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Articles: 17295 ↓687
Oldest article: 2 years old
Redirects: 10677
Oldest redirect: 4 months old
Article reviews: 2649
Redirect reviews: 4873

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WP:MAY25

The May 2025 New Pages Patrol backlog drive is a one-month-long effort to reduce the backlog of the new pages patrol articles feed. The coordinators for this drive are Hey man im josh and DreamRimmer. The drive began on 1 May 2025 UTC, and will conclude on 31 May 2025 UTC. The ultimate goal of this backlog drive is to reduce the number of articles awaiting patrol, whilst maintaining quality reviews. Awards will be given out to the participants based on their contributions during the drive.

Points

Points: Points will be calculated based on the 31-day total according to the leaderboard. It is updated by TolBot, which counts patrols, draftifications, and deletion nominations, but can only detect deletion nominations when performed with the Page Curation tool. We will accept CSD logs made by Twinkle, which will be added to the leaderboard at the end of the drive, based on the principle of good faith. Participants will have 4 days (until June 5, 2025, at 00:00 UTC) to submit these logs on the drive's talk page after the drive has ended.
Re-reviewing: As usual, rather than speed, quality and depth of patrolling and the use of correct CSD criteria are essential to good reviewing. To ensure quality reviews, credit is also given for re-reviews. To find articles to re-review, participants are encouraged to visit the leaderboard section and check any reviewer's log. Please make sure that an article was not a redirect at the time it was reviewed and that it's not already been re-reviewed by another participant. Participants are allowed to submit re-reviews for 4 days following the completion of the drive. You are encouraged to focus on re-reviewing articles from other drive participants over non-participants. All re-reviews are to be submitted by June 5, 2025, at 00:00 UTC.

Signing up

In order to participate, you must have the New Page Reviewer user permission, which can be requested here.

To sign up for the drive, click the button below and add your user talk page to the participants list. If you are not on the sign up list, your stats will not be included in the leaderboard table.

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Backlog chart at the beginning of the drive

There were 18,847 unreviewed articles as of the start of the drive on May 1, 2025.

