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The Signpost: 29 November 2019
- From the editor: Put on your birthday best
- News and notes: How soon for the next million articles?
- In the media: You say you want a revolution
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- Arbitration report: Two requests for arbitration cases
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New Page Review newsletter December 2019
- Reviewer of the Year
This year's Reviewer of the Year is Rosguill. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.
Special commendation again goes to Onel5969 who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to Boleyn and JTtheOG who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.
Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.
Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.
Rank | Username | Num reviews | Log |
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1 | Rosguill (talk) | 47,395 | Patrol Page Curation |
2 | Onel5969 (talk) | 41,883 | Patrol Page Curation |
3 | JTtheOG (talk) | 11,493 | Patrol Page Curation |
4 | Arthistorian1977 (talk) | 5,562 | Patrol Page Curation |
5 | DannyS712 (talk) | 4,866 | Patrol Page Curation |
6 | CAPTAIN MEDUSA (talk) | 3,995 | Patrol Page Curation |
7 | DragonflySixtyseven (talk) | 3,812 | Patrol Page Curation |
8 | Boleyn (talk) | 3,655 | Patrol Page Curation |
9 | Ymblanter (talk) | 3,553 | Patrol Page Curation |
10 | Cwmhiraeth (talk) | 3,522 | Patrol Page Curation |
(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)
- Redirect autopatrol
A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by DannyS712 bot III.
- Source Guide Discussion
Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.
- This month's refresher course
While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag.
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Joyous Season
I wish that you may have a very Happy Holiday! Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Hogmanay, Festivus or your hemisphere's Solstice, this is a special time of year for almost everyone! May the New Year provide you joy and fulfillment! Thanks for everything you do here. — Coffee // have a ☕️ // beans // 10:21, 25 December 2019 (UTC)
Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{subst:User:Coffee/Holidays}} to your fellow editors' talk pages.
- @Coffee: Have a good one, friend. You're a good egg. <3 -- a they/them | argue | contribs 13:57, 25 December 2019 (UTC)
The Signpost: 27 December 2019
- From the editors: Caught with their hands in the cookie jar, again
- News and notes: What's up (and down) with administrators, articles and languages
- In the media: "The fulfillment of the dream of humanity" or a nightmare of PR whitewashing on behalf of one-percenters?
- Discussion report: December discussions around the wiki
- Arbitration report: Announcement of 2020 Arbitration Committee
- Traffic report: Queens and aliens, exactly alike, once upon a December
- Technology report: User scripts and more
- Gallery: Holiday wishes
- Recent research: Acoustics and Wikipedia; Wiki Workshop 2019 summary
- From the archives: The 2002 Spanish fork and ads revisited (re-revisited?)
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- WikiProject report: Wikiproject Tree of Life: A Wikiproject report
The Signpost: 27 January 2020
- From the editor: Reaching six million articles is great, but we need a moratorium
- News and notes: Six million articles on the English language Wikipedia
- Special report: The limits of volunteerism and the gatekeepers of Team Encarta
- Arbitration report: Three cases at ArbCom
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2019
- News from the WMF: Capacity Building: Top 5 Themes from Community Conversations
- Community view: Our most important new article since November 1, 2015
- From the archives: A decade of The Signpost, 2005-2015
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Japan: a wikiProject Report
New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020
Hello Alfie,
- Source Guide Discussion
The first NPP source guide discussion is now underway. It covers a wide range of sources in Ghana with the goal of providing more guidance to reviewers about sources they might see when reviewing pages. Hopefully, new page reviewers will join others interested in reliable sources and those with expertise in these sources to make the discussion a success.
- Redirects
New to NPP? Looking to try something a little different? Consider patrolling some redirects. Redirects are relatively easy to review, can be found easily through the New Pages Feed. You can find more information about how to patrol redirects at WP:RPATROL.
- Discussions and Resources
- There is an ongoing discussion around changing notifications for new editors who attempt to write articles.
- A recent discussion of whether Michelin starred restraunts are notable was archived without closure.
- A resource page with links pertinent for reviewers was created this month.
- A proposal to increase the scope of G5 was withdrawn.
- Refresher
Geographic regions, areas and places generally do not need general notability guideline type sourcing. When evaluating whether an article meets this notability guideline please also consider whether it might actually be a form of WP:SPAM for a development project (e.g. PR for a large luxury residential development) and not actually covered by the guideline.
