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New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024

Hello Tol/Archives/2024,

Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.

Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.

Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.

It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!

2023 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.

Recruitment: A couple of the coordinators have been inviting editors to become reviewers, via mass-messages to their talk pages. If you know someone who you'd think would make a good reviewer, then a personal invitation to them would be great. Additionally, if there are Wikiprojects that you are active on, then you can add a post there asking participants to join NPP. Please be careful not to double invite folks that have already been invited.

Reviewing tip: Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages within their most familiar subjects can use the regularly updated NPP Browser tool.

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Question from Mr.doomguy22 (16:32, 11 April 2024)

Hello,Can I Add New Infos? --Mr.doomguy22 (talk) 16:32, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, @Mr.doomguy22; welcome to Wikipedia! You're more than welcome to add new information, as long as it follows some basic content policies (for instance, that it's neutral and verifiable), and is on a notable topic. Tol (talk | contribs) @ 21:28, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New page patrol May 2024 Backlog drive

New Page Patrol \| May 2024 Articles Backlog Drive
On 1 May 2024, 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. Each review will earn 1 point. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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Question from Executor53 (10:16, 16 April 2024)

Hi, How do I insert a reference into the reference section, which is another Wikipedia page? --Executor53 (talk) 10:16, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, @Executor53; welcome to Wikipedia! You can learn how to add references here. Feel free to let me know if you have any further questions. Tol (talk | contribs) @ 17:21, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Jimohrasheed1 (16:27, 16 April 2024)

I would like to add my biography on Wikipedia --Jimohrasheed1 (talk) 16:27, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, @Jimohrasheed1; welcome to Wikipedia! While we welcome contributors to write new articles, I would strongly advise you against writing an article about yourself, as this would be a conflict of interest. This would make it substantially more difficult to remain compliant with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, such as ensuring that a topic is notable and writing with a neutral point of view. If you are still sure that you want to write about yourself, please read the entirety of the conflict of interest guidelines that I linked. If you'd like some information on editing Wikipedia more generally, you can go through a tutorial here. Feel free to let me know if you have any further questions. Tol (talk | contribs) @ 19:27, 19 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]