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Bots Newsletter, January 2022
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BRFA activity by month Welcome to the ninth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Vicious bot-on-bot edit warring... superseded tasks... policy proposals... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots. After a long hiatus between August 2019 and December 2021, there's quite a bit of ground to cover. Due to the vastness, I decided in December to split the coverage up into a few installments that covered six months each. Some people thought this was a good idea, since covering an entire year in a single issue would make it unmanageably large. Others thought this was stupid, since they were getting talk page messages about crap from almost three years ago. Ultimately, the question of whether each issue covers six months or a year is only relevant for a couple more of them, and then the problem will be behind us forever. Of course, you can also look on the bright side – we are making progress, and this issue will only be about crap from almost two years ago. Today we will pick up where we left off in December, and go through the first half of 2020. Overall January 2020 Yeah, you're not gonna be able to get away with this anymore.
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AfC -- seeking a secondary review from a native Swedish speaker
Hi there! I found you over on WP:Babel as you have experience translating articles between English and Swedish. I am reviewing Draft:Eva_Ramstedt for WP:AfC, and am wondering if you could help out by reviewing the citations and making sure the information in the article is accurate, or if there is noteworthy information that has been left out. I've left a couple specific questions in a comment, but unfortunately my ability to reference between the cites and article about ends there. Thank you! SiliconRed (he/him) (talk) 20:43, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022
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Hello Dan Koehl,
At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.
Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.
In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently 802 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 855 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.
This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.
If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing {{subst:NPR invite}}
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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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New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022
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Hello Dan Koehl,
- Backlog status
At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000[a] at the end of May.
Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.[b]
In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).
While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).
- Backlog drive
A backlog reduction drive, coordinated by buidhe and Zippybonzo, will be held from July 1 to July 31. Sign up here. Barnstars will be awarded.
- TIP – New school articles
Many new articles on schools are being created by new users in developing and/or non-English-speaking countries. The authors are probably not even aware of Wikipedia's projects and policy pages. WP:WPSCH/AG has some excellent advice and resources specifically written for these users. Reviewers could consider providing such first-time article creators with a link to it while also mentioning that not all schools pass the GNG and that elementary schools are almost certainly not notable.
- Misc
There is a new template available, {{NPP backlog}}
, to show the current backlog. You can place it on your user or talk page as a reminder:
Very high unreviewed pages backlog: 15713 articles, as of 18:00, 19 August 2024 (UTC), according to DatBot
There has been significant discussion at WP:VPP recently on NPP-related matters (Draftification, Deletion, Notability, Verifiability, Burden). Proposals that would somewhat ease the burden on NPP aren't gaining much traction, although there are suggestions that the role of NPP be fundamentally changed to focus only on major CSD-type issues.
- Reminders
- Consider staying informed on project issues by putting the project discussion page on your watchlist.
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- Notes
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NPP July 2022 backlog drive is on!
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(t · c) buidhe 20:25, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
August 2022
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Ermenrich (talk) 14:40, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022
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Hello Dan Koehl,
- 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.
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- 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.
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Topic Ban
By community consensus as seen here, you are now topic banned from the topic of Vikings, broadly construed. This topic ban is logged at WP:EDRC. This prohibits you from editing about Vikings at all, except to contest your topic ban. More information is available at WP:TBAN. If you have any questions, please ask. -- Yamla (talk) 11:44, 7 August 2022 (UTC)
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Hi Dan Koehl,
- 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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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:10, 20 August 2022 (UTC)
WikiProject Amusement Parks discussion
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Hello Dan Koehl/2022! Your input is requested for a proposal at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Amusement Parks#Draft proposal for the future of WP:APARKS. Any feedback is welcome. Thank you.
Adog (Talk・Cont) 02:03, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
October 2022 New Pages Patrol backlog drive
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(t · c) buidhe 21:16, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
Precious anniversary
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Hello! Dan Koehl,
you are invited to the Teahouse, a forum on Wikipedia for new editors to ask questions about editing Wikipedia, and get support from peers and experienced editors. Please join us! Volten001 ☎ 06:05, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
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Happy Birthday!
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Happy Birthday!
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The Points Guy help
Hello. I see you belong to WikiProject Travel and Tourism. Could you assist on reviewing Talk:The_Points_Guy#Proposed_Updates_to_Article? I have a COI. Thank you for considering this! Cheergirl325 (talk) 14:41, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
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WikiProject Amusement Parks reliable source discussion
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Hi, Dan Koehl/2022. Your input is requested at WikiProject Amusement Parks, as there is a discussion about the reliability of some sources which can be found at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Amusement Parks#Reliable source discussion. Thank you!
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Harobouri T • C (he/him) 16:42, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
Translation
Hello! Strange request here, but an article about me and my Wikipedia work has been promoted to Good article status at English Wikipedia and nominated for similar status at Spanish Wikipedia. I'm curious if you have any interest in translating the entry for Swedish Wikipedia or other projects?
Figured I'd ask since your profile suggests you do translation work. Either way, happy editing! ---Another Believer (Talk) 19:50, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
- Of course, Ill be happy to, @Another Believer:! Dan Koehl (talk) 12:46, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
- Wow, thanks so much! I appreciate your assistance and look forward to seeing the translation(s). ---Another Believer (Talk) 16:54, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
- @Another Believer:, I have a three year block on svwiki though, so I cant edit the article. Dan Koehl (talk) 16:57, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
- Oh, ok. I'm not sure how attribution would work, but you could always create a draft or user subpage here and I could try to find someone else to review and implement the draft. I don't mean to complicate things, I was just trying to identify some multilingual editors who might be able to help out. No worries! ---Another Believer (Talk) 19:17, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
- @Another Believer:, I have a three year block on svwiki though, so I cant edit the article. Dan Koehl (talk) 16:57, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
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