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• May backlog drive

NPP backlog

Articles

11504 ↓477

Oldest article

17 months old

Redirects

25649

Oldest redirect

8 months old

Article reviews

2745

Redirect reviews

3524

• There is a very large articles backlog
• There is a very large redirects backlog

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.

Current backlog drive: 2024-May (articles)

Previous backlog drives have included:

• 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:

1. You have registered as a participant for the relevant drive on the signup page.
2. You are reviewing articles/redirects (as appropriate), not AfC drafts.
3. 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

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.