Please consider signing up for the May 2025 NPP backlog drive.
You can sign up for the drive here.

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.

1. 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.
2. 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.