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I'm bringing this to your user talk page because it has little to do with the ongoing content dispute at Talk:Scientific_American. You stated there that opinion pieces are not considered a secondary source. That's not quite accurate. Per WP:SECONDARY, whether a source is considered primary or secondary is context-dependent, and independent of whether it is considered reliable. The problem with using WP:RSEDITORIAL sources for claims about anything other than the author's opinion is that they are rarely reliable for statements of fact and thus do not typically confer DUE weight, not that they aren't SECONDARY analysis. I'll admit that this is a rather arcane topic, but I thought it warranted saying. Cheers, Generalrelative (talk) 04:27, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
No worries, Generalrelative. To be specific, opinion pieces are so defined by footnote d in WP:PRIMARY (editorials, op-eds, columns, blogs, and other opinion pieces, including (depending on context) reviews and interviews) but it's not something that comes up very often so not usually very useful except when discussing obscure points of policy, since primary sources could well be independent, reliable and useful for the purposes we're using them for. Alpha3031 (t • c) 06:19, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
Question from Reinkanyeted (19:47, 17 October 2023)
I recently edited the page for Graduation (album) by Kanye West. I edited the critical reception part from "was met with generally positive reviews" to "was met with widespread critical acclaim." I have reviewed the ratings for Graduation for many hours, and can confidently say that Graduation deserves the "widespread critical acclaim" acknowledgement. What are your thoughts? --Reinkanyeted (talk) 19:47, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi Reinkanyeted. In general, we would expect a strong claim like "widespread critical acclaim" to be supported by equally strong sources. This could be a secondary source (evaluating the other reviews) explicitly stating the same claim where that source is generally considered reliable for such a claim. Alternatively, if there are no such sources available, it should be immediately obvious without spending hours reviewing things, even to people who may be less familiar with the subject than you are. Otherwise, I would recommend considering whether a less strongly worded phrase may be more appropriately supported by the available sources. Alpha3031 (t • c) 09:18, 18 October 2023 (UTC)
How do schools decide on budgeting for sports programs for the whole year with so many sports in the midwest: cross country, golf, basketball, football, track, field hockey, volleyball,soccer, bowling, and academic programs: speech, drama, model united nations, home economics, literature club, student council, library club, computer club, journalism and yearbook, photography, homecoming events, mathematics club, physics and chemistry club, law club, human development club, sociology club, and psychology club. I would like to know the top schools in the midwest for these subjects. --Wonderstatista (talk) 00:22, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi Isahmhassan, there's a guide to uploading images at Wikipedia:Uploading images that you should read if you want to do so. The most important thing to consider is the copyright of the image, but it should generally also have a relevant educational purpose. Alpha3031 (t • c) 23:15, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
November Articles for creation backlog drive
Hello Alpha3031:
WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.
