Wikipedia:New pages patrol/School

Tutorial

Discussion

New page feed

Reviewers

Curation tool
Suggestions

Coordination

Backlog drives

NPP backlog

Articles: 30612 ↓12
Oldest article: 5 years old
Redirects: 50772
Oldest redirect: 5 months old
Article reviews: 1192
Redirect reviews: 4650

There is a very large articles backlog
The articles backlog is growing rapidly (↑618 since last week)
There is a very large redirects backlog

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The New Page Review training program is designed to help users who wish to assist with maintenance tasks to learn the basic principles of reviewing new articles, and to provide one-on-one training in the use of the New Pages Feed and its curation toolbar.

Experienced Wikipedians (or trainers in this instance) can "adopt" newer users, mentoring them as they learn how to review new pages. This program will inform new users about the complexities of deletion and notability and prevent errors being made in the use of the tools and tags. If you are looking to contribute to Wikipedia but do not intend to remain active on New Page Review, then this program is probably not for you.

Users who are less experienced, but who would still like to help maintain the quality of the encyclopedia, might like to consider Patrolling Vandalism instead – an essential function that requires less knowledge of Notability Guidelines and Deletion. For training on counter-vandalism, see theCounter Vandalism Academy.

View the list of trainers below

Check that you have already made sufficient mainspace edits (at least 500) and that you have addressed any previous advice or warnings about your general editing.
Read the tutorial first, and then all the pages in the section Further reading below.
Go through the Curation Tool tutorial and its video.
Find a user with available training slots (see the list of trainers below, and look at the "Student slots available" column in the table) and leave a message on their talk page to request training. If you don't receive a reply within 48 hours, please choose another trainer.

Participation

Students

Learning about reviewing new pages is easy and fun. If you'd like an experienced user to show you how, simply choose an active trainer from the list and leave a message on their talk page. Your chosen trainer should share your interests so that they can comfortably assist you while you learn with them. For more information on what you will be expected to learn, first visit the pages at WP:NPP and WP:DELETION.

Trainers

If you are an experienced New Page Reviewer and have time to devote to being a trainer, visit the Trainers' resources section where you will find the minimum requirement for trainers, recommended practice, and teaching suggestions and examples. You can then add yourself to the list of active trainers taking note of the page source comments.

Goals

Before starting a New Page Review training program, you should be able to demonstrate that you are already familiar the basic principles of editing the encyclopedia and contributed at least 500 edits to MAINSPACE. Having already created a new article would be a great advantage.

When you have shown through training that you have mastered the principles of New Page Review and can apply them with accuracy, and are able to communicate correctly and effectively with new users of all kinds you will be contributing to what is one of the most important maintenance tasks on Wikipedia, while understanding that speed alone is not essential – the target is accuracy.

Syllabus

Notability

Notability
General Notability Guideline (GNG)
Specific Notability Guidelines (SNG)
- Organizational and Company Notability and any other SNGs that relate to areas of patrol interest
Common Wikipedia practices when evaluating notability

Wikipedia policy and guidelines

Assume good faith
Biographies of living people
Conflicts of interest (including undisclosed paid editing)
Copyright
Hoaxes and attack pages

Communication

Discussions with creators of new pages
- Automated notifications and when to manually notify/discuss
- Tone, clarity, and knowledge in discussions
- Wikilove/positive comments
Warning templates

Deletion

Reviewing procedures

Improvement Tagging
Categorizing
Stub sorting
Use of the flow chart and other reviewing guides
Scripts for reviewing use/ease

Graduation criteria

The successful NPP School Graduate will be able to:

Successfully use the NPP flowchart, or other system, to arrive at a correct reviewing outcome 90% or more of the time
Accurately identify when an article has satisfied the GNG
Accurately identify appropriate SNG claims in an article
Accurately evaluate articles against specific SNG criteria
Find and accurately apply common Wikipedia practices when evaluating notability
Differentiate between spam, vandalism, nonsense, and foreign language articles
Identify and appropriately remedy copyright issues in at least 90% of instances
Understand, explain, and apply appropriate Wikipedia Policies and Guidelines including, but not limited to, BLP and COI
Engage in appropriate and useful conversations with other editors about NPP
Appropriately apply warning templates to users
Know when to appropriately nominate an article for deletion, including how to have done a BEFORE search
Know when and how to use PROD and BLPPROD
Know when and how to soft delete an article
Use the Speedy Deletion criteria with at least 90% accuracy
Apply appropriate tags to article with at least 90% accuracy
Understand NPP procedures and norms
Correctly and efficiently use scripts while doing new page patrol

List of available trainers

Available trainers

Available trainers
Trainer	Current students	Student slots available	Graduates trained	Time zone	Comments
DreamRimmer (talk · contribs)	0	0	1	Indian Standard Time (IST): UTC+5:30	I'm here to assist anyone eager to learn about new page patrol. Don't hesitate to reach out.
CFA (talk · contribs)	0	1	0	Eastern (UTC -5/-4)	Happy to help anyone interested in pitching in at NPP. Just leave a message on my talk page.

List of former/inactive trainers

Trainer	Current students	Student slots available	Graduates trained	Comments
Barkeep49 (talk · contribs)	1	0	5	Feel free to ask on my talk page. When asking please include a little bit about yourself as introduction and why you want to do NPP School. A caution: my time is currently occupied with other wiki activities and so I might have to turn down even very promising students.
Cassiopeia (talk · contribs)	1	2	6	Happy to help you started as it is an important part of the project where it is one of areas of my contribution. My NPP program covers the fundamental guidelines required in reviewing new pages. Reading material/links will be provided and enrolled students are required to work on assignments given. Drop a message on my talk page.
Rosguill (talk · contribs)	1	0	1	Currently not taking on new students

Trainers' resources (for trainers only)

Example curriculums

The "long" curriculum used by most trainers. Estimated time 3 months.
- User:Cassiopeia/NPPS/FormalDude
- User:Barkeep49/NPPSchool/Celestina
The "short" curriculum used by Atsme. Not as thorough, but results in many more graduates than the long method. Estimated time 2 weeks.
- User talk:Atsme/NPP training/Archive 5

Tips

Set up a subpage in the trainer's userspace. One page per student.
Add the questions to the subpage in small groups, wait for the student to finish them, grade them, then add the next group.
Templates such as Y {{Tick}}, Y {{Yellow tick}}, and N {{Cross}} are great for grading.
Be on the lookout for plagiarism. Old NPP school pages are public unless deleted, and students sometimes read them and paraphrase the answers.
The idea of "deletion quotas" (any exercises involving X number of CSDs/AFDs/draftifications) is controversial and has been discussed negatively at RFA before.
The NPP Discord server is available if you want to have text chat, voice chat, and/or screen sharing with a student.

Essential further reading

Related programs

The Teahouse
An area where friendly Wikipedians will answer your questions.

Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit/Academy
A similar program for beginners to learn how to countering vandalism.

Adopt-a-User
A mentorship program for new users who are interested in learning more about Wikipedia.