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October lichen task force newsletter
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As a subset of WP:FUNGI, the lichen task force is working to improve coverage of the world's lichens – unique organisms composed of one or more fungal partners with one or more photosynthetic partners. A growing body of evidence suggests that some of the roughly 1000 secondary metabolites produced by various lichens may prove instrumental in our ongoing battle against harmful pathogens. Want to learn more? Join us! |
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It's been another busy month for the task force. Among the accomplishments:
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New Page Patrol newsletter October 2022
[edit]Hello Dr vulpes,
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.
Suggestions:
- There is much enthusiasm over the low backlog, but remember that the "quality and depth of patrolling are more important than speed".
- Reminder: an article should not be tagged for any kind of deletion for a minimum of 15 minutes after creation and it is often appropriate to wait an hour or more. (from the NPP tutorial)
- Reviewers should focus their effort where it can do the most good, reviewing articles. Other clean-up tasks that don't require advanced permissions can be left to other editors that routinely improve articles in these ways (creating Talk Pages, specifying projects and ratings, adding categories, etc.) Let's rely on others when it makes the most sense. On the other hand, if you enjoy doing these tasks while reviewing and it keeps you engaged with NPP (or are guiding a newcomer), then by all means continue.
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Backlog:
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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New Pages Patrol newsletter January 2023
[edit]Hello Dr vulpes,
- 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
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.
- Reminders
- Newsletter feedback - please take this short poll about the newsletter.
- There is live chat with patrollers on the New Page Patrol Discord.
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- If you no longer wish to be a reviewer, please ask any admin to remove you from the group. If you want the tools back again, just ask at PERM.
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New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023
[edit]Hello Dr vulpes,
Backlog
Redirect drive: In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with 23851 reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to 0 (momentarily). Congratulations to Hey man im josh who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by Meena and Greyzxq with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day.
Redirect autopatrol: All administrators without autopatrol have now been added to the redirect autopatrol list. If you see any users who consistently create significant amounts of good quality redirects, consider requesting redirect autopatrol for them here.
WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team, consisting of Sam, Jason and Susana, and also some patches from Jon, has been hard at work updating PageTriage. They are focusing their efforts on modernising the extension's code rather than on bug fixes or new features, though some user-facing work will be prioritised. This will help make sure that this extension is not deprecated, and is easier to work on in the future. In the next month or so, we will have an opt-in beta test where new page patrollers can help test the rewrite of Special:NewPagesFeed, to help find bugs. We will post more details at WT:NPPR when we are ready for beta testers.
Articles for Creation (AFC): All new page reviewers are now automatically approved for Articles for Creation draft reviewing (you do not need to apply at WT:AFCP like was required previously). To install the AFC helper script, visit Special:Preferences, visit the Gadgets tab, tick "Yet Another AFC Helper Script", then click "Save". To find drafts to review, visit Special:NewPagesFeed, and at the top left, tick "Articles for Creation". To review a draft, visit a submitted draft, click on the "More" menu, then click "Review (AFCH)". You can also comment on and submit drafts that are unsubmitted using the script.
You can review the AFC workflow at WP:AFCR. It is up to you if you also want to mark your AFC accepts as NPP reviewed (this is allowed but optional, depends if you would like a second set of eyes on your accept). Don't forget that draftspace is optional, so moves of drafts to mainspace (even if they are not ready) should not be reverted, except possibly if there is conflict of interest.
Pro tip: Did you know that visual artists such as painters have their own SNG? The most common part of this "creative professionals" criteria that applies to artists is WP:ARTIST 4b (solo exhibition, not group exhibition, at a major museum) or 4d (being represented within the permanent collections of two museums).
Reminders
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Happy Christmas
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Merry Christmas, Dr vulpes |
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or whatever else you may celebrate at this time of year. Thank you for all your work on Wikipedia throughout the year and may 2024 prove to be a happy and successful year for you and your family |
Congrats on your adminship!