This award is given to Alpha3031 for collecting more than 7 points per week in the October 2023 NPP backlog drive. Thank you so much for your continuous contributions to the drive! - 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆(𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 01:47, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
October 2023 NPP backlog drive – Points award
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
This award is given to Alpha3031 for collecting more than 25 points during the October 2023 NPP backlog drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to the drive! Hey man im josh (talk) 01:58, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
Question from Raiyan Hafiy (19:15, 3 November 2023)
Hi , quick question . Where can you make your own page ? I'm still new here and wanted to make a page about my school since it wasn't in the Wiki . --Raiyan Hafiy (talk) 19:15, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi Raiyan Hafiy, I'd suggest reading the help page on this, Help:Your first article. After you're done there's a button that will start the article wizard, which will help create a draft page that you can start writing in. The most important thing to keep in mind though, is to make sure you can find enough sources that cover the school in detail, that are independent of the school itself, and are published by reputable publishers. Usually you'd want to aim for 3 of those detailed sources, and they will form a skeleton to build your article around, so to speak. This will improve the chances of your article being accepted, but more importantly, it will give a structure for your article to develop around. Alpha3031 (t • c) 13:16, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi, when you removed the Distractify reference you also removed a National Review reference. Did you mean to remove both or just the Distractify? Thanks. Gooseneck41 (talk) 22:19, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
Hello! Voting in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 11 December 2023. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
Hi LibXgen. The email that you have set in your user preferences, if any, is not publicly visible, though other people may be able to send you emails through the "email user" functionality (see also WP:EMAIL). Using this functionality yourself will also reveal your email to the recipient so that they can reply to it. Alpha3031 (t • c) 01:48, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
Question from Salmanidrishi (18:52, 6 December 2023)
Question from Viktor Tane (14:01, 10 December 2023)
Hello! I'm curious to learn more about how Wikipedia ensures the accuracy of information edited by humans. What measures or processes are in place, and how does the platform address potential biases or errors in content? --Viktor Tane (talk) 14:01, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi Viktor. There's not any one specific formal processes for verifying the accuracy of edits to Wikipedia. Many people check the most recent changes (Special:RecentChanges) or a list of articles they've marked (Special:Watchlist) but it's fairly ad hoc. There are a number of different scenarios where one might want to make further changes to an article. In many cases, you can simply just make the change you would like yourself, but if there is a specific issue that you don't feel confident fixing, you can also add a cleanup tag so that people interested in that specific kind of issue can find it. Alpha3031 (t • c) 01:32, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
Hello, and welcome to the December 2023 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since September. Don't forget that you can unsubscribe at any time; see below.
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Drive: Of the 69 editors who signed up for the September Backlog Elimination Drive, 40 copy-edited at least one article. Between them, they copy-edited 661,214 words in 290 articles. Barnstars awarded are listed here.
Blitz: Of the 22 editors who signed up for the October Copy Editing Blitz, 13 copy-edited at least one article. Between them, they copy-edited 109,327 words in 52 articles. Barnstars awarded are listed here.
Drive: During the November Backlog Elimination Drive, 38 of the 58 editors who signed up copy-edited at least one article. Between them, they copy-edited 458,620 words in 234 articles. Barnstars awarded are listed here.
Progress report: As of 20:33, 10 December 2023 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 344 requests since 1 January, and the backlog stands at 2,191 articles.
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I recently just edited a sentence on "catfishing". I only added what I thought was needed and it will not make a huge difference but I would love if you were to check it out and see if there aren't any mistakes.
Thank you. --Fuggly.Aquarius (talk) 17:34, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi Fuggly.Aquarius. I can see that your edit was later removed by someone else because it didn't exactly match the claim in the existing source. When adding a new claim, it is generally required for a source to explicitly state something that means the same (not something similar) as new claims different in meaning from those stated in sources are considered "original research" which should not be part of Wikipedia. I've added a new source and revised the wording a little. Alpha3031 (t • c) 12:55, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
Hello! I am trying to update my company's wikipedia page. I have worked at Blenheim Art Foundation for 3 years and was personally involved in the exhibition that I am trying to add to our page. Unfortunately, every time I try to update our page, my edits are removed. Please can you help me with this? --Eleanor Clarke (talk) 15:01, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi Eleanor, I see your previous edits to Blenheim Art Foundation were removed due to copyright concerns. Paraphrasing the text such that it is no longer substantially similar to the original would remove any said concerns. As you mentioned you are closely associated with the Foundation, please also take a look at the Wikipedia:Conflict of interest guidelines for managing any actual or perceived conflicts of interest. You may also find the edit request process helpful for getting at least some feedback on proposed edits. Alpha3031 (t • c) 14:00, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
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New year, new scripts. Welcome to the 23rd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering around 39% of our favorite new and updated user scripts since 24 December 2021. That’s right, we haven’t published in two years! Can you believe it? Did you miss us?
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
User:Alexander Davronov/HistoryHelper has now become stable with some bugfixes and features such as automatically highlighting potentially uncivil edit summaries and automatically pinging all the users selected.
