The Existential Negation Campaign
[edit]"we should honor the spirit of this campaign by existentially negating this article so that anyone trying to read it will discover it no longer exists."
To truly honor the campaign, we'd put a hatnote on the article saying it had been deleted, when it clearly hadn't been. (Hohum @) 01:50, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
- @Hohum: Heh... that'd be better, but since Wikipedia's deleted pages are not really removed from existence, deletion is still kind of appropriate. ~Hydronium~Hydroxide~(Talk)~ 04:38, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024
[edit]Hello Hydronium Hydroxide,
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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
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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.
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New page patrol May 2024 Backlog drive
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A barnstar for you!
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The Original Barnstar |
Your participation in AfD is very high quality. Thank you for contributing there. Mach61 16:33, 24 April 2024 (UTC) |
Star Wars merge help
[edit]Hi there! You did merge Vette's article before, but now that the Juhani (Star Wars) AfD was closed as "merge", if you're okay, can you merge any relevant content to the target page? Thank you. đBoneless Pizza!đ (đ) 07:09, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
Disambiguation link notification for June 17
[edit]An automated process has detected that when you recently edited SovietâJapanese Joint Declaration of 1956, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Allied Powers.
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