Leaderboard

From: User:TolBot/Task 8/Drives/2025-05 New Page Patrol/leaderboard

User	Log	Total	Patrol	Deletion tag	Draftify	Week 1
JTtheOG	log	376	367	0	9	376
Sophisticatedevening	log	193	179	11	3	193
Yoblyblob	log	192	170	22	0	192
AstrooKai	log	85	82	3	0	85
Hey man im josh	log	76	44	0	32	76
Miminity	log	76	55	7	14	76
Noleander	log	74	67	7	0	74
JackFromWisconsin	log	62	60	2	0	62
Dan arndt	log	56	43	0	13	56
Ryan shell	log	54	54	0	0	54
FULBERT	log	47	40	3	4	47
North8000	log	47	47	0	0	47
Dclemens1971	log	38	38	0	0	38
A412	log	36	36	0	0	36
Barrettsprivateers	log	29	29	0	0	29
Trainsskyscrapers	log	28	28	0	0	28
Pichpich	log	27	27	0	0	27
Bunnypranav	log	24	22	1	1	24
Cielquiparle	log	21	21	0	0	21
Klbrain	log	21	17	2	2	21
Coeusin	log	20	18	2	0	20
GTrang	log	20	20	0	0	20
MCE89	log	19	19	0	0	19
Cabrils	log	17	12	5	0	17
Harrz	log	17	14	1	2	17
Moriwen	log	15	15	0	0	15
QEnigma	log	14	12	0	2	14
Lollipoplollipoplollipop	log	12	12	0	0	12
TheBritinator	log	12	3	0	9	12
Netherzone	log	11	11	0	0	11
Clarityfiend	log	10	6	4	0	10
Abo Yemen	log	9	9	0	0	9
Bobby Cohn	log	8	5	3	0	8
Hughesdarren	log	8	8	0	0	8
ClaudineChionh	log	7	4	2	1	7
Pbritti	log	7	5	0	2	7
Garsh2	log	6	5	0	1	6
Mrfoogles	log	6	6	0	0	6
Iljhgtn	log	5	5	0	0	5
Wasianpower	log	5	3	2	0	5
Zzz plant	log	5	5	0	0	5
AlphaBetaGamma	log	4	1	0	3	4
Jannatulbaqi	log	4	4	0	0	4
Johnson524	log	4	4	0	0	4
LEvalyn	log	4	4	0	0	4
ScrabbleTiles	log	4	1	0	3	4
Whoisjohngalt	log	4	4	0	0	4
Kj cheetham	log	3	3	0	0	3
Ktkvtsh	log	3	2	1	0	3
Lovkal	log	3	3	0	0	3
Mekomo	log	3	3	0	0	3
JSFarman	log	2	2	0	0	2
Mwwv	log	2	2	0	0	2
Shellwood	log	2	2	0	0	2
Skynxnex	log	2	2	0	0	2
StarTrekker	log	2	2	0	0	2
AlexandraAVX	log	1	1	0	0	1
BeanieFan11	log	1	0	0	1	1
GELongstreet	log	1	1	0	0	1
Golem08	log	1	1	0	0	1
GraziePrego	log	1	0	0	1	1
Paul2520	log	1	1	0	0	1
Robertsky	log	1	0	0	1	1
Trailblazer101	log	1	1	0	0	1
Abhiimanyu7	log	0	0	0	0	0
Aintabli	log	0	0	0	0	0
Ampil	log	0	0	0	0	0
Aydoh8	log	0	0	0	0	0
Babegriev	log	0	0	0	0	0
Bastun	log	0	0	0	0	0
Bogger	log	0	0	0	0	0
Cactusisme	log	0	0	0	0	0
CharlieMehta	log	0	0	0	0	0
CherryPie94	log	0	0	0	0	0
Cinder painter	log	0	0	0	0	0
CommunityNotesContributor	log	0	0	0	0	0
Cremastra	log	0	0	0	0	0
Czarking0	log	0	0	0	0	0
Demt1298	log	0	0	0	0	0
Dewritech	log	0	0	0	0	0
DoubleGrazing	log	0	0	0	0	0
DreamRimmer	log	0	0	0	0	0
Easternsahara	log	0	0	0	0	0
Eucalyptusmint	log	0	0	0	0	0
Frost	log	0	0	0	0	0
Gheus	log	0	0	0	0	0
Goldsztajn	log	0	0	0	0	0
GrabUp	log	0	0	0	0	0
Grahaml35	log	0	0	0	0	0
HouseBlaster	log	0	0	0	0	0
Idoghor Melody	log	0	0	0	0	0
JavaHurricane	log	0	0	0	0	0
Jlwoodwa	log	0	0	0	0	0
Jmertel23	log	0	0	0	0	0
Joseywales1961	log	0	0	0	0	0
Kudpung	log	0	0	0	0	0
Lordseriouspig	log	0	0	0	0	0
LunaEclipse	log	0	0	0	0	0
Markdask	log	0	0	0	0	0
Meena	log	0	0	0	0	0
Memer15151	log	0	0	0	0	0
Mydreamsparrow	log	0	0	0	0	0
Nizil Shah	log	0	0	0	0	0
Noorullah21	log	0	0	0	0	0
Ortizesp	log	0	0	0	0	0
Owais Khursheed	log	0	0	0	0	0
PK650	log	0	0	0	0	0
Pygos	log	0	0	0	0	0
Rahammz	log	0	0	0	0	0
Rangasyd	log	0	0	0	0	0
Reconrabbit	log	0	0	0	0	0
Relativity	log	0	0	0	0	0
Rkieferbaum	log	0	0	0	0	0
Rosguill	log	0	0	0	0	0
Royiswariii	log	0	0	0	0	0
Stuartyeates	log	0	0	0	0	0
Tails Wx	log	0	0	0	0	0
ThadeusOfNazereth	log	0	0	0	0	0
ToBeFree	log	0	0	0	0	0
Ulubatli Hasan	log	0	0	0	0	0
Voorts	log	0	0	0	0	0
Wikieditor019	log	0	0	0	0	0
Xoak	log	0	0	0	0	0
Zippybonzo	log	0	0	0	0	0
Total		1849	1667	78	104	1849

Awards

Awards will be given by the coordinators after this drive ends. You can earn one point either by reviewing an article or re-reviewing an article.

This is the scheme for the awards:

Image	Minimum	Template
	5 points	The Invisible Barnstar
	10 points	The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
	25 points	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	50 points	The Reviewer Barnstar
	100 points	The New Page Patroller's Barnstar
	200 points	The Special Edition New Page Patroller's Barnstar
	350 points	The Order of the Lesser Scribe of Wikipedia
	500 points	The Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia
	Re-reviewing 25 articles	The Teamwork Barnstar
	In addition, the person who accumulates the most points during the backlog elimination drive, will receive the Content Review Medal of Merit

Streak awards

For the streak awards, the weeks will be defined as follows:

Week 1: May 1 – May 7
Week 2: May 8 – May 14
Week 3: May 15 – May 21
Week 4: May 22 – May 31

Image	Minimum Streak	Name
	7 points per week	Worm Gear
	15 points per week	Rack and pinion
	25 points per week	Geneva mechanism
	50 points per week	Asymmetric Epicyclic Gears
	100 points per week	Planetary Gear
	150 points per week	Unnecessarily complicated Gears

Re-reviewing

Participants may complete re-reviews for up to 4 days after the drive has concluded (June 5, 2025, at 00:00 UTC).

To re-review articles, list your name at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Backlog drives/May 2025/Re-reviews followed by a numbered list of the articles you have re-reviewed. To find articles to re-review, go to Wikipedia:Database reports/Top new article reviewers, pick any editor, and visit the log to find articles that they have reviewed since the start of the drive. Make sure to note the original reviewer and determine whether the original review was correct. If you found problems with the original review, please discuss it with the original reviewer on the backlog drive talk page.