To a lesser extent, the same goes for User:PrimeHunter/Search sort.js. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
Aaron Liu: Watchlyst Greybar Unsin is a rewrite of Ais's Watchlist Notifier with modern APIs and several new features such as not displaying watchlist items marked as seen (hence the name), not bolding diffs of unseen watchlist elements which doesn’t work properly anyways, displaying the rendered edit summary, proper display of log and creation actions and more links.
Alexis Jazz: Factotum is a spiritual successor to reply-link with a host of extra features like section adding, link rewriting, regular expressions and more.
User:Aveaoz/AutoMobileRedirect: This script will automatically redirect MobileFrontend (en.m.wikipedia) to normal Wikipedia. Unlike existing scripts, this one will actually check if your browser is mobile or not through its secret agent string, so you can stay logged in on mobile! Hooray screen estate!
Deputy is a first-of-its-kind copyright cleanup toolkit. It overrides the interface for Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations for easy case processing. It also includes the functionality of the following (also new) scripts:
User:Elominius/gadget/diff arrow keys allows navigation between diffs with the arrow keys. It also has a version that requires holding Ctrl with the arrow key.
Frequently link to Wikipedia on your websites yet find generating CC-BY credits to be such a hassle? Say no more! User:Luke10.27/attribute will automatically do it for ya and copy the credit to yer clipboard.
User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft, a spiritual successor (i.e. fork) to Evad37's script, with a few bugs solved, and a host of extra features like check-boxes for choosing draftification reasons, multi-contributor notification, and appropriate warnings based on last edit time.
/CopyCodeBlock: one of the most important operations for any scripter and script-user is to copy and paste. This script adds a copy button in the top right of every code block (not to be confused with <code>) that will, well, copy it to your clipboard!
m:User:NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AceForLuaDebugConsole.js adds the Ace editor (a.k.a. the editor you see when editing JS, CSS and Lua on Wikimedia wikis) to the Lua debug console. "In my opinion, whoever designed it to be a plain <textarea> needs to seriously reconsider their decision."
GANReviewTool quickly and easily closes good article nominations.
ReviewStatus displays whether or not a mainspace page is marked as reviewed.
SpeciesHelper tries to add the correct speciesbox, category, taxonbar, and stub template to species articles.
User:Opencooper/svgReplace and Tol's fork replaces all rasterized SVGs with their original SVG codes for your loading pleasures. Tell us which one is better!
ArticleInfo displays page information at the top of the page, directly below the title.
/HeaderIcons takes away the Vector 2022 user dropdown and replaces it with all of the icons within, top level, right next to the Watchlist. One less click away! There's also an alternate version that uses text links instead of icons.
Hi Tahelkadir, sorry for the late response. I see someone else has already linked you over to our notability guidelines, but I just wanted to mention that it isn't really about how popular or famous someone. Basically, whether we can have an article is based on whether there are enough reliably published sources that we can write an article on that person or topic. An article might be created, for example, on some 16th century monk that nobody outside of professional historians have ever heard of, as long as there are two solid sources on them, but we might not be able to have an article on a youtuber with millions of subscribers, if there isn't much written about them, or if what is written doesn't meat one of the other criteria (reliable, independent and secondary). For living (or recently deceased) people, the rules are especially strict, because we want to ensure the highest quality sources are used. Alpha3031 (t • c) 13:39, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi Peacefulprogressive, I apologise for not getting to this question earlier. Unfortunately, there is no fixed timeframe for drafts to be reviewed by, and they are not reviewed in any order, nor is there any fixed number of reviews before they are considered ready for publication. Currently, the oldest drafts are about 4 weeks old, but this might get longer or shorter by the time your draft is next reviewed, and it is also possible for drafts to be reviewed well before they become the oldest depending on reviewer preference. The best advice I can give you is to focus on the depth of coverage of your best sources (WP:THREE) as this is likely to give the best chance of a speedy review, especially if you highlight those sources so that reviewers identify them faster. Alpha3031 (t • c) 14:30, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
Question from Blackcake2000 (19:34, 11 January 2024)
Hello! I submitted an article for a review and was interested in how it's looking and how long it takes to get approved. Also, do I need to add a picture of this person? --Blackcake2000 (talk) 19:34, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
Hello Blackcake2000. At a quick glance, the article does not appear to have any sources that stand out as particularly in depth. In general, for writing on Wikipedia there is a focus on sources that provide relatively detailed coverage, including multiple aspects of an article subject. This helps determine appropriate weight when putting together the article, and ensures that it is not just a list of events or otherwise loosely relate information. Focusing on fewer, more substantial sources (WP:THREE) also improves the chance for a quick review, though there is never a guarantee of any specific timeframe for individual reviews, or number of reviews before an article is accepted.