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Congratulations on your election. You have literally contributed too much by some standards in WP:PERM on your first day. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 09:21, 5 November 2024 (UTC) |
- Congrats! Andre🚐 22:54, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks☺️ @Bunnypranav and @Andrevan. Wish I could do more but this is just a super busy time of the year at work for me. Dr vulpes (Talk) 19:24, 23 November 2024 (UTC)
A Smile for you!
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Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
Cooldudeseven7 join in on the tea talk 12:17, 22 November 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks ☺️Dr vulpes (Talk) 19:23, 23 November 2024 (UTC)
Question from LetMeWrite4U (10:45, 23 November 2024)
[edit]I have written a Christmas Play but don't have $ to publish it. I have several publishing companies interested, but don't have the money they are requesting I pay upfront. --LetMeWrite4U (talk) 10:45, 23 November 2024 (UTC)
- @LetMeWrite4U (talk page watcher) I don't understand. If your work gets published, wouldn't you be the one getting paid through royalties? I dream of horses (Hoofprints) (Neigh at me) 19:06, 23 November 2024 (UTC)
- Hey @LetMeWrite4U, sorry I'm not familiar with this kind of publishing. I've published academic articles in the past but that's very different than the kind of work you're doing. Best of luck in finding a place to publish your material. Dr vulpes (Talk) 19:22, 23 November 2024 (UTC)
Hey! I am currently editing various articles, mainly focused on amusement parks and roller coasters. I've recently discovered an article (Glenwood Caverns amusement park) that needs some serious help. I updated a chunk of it to make it better but so much of its information is outdated and inaccurate. Where would I go to get help and advice with this and other projects?
I've tried the Amusement Park Wiki-page group but it's been dormant when I tried requesting help previously, and it seems to be only used occasionally. --Therguy10 (talk) 17:13, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
Question from OldMiakka47 (17:19, 26 November 2024)
[edit]Hello, I am reaching out to ask about some recent additions that I've added to a few pages on Thanksgiving. My additions have been changed our outright deleted. I am concerned that most of the edits to my additions were done not for stylistic reasons (although one appears to be for that reason); but for whatever reason I cannot determine. Since I did not receive any messages from anyone about my additions I am hopeful that you can please provide some guidance. To be clear I am not casting aspersions on anyone's motives on their edits to my additions. However, I am just trying to better understand how I can appropriately add the cited and resource linked information. Thank you in advance for your expert response. Respectfully, --OldMiakka47 (talk) 17:19, 26 November 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @OldMiakka47, so part of the problem is that you're adding references to articles as links instead of formatting them as a reference. Read this help page and try to add your references again. Help:VisualEditor#Adding_a_new_reference Dr vulpes (Talk) 21:07, 26 November 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you, Dr. Vulpes. I appreciate your response. I am still a little confused since my initial additions were direct quotes from sources I cited. However, as far as external links I'll review the Help page you referenced for further guidance. Thanks again for your assistance and if you have any additional guidance on the above issue it would be greatly appreciated. OldMiakka47 (talk) 23:23, 26 November 2024 (UTC)
Question from JP Mishra 0739 (10:28, 7 December 2024)
[edit]hello , sir i have an article in my sandbox can you help me to publish it in main space
November 2024 WikiProject Unreferenced articles backlog drive – award
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This award is given in recognition to Dr vulpes for collecting more than 8.0 points during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's NOV24 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing over 8,000 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! – DreamRimmer Alt (talk) 18:04, 12 December 2024 (UTC) |
Sir, I don't know how to create a article, can you please help me with that.
Thank you, --Royale kk (talk) 17:50, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
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Question from JP Mishra 0739 (05:55, 21 December 2024)
[edit]I hope you're doing well. I recently created a Wikipedia page titled "Ankur Malik", and it has been more than 20 days since its publication. However, it is still not appearing in Google search results. I have ensured that the page complies with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.
I suspect there might be an issue with indexing or something else that I might have overlooked. Could you please help me identify if there’s anything that needs to be fixed or optimized for the page to appear in search results?
Any guidance or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for your time and support! --JP Mishra 0739 (talk) 05:55, 21 December 2024 (UTC)