Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Backlog drives/September 2024

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September backlog drive

NPP backlog

Articles: 15834 ↓403
Oldest article: 3 years old
Redirects: 31102
Oldest redirect: 5 months old
Article reviews: 2487
Redirect reviews: 5017

There is a very large articles backlog
The articles backlog is growing rapidly (↑355 since last week)
There is a very large redirects backlog

The September 2024 New Page Patrol Backlog Drive is a one-month-long effort to reduce the backlog of the new pages patrol articles and redirects feed. The coordinators for this drive are Hey man im josh and DreamRimmer. The drive will begin at 00:00 1 September 2024 (UTC) and end at 00:00 October 1 2024 (UTC). The ultimate goal of this backlog drive is to reduce the number of articles and redirects awaiting patrol, whilst maintaining quality reviews. Awards will be given out to the participants based on their contributions during the drive. If you have any questions, please leave a message on this drive's talk page.

Points

Points: Points will be calculated based on the 30-day total according to the leaderboard. It is updated by BaranBOT, which counts patrols, draftifications, and deletion nominations, but can only detect deletion nominations when performed with the Page Curation tool. We will accept CSD logs made by Twinkle, which will be added to the leaderboard at the end of the drive, based on the principle of good faith. Participants will have 3 days (until October 4, 2024, at 00:00 UTC) to submit these logs on the drive's talk page after the drive has ended.
1. Articles are worth 1 point.
2. Redirects are worth 0.2 points, so as to encourage a focus on article reviews.
Re-reviewing: As usual, rather than speed, quality and depth of patrolling and the use of correct CSD criteria are essential to good reviewing. To ensure quality reviews, credit is also given for re-reviews. To find articles to re-review, participants are encouraged to visit the leaderboard section and check any reviewer's log. Please make sure that an article was not a redirect at the time it was reviewed and that it's not already been re-reviewed by another participant. Participants are allowed to submit re-reviews for 4 days following the completion of the drive. You are encouraged to focus on re-reviewing articles from other drive participants over non-participants. All re-reviews are to be submitted by October 4, 2024, at 00:00 UTC.

Sign up

In order to participate, you must have the New Page Reviewer user permission, which can be requested here.

To sign up for the drive, click the button below and add your user talk page to the participants list. If you are not on the sign up list your stats will not be included in [[#Leaderboard|the leaderboard.

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Backlog charts

Will be added prior to the start of the backlog drive.

Articles before drive

Will be added prior to the start of the backlog drive.

Redirects before drive

Will be added prior to the start of the backlog drive.

Leaderboard

Will be added prior to the start of the backlog drive.

Awards

Awards will be given by the coordinators after the drive has ended. Participants can earn one point by marking an article as reviewed, moving an article not ready for mainspace to draft space, or by nominating articles that don't meet notability guidelines for deletion. Additionally, participants can earn 0.2 points for reviewing a redirect or nominating it for deletion.

Image	Minimum	Template
	5 points	The Invisible Barnstar
	10 points	The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
	25 points	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	50 points	The Reviewer Barnstar
	100 points	The New Page Patroller's Barnstar
	200 points	The Special Edition New Page Patroller's Barnstar
	500 points	The Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia
	Re-reviewing 25 articles	The Teamwork Barnstar
	In addition, the person who accumulates the most points during the backlog elimination drive, will receive the Content Review Medal of Merit

Streak awards

For the streak awards, the weeks were defined as follows:

Week 1: September 1 – September 7
Week 2: September 8 – September 14
Week 3: September 15 – September 21
Week 4: September 22 – September 30

Image	Minimum Streak	Name
	7 points per week	Worm Gear
	15 points per week	Rack and pinion
	25 points per week	Geneva mechanism
	50 points per week	Asymmetric Epicyclic Gears
	100 points per week	Planetary Gear
	150 points per week	Unnecessarily complicated Gears

Re-reviewing

To re-review articles, list your name at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Backlog drives/September 2024/Re-reviews followed by a numbered list of the articles you have re-reviewed. You are encouraged to focus on re-reviewing articles from other drive participants over non-participants. To find articles to re-review, go to Wikipedia:Database reports/Top new article reviewers, pick any editor, and visit the log to find articles that they have reviewed since the start of the drive. Make sure to note the original reviewer and determine whether the original review was correct. If you found problems with the original review, please discuss it with the original reviewer on the backlog drive talk page.

Closing

On 1 October, the coordinators will begin the process of closing the drive following these steps:

C Start discussion on drive talk page for users to submit deletion logs that were not caught by the bot (Twinkle logs).
- Evaluate validity of tags (name space, G7, etc.)
- Add points to totals
- Wait 72 hours and close this section
C Evaluate re-reviews.
- Strike incorrect/misguided re-reviews.
- Strike redirect re-reviews as they are ineligible.
- Give out re-reviewing award.
C Update documentation.
- Post final graph after drive.
- Retarget header link back to main page.
- Add note that drive has ended to page.
- Add a final update statement with backlog stats, etc. to newsletter draft.
- Any other post drive cleanup.
C Distribute barnstars.
- Give out regular, point based awards.
- Give out streak awards.