User talk:SunDawn/Archives/2024/April

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).

Administrator changes

Guideline and policy news

An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.

Technical news

The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)

Arbitration

An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".

Miscellaneous

Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:48, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024

Hello SunDawn/Archives/2024,

Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.

Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.

Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.

It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!

2023 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.

Recruitment: A couple of the coordinators have been inviting editors to become reviewers, via mass-messages to their talk pages. If you know someone who you'd think would make a good reviewer, then a personal invitation to them would be great. Additionally, if there are Wikiprojects that you are active on, then you can add a post there asking participants to join NPP. Please be careful not to double invite folks that have already been invited.

Reviewing tip: Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages within their most familiar subjects can use the regularly updated NPP Browser tool.

Reminders:

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:27, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Percy Lavon Julian

There apparently was no "plagarised content" until the IP put it there. –Skywatcher68 (talk) 14:27, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

A question about page review

Hello @SunDawn,
A few days ago, I stumbled a think that I don't fully understand and I would appreciate your opinion. I have created some Wikipedia pages and all of them have received "reviewed" status. One didn't – Kurk Lietuvai. Ironically, it's the one that I happened to put the most effort in and wanted to do as good as I could. Even much newer pages that I created have already been reviewed, e.g. Žuvintas Biosphere Reserve. How come that my articles get reviewed, but one is "stuck" and doesn't? What difference on Wikipedia does it make if an article has been reviewed?

Best regards,
Frequently.by.train (talk) 15:38, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Hello! Thank you for your question. Per WP:INDEXING, a patrol will ensure that the page would be indexed by Google's search engine faster. If the page is not reviewed/patrolled, it will only be indexed by Google in 90 days. New pages will be queued to be patrolled, but the reviewers/patrollers will usually patrol based on their preferences, not based on the queue. For example, I usually prefer to review articles related to space, computing, North America topics and I rarely review articles about musicians. So your Kurk Lietuvai article is definitely on the queue, but no had reviewed it yet. ✠ SunDawn ✠ (contact) 03:38, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Zinderboff

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		Thank you for reviewing and leaving a very kind message on the article I created, I really appreciate it! Zinderboff(talk) 13:59, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the barnstar, I greatly appreciate it! ✠ SunDawn ✠ (contact) 14:42, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Cookies for you!

Thank you for the barnstar and for reviewing Tongchuan Church. Keep up the good work and have a good day/evening.

P.S. I really appreciate some of your userboxes.

Uriel1022 (talk) 21:41, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Looks like the ping might not have worked.

@SunDawn, Hey! Kindly take a look at this. Thank you. X (talk) 12:37, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

Hello! The ping worked and I am sorry for not replying but both articles you mentioned are outside my expertise so it will be harder for me to review both of it. I will take a look at it but I am not making any promises. Have a good day! ✠ SunDawn ✠ (contact) 16:00, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

Question

Hello, I received a message that the article I had created, Deantre Prince, was reviewed by you as part of NPP. This confused me as I'm already autopatrolled, so I don't see how it'd be in the NPP queue? BeanieFan11 (talk) 15:13, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

I didn't understand that as well. Articles from users that had autopatrol shouldn't go to NPP queue at all. The default filter are "unreviewed articles" while autopatrolled articles can only be seen if I switched the filter to "reviewed articles". Thank you. ✠ SunDawn ✠ (contact) 15:58, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

New page patrol May 2024 Backlog drive

New Page Patrol \| May 2024 Articles Backlog Drive
On 1 May 2024, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Each review will earn 1 point. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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