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Wikidata weekly summary #520
Tech News: 2022-20
18:57, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Template:Hcard-bday-place
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Horse stats table header
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Horse stats table row
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New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022
Hello Pigsonthewing,
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 718 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 1041 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}}
on their talk page.
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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Sent 05:18, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #521
Tech News: 2022-21
00:19, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
"Template:Botsdeny" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Template:Botsdeny and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 May 27#Template:Botsdeny until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. (Template:Bots deny has also been listed along with this). Aidan9382 (talk) 21:14, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue CXCIII, May 2022
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