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Happy New Year from Women in Red Jan 2022, Vol 8, Issue 1, Nos 214, 216, 217, 218, 219
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--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:03, 28 December 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Lefcentreright,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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Hi Lefcentreright, I would like to invite you to the Wikimedia South Africa Discord Server.
Discord allows instant text, voice and video communication and is used for all the South Africa Wikipedians monthly meetups.
See Wikipedia:Meetup/South Africa, the next one is on 26 February 2022 at 10:00am SAST Wikipedia:Meetup/South_Africa/South_Africa_15
TapticInfo (talk) 10:14, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
Women in Red Feb 2022, Vol 8, Issue 2, Nos 214, 217, 220, 221, 222
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--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 15:10, 31 January 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.
Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
Women in Red Mar 2022, Vol 8, Issue 3, Nos 214, 217, 222, 223, 224, 225
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--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:37, 27 February 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Women in Red Apr 2022, Vol 8, Issue 4, Nos 214, 217, 226, 227, 228
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Women in Red May 2022, Vol 8, Issue 5, Nos 214, 217, 227, 229, 230
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--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:53, 30 April 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Hello Lefcentreright,
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 805 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.
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On 26 May 2022, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Mpho Moerane, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. PFHLai (talk) 08:01, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
Women in Red June 2022, Vol 8, Issue 6, Nos 214, 217, 227, 231, 232, 233
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--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 09:21, 31 May 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Hello Lefcentreright,
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).
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.
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.
There is a new template available, ((NPP backlog))
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Very high unreviewed pages backlog: 12752 articles, as of 16:00, 4 July 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.
((subst:NPR invite))on their talk page.
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:01, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
Happy First Edit Day! Hi Lefcentreright! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 21:28, 25 June 2022 (UTC) |
Women in Red July 2022, Vol 8, Issue 7, Nos 214, 217, 234, 235
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(t · c) buidhe 20:25, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
On 22 July 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Kenny Motsamai, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Kenny Motsamai. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Kenny Motsamai), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Schwede66 00:38, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
On 22 July 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Marlene van Staden, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that South African mayor Marlene van Staden was re-elected through a coin toss? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Marlene van Staden. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Marlene van Staden), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
MANdARAX XAЯAbИAM 15:52, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
Women in Red August 2022, Vol 8, Issue 8, Nos 214, 217, 236, 237, 238, 239
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--Lajmmoore (talk) 10:59, 29 July 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
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This award is given to Lefcentreright for 15 reviews in the July NPP backlog reduction drive. Your contributions played a part in the 9895 reviews that took place during the drive. Thank you for your contributions. Zippybonzo | Talk (he|him) 09:17, 3 August 2022 (UTC) |
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Hello Lefcentreright,
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.
((subst:NPR invite))on their talk page.
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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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For over 100 article reviews during 2020. Thank you for patrolling new pages and helping us out with the backlog! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 03:07, 25 August 2022 (UTC) |
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For over 100 article reviews during 2019. Thank you for patrolling new pages and helping us out with the backlog! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:54, 31 August 2022 (UTC) |
Here is a barnstar to show appreciation for the NPP reviews you did back in 2019. We realize this is late, but NPP fell behind in some coordination activities. We are almost caught up. If you don't want to receive "old" barnstars, please just ignore this and reply to let us know not to send you any more. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:54, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
Women in Red September 2022, Vol 8, Issue 9, Nos 214, 217, 240, 241
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(t · c) buidhe 21:16, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
Women in Red October 2022, Vol 8, Issue 10, Nos 214, 217, 242, 243, 244
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--Lajmmoore (talk) 15:00, 29 September 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Three years! |
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--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:13, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
Women in Red November 2022, Vol 8, Issue 11, Nos 214, 217, 245, 246, 247
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