almost certainly not notable.

Misc

There is a new template available, {{NPP backlog}}, to show the current backlog. You can place it on your user or talk page as a reminder:

Low unreviewed pages backlog: 2557 articles, as of 12:00, 9 June 2023 (UTC), according to DatBot

There has been significant discussion at WP:VPP recently on NPP-related matters (Draftification, Deletion, Notability, Verifiability, Burden). Proposals that would somewhat ease the burden on NPP aren't gaining much traction, although there are suggestions that the role of NPP be fundamentally changed to focus only on major CSD-type issues.

Reminders
  • Consider staying informed on project issues by putting the project discussion page on your watchlist.
  • If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, suggest they help the effort by placing {{subst:NPR invite}} on their talk page.
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Notes
  1. ^ not including another ~6,000 redirects
  2. ^ The number of weekly reviews reported in the NPP feed includes redirects, which are not included in the backlog we primarily track.

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NPP July 2022 backlog drive is on![edit]

New Page Patrol | July 2022 Backlog Drive
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  • On 1 July, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin.
  • Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled.
  • Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive.
  • Redirect patrolling is not part of the drive.
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New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022[edit]

New Page Review queue August 2022

Hello J947,

Backlog status

After the last newsletter (No.28, June 2022), the backlog declined another 1,000 to 13,000 in the last week of June. Then the July backlog drive began, during which 9,900 articles were reviewed and the backlog fell by 4,500 to just under 8,500 (these numbers illustrate how many new articles regularly flow into the queue). Thanks go to the coordinators Buidhe and Zippybonzo, as well as all the nearly 100 participants. Congratulations to Dr vulpes who led with 880 points. See this page for further details.

Unfortunately, most of the decline happened in the first half of the month, and the backlog has already risen to 9,600. Understandably, it seems many backlog drive participants are taking a break from reviewing and unfortunately, we are not even keeping up with the inflow let alone driving it lower. We need the other 600 reviewers to do more! Please try to do at least one a day.

Coordination
MB and Novem Linguae have taken on some of the coordination tasks. Please let them know if you are interested in helping out. MPGuy2824 will be handling recognition, and will be retroactively awarding the annual barnstars that have not been issued for a few years.
Open letter to the WMF
The Page Curation software needs urgent attention. There are dozens of bug fixes and enhancements that are stalled (listed at Suggested improvements). We have written a letter to be sent to the WMF and we encourage as many patrollers as possible to sign it here. We are also in negotiation with the Board of Trustees to press for assistance. Better software will make the active reviewers we have more productive.
TIP - Reviewing by subject
Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages by their most familiar subjects can do so from the regularly updated sorted topic list.
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New reviewers
The NPP School is being underused. The learning curve for NPP is quite steep, but a detailed and easy-to-read tutorial exists, and the Curation Tool's many features are fully described and illustrated on the updated page here.
Reminders
  • Consider staying informed on project issues by putting the project discussion page on your watchlist.
  • If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, suggest they help the effort by placing {{subst:NPR invite}} on their talk page.
  • If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.
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"Wikipedia:NECONOMIST" listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

Information.svg An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Wikipedia:NECONOMIST and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 August 19#Wikipedia:ECONOMIST until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 20:14, 19 August 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

NPP message[edit]

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October 2022 New Pages Patrol backlog drive[edit]

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New Page Patrol newsletter October 2022[edit]

Hello J947,

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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 MPGuy2824), and we are now all caught up. The 2021 cup went to John B123 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: Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 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.

NPP backlog May – October 15, 2022

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Backlog:

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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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Happy Sixth First Edit Day![edit]

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Happy First Edit Day![edit]

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Plunket Shield lowest score[edit]

Regarding your recent edit on 2022–23 Plunket Shield season (which I'm about to overwrite with a slightly more clear explanation), I'm reasonably confident that Wellington's 167 run match aggregate is the lowest ever in the Plunket Shield. They did score lower in an 1887 first-class match, but the Plunket Shield did not exist until 1907, so it would still be a Plunket Shield record. Unfortunately I can't seem to find any actual database listing to confirm this, but many news reports (including NZC's own) refer to it as being a Plunket Shield record, so absence any evidence of a Plunket Shield match with a lower single-team aggregate it should be okay to go with. SellymeTalk 08:51, 12 December 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  • @Sellyme: thanks for that. I was surprised the lowest would be so high, but I suppose in the distant past where double collapses like so would've been more likely, there were fairly few Plunket Shield games played (and I forgot it wasn't created until last century). Thanks for your work creating this article by the way – I've kind of observed from sidelines that it's tough for us to keep up to date with all the cricket happening, so it's solid work! J947 † edits 08:58, 12 December 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

South African cricket seasons[edit]

Hello. You're "updating " South African cricketer biogs with en dashes for seasons rather than hyphens, but in some cases – not all – you're introducing errors. For example, with Gerald Bond, you've updated "1929-30" to read "from 1929 to 1930", when the reference is to the single South African cricket season of 1929-30, which began in autumn 1929 and concluded in spring 1930. Fine to make it "1929–30", but the other is wrong. Johnlp (talk) 12:30, 20 December 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  • Hi Johnlp, thank you for telling me. I've corrected all the errors I could spot, and will be more careful. (I do know about cricket; simply haven't been examining the text close enough!) J947 † edits 22:18, 20 December 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thanks. Johnlp (talk) 01:03, 21 December 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

New Pages Patrol newsletter January 2023[edit]

Hello J947,

New Page Review queue December 2022
Backlog

The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to WaddlesJP13 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.

2022 Awards
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Onel5969 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. Rosguill 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!

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 User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js to User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft.js

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 Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 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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International cricket in 2024–25[edit]

Hello. I see you have initiated a discussion for possible deletion of this page. Request you to please look into International cricket in 2024 page as well. Thanks,Vikram Maingi (talk) 14:42, 12 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I shouldn't have joined the discussion[edit]

I've just read the big red message on the discussion. I shouldn't have joined it 3 years ago! -St3095 (?) 13:20, 18 February 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

WikiProject Auckland[edit]

Kia ora! I'm hoping to start up WP:AUCK again as a more active project, so I thought I'd check in with everyone on the list who still edits. Are there any Auckland-related projects that you'd like to work on/currently working on? --Prosperosity (talk) 22:02, 4 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  • @Prosperosity: sorry I can't commit to that, no. You can remove me from that list; I don't think I ever was involved with that dormant WikiProject. J947 † edits 22:13, 4 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
No worries! I can take your name off the list. If you're interested in saying hi (even if you're not planning on editing Auckland articles!), we've restarted regular online and in-person meet-ups - the next one's on the 18th of March. --Prosperosity (talk) 22:18, 4 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

New Page Patrol – May 2023 Backlog Drive[edit]

New Page Patrol | May 2023 Backlog Drive
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May 2023 NPP Drive Award[edit]

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The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar

This award is given to J947 for collecting more than 40 points doing redirect reviews, in the May 2023 NPP backlog reduction drive. Thank you for your help in bringing down the backlog. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 01:36, 5 June 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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