Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Backlog drives/January 2025
Please consider signing up for the January 2025 NPP backlog drive.
| Tutorial | Discussion | New page feed | Reviewers | Curation tool Suggestions | Coordination |
- Articles
- 15621 ↑103
- Oldest article
- 5 years old
- Redirects
- 2139
- Oldest redirect
- 5 months old
- Article reviews
- 1724
- Redirect reviews
- 5882
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There is a very large articles backlog -
The articles backlog is growing very rapidly (↑856 since last week)
The January 2025 New Pages Patrol Backlog Drive is a one-month-long effort to reduce the backlog of the new pages patrol articles and redirects feed. The coordinators for this drive are Hey man im josh and DreamRimmer. The drive will begin January 1, 2025 (00:00 UTC), and end February 1, 2025 (00:00 UTC). The ultimate goal of this backlog drive is to reduce the number of articles and redirects awaiting patrol, whilst maintaining quality reviews. Awards will be given out to the participants based on their contributions during the drive. If you have any questions, please leave a message on this drive's talk page.
Points
[edit]- Points: Points will be calculated based on the 30-day total according to the leaderboard. It is updated by BaranBOT, which counts patrols, draftifications, and deletion nominations, but can only detect deletion nominations when performed with the Page Curation tool. We will 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. Participants will have 3 days (until February 4, 2025, at 00:00 UTC) to submit these logs on the drive's talk page after the drive has ended.
- Articles are worth 1 point.
- Redirects are worth 0.2 points, so as to encourage a focus on article reviews.
- 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, credit is also given for re-reviews. To find articles to re-review, participants are encouraged to visit the leaderboard section and check any reviewer's log. Please make sure that an article was not a redirect at the time it was reviewed and that it's not already been re-reviewed by another participant. Participants are allowed to submit re-reviews for 4 days following the completion of the drive. You are encouraged to focus on re-reviewing articles from other drive participants over non-participants. All re-reviews are to be submitted by February 4, 2025, at 00:00 UTC.
Sign up
[edit]In order to participate, you must have the New Page Reviewer user permission, which can be requested here.
To sign up for the drive, click the button below and add your user talk page to the participants list. If you are not on the sign up list your stats will not be included in the leaderboard.
Backlog charts
[edit]Will be added prior to the start of the backlog drive.
Articles before drive
[edit]Will be added prior to the start of the backlog drive.
Redirects before drive
[edit]Will be added prior to the start of the backlog drive.
Leaderboard
[edit]Will be added prior to the start of the backlog drive.
Awards
[edit]Awards will be given by the coordinators after the drive has ended. Participants can 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 can earn 0.2 points for reviewing a redirect or nominating it for deletion.
| Image | Minimum | Template |
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5 points | The Invisible Barnstar |
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10 points | The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar |
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25 points | The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
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50 points | The Reviewer Barnstar |
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100 points | The New Page Patroller's Barnstar |
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200 points | The Special Edition New Page Patroller's Barnstar |
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500 points | The Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia |
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Re-reviewing 25 articles |
The Teamwork Barnstar |
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The person who accumulates the most redirect reviews during the drive will receive the Redirect Ninja Award. | |
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In addition, the person who accumulates the most points during the drive will receive the Content Review Medal of Merit. | |
Streak awards
[edit]For the streak awards, the weeks were defined as follows:
- Week 1: January 1 – January 7
- Week 2: January 8 – January 14
- Week 3: January 15 – January 21
- Week 4: January 22 – January 31
| Image | Minimum Streak | Name |
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7 points per week | Worm Gear |
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15 points per week | Rack and pinion |
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25 points per week | Geneva mechanism |
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50 points per week | Asymmetric Epicyclic Gears |
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100 points per week | Planetary Gear |
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150 points per week | Unnecessarily complicated Gears |
Re-reviewing
[edit]To re-review articles, list your name at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Backlog drives/January 2025/Re-reviews followed by a numbered list of the articles you have re-reviewed. You are encouraged to focus on re-reviewing articles from other drive participants over non-participants. To find articles to re-review, go to Wikipedia: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.