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New Page Patrol newsletter October 2022
[edit]Hello Boghog,
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Much has happened since the last newsletter over two months ago. The open letter finished with 444 signatures. The letter was sent to several dozen people at the WMF, and we have heard that it is being discussed but there has been no official reply. A related article appears in the current issue of The Signpost. If you haven't seen it, you should, including the readers' comment section.
Awards: Barnstars were given for the past several years (thanks to MPGuy2824), and we are now all caught up. The 2021 cup went to John B123 for leading with 26,525 article reviews during 2021. To encourage moderate activity, a new "Iron" level barnstar is awarded annually for reviewing 360 articles ("one-a-day"), and 100 reviews earns the "Standard" NPP barnstar. About 90 reviewers received barnstars for each of the years 2018 to 2021 (including the new awards that were given retroactively). All awards issued for every year are listed on the Awards page. Check out the new Hall of Fame also.
Software news: Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have connected with WMF developers who can review and approve patches, so they have been able to fix some bugs, and make other improvements to the Page Curation software. You can see everything that has been fixed recently here. The reviewer report has also been improved.
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Suggestions:
- There is much enthusiasm over the low backlog, but remember that the "quality and depth of patrolling are more important than speed".
- Reminder: an article should not be tagged for any kind of deletion for a minimum of 15 minutes after creation and it is often appropriate to wait an hour or more. (from the NPP tutorial)
- Reviewers should focus their effort where it can do the most good, reviewing articles. Other clean-up tasks that don't require advanced permissions can be left to other editors that routinely improve articles in these ways (creating Talk Pages, specifying projects and ratings, adding categories, etc.) Let's rely on others when it makes the most sense. On the other hand, if you enjoy doing these tasks while reviewing and it keeps you engaged with NPP (or are guiding a newcomer), then by all means continue.
- This user script puts a link to the feed in your top toolbar.
Backlog:
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Saving the best for last: From a July low of 8,500, the backlog climbed back to 11,000 in August and then reversed in September dropping to below 6,000 and continued falling with the October backlog drive to under 1,000, a level not seen in over four years. Keep in mind that there are 2,000 new articles every week, so the number of reviews is far higher than the backlog reduction. To keep the backlog under a thousand, we have to keep reviewing at about half the recent rate!
- Reminders
- Newsletter feedback - please take this short poll about the newsletter.
- If you're interested in instant messaging and chat rooms, please join us on the New Page Patrol Discord, where you can ask for help and live chat with other patrollers.
- Please add the project discussion page to your watchlist.
- If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be a reviewer, please ask any admin to remove you from the group. If you want the tools back again, just ask at PERM.
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New Pages Patrol newsletter January 2023
[edit]Hello Boghog,
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- Backlog
The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to WaddlesJP13 who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day.
- 2022 Awards
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Onel5969 won the 2022 cup for 28,302 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 80/day. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. Rosguill led again for the 4th year by clearing 49,294 redirects. For the full details see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone!
Minimum deletion time: The previous WP:NPP guideline was to wait 15 minutes before tagging for deletion (including draftification and WP:BLAR). Due to complaints, a consensus decided to raise the time to 1 hour. To illustrate this, very new pages in the feed are now highlighted in red. (As always, this is not applicable to attack pages, copyvios, vandalism, etc.)
New draftify script: In response to feedback from AFC, the The Move to Draft script now provides a choice of set messages that also link the creator to a new, friendly explanation page. The script also warns reviewers if the creator is probably still developing the article. The former script is no longer maintained. Please edit your edit your common.js or vector.js file from User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js
to User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft.js
Redirects: Some of our redirect reviewers have reduced their activity and the backlog is up to 9,000+ (two months deep). If you are interested in this distinctly different task and need any help, see this guide, this checklist, and spend some time at WP:RFD.
Discussions with the WMF The PageTriage open letter signed by 444 users is bearing fruit. The Growth Team has assigned some software engineers to work on PageTriage, the software that powers the NewPagesFeed and the Page Curation toolbar. WMF has submitted dozens of patches in the last few weeks to modernize PageTriage's code, which will make it easier to write patches in the future. This work is helpful but is not very visible to the end user. For patches visible to the end user, volunteers such as Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have been writing patches for bug reports and feature requests. The Growth Team also had a video conference with the NPP coordinators to discuss revamping the landing pages that new users see.
- Reminders
- Newsletter feedback - please take this short poll about the newsletter.
- There is live chat with patrollers on the New Page Patrol Discord.
- Please add the project discussion page to your watchlist.
- If you no longer wish to be a reviewer, please ask any admin to remove you from the group. If you want the tools back again, just ask at PERM.
- To opt out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.
New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023
[edit]Hello Boghog,
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Backlog
Redirect drive: In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with 23851 reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to 0 (momentarily). Congratulations to Hey man im josh who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by Meena and Greyzxq with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day.
Redirect autopatrol: All administrators without autopatrol have now been added to the redirect autopatrol list. If you see any users who consistently create significant amounts of good quality redirects, consider requesting redirect autopatrol for them here.
WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team, consisting of Sam, Jason and Susana, and also some patches from Jon, has been hard at work updating PageTriage. They are focusing their efforts on modernising the extension's code rather than on bug fixes or new features, though some user-facing work will be prioritised. This will help make sure that this extension is not deprecated, and is easier to work on in the future. In the next month or so, we will have an opt-in beta test where new page patrollers can help test the rewrite of Special:NewPagesFeed, to help find bugs. We will post more details at WT:NPPR when we are ready for beta testers.
Articles for Creation (AFC): All new page reviewers are now automatically approved for Articles for Creation draft reviewing (you do not need to apply at WT:AFCP like was required previously). To install the AFC helper script, visit Special:Preferences, visit the Gadgets tab, tick "Yet Another AFC Helper Script", then click "Save". To find drafts to review, visit Special:NewPagesFeed, and at the top left, tick "Articles for Creation". To review a draft, visit a submitted draft, click on the "More" menu, then click "Review (AFCH)". You can also comment on and submit drafts that are unsubmitted using the script.
You can review the AFC workflow at WP:AFCR. It is up to you if you also want to mark your AFC accepts as NPP reviewed (this is allowed but optional, depends if you would like a second set of eyes on your accept). Don't forget that draftspace is optional, so moves of drafts to mainspace (even if they are not ready) should not be reverted, except possibly if there is conflict of interest.
Pro tip: Did you know that visual artists such as painters have their own SNG? The most common part of this "creative professionals" criteria that applies to artists is WP:ARTIST 4b (solo exhibition, not group exhibition, at a major museum) or 4d (being represented within the permanent collections of two museums).
Reminders
- Newsletter feedback - please take this short poll about the newsletter.
- There is live chat with patrollers on the New Page Patrol Discord and #wikimedia-npp connect on IRC.
- Please add the project discussion page to your watchlist.
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Jeffrey Leiden Updates
[edit]Hello Boghog. I hope all is well. I saw your username at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Pharmacology/Participant and hope that because of your interest you might like to look at an edit request I posted at Talk:Jeffrey_Leiden#Updates. Jeffrey Leiden is the executive chairman of Vertex Pharmaceuticals. The edit request is 3 easy edits (the 4th bullet point has already been implemented.) I would really appreciate if you could implement the rest of this edit request. Thanks so much. JohnDatVertex (talk) 15:18, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
- Hi again. Thank you for your edits to the Jeffrey Leiden Wikipedia article. I also thanked you here, where I also included another edit request, which is simple enough that I can also do it directly, but I would like your permission first. If you could take a look and let me know, that would be great. Take care, JohnDatVertex (talk) 13:14, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
- Replied at the talk page. Cheers. Boghog (talk) 20:50, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
Pott's Disease Citation Help
[edit]Hi Boghog, thanks for the help on reformatting my citation for the section I wrote up. May I ask what is the name of the format of the citation (or how you format it) so I can keep it consistent as I add on new citations -- that way you don't have to go back every time to correct my format as I add on new ones! Thanks again for the help! Joshchiang296 (talk) 18:23, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
- : Hi. Thanks for your question about citation format in Pott's disease. The originally established citation format used the Vancouver system. Unfortunately WP:REFTOOLS does not support
|vauthors=
as an option. The only tool that I know of that generates citations in this format is the Diberri Template builder. Given a PMID, one can generate a fully formated citation that can be copy and pasted into the article. I hope this helps. Cheers Boghog (talk) 20:39, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
Clarification on WP:CITEVAR
[edit]Hi! I saw your edit on LexA repressor and wanted to clarify, does CITEVAR apply to each part of the reference separately? I had switched that one over because while the authors were mostly consistent, I didn't see consistency in the rest (some abbreviated journal names, some not; some year and month, some only year; all of them had different spacing; some did the full page number span, some did the thing where the second number is only the last number or two; etc.), and the easiest way for me to fix that is with the template filler which uses the last/first format (dyslexic, can't parse long spans of commas lol). I can avoid changing the bits that are consistent in the future, I just wanted to clarify if I'm understanding properly first.
Also, you removed the Ž on one of the author names, was that an accident or is that a style thing? CambrianCrab (talk) 16:47, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for your note. CITEVAR, in principle, applies to all parts of a citation. I have no objections to changing
|year=
to|date=
, including months in dates, replacing journal abbreviations with full journal names, and replacing abbreviated second numbers with full numbers in page ranges (in fact, I often make these changes myself). These changes are generally considered helpful, and I have not seen anyone object to them. It is probably OK to implement these changes (unless of course someone objects) regardless of whether they were consistent to begin with or not. I do however object replacing|vauthors=
(Vancouver system) with|first1=
,|last1=
, ... if the Vancouver system has already been established. I hope this makes sense. - The change in Žgur → Zgur in the author name was a mistake which I have corrected. Thanks for pointing this out. Boghog (talk) 04:35, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
- Okay I think I follow. It sounds like I had been thinking of the "citation style" as a full unit where if the whole thing wasn't consistent (i.e. all the stuff I listed above) then there wasn't a consistent style, but I should be thinking of the "style" as mostly just author style (as least for CS1 refs for the purposes of CITEVAR) and if the author style is consistent it should be retained/discussed before changing, regardless of if the rest of the ref is consistent. I can do that! Thanks for clarifying! CambrianCrab (talk) 17:05, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Template:WikiProject Gene Wiki
[edit]Template:WikiProject Gene Wiki has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 11:15, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
Disambiguation link notification for August 18
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