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Backlog drives

NPP backlog

Articles: 12871 ↑86
Oldest article: 3 years old
Redirects: 31
Oldest redirect: 3 days old
Article reviews: 1820
Redirect reviews: 7208

There is a very large articles backlog
The articles backlog is growing very rapidly (↑770 since last week)

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Backlog drives are conducted by the NPP team, whenever we feel that backlog is too high. Usually, they are a month long, and participants are awarded barnstars based on the number of reviews that they complete during the drive.

List of backlog drives

Upcoming drives

Past drives

Previous backlog drives have included:

2024-September (articles and redirects)
2024-May (articles)
2024-January (articles)
2023-October (articles and redirects)
2023-May (redirects)
2022-October (articles)
2022-July (articles)
2021-November (articles)
2018-June (articles)
2018-January (articles and redirects)

For the awards given out to participants in the backlog drives, go to Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Backlog drives/Awards, and Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Backlog drives/Redirect drive awards.

FAQ

Q1: Are redirects counted towards my score?

A1: Yes for a redirect/combined backlog drive. No, for an article-only backlog drive.

Q2: Are old articles counted?

A2: Any and all articles are counted, as long as they are reviewed during the time period of the drive.

Q3: Can re-reviews be completed after the drive period is passed?

A3: Yes. However, the purpose of re-reviewing is to provide feedback to fellow reviewers, which means it's important to complete re-reviews throughout the drive. Re-reviews may be completed for up to 7 days after the drive has ended.

Q4: I have been busy reviewing new pages but I still seem to have a 0 on the leader board. What's the problem?

A4: Please check the following:

You have registered as a participant for the relevant drive on the signup page.
You are reviewing articles/redirects (as appropriate), not AfC drafts.
You are using the page curation toolbar for your reviews.

If all of the above is true, then please leave a message on the drive's talk page. A coordinator will reply ASAP.

Q5: What is the logic behind the streak awards?

A5: A streak as defined by wikitionary is a continuous series of like events. The streak awards are meant to encourage consistency in reviewing among the participants. Let's say that a participant has the following scores for each week during the drive: 70, 30, 100 and 80. In this case, their minimum across all the weeks is 30, and they would get the appropriate streak award based on that number.

Userbox

Participants can place a drive userbox on their userpage using {{Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Backlog drives userbox|X}}. Replace X with the number of drives you have participated in. It displays as follows:

This user has participated in X Backlog Drives with the New pages patrol.

Instructions for coordinators

Before the drive:
- Setup the pages for the drive. Copy the pages from the old drive and make date corrections.
- Move a shell (without a redirect) from Wikipedia talk:Mass message senders#Mass-mail subscription list shells to the correct subpage, to use as a participant list.
- Check with User:Tol whether their bot will be able to keep the leaderboard updated for this drive too.
- Advertise the drive and send out a mass message to New Page Patrollers about 5–10 days before the drive starts. (request this on Wikipedia talk:Mass message senders#MassMessage Delivery Requests, if none of the coordinators have the WP:MMS right).
During the drive:
- Answer questions from participants on the drive/NPP talk page.
- (Optional) Send weekly updates about the drive's progress to the drive talk page and the NPP Reviewer discussion board.
After the drive:
- Update the NPP newsletter draft with the results of the drive.
- Set a 3–4 day deadline for participants to submit their CSD logs.
- Barnstar calculations.
- Award barnstars.