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NPP backlog

Articles: 12150 ↑280
Oldest article: 5 years old
Redirects: 252
Oldest redirect: 4 months old
Article reviews: 1637
Redirect reviews: 5087

There is a very large articles backlog
The articles backlog is growing rapidly (↑661 since last week)

The following event is now closed. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate talk page.

The October 2023 New Page Patrol Backlog Drive was a one-month-long effort to reduce the backlog of the new pages patrol articles and redirects feed. The coordinators for this drive were Hey man im josh, Illusion Flame, and DreamRimmer. The drive began on 1 October 2023 and ended on 31 October 2023. The ultimate goal of this backlog drive was to reduce the number of articles and redirects awaiting patrol, whilst maintaining quality reviews. Awards were given out to participants based on their contributions during the drive. This drive has ended.

Points

Points were calculated based on the month's total, according to the leaderboard. It was updated by TolBot Task 8, which counted patrols and deletion nominations, but could only detect deletion nominations when performed with the Page Curation tool. CSD logs made by Twinkle were also accepted and added to the leaderboard at the end of the drive, based on the principle of good faith.

The article reviews received 1 point, and the redirect reviews received 0.25 points. Reviewers were encouraged to patrol both articles and redirects.

Sign up

This drive has now concluded and is no longer open for sign-ups.
The users who participated in this drive can be seen here.

Backlog charts

There were 11,626 unreviewed articles and 16,985 unreviewed redirects, at the start of the drive (1 October 2023). At the end of the drive (31 October 2023), there were 7,609 unreviewed articles and 6,431 unreviewed redirects.

Articles before drive

Redirects before drive

Articles after drive

Redirects after drive

Closing

On November 1st, the coordinators will begin the process of closing the drive following these steps:

Unnecessary Re-calculate point totals using the query.
- Subtract points from query from participants score.
Done Evaluate re-reviews.
- YStrike incorrect/misguided re-reviews.
- YStrike redirect re-reviews as they are ineligible.
- YGive out re-reviewing award.
In progress Update documentation.
- YPost final graph after drive.
- Y Retarget header link back to main page.
- YAdd note that drive has ended to page.
- Add a final update statement with backlog stats, etc. to newsletter draft.
- YAny other post drive cleanup.
Done Distribute barnstars.
- Y Give out regular, point based awards.
- Y Give out streak awards.

Leaderboard

Known Issue: Redirects at RFD count as an article patrol (1 point) instead of a redirect patrol (.25). Manual adjustments will be made when the drive has concluded.

