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| This page contains information about the New Page Reviewer right, relevant policy and guidelines. Changes made to it should reflect consensus. |
New Page Reviewer is a special rights user group. Reviewers work with the New Pages Feed and the Page Curation Tool to process, approve, or tag newly created pages.[1]
In order to better control the quality of new pages – to address common unwanted content such as spam, copyvios and nonsense, and also to encourage good faith new users – the current system that was developed in collaboration with the Wikimedia Foundation in 2011 has been updated and improved. A new user group, New Page Reviewer, for qualified reviewers, was created in October 2016.
There are currently 810 New page reviewers, which makes the total number of users with this permission 1,658 (the rest are administrators).
New Page Reviewer
Editors will normally need to have been registered users of the English Wikipedia for at least 90 days, and have made at least 500 not-deleted edits to mainspace. They will also need to be able to demonstrate from their editing history that they have sufficient experience, and have the ability to communicate in an appropriate manner with new users.
- How does this affect former New Page Patrollers?
Editors who have not reviewed new pages since 1 January 2016 will no longer be able to do so until they have made a special, but straightforward, application for the right at WP:PERM.
- Obtaining the new user right
Users applying for the New Page Patroller flag at WP:PERM are expected to have been registered for at least 90 days and to have made at least 500 uncontested edits to mainspace articles. This is similar to the application process to obtain rights as a Reviewer or Rollbacker, where the user's editing history is checked and, if appropriate, the right is granted by a reviewing administrator. Administrators are accorded discretion to grant the right even where the 90-day threshold is not fully met — typically done when a review of the person's edits indicate they are a strong candidate. For more details, please see New pages patrol and read the instructions at WP:PERM.
- Grandfathered
Users who had made at least 200 uncontested patrols between 1 January 2016 and 6 October 2016 were accorded the right by administrators without the need to apply at WP:PERM.
All other users who wish to mark pages as patrolled must apply for the right. This is necessary to remove pages from the new pages feed to prevent new page patrollers from duplicating their efforts. The right is included in the Administrator toolset. Only users with the New Page Reviewer right will be able to mark pages as 'patrolled' but this does not affect access to Twinkle for tagging new or existing pages.
- Guidelines for granting
Generally speaking, editors granted new page reviewer should:
- Have been a registered user for at least 90 days with at least 500 undeleted mainspace edits
- Have a good knowledge of content policies and guidelines and experience with quality control processes. This is typically demonstrated by prior participation in one or a combination of the following areas:
- The deletion processes, i.e. AfD, PROD, and CSD
- Articles for Creation
- Writing new articles
- Have a solid track record of interacting with other editors, especially new editors, in a civil and constructive manner
- Have no behavioral blocks or 3RR violations that were active within the last 6 months
- Commit to reviewing pages solely on a volunteer basis
These criteria are guidelines; meeting them does not constitute a right to the permission. At their discretion, administrators may grant the permission to editors who do not meet the strict criteria but that they otherwise deem to be competent, or may ask for additional experience. Typically, consistent recent activity is required, to ensure that reviewers are familiar with current policy and guidelines. Activity on other Wikimedia projects is not taken into consideration.
- Guidelines for revocation
The user right can be revoked for violating any of the above conduct standards and for other misconduct. Additionally, it can be revoked at any time by an administrator without any process or prior notice in any of the following circumstances:
- The editor has demonstrated a pattern of performing obviously controversial reviews without first determining consensus.
- The editor has demonstrated a pattern of failing to exercise sufficient care when reviewing pages, resulting in new users being offended or discouraged.
- The editor has used the permission to gain the upper hand in disputes.
- The editor has performed any blatant vandalism (not limited to page reviewer vandalism).
- The editor has failed to report to an administrator after noticing unauthorized use of their account or otherwise neglected account security practices.
- The editor has been inactive for 12 months or more.
- The editor has accepted or solicited payment in return for reviews.
Additionally, the right may be removed immediately at the self-request of the editor. Appeals of revocation should be made in the first instance to the revoking administrator, failing which, a further appeal can be made at the Administrators' noticeboard (not ANI).
How does this affect new pages?
All new pages, redirects, drafts, accepted AfC submissions, and other pages moved to mainspace will be displayed in the New Pages Feed. They will be displayed in article space but will not be indexed for search engines until curated by an authorised reviewer.
There are plans to include a new feature in the Curation tool that will enable reviewers to move to the Draft namespace any new articles that, while not being suitable yet for immediate publication, show the potential for being accepted if the creator is allowed more time for development. Currently, for the time-being the same task could be performed with this script.
Note: This script is to be used with discretion, it is not a catchall for not knowing what to do with a new page.
Reviewers are encouraged to make frequent use of the existing message to creator tool. It is essential that new creators are encouraged to continue with their acceptable new articles.
- Triage
New Page Review is essentially the first (and only) firewall against totally unwanted content and the place to broadly accept articles that may not be perfect but do not need to be deleted. New Page Reviewers should not feel obligated to mentor new users or complete their articles. There are other venues better suited for these tasks such as the Teahouse question forum, help desk and Articles for Creation to which new editors should be directed for in depth help. Wikipedia:Your first article, Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia, the Wikipedia:Tutorial, The Wikipedia Adventure, and other help pages are also available. When drafts are approved at AfC and moved to the mainspace they will need a final check through New Pages Review. It is very possible that regular reviewers from the AfC team will apply for the New Page Reviewer flag; this is highly desirable given their related expertise.
Newsletter
By adding the userbox below, you will occasionally receive news of new features to the software and bug fixes. If you do not want to add the userbox or icon below, but wish to receive the newsletter and are a flagged reviewer, you can add Category:Wikipedia new page reviewers to your user page.
Userboxes, top icon and script
New page reviewers have the option of using a user script that combines the two main Page Curation features, namely the Special:NewPagesFeed and the curation toolbar. The old Special:NewPages feed can be accessed using this script and this script without the patrolled pages hidden. Holders of the New Page Reviewer user right can put a userbox on their user page. It populates a new category.
Do not add this userbox if you have not been granted the right.
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Authorised New Page Reviewers may wish to put one of the userboxes on their user page: {{User wikipedia/New page reviewer}}
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Statistics
To view the list of the most active reviewers over a time-span, you may use this bot-generated feed.