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Growth team newsletter #21

13:03, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

NPP - Quarry

Hi. Would you be able to quickly do a search similar to this 2018 activity report, but based on the last 12 months from 1 July 2021 up to and including 30 June 2022? It would be really helpful if you could and and post the link to it on my talk page. If you can't, let me know and I'll try to find someone else. Cheers, Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 01:28, 7 July 2022 (UTC)

@Kudpung https://quarry.wmcloud.org/query/65845Insertcleverphrasehere(or here)(or here)(or here) 22:41, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
Thanks. You've no idea how much I appreciate this. Like you, RL has got in the way of Wikipedia and I've had to drag myself out of semi-retirement to bully the NPPers into organising themselves into some semblance of coordination. MB is now doing a grand job, and I'll soon be able to return to my convalescence from a particularly long and distressing confrontation with a world-wide pandemic.

Administrators' newsletter – July 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2022).

Technical news

  • user_global_editcount is a new variable that can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (T130439)

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • The New Pages Patrol queue has around 10,000 articles to be reviewed. As all administrators have the patrol right, please consider helping out. The queue is here. For further information on the state of the project, see the latest NPP newsletter.

The Signpost: 1 August 2022

NPP Barnstars

Hi, it looks like you last awarded these out (in 2018). I've just volunteered to do this and had a few questions:

  1. Quarry: I'd prefer not to make any mistakes while starting out, so could you take a look at this to see if there are any errors?
  2. Can I move this section from your userspace, to an appropriate page within the NPP project? -MPGuy2824 (talk) 08:00, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
  3. When you gave out the barnstars last time, did you separate the redirects from the article reviews? If so, can you tell me the way to distinguish the two types of reviews i a quarry? -MPGuy2824 (talk) 04:42, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
    @MPGuy2824 1: no idea, I was never very good at coding, I always asked for help (WP:QUARRY). 2: whatever you want. 3: I don't think I could figure out a way to do that. — Insertcleverphrasehere(or here)(or here)(or here) 20:29, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).

Administrator changes

readded Valereee
removed Anthony Appleyard (deceased) • CapitalistroadsterSamsara

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
  • An RfC has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.

Technical news

  • The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
  • Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. (T308570)

Arbitration

  • The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

  • You can vote for candidates in the 2022 Board of Trustees elections from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election.
  • Wikimania 2022 is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed here. There are also a number of in-person events associated with Wikimania around the world.
  • Tech tip: When revision-deleting on desktop, hold ⇧ Shift between clicking two checkboxes to select every box in that range.

New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022

New Page Review queue August 2022

Hello Insertcleverphrasehere,

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.
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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Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:24, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

Discord wikiauthbot

Hey ICPH. I hope you're doing well. I made a post in WT:NPPR and generated some traffic and new users to the NPP Discord server. I'm getting some requests to set up wikiauthbot so people can authenticate their wikipedia accounts. Would this be OK? If so, I can either handle everything (by assigning me the "manage server" permission) or you can add the bot at this link. Thanks. –Novem Linguae (talk) 17:10, 7 August 2022 (UTC)

@Novem Linguae Done. — Insertcleverphrasehere(or here)(or here)(or here) 22:01, 7 August 2022 (UTC)
Awesome. Thank you. One more request if I may. Currently no one except you can award the user right "Verified Patroller" because it is listed as the #1 rank in the list of permissions. Would you be willing to right click server icon -> Server Settings -> Roles and drag "Moderator" (a new rank I just created) to the top? And then drag "Coordinator or Admin" to #2? That should fix the issue. Or if you have other ideas let me know! –Novem Linguae (talk) 03:23, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
P.S. The only difference between "Moderator" and "Coordinator or Admin" is that a "Moderator" can assign new people the rank of "Coordinator or Admin". If you want to be the only person that does that, feel free to delete the "Moderator" role I created and just drag "Coordinator or Admin" to the top spot. –Novem Linguae (talk) 03:27, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
Wikiauthbot is all set up. I also added a bunch of people as verified patrollers. Should be all set. Thank you my friend. –Novem Linguae (talk) 06:40, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

NPP Award

The New Page Reviewer's Silver Award

For over 2,000 article reviews during 2017-18. Well done! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 05:32, 17 August 2022 (UTC)

Insertcleverphrasehere, I assume that you didn't get this award, since you were the one giving out the barnstars that year.

You've also marked Anaxial as qualifying for a bronze for 2017, but not awarded, can you look at this and see if they deserve the award now? They haven't done any reviews since 2018. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 05:32, 17 August 2022 (UTC)

Nope, I never did receive one of these. Thanks very much for the appreciation. Yeah it's probably fine, give them the award, might coax them out of retirement. Cheers, — Insertcleverphrasehere(or here)(or here)(or here) 06:52, 17 August 2022 (UTC)

New page production

I think most NPPers are agreed that some new measures are going to be needed soon to stem the tide of dubious new articles in order to reduce the workload for patrollers and AfC. It's probably unlikely that we would be able to raise the bar as we did with ACTRIAL, which worked fine for a while, and the Foundation is still reluctant to do any more required enhancements to the PageTriage software they created in 2012 and updated in 2018. I'm working on an idea that might help without treading on the toes of diehard Wikipedia conservatives; I think there's a fair chance my idea would gain some traction - it would certainly get a lot of comment and I need a stack of stats to back it up:

Sample period: 12 recent months.
  1. Number of new articles.
  2. Number of new articles created by users with < 90 days/500 edits.
  3. Number of new articles created by autopatrolled users.
  4. Number of new articles draftified.
  5. Number of new articles submitted to AfC
  6. Number of new articles deleted (by any deletion process).
  7. Number of NPPers who have not edited en.Wiki for 12 months.
  8. Number of NPPers who have not done any reviews for 12 months.