Adding a picture is not required and generally does not impact the review process. It may be an improvement to the pubilshed article, however if you do choose to add one you must ensure that there are no copyright issues. Most creative works (including photos) are copyrighted to the creator of that work by default, and for use on Wikipedia they must be explicitly licenced under a compatible free licence or fit into one of the very specific circumstances allowed by policy. Alpha3031 (t • c) 14:52, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi! Just want more clarity, I provided multiple articles in depth centered around this specific person. There were many video articles and written articles that spoke about this person. Including them being apart of history. Are you saying that I remove some of those articles? Thanks for your response! Blackcake2000 (talk) 17:23, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
Hii Mentor! So if I were to make a wiki page about someone/something, what sources do you think would be the most trustworthy? BTW, why did you whack me with a wet fish :( --DiddyDudeWhere'sMyCar? (talk) 16:42, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi!! How do I collapse citations? Like under the article I just edited, I have >20 separate citations for one sentence, and they all show up as individual numbers instead of [8-30]. Or is this not possible? --Cpap649 (talk) 19:35, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi Cpap649, sorry fo the belated response. You can bundle citations together by simply putting them all in the same <ref> tag. See Help:Citation merging for more information. Otherwise, it is not really possible to collapse footnotes in different ref tags, because of the software features like hovering over the numbers showing the full footnote, so each individual number has to be shown. Alpha3031 (t • c) 15:07, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
Hello! I have a question. I would like to add information to Just Dance 2019 - Just Dance 2024 Edition about their seasonal updates. Should I make multiple pages for them or edit the pages for their respective games to contain information about their seasons? --Scivikal (talk) 06:40, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi Scivikal, I would recommend adding a section in the existing pages where possible. Once there is sufficient suitable content, we can consider a WP:SIZESPLIT, but as it's closely related to the games themselves there should be at least some information on the game's pages to point people to the new pages once split. Alpha3031 (t • c) 14:58, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
Hello everyone, and welcome to the 24th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 24 December 2021. Uh-huh, we're finally covering the good ones among the rest! Aren't you excited? Remember to include a link in double brackets to the script's .js page when you install the script, so that we can see who uses the script in WhatLinksHere! The ScriptInstaller gadget automatically does this. Aaron Liu (talk) 01:00, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
Featured script
Making user scripts load faster by SD0001 is this month's featured script, which caches userscripts every day to eliminate the overhead caused by force-downloading the newest version of scripts every time you open a Wikipedia page. Despite being released in April 2021, our best script scouters have failed to locate it due to its omission from the US of L. For security reasons, the script only supports loading JavaScript pages.
Newly maintained scripts
After earthly attempts at improving the original have failed...
Ahecht has created a fork of SiBr4/TemplateSearch, which adds the "TP:" shortcut for "Template:" in the search box, and updated it to be compatible with Vector 2022.
AquilaFasciata/goToTopFast is a much faster fork of the classic goToTop script that also adds compatibility for Minerva and Vector 2022.
Without caching. Each script takes 400–500ms. A particularly large script takes 1.11 s! Internet download speed is 50 Mbps.With caching enabled. Each script takes just 1-2 ms to load.
Improve a script
Unfortunately, this section has remained nearly identical. Help us out here!