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- Humour: The Wilhelm scream
The Signpost: 29 March 2020
- From the editors: The bad and the good
- News and notes: 2018 Wikipedian of the year blocked
- WikiProject report: WikiProject COVID-19: A WikiProject Report
- Special report: Wikipedia on COVID-19: what we publish and why it matters
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- Traffic report: The only thing that matters in the world
- Gallery: Visible Women on Wikipedia
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- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
The Signpost: 26 April 2020
- News and notes: Unbiased information from Ukraine's government?
- In the media: Coronavirus, again and again
- Discussion report: Redesigning Wikipedia, bit by bit
- Featured content: Featured content returns
- Arbitration report: Two difficult cases
- Traffic report: Disease the Rhythm of the Night
- Recent research: Trending topics across languages; auto-detecting bias
- Opinion: Trusting Everybody to Work Together
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- In focus: Multilingual Wikipedia
- WikiProject report: The Guild of Copy Editors
Precious
goodwill
Thank you for welcoming new users and reverting vandalism, for adding UK rail images, for gnomish work on articles and help in edit wars, for "don't stir the pot"-plans, for a cute infobox on your user page (at least for a while), for appreciation and goodwill, - Alfie, you are an awesome Wikipedian!
You are recipient no. 2389 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:46, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
- @Gerda Arendt: I'm genuinely speechless. <3 -- a they/them | argue | contribs 18:47, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
Discord invitation
Are you aware that Wikimedia has an unofficial discord server? I just wanted to be certain. --I dream of horses (t) (c) Remember to {{ping}} me after replying off my talk page 00:07, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
DRN Volunteer Roll Call - Action Required
There has been no roll call since November 2017 so with that said, it is time to clean up the volunteer list. Please go to the Roll Call list and follow the instructions. If no response is received by May 30, 2020, it will be assumed that you no longer wish to participate and you will be removed as a DRN volunteer. Thank you for your attention to this and for helping Wikipedians in their dispute processes.
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- From the editor: Meltdown May?
- News and notes: 2019 Picture of the Year, 200 French paid editing accounts blocked, 10 years of Guild Copyediting
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- Featured content: Weathering the storm
- Arbitration report: Board member likely to receive editing restriction
- Traffic report: Come on and slam, and welcome to the jam
- Gallery: Wildlife photos by the book
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- Recent research: Automatic detection of covert paid editing; Wiki Workshop 2020
- Community view: Transit routes and mapping during stay-at-home order downtime
- WikiProject report: Revitalizing good articles
- On the bright side: 500,000 articles in the Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia
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- Seen and replied. Cheers, -- a they/them | argue | contribs 23:18, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
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New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020
Hello Alfie,
- Your help can make a difference
NPP Sorting can be a great way to find pages needing new page patrolling that match your strengths and interests. Using ORES, it divides articles into topics such as Literature or Chemistry and on Geography. Take a look and see if you can find time to patrol a couple pages a day. With over 10,000 pages in the queue, the highest it's been since ACPERM, your help could really make a difference.
- Google Adds New Languages to Google Translate
In late February, Google added 5 new languages to Google Translate: Kinyarwanda, Odia (Oriya), Tatar, Turkmen and Uyghur. This expands our ability to find and evaluate sources in those languages.
- Discussions and Resources
- A discussion on handling new article creation by paid editors is ongoing at the Village Pump.
- Also at the Village Pump is a discussion about limiting participation at Articles for Deletion discussion.
- A proposed new speedy deletion criteria for certain kinds of redirects ended with no consensus.
- Also ending with no change was a proposal to change how we handle certain kinds of vector images.
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- Discussion report: Community reacts to WMF rebranding proposals
- Featured content: Sports are returning, with a rainbow
- Arbitration report: Anti-harassment RfC and a checkuser revocation
- Traffic report: The pandemic, alleged murder, a massacre, and other deaths
- News from the WMF: We stand for racial justice
- Recent research: Wikipedia and COVID-19; automated Wikipedia-based fact-checking
- Humour: Cherchez une femme
- On the bright side: For what are you grateful this month?
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Black Lives Matter
Pride flag
Hi Alfie,
I'm a relatively new editor and another queer, angry puddle of dysphoria. Can I steal your pride flag markup for my user page? I know it's not great etiquette to put this on your talk page, and that Wikipedia's licensing theoretically lets me do whatever I want with text content, but I'd feel bad not asking and don't know how else to do so.
