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New page review coordinators

NPR is a complex process. It requires a team of experienced editors–the coordinators–to keep it together. Most importantly, the coordinator group avoids duplication of efforts by other users.

Becoming an NPP coordinator

If you wish to help with any of the coordination activities below, please make sure you have the NPP permission without expiration and have a couple month's experience with NPP. Then make a post at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Coordination saying that you're interested in taking up a particular role. The coordination team will get back to you shortly with a decision. The lead coordinator makes the final decision on issues involving new and existing coordinators.

What the coordinators do

The coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining the internal structure and processes of NPR. They coordinate activities, maintain our pages, and organize drives and conferring of all awards other than the standard barnstar. They have no authority over article content or editor conduct and have no special powers conferred by their coordinator or patrolling/reviewing activities.

The coordinators' main role is performing the maintenance and housekeeping tasks required to keep the project and its internal processes running smoothly. These include updating Omboxes, page top and edit notices, managing and maintaining the Bugs and Features Requests page, managing backlog drives and other events, drafting newsletters, and maintaining relations with the WMF when required. Theoretically much of this could be done by any editor—the coordinators have explicit roles in only a few processes—but since experience suggests people tend to assume someone else is doing essential tasks, the most efficient route has proven to be to delegate formal responsibility for this administrative work to a specified group of coordinators.

The coordinators have several other roles. They are explicitly listed as people to whom questions can be directed in a variety of places around the project. They lead the drafting of project guidelines and policies, oversee the implementation of project decisions, and help to informally resolve disputes and keep discussions from becoming heated and unproductive.

Accountability and elections

The team of coordinators is currently a de facto body, i.e. it is not an elected office. If NPP community consensus desires an election at any time, the coordinators will organize it and appoint a non-involved commissioner.

Current team

Novem Linguae — lead coordinator, PageTriage developer, WMF liaison, NPP Discord
MPGuy2824 — PCSI clerking, PageTriage developer
Hey man im josh – recruitment, backlog drive coordinator
Sohom Datta – PageTriage developer
MarioGom – sockpuppet investigations
DreamRimmer – backlog drive coordinator
Dr vulpes — recognition (awards/barnstars)

Semi-active or inactive

Raydann – NPP recruitment, autopatrol recruitment
Atsme — NPP school coordinator, NPP school lead tutor. NPP liaison working with Board of Trustees

Special recognition

Below is an incomplete list of new page patrollers who have been lead coordinators or received reviewer of the year awards. We would like to honor and recognize their outstanding service by listing them here. Thank you so much for your efforts.

Barkeep49 – Lead coordinator 2018–2019
Insertcleverphrasehere – Lead coordinator 2017–2018
John B123 – Reviewer of the year 2020, 2021
Kudpung – Lead coordinator 2010–2018
MB – Lead coordinator 2022–2023
Onel5969 – Reviewer of the year 2018, 2022, 2023
PRehse – Reviewer of the year 2017
Rosguill – Reviewer of the year 2019

Chat room software (Discord)

Want to text chat with other new page patrollers in real time? As of 2023, we have an active Discord server. Use this invite link to join.

Moderators

The current moderators are:

Recruitment

New Page Patrol needs more reviewers. Please invite users that you have noticed have a good understanding of Wikipedia policies and guidelines (or users on this list after you screen them) by placing {{subst:New page reviewer invitation}} on their talk page. This template looks like this:

Hello New pages patrol!

New Pages Patrol is currently struggling to keep up with the influx of new articles needing review. We could use a few extra hands to help.
We think that someone with your activity and experience is very likely to meet the guidelines for granting, or could meet the guidelines for granting soon if you build a track record in one of these three areas: article creation, articles for deletion, or articles for creation reviewing. These demonstrate proficiency with notability, and are what admins typically evaluate when deciding to grant this permission.
Kindly read the tutorial before making your decision, and feel free to post on the project talk page with questions.
If patrolling new pages is something you'd be willing to help out with, please make sure you have some experience with new article creation, articles for deletion, or articles for creation reviewing, then consider applying here.

Thank you for your consideration. We hope to see you around!

Other similar templates can be found here.

Anytime anyone sends out a batch of user talk messages, you must add the folks you contacted to Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Coordination/List of users already invited. Care should be taken to remove these folks from future message lists, so that we do not spam them with multiple invites.

Coordinator userbox

Coordinators can also use this userbox on their userpage to help promote this project: {{NPP coordinator}}

This user is a coordinator for the new pages patrol process. (verify)

Community Wishlist Survey

Below is a list of times NPP has participated in the meta:Community Wishlist Survey. This is typically to get WMF software engineers to work on mw:Extension:PageTriage.


Year	Link	Submitted by	Votes	Rank	Result	WMF page	Notes
2016	meta:Community Wishlist Survey 2016/Categories/Moderation tools#New pages Feed/Page Curation	Kudpung	40	#35	No action
2019	meta:Community Wishlist Survey 2019/Admins and patrollers/Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements	Insertcleverphrasehere	153	#1	Worked on by WMF	meta:Community Tech/Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements	13 tickets resolved 6 tickets declined

PageTriage was also worked on at other times, but not through the wishlist.

Year	Notes	WMF software engineers
2012	After discussions between Kudpung and Eric Moeller (WMF), the PageTriage extension was created.	Kaldari, Bsitu
2018	Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/AfC Process Improvement May 2018. Resulted in ORES and AFC being added to PageTriage.	Growth Team
2023	Wikipedia:Page Curation/2023 Moderator Tools project. Resulted in new Vue/Codex interface for PageTriage, bug fixes, support for IP masking, and cleaner code.	Moderator Tools Team