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Thank you so much for copyediting Sayfo! The copyedit really helped improve prose and will make it much easier when I nominate the article at FAC in a few weeks.

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I love kittens, and it's been a long time since we've had one! Good luck with FA and all the best, Miniapolis 18:05, 6 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2022-05-06T18:05:00.000Z","author":"Miniapolis","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Miniapolis-2022-05-06T18:05:00.000Z-Buidhe-2022-05-06T16:03:00.000Z","replies":[],"displayName":"Mini"}}-->

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).

Administrator changes Colin M David.Monniaux • Fribbler • Grue • Kpjas • West.andrew.g

CheckUser changes Ks0stm Oversighter changes Ks0stm

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
• Following a discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy.

Technical news

• The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
• A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.

Arbitration

• Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.

Hi, Miniapolis! I've been working for a while on copy editing the article Libagon, but it has a promotional tone. I've tagged the article with {{Peacock}} and {{POV}}, but I'm struggling with copy editing the article as it stands (which irritates me since this would be the second article that I'd abandoned if I don't continue). I can try to fix grammar and spelling errors, but I suspect a good portion of that prose will need to be removed or rewritten even if I do. What should I do in this kind of situation? Perfect4th (talk) 18:51, 16 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2022-05-16T18:51:00.000Z","author":"Perfect4th","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Perfect4th-2022-05-16T18:51:00.000Z-Copy_edit_on_Libagon","replies":["c-Baffle_gab1978-2022-05-16T23:03:00.000Z-Perfect4th-2022-05-16T18:51:00.000Z"]}}-->

(talk page stalker) Hi @Perfect4th: and Miniapolis, I hope you don't mind me butting in here. I took a look at the article and I agree it's full of uncited, POV and advertorial text. It should have had a {{Cleanup}} template rather than {{Copy edit}}. I'd start by removing the uncited text per WP:CITE then summarize some of the more useful cited text but this does go beyond simple copy-editing so abandoning the effort is quite understandable. A quick check for copyright issues using Earwig's tool might also be useful. There's no shame in abandoning copy-edits, I've abandoned plenty. Some articles are such a mess a c/e is the least of their worries. Happy editing and cheers, Baffle☿gab 23:03, 16 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2022-05-16T23:03:00.000Z","author":"Baffle gab1978","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Baffle_gab1978-2022-05-16T23:03:00.000Z-Perfect4th-2022-05-16T18:51:00.000Z","replies":["c-Miniapolis-2022-05-17T13:46:00.000Z-Baffle_gab1978-2022-05-16T23:03:00.000Z"]}}-->

I can't add anything to Baffle's good advice, Perfect4th. I've been busy IRL lately, but will be around more ASAP. All the best, Miniapolis 13:46, 17 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2022-05-17T13:46:00.000Z","author":"Miniapolis","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-Miniapolis-2022-05-17T13:46:00.000Z-Baffle_gab1978-2022-05-16T23:03:00.000Z","replies":["c-Perfect4th-2022-05-17T14:51:00.000Z-Miniapolis-2022-05-17T13:46:00.000Z"],"displayName":"Mini"}}-->

Thank you for your help! I've tagged the article with {{Cleanup}} for now, and I may come back to it later. Thanks again, Perfect4th (talk) 14:51, 17 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2022-05-17T14:51:00.000Z","author":"Perfect4th","type":"comment","level":4,"id":"c-Perfect4th-2022-05-17T14:51:00.000Z-Miniapolis-2022-05-17T13:46:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->

Hello Miniapolis/Archives/2022,

At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.

Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.

In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently 810 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 846 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.

This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.

If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing {{subst:NPR invite}} on their talk page.

If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.

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