Thanks, JeanLackE (talk) 05:52, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
- JeanLackE, yes, you should feel free. Wikipedia is a collaborative project, you might want to give credit, but given how basic the elements are, you might not need to. Ed6767 talk! 20:45, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
- I have seen this, too. -- a they/them | argue | contribs 22:19, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
Apologies to bring this up again, but this list could be misinterpreted as WP:HOUNDING, especially considering many users on the list are editing in good faith and haven't abused their tools. If you are going to engage in monitoring of this kind, it's better to keep your list off-wiki imo, especially as a user could stumble across it and feel disheartened, harassed or defamed. In case you decide to, you can use {{db-g7}} to request its deletion. Many thanks, Ed6767 talk! 20:55, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
- I have seen this. -- a they/them | argue | contribs 22:20, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
- It's for the record - it's your choice to communicate regarding my concerns or simply make use of WP:BLANKING again. Left this message to avoid a WP:MfD. Ed6767 talk! 22:32, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
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Disruptive edditing
Someone is inserting misleading informtion in the middle of my text input Please help me I have given citation but he continues to do so We are having active discussion yet he continues to add something in the middle of my text which is difficult to trace Spmunshi (talk) 06:11, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
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Help to initiate a resolve dispute request
I need help to setup a dispute resolution request to resolve a content dispute on the #ADOS Wikipedia page. I’m new so I’m not familiar with the coding necessary to initiate a dispute resolution intervention. Any help you could provide me would be gratefully appreciated. Robjwev (talk) 13:49, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
- @Robjwev:, I'm not Alfie, but given as she hasn't edited in over 2 weeks, I'll go ahead and respond here. There are multiple dispute resolution forums on Wikipedia, can you elaborate on what exactly needs to be resolved? --Squeeps10 Talk to meMy edits 00:54, 15 November 2020 (UTC)
- I'm going to assume you're referring to User talk:Robjwev#COI and tendentious editing, in which case you have no case for dispute resolution, but Struthious Bandersnatch does. --Squeeps10 Talk to meMy edits 01:01, 15 November 2020 (UTC)
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Hello Alfie,
- Year in review
It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by Rosguill who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to JTtheOG and Onel5969 who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to John B123, Hughesdarren, and Mccapra who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by DannyS712 which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.
Rank | Username | Num reviews | Log |
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1 | DannyS712 bot III (talk) | 67,552 | Patrol Page Curation |
2 | Rosguill (talk) | 63,821 | Patrol Page Curation |
3 | John B123 (talk) | 21,697 | Patrol Page Curation |
4 | Onel5969 (talk) | 19,879 | Patrol Page Curation |
5 | JTtheOG (talk) | 12,901 | Patrol Page Curation |
6 | Mcampany (talk) | 9,103 | Patrol Page Curation |
7 | DragonflySixtyseven (talk) | 6,401 | Patrol Page Curation |
8 | Mccapra (talk) | 4,918 | Patrol Page Curation |
9 | Hughesdarren (talk) | 4,520 | Patrol Page Curation |
10 | Utopes (talk) | 3,958 | Patrol Page Curation |
- Reviewer of the Year
John B123 has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.
- NPP Technical Achievement Award
As a special recognition and thank you DannyS712 has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.
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Merry Christmas
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May Jesus Christ bless you and your loved ones on this day. Merry Christmas!RAJIVVASUDEV (talk) 02:20, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
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feedback please
HI Alfie! I have completed one draft of my essay at User:Vincentvikram/Always_keep_context_in_mind_when_arguing_claims. Would you be able to have a look and provide feedback. Thanks! Vikram Vincent 10:43, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
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Precious anniversary
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- Appreciate it. <3 -- a they/them | argue | contribs 21:15, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
Threat Intelligence Platform
Hi Alfie, regarding your recent edit:
curprev 21:46, 25 June 2021 Alfie talk contribs 12,631 bytes −1,896 rv - unencyclopaedic, potentially promotional undothank Tag: Undo
I am curious what the concern is? To help solve the flag issues on the page, I added direct references to recognized authorities. Trying to understand how that is promotional? CyberUpdateUser (talk) 23:13, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
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