To a lesser extent, the same goes for PrimeHunter/Search sort. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
Dragoniez/SuppressEnterInForm stops you from accidentally submitting anything due to pressing enter while in the smaller box, and works on almost anything... except the InputBox element itself, used in subscription lists and the Signpost Crossword! Oh, the humanity!
Doǵu/Adiutor(pictured) provides a nice, integrated interface to do some twinkley tasks such as copyvio detection, CSD tagging, and viewing the most recent diff.
Eejit43 has quite the aesthetically pleasing scripts, all made in TypeScript.
/afcrc-helper is a replacement for the unmaintained Enterprisey/AFCRHS and processes Redirects for Creation and Categories for Creation requests.
/ajax-undo stops the "undo" button from taking you to another page while providing a text box to provide a reason for the revert.
/redirect-helper(pictured) adds a much better interface for editing and redirects, including categorization, for which valid categories are dictated by /redirect-helper.json.
/rmtr-helper helps process technical requested moves without being able to actually move them.
Guycn2/UserInfoPopup(pictured) adds a flyout after the watchlist star on userspace pages that displays the common information you might use about a user.
Jeeputer/editCounter, under userspace, adds a portlet link to count your edits by namespace, put them in a table, and put that table in a hardcoded subpage, all in the background.
Hilst/Scripts/sectionLinks converts all section links to use the § sign, which are known to be preferred over the ugly # by 99% of the devils I've met.
PrimeHunter/Category source.js adds portlet links to tell you where a category for an article comes from and supports those from template transclusions.
Sophivorus's MiniEdit adds some nice, li'l buttons next to paragraphs to edit their wikitext with a minimal interface.
Edit-listings
Dragoniez/ToollinkTweaks adds more and customizable links next to users in page history, logs, watchlist, recent changes, etc.
Firefly/more-block-info optimizes the display of rangeblocks in contribution pages. Doesn't work outside the English locale of any wiki, unfortunately.
NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AjaxLoader makes paging links (e.g. older 50, 500, newest) load without refreshing and makes you realize how slow your internet actually is.
Appearance-ricing
Ahecht/RedirectID adds the redirect target to all redirects. For all the WP:NAVPOPS haters. (Do these exist?)
Dragoniez/MarkBLockedGlobal: Remember the "strike blocked usernames" gadget? Now you can use a red, dotted line to highlight rangeblocks and global locks!
Jonesey/common(pictured) has some styles to overhaul your Vector 2022 experience. It reduces padding everywhere, and makes the top bar animation faster.
Aaron Liu/V22 is a fork that narrows the sidebars instead of upheaving them, reverts the January 2024 dropdown changes, and restores the old page-link color for links that don't go outside the current wiki.
Nardog: SmartDiff is a spiritual successor to Enterprisey/fancy-diffs. It makes the page title part of links in diffs clickable, along with template and parser function calls. Unnamed parameters can be configured per template to also be linked. All links are styled based on the normal CSS classes of rendered links.
For the paranoid: Rublov/anonymize replaces your username at the top of the screen with the generic "User page" text. Remember, it is your duty to persuade everyone that editing is an honor.
/AjaxBlock provides a dialog box for easy input of reasons while blocking users.
/Selective Rollback(pictured) provides a dialog box to customize rollback edit summaries and does them without reloading the page. Seriously, why doesn't MediaWiki already do this?
/flickrsearch adds a portlet link to search for uploadable flickr images about the subject.
/randomincategory adds a portlet link when on Category pages to go to a random page in the current category.
Vghfr/EasyTemplates adds a portlet link to automatically insert some of the most common inline {{fix}} templates.
Yes, we're just doing 'em as we go now. Thanks for reading through this looong issue, if you did! I'm sure this'll send a record for the longest issue ev-ah. You may need to wait even longer for the last issue, as our reserve of old-y and goodie scripts have ran out... We encourage you to try and do some of the requests or improvement tasks. See you in Summer, hopefully!
