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Hello New pages patrol/Newsletter/Archive,

Backlog

The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to WaddlesJP13 who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day.

2022 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2022 cup for 28,302 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 80/day. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. Rosguill led again for the 4th year by clearing 49,294 redirects. For the full details see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone!

Minimum deletion time: The previous WP:NPP guideline was to wait 15 minutes before tagging for deletion (including draftification and WP:BLAR). Due to complaints, a consensus decided to raise the time to 1 hour. To illustrate this, very new pages in the feed are now highlighted in red.

New draftify script: In response to feedback from AFC, the The Move to Draft script now provides a choice of set messages that also link the creator to a new, friendly explanation page. The script also warns reviewers if the creator is probably still developing the article. The former script is no longer maintained. Please edit your edit your common.js or vector.js file from User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js to User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft.js

Redirects: Some of our redirect reviewers have reduced their activity and the backlog is up to 9,000+ (two months deep). If you are interested in this distinctly different task and need any help, see this guide, this checklist, and spend some time at WP:RFD.

Discussions with the WMF The PageTriage open letter signed by 444 users is bearing fruit. The Growth Team has assigned some software engineers to work on PageTriage, the software that powers the NewPagesFeed and the Page Curation toolbar. WMF has submitted dozens of patches in the last few weeks to modernize PageTriage's code, which will make it easier to write patches in the future. This work is helpful but is not very visible to the end user. For patches visible to the end user, volunteers such as Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have been writing patches for bug reports and feature requests. The Growth Team also had a video conference with the NPP coordinators to discuss revamping the landing pages that new users see.

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 [[File:Npp backlog 2022-Dec.jpg|thumb|400px|New Page Review queue December 2022]]
 ;Backlog
-In the October backlog drive, an impressive 9,700 articles were reviewed and we achieved 0 backlog! Congratulations to {{noping|WaddlesJP13}} who led with 2084 points. See [[Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Backlog drives/October 2022|this page]] for further details. Since the drive ended, we have slowly crept upwards to 1,600. Although that is historically low, it would be great if <2,000 is the “new normal”. If you haven't  been that active since the backlog drive, please consider coming back.
+ October drive   9,700    0! Congratulations to {{noping|WaddlesJP13}} who led with 2084 points. See [[Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Backlog drives/October 2022|this page]] for further details.          ,.  would be great if <2,000  the “new normal”.               .
 ;2022 Awards
 [[File:New page reviewer of the year cup.svg|74px|left]]
-The 2022 cup went to {{no ping|Onel5969}} for leading with 28,302 article reviews last year. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. For redirects, {{no ping|Rosguill}}, with 49,294, led for the fourth consecutive year, and six others did 2,000 or more redirects and earned the "Redirect Ninja" award. Congratulations to everyone. More details are at the [[Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Awards|Awards page]] and the [[Wikipedia:New_pages_patrol/Awards#NPP_Hall_of_Fame|Hall of Fame]].
+{{no ping|Onel5969}}    28,302 article reviews last year. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. {{no ping|Rosguill}}   for the  year   ,  redirects  the  details  the [[Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Awards|Awards page]] and the [[Wikipedia:New_pages_patrol/Awards#NPP_Hall_of_Fame|Hall of Fame]].
-;Minimum deletion time
-In the past, the [[WP:NPP]] page has provided the guidance to front-of-queue reviewers to "wait 15 minutes from article creation" before tagging an article for any kind of deletion (including draftification and [[WP:BLAR]]). Due to noticeboard complaints, an NPP consensus was reached to raise this threshold to "wait 1 hour from article creation", and we may raise this further. Please do not tag articles that are less than an hour old for any kind of deletion. To assist with this, these articles are now highlighted red in [[Special:NewPagesFeed]], and the [[User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft|new Draftify script]] now gives a notice (see next section).
+'''Minimum deletion time''': The previous  [[WP:NPP]] guideline was to wait 15 minutes before tagging for deletion (including draftification and [[WP:BLAR]]). Due to complaints, a consensus decided to raise the time to 1 hour. To illustrate this, very new pages in the [[Special:NewPagesFeed|feed]] are now highlighted in red.
-;Draftify script
-Updates have been made to the Move to Draft script. In response to feedback from AFC, the script now steers the user to leave specific reasons for the author about what needs to be changed rather than a default message which was often not customized. The script also warns if the article has been edited within the past hour, so articles being actively improved are not immediately moved. This update requires you to switch to [[User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft|the newer version]] of the script. The "Evad37" version is no longer maintained. '''Please edit your edit your [[Special:MyPage/common.js|common.js]] file from <code>User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js</code> to <code>User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft.js</code>'''
+  script In response to feedback from AFC, the                   a      . The script also warns if the      the .   script is no longer maintained. Please edit your edit your [[Special:MyPage/common.js|common.js]] file from <code>User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js</code> to <code>User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft.js</code>'''
-;Redirects
-Some of our redirect reviewers have pulled back from feverishly reviewing redirects and consequently the backlog there is up to 9,000+ / two months deep, so we could also use a few more people doing redirects. If you are interested in this distinctly different task and need any help, review [[Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Redirects|this guide]], [[Wikipedia:New_pages_patrol#Redirect_checklist|this checklist]], and spend some time at [[WP:RFD]].
+Some of our redirect reviewers have    and the backlog is up to 9,000+ two months deep. If you are interested in this distinctly different task and need any help,  [[Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Redirects|this guide]], [[Wikipedia:New_pages_patrol#Redirect_checklist|this checklist]], and spend some time at [[WP:RFD]].
-'''Discussions with the WMF'''
-The [[Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Coordination/2022 WMF letter|PageTriage open letter]] is bearing fruit. The Growth Team has assigned some software engineers to work on PageTriage, the software that powers Special:NewPagesFeed and the Page Curation toolbar. WMF has submitted [[gerrit:q/repo:mediawiki/extensions/PageTriage+is:merged+NOT+author:Libraryupgrader+NOT+author:L10n-bot+before:2022-12-31|dozens of patches]] in the last few weeks to modernize PageTriage's code, which will make it easier to write patches in the future. This work is helpful but is not very visible to the end user. For patches visible to the end user, volunteers such as {{noping|Novem Linguae}} and {{noping|MPGuy2824}} have been writing patches for bug reports and feature requests. The Growth Team also [[Wikipedia talk:Growth Team features#Meeting details|had a video conference]] with the NPP coordinators to discuss [[User:Novem Linguae/Drafts/New landing page proposal|revamping the landing pages]] that new users see.
+The [[Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Coordination/2022 WMF letter|PageTriage open letter]] is bearing fruit. The Growth Team has assigned some software engineers to work on PageTriage, the software that powers NewPagesFeed and the Page Curation toolbar. WMF has submitted [[gerrit:q/repo:mediawiki/extensions/PageTriage+is:merged+NOT+author:Libraryupgrader+NOT+author:L10n-bot+before:2022-12-31|dozens of patches]] in the last few weeks to modernize PageTriage's code, which will make it easier to write patches in the future. This work is helpful but is not very visible to the end user. For patches visible to the end user, volunteers such as {{noping|Novem Linguae}} and {{noping|MPGuy2824}} have been writing patches for bug reports and feature requests. The Growth Team also [[Wikipedia talk:Growth Team features#Meeting details|had a video conference]] with the NPP coordinators to discuss [[User:Novem Linguae/Drafts/New landing page proposal|revamping the landing pages]] that new users see.
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