From User:TolBot/Task 8/Drives/2023-10 New Page Patrol/leaderboard

User	Log	Total	Patrol	Deletion tag	Draftify	Redirect patrol	Redirect deletion tag	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4
Schminnte	log	2343.5	1673	0	74	596.5	0.0	1064.0	847.25	271.25	161.0
Utopes	log	1562.0	381	0	10	1171.0	0.0	809.25	413.25	177.0	162.5
Hey man im josh	log	1318.75	542	0	43	733.75	0.0	727.0	212.75	206.25	172.75
JTtheOG	log	1307.25	1296	0	2	9.25	0.0	386.0	260.75	235.5	425.0
Thilsebatti	log	1032.75	1015	0	1	16.75	0.0	221.0	315.0	210.0	286.75
FuzzyMagma	log	771.5	695	27	21	28.0	0.5	207.5	221.0	155.75	187.25
Simon Peter Hughes	log	700.25	672	11	13	4.25	0.0	150.0	168.5	136.75	245.0
Wikishovel	log	689.25	551	0	40	98.25	0.0	112.25	252.75	166.0	158.25
SunDawn	log	580.5	500	3	12	65.5	0.0	105.25	149.75	151.25	174.25
Stuartyeates	log	565.75	201	3	0	361.75	0.0	87.25	87.5	109.5	281.5
Joseywales1961	log	550.25	400	13	4	132.5	0.75	109.75	116.75	138.75	185.0
Pichpich	log	533.75	498	2	2	31.5	0.25	135.5	105.75	152.0	140.5
Shellwood	log	514.25	297	3	0	214.25	0.0	103.75	221.25	162.0	27.25
Significa liberdade	log	512.25	169	48	69	226.0	0.25	68.0	193.0	108.0	143.25
Greyzxq	log	455.75	146	8	0	300.25	1.5	130.5	110.0	73.0	142.25
Reading Beans	log	455.25	436	0	15	4.25	0.0	301.75	36	106.5	11
ULPS	log	454.5	242	1	0	210.75	0.75	276.25	96.75	61.25	20.25
Praseodymium-141	log	369.5	174	0	18	177.5	0.0	92.75	121.75	89.25	65.75
Ratnahastin	log	362.75	311	1	7	43.75	0.0	65.25	12.0	0	285.5
MicrobiologyMarcus	log	358.75	260	35	16	47.0	0.75	52.0	112.25	90.5	104.0
Slgrandson	log	343.25	328	1	0	14.25	0.0	118.5	18.0	75.25	131.5
Rosguill	log	288.75	235	0	34	19.75	0.0	47.5	120.75	32.0	88.5
JackFromWisconsin	log	285.75	281	2	1	1.75	0.0	118.0	112.5	55.25	0
TheChunky	log	284.75	148	3	18	115.75	0.0	1	18.25	49.25	216.25
Hughesdarren	log	278.0	255	15	5	3.0	0.0	0	116.0	79.0	83.0
Tails Wx	log	251.75	201	0	4	41.25	5.5	61.0	35.5	77.25	78.0
Justiyaya	log	249.0	120	28	38	62.75	0.25	90.0	54.5	52.5	52.0
DreamRimmer	log	226.25	138	0	0	88.25	0.0	169.25	38.5	10.25	8.25
Illusion Flame	log	225.25	144	2	3	59.75	16.5	94.25	5.25	112.5	13.25
Edward-Woodrow	log	203.75	80	15	20	88.5	0.25	126.25	60.0	3	14.5
Raydann	log	177.25	117	6	5	49.25	0.0	43.75	93.25	30.25	10
Lightburst	log	154.0	142	6	4	2.0	0.0	31.25	33.25	75.25	14.25
Skynxnex	log	152.75	101	5	1	44.25	1.5	39.5	21.25	51.75	40.25
Dan arndt	log	148.5	76	0	72	0.5	0.0	0	0	1	147.5
Paul Vaurie	log	127.25	109	1	17	0.25	0.0	66.25	15	13	33
ARandomName123	log	121.75	72	5	23	21.5	0.25	0	48.25	34.75	38.75
Sohom Datta	log	121.5	98	19	0	4.5	0.0	45.75	31.25	15.25	29.25
Rkieferbaum	log	121.25	98	1	3	19.0	0.25	53.75	5.75	27.25	34.5
TartarTorte	log	121.0	55	21	2	42.5	0.5	25.75	32.0	16.0	47.25
Voorts	log	112.75	58	6	13	35.75	0.0	42.0	43.25	17.25	10.25
InterstellarGamer12321	log	112.0	44	0	0	68.0	0.0	26.25	34.0	23.75	28.0
Chris troutman	log	108.5	67	30	0	11.5	0.0	24.75	1.25	32.5	50.0
Maliner	log	107.25	36	4	67	0.25	0.0	41	10.25	31	25
Kj cheetham	log	99.75	99	0	0	0.75	0.0	50	23.25	13	13.5
Gobonobo	log	96.25	39	0	5	52.25	0.0	8.25	5.75	37.25	45.0
Umakant Bhalerao	log	93.25	86	4	2	1.25	0.0	29.25	24.5	7	32.5
Idoghor Melody	log	92.0	46	1	18	27.0	0.0	74.75	12.25	2	3
DoubleGrazing	log	85.0	29	6	36	14.0	0.0	24.75	19.0	16.25	25.0
Qwerfjkl	log	74.25	7	0	0	67.25	0.0	17.25	22.0	15.75	19.25
ClydeFranklin	log	73.75	40	5	1	27.75	0.0	62.25	4.25	1.5	5.75
Clovermoss	log	70.75	56	0	2	12.75	0.0	65.5	1	0	4.25
CNMall41	log	62.75	38	15	9	0.75	0.0	5	18.25	14	25.5
PatrickJWelsh	log	59.5	49	9	1	0.5	0.0	0	0	9	50.5
GMH Melbourne	log	56.5	35	0	2	19.5	0.0	29.25	23.25	0.25	3.75
BeanieFan11	log	54.0	53	0	1	0.0	0.0	9	8	11	26
Vanamonde93	log	54.0	26	4	1	23.0	0.0	13.25	3.25	0	37.5