Stats on one graph:

  1. Number of new articles created by year over the last 5 years
  2. Number of new articles created but deleted by year over the last 5 years

I realise all this this might be a tall order, but is it something you could do? Or perhaps share some of the tasks with Novem Linguae? Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 05:18, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

WP:QUERY is likely to be the best place to get this info. Most of this is SQL query-able. If ICPH agrees, maybe repost this there. If they decline to do it because we're asking too much at one time, I can knock out a couple of the easy ones. –Novem Linguae (talk) 08:36, 20 August 2022 (UTC)
@Kudpung I agree with @Novem Linguae; ask at WP:QUERY. The folks over there are ridiculously efficient at putting together custom queries for whatever info you might need. While I used to run a lot of queries, I actually know little to nothing about coding queries myself, and mostly just asked other people for help putting them together, and then cobbled others together using common sense. — Insertcleverphrasehere(or here)(or here)(or here) 11:02, 20 August 2022 (UTC)
Novem Linguae, Ok, I'll ask there. NL, you seem to be a regular there, perhaps when I've made my request you could endorse it? Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 11:10, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

NPP message

Hi Insertcleverphrasehere,

Invitation

For those who may have missed it in our last newsletter, here's a quick reminder to see the letter we have drafted, and if you support it, do please go ahead and sign it. If you already signed, thanks. Also, if you haven't noticed, the backlog has been trending up lately; all reviews are greatly appreciated.

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NPP Award for 2020

The New Page Reviewer's Iron Award

For over 360 article reviews during 2020. Thank you for patrolling new pages and helping us out with the backlog! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 02:56, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

Here is a barnstar to show appreciation for the NPP reviews you did back in 2020. We realize this is late, but NPP fell behind in some coordination activities. We are just getting caught up. If you don't want to receive "old" barnstars, please just ignore this and reply (with a ping) to let us know not to send you any more. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 02:56, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

NPP Award for 2019

The New Page Patroller's Barnstar

For over 100 article reviews during 2019. Thank you for patrolling new pages and helping us out with the backlog! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:58, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

Here is a barnstar to show appreciation for the NPP reviews you did back in 2019. We realize this is late, but NPP fell behind in some coordination activities. We are almost caught up. If you don't want to receive "old" barnstars, please just ignore this and reply to let us know not to send you any more. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:58, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 August 2022

Administrators' newsletter – September 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2022).

Guideline and policy news

  • A discussion is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
  • An RfC is open to gain consensus on whether Fox News is reliable for science and politics.

Technical news

Arbitration

  • An arbitration case regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing has been closed. The Arbitration Committee passed a remedy as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD).
  • The arbitration case request Jonathunder has been automatically closed after a 6 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

  • The new pages patrol (NPP) team has prepared an appeal to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for assistance with addressing Page Curation bugs and requested features. You are encouraged to read the open letter before it is sent, and if you support it, consider signing it. It is not a discussion, just a signature will suffice.
  • Voting for candidates for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees is open until 6 September.

Board of Trustees election

Thank you for supporting the NPP initiative to improve WMF support of the Page Curation tools. Another way you can help is by voting in the Board of Trustees election. The next Board composition might be giving attention to software development. The election closes on 6 September at 23:59 UTC. View candidate statement videos and Vote Here. MB 03:30, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

NPP Award for 2018

The New Page Reviewer's Iron Award

For over 360 article reviews during 2018. Thank you for patrolling new pages and helping us out with the backlog! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 03:13, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

Here is a barnstar to show appreciation for the NPP reviews you did back in 2018. We realize this is late, but NPP fell behind in some coordination activities. We have just caught up with giving out deserved barnstars. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 03:13, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

Growth team newsletter #22

17:18, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

October 2022 New Pages Patrol backlog drive

New Page Patrol | October 2022 backlog drive
  • On 1 October, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin.
  • Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled and for maintaining a streak throughout the drive.
  • Barnstars will also be awarded for re-reviewing articles.
  • Redirect patrolling is not part of the drive.
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(t · c) buidhe 21:16, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 September 2022

Administrators' newsletter – October 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2022).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The Articles for creation helper script now automatically recognises administrator accounts which means your name does not need to be listed at WP:AFCP to help out. If you wish to help out at AFC, enable AFCH by navigating to Preferences → Gadgets and checking the "Yet Another AfC Helper Script" box.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


The Signpost: 31 October 2022

Administrators' newsletter – November 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2022).

Guideline and policy news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


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Growth team newsletter #23

20:57, 29 November 2022 (UTC)