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	The Technical Barnstar
	Very nice job getting Citation bot fixed and unblocked, and all the other little bug fixes. Hard to believe a bot with 6 million edits was blocked for 2 months, since this bot is one of the most used bots in wiki history. Your efforts fixed it. Bravo. –Novem Linguae (talk) 23:23, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks! When I started to help out a couple of months ago my knowledge of coding was pretty much limited to changing variables, perhaps using a command line. With some help from AI, I've managed to come this far since then. Atleast I can read what PHP code means now, the code suggestions from me probably aren't the cleanest but they got the job done. Don't have the skills yet to actually maintain a bot, but happy to help out.

Perhaps one day somebody with actual good knowledge of PHP can clean the code up, I still find it hard to believe that there was not a single other person attempting to fix the bot though. Redalert2fan (talk) 14:14, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

I was keeping an eye on it and would have tried to tackle that eventually if needed. I'm glad you got to it first though!

Sometimes AI patches are terrible, but the final one you submitted seemed nice and concise.

You and I are both lucky that AManWithNoPlan reviews pretty much everything in 24 hours. Most projects do not review that fast.

The flaky tests on that repo drive me nuts. A red X should always mean "this PR breaks something". Right now a red X means "who knows" and everyone just ignores it, which makes the thousands of tests a lot less useful. –Novem Linguae (talk) 21:22, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

Just happen to be working on the tests right now! fixed a couple that failed each time in the last 20 PR's. Right now its a mix of: The external API changed, or we suddenly get a different response from before. In those cases I would consider the red X sort of correct; the code is fine but the test itself if now broken. But the most common cause for fails is an API time out, which shouldn't be giving us the red X so to say, since the code is working fine.

Probably happens because we either don't have API keys set because they were never obtained and also because we use the same API keys for production and testing... Redalert2fan (talk) 21:37, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for working on it! In my opinion this is so important that I would just ->skip() every test that ever fails until master branch is back to green. But I submitted some PRs to do that and they were declined.

There is also a lot of committing directly to master going on, instead of using PRs, which runs the test suite AFTER merging to master, which means untested/bad code can get merged to master. Then any PR based on that commit or newer commits also fails.

I think there is also a lot of aborting the test suite before it runs fully going on, in order to not use up so many of our free credits per month.

Overall testing in this repo is frustrating and doesn't provide a great developer experience. –Novem Linguae (talk) 22:31, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

We got some seperate API keys for the test suite now, and I implemented skips for the worst offenders. First time we got a green check mark in a while. It's possible there are some more test candidates that need skips which I will add if the red x comes back. I think after a couple more different pulls to see said candidates we should no longer get them. Redalert2fan (talk) 16:34, 4 April 2026 (UTC)

Status update: We are now up to intermittently getting green check marks. Redalert2fan (talk) 22:52, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

Yay. Progress is good. Would still be best to fix all the flakiness though. –Novem Linguae (talk) 23:14, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

New pages patrol May 2026 Backlog drive

May 2026 Backlog Drive | New pages patrol
On 1 May 2026, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Each review will earn 1 point. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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New Page Patrol Newsletter - May 2026

Hello Redalert2fan,

New Page Review queue November 2025 - May 2026

Backlog update

At the time of this message, there are 15,282 articles and 32,951 redirects awaiting review.

After the January–February drive the article backlog was reduced to 15,179 articles and the redirect backlog to 19,053 respectively. Great job! However, both queues are growing rapidly and any additional reviews are highly appreciated.

2024 and 2025 NPP Awards

JTtheOG was selected as the NPP reviewer of the year for both 2024 and 2025, for reviewing the most articles amongst all reviewers.

Hey man im josh and MPGuy2824 won the Redirect Ninja Master Award for 2024 and 2025 respectively, for reviewing the most redirects.

Overall in 2024, one Platinum, two Gold, eight Silver, 12 Bronze and 45 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 66 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year. In 2025, one Platinum, ten Silver, 13 Bronze and 38 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 38 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year.

BoyTheKingCanDance, Rosiestep, SunDawn, and Vanderwaalforces were inducted into the NPP Hall of Fame for having two separate years of 2,000+ article reviews.

January–February backlog drive

The experimental two-month long backlog drive concluded with 183 reviewers patrolling over 27,761 articles and 35,309 redirects, earning over 36,836 points. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 6,484.6 points in this drive.

May backlog drive

An article-only backlog drive is currently underway. We are hoping to make a big dent in the backlog. You can read more about it or join at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Backlog drives/May 2026.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:38, 14 May 2026 (UTC)

Articles for Creation backlog drive

Hello Redalert2fan:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive in August!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than a month of outstanding reviews from the current 3+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 August 2026 through 31 August 2026.

You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.
There is a backlog of over 5000 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:38, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

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