RFA2024 update: no longer accepting new proposals in phase I
Hey there! This is to let you know that phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship (RfA) review is now no longer accepting new proposals. Lots of proposals remain open for discussion, and the current round of review looks to be on a good track towards making significant progress towards improving RfA's structure and environment. I'd like to give my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has given us their idea for change to make RfA better, and the same to everyone who has given the necessary feedback to improve those ideas. The following proposals remain open for discussion:
Proposals 3 and 3b, initiated by Barkeep49 and Usedtobecool, respectively, provide for trials of discussion-only periods at RfA. The first would add three extra discussion-only days to the beginning, while the second would convert the first two days to discussion-only.
Proposal 5, initiated by SilkTork, provides for a trial of RfAs without threaded discussion in the voting sections.
Proposals 6c and 6d, initiated by BilledMammal, provide for allowing users to be selected as provisional admins for a limited time through various concrete selection criteria and smaller-scale vetting.
Proposal 7, initiated by Lee Vilenski, provides for the "General discussion" section being broken up with section headings.
Proposal 9b, initiated by Reaper Eternal, provides for the requirement that allegations of policy violation be substantiated with appropriate links to where the alleged misconduct occured.
Proposals 12c, 21, and 21b, initiated by City of Silver, Ritchie333, and HouseBlaster, respectively, provide for reducing the discretionary zone, which currently extends from 65% to 75%. The first would reduce it 65%–70%, the second would reduce it to 50%–66%, and the third would reduce it to 60%–70%.
Proposal 13, initiated by Novem Lingaue, provides for periodic, privately balloted admin elections.
Proposal 14, initiated by Kusma, provides for the creation of some minimum suffrage requirements to cast a vote.
Proposals 16 and 16c, initiated by Thebiguglyalien and Soni, respectively, provide for community-based admin desysop procedures. 16 would desysop where consensus is established in favor at the administrators' noticeboard; 16c would allow a petition to force reconfirmation.
Proposal 16e, initiated by BilledMammal, would extend the recall procedures of 16 to bureaucrats.
Proposal 17, initiated by SchroCat, provides for "on-call" admins and 'crats to monitor RfAs for decorum.
Proposal 25, initiated by Femke, provides for the requirement that nominees be extended-confirmed in addition to their nominators.
Proposal 27, initiated by WereSpielChequers, provides for the creation of a training course for admin hopefuls, as well as periodic retraining to keep admins from drifting out of sync with community norms.
To read proposals that were closed as unsuccessful, please see Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase I/Closed proposals. You are cordially invited once again to participate in the open discussions; when phase I ends, phase II will review the outcomes of trial proposals and refine the implementation details of other proposals. Another notification will be sent out when this phase begins, likely with the first successful close of a major proposal. Happy editing! theleekycauldron (talk • she/her), via:
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New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024
Hello Alpha3031,
New Page Review queue January to March 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!
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.
Hello and welcome to the April 2024 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since December. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. We extend a warm welcome to all of our new members. We wish you all happy copy-editing.
Election results: In our December 2023 coordinator election, Zippybonzo stepped down as coordinator; we thank them for their service. Incumbents Dhtwiki and Miniapolis were reelected coordinators, and Wracking was newly elected coordinator, to serve through 30 June. Nominations for our mid-year Election of Coordinators will open on 1 June (UTC).
Drive: 46 editors signed up for our January Backlog Elimination Drive, 32 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 289 articles totaling 626,729 words. Barnstars awarded are here.
Blitz: 23 editors signed up for our February Copy Editing Blitz. 18 claimed at least one copy-edit and between them, they copy-edited 100,293 words in 32 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.
Drive: 53 editors signed up for our March Backlog Elimination Drive, 34 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 300 articles totaling 587,828 words. Barnstars awarded are here.
Blitz: Sign up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, which runs from 14 to 20 April. Barnstars will be awarded here.
Progress report: As of 23:17, 11 April 2024 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 109 requests since 1 January 2024, and the backlog stands at 2,480 articles.
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