Adamtt9	log	53.25	46	2	0	5.0	0.25	2.25	5	8	38.0
Owain.davies	log	53.25	31	12	0	10.0	0.25	24.25	29	0	0
Lightoil	log	53.0	40	4	6	2.25	0.75	21.25	8	0.25	23.5
Troutfarm27	log	50.5	49	0	0	1.5	0.0	2.25	4	15.75	28.5
The9Man	log	46.75	39	1	2	4.75	0.0	21.75	18.75	1	5.25
Skarmory	log	45.0	26	0	0	19.0	0.0	16.0	13.75	8.75	6.5
EggRoll97	log	41.75	10	7	5	19.75	0.0	22.0	15.75	2	2
Actualcpscm	log	37.75	24	12	1	0.75	0.0	1	25	7.25	4.5
Balph Eubank	log	36.5	36	0	0	0.5	0.0	36.5	0	0	0
Deauthorized	log	36.0	17	0	5	14.0	0.0	20.5	3.5	3.0	9.0
Alpha3031	log	31.25	31	0	0	0.25	0.0	9	7	8	7.25
JeBonSer	log	30.75	30	0	0	0.75	0.0	30.75	0	0	0
Whoisjohngalt	log	29.0	29	0	0	0.0	0.0	0	6	12	11
Eejit43	log	25.5	7	0	1	17.5	0.0	17.25	0	0	8.25
3PPYB6	log	23.5	21	0	0	2.5	0.0	23.5	0	0	0
Goldsztajn	log	23.5	21	1	0	1.5	0.0	16.25	5.25	1	1
IceBergYYC	log	23.5	5	1	0	17.5	0.0	21.0	0	2.5	0
Curb Safe Charmer	log	23.25	7	0	3	13.25	0.0	8	12.75	1.0	1.5
Bungle	log	19.25	3	4	0	12.0	0.25	0	0	0	19.25
Ibjaja055	log	19.0	7	5	7	0.0	0.0	1	9	6	3
Seawolf35	log	18.75	3	2	12	1.25	0.5	2	1	2	13.75
333-blue	log	18.0	18	0	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0	18
Ganesha811	log	17.0	7	2	0	8.0	0.0	0	16.0	1	0
Bruxton	log	16.25	15	1	0	0.25	0.0	0	0	0	16.25
Joe Roe	log	14.5	14	0	0	0.5	0.0	5	8.25	0	1.25
FormalDude	log	14.0	7	1	6	0.0	0.0	2	0	9	3
Siroxo	log	14.0	14	0	0	0.0	0.0	0	1	11	2
JML1148	log	13.5	3	5	2	3.5	0.0	13.5	0	0	0
J947	log	13.25	1	0	0	12.25	0.0	13.25	0	0	0
Robertsky	log	13.25	8	2	0	3.25	0.0	0.5	3.25	3	6.5
AlexandraAVX	log	10.5	2	0	0	8.5	0.0	1.5	0	0	9.0
The Night Watch	log	10.25	6	0	0	4.25	0.0	2.75	1.5	1.5	4.5
VickKiang	log	10.25	9	1	0	0.25	0.0	3	1	4.25	2
Less Unless	log	10.0	8	0	2	0.0	0.0	0	0	8	2
DannyS712	log	9.25	9	0	0	0.25	0.0	0	0	0	9.25
C1K98V	log	8.5	6	1	1	0.5	0.0	3.25	0	0	5.25
The Grid	log	8.5	6	0	2	0.5	0.0	0	0	0	8.5
Jamiebuba	log	8.0	1	0	7	0.0	0.0	2	2	0	4
Oronsay	log	6.0	6	0	0	0.0	0.0	6	0	0	0
AirshipJungleman29	log	5.75	1	0	4	0.75	0.0	1.25	2.25	0	2.25
Macaddct1984	log	5.0	2	3	0	0.0	0.0	4	1	0	0
QuicoleJR	log	5.0	3	0	0	2.0	0.0	2.5	2.25	0	0.25
Sirdog	log	5.0	5	0	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	2	3
StarTrekker	log	4.25	4	0	0	0.25	0.0	1.25	1	0	2
ThadeusOfNazereth	log	3.25	1	0	0	2.25	0.0	2.25	1	0	0
Yeeno	log	3.0	3	0	0	0.0	0.0	3	0	0	0
Meena	log	2.25	2	0	0	0.25	0.0	0.25	1	1	0
Bogger	log	2.0	2	0	0	0.0	0.0	0	2	0	0
Egeymi	log	2.0	2	0	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	1	1
Gazal world	log	2.0	2	0	0	0.0	0.0	2	0	0	0
Wikieditor019	log	2.0	1	0	1	0.0	0.0	0	0	1	1
Zippybonzo	log	1.5	0	0	0	1.5	0.0	1.5	0	0	0
Red-tailed hawk	log	1.25	1	0	0	0.25	0.0	1.25	0	0	0
PK650	log	1.0	1	0	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0	1
Paul W	log	1.0	1	0	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0	1
Smasongarrison	log	1.0	1	0	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	1	0
Andrew Davidson	log	0.0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0	0
Cinemaniac86	log	0.0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0	0
Curbon7	log	0.0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0	0
HitroMilanese	log	0.0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0	0
Jmertel23	log	0.0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0	0
Kingsif	log	0.0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0	0
Lklundin	log	0.0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0	0
Rangasyd	log	0.0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0	0
Shushugah	log	0.0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0	0
SportingFlyer	log	0.0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0	0
Total		21715.75	14719	436	822	5707.0	31.75	7227.75	5374.0	3965.0	5149.0

Awards

Awards were given out by the coordinators after the drive had ended. Participants could 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 could earn 0.25 points for reviewing a redirect or nominating it for deletion.

This is the scheme for the awards:

Image	Minimum	Template
	5 points	The Invisible Barnstar
	10 points	The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
	25 points	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	50 points	The Reviewer Barnstar
	100 points	The New Page Patroller's Barnstar
	200 points	The Special Edition New Page Patroller's Barnstar
	500 points	The Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia
	Re-reviewing 25 articles	The Teamwork Barnstar
	In addition, the person who accumulates the most points during the backlog elimination drive, will receive the Content Review Medal of Merit

Streak awards

For the streak awards, the weeks were defined as follows:

Week 1: October 1 – October 7
Week 2: October 8 – October 14
Week 3: October 15 – October 21
Week 4: October 22 – October 31

Image	Minimum Streak	Name
	7 points per week	Worm Gear
	15 points per week	Rack and pinion
	25 points per week	Geneva mechanism
	50 points per week	Asymmetric Epicyclic Gears
	100 points per week	Planetary Gear
	150 points per week	Unnecessarily complicated Gears

Re-reviewing

To re-review articles, list your name at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Backlog drives/October 2023/Re-reviews followed by a numbered list of the articles you have re-reviewed. 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.