The tutorial at NPP is comprehensive and easily readable, it just needs a bit of time to study. To help you master it, the New Page Review training program is designed to help new and/or inexperienced users who wish to assist with maintenance tasks to understand the basic principles of reviewing new pages on Wikipedia, and to provide one-on-one help in the use of the New Pages Feed and its curation toolbar.
Reviewing new pages is more than simply tagging them for maintenance or deletion – reviewers are detectives too!
Experienced Wikipedians (ortrainers in this instance) can "adopt" newer users, mentoring them along the way as they learn how to review new pages. It is hoped that this program will be able to inform new users about the ins and outs of deletion and notability and steer them away from making errors 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 WP:CVUA.
Check that you have already made sufficient mainspace edits (generally around 500) and that you have addressed any previous advice or warnings about your general editing.
Find a user who is in your time zone 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 who is in your time zone 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 under their tutelage. 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 user 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 may then wish to add yourself to the list of active trainers taking note of the page source comments.
You will be interested to know that occasionally some candidates for training may be university professors taking part in the Wikipedia Education Program.
Goals
If you're new and/or inexperienced, before embarking on a New Page Review training programme, you should be able to demonstrate that you have already mastered the basic principles of editing the encyclopedia and contributed at least 500 edits to MAINSPACE.
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. When you have achieved these goals, you can display the User New Page Patrol userbox on your user page.
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.
I l went through the NPPSCHOOL program in May 2022, if you are interested please feel free to contact me on my user talk page if you are interested, because we need way more reviewers.
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.
On a 60 day breakIndef break effective 2023-06-08 I truly enjoy helping aspiring new page reviewers, and watching them grow to become an integral part of our excellent team of patrollers. Please post your request for training on my user talk page. An example of my course is at User:Atsme/NPP training, keeping in mind that what you will be expected to do and learn is contingent upon your present skill level. Remember, some of our best admins have been hatched from NPP school.
Willing to help out any new potential reviewers. Lord knows we need some more. My talk page is here. My time zone is a bit different, AZ doesn't use DST, so during the summer and fall we're the same as Mountain Standard Time, and during the winter and spring we're the same as Pacific Coast Time.
Please contact me on my usertalk page, glad to help anyone get started in this important role. I will be available to coach up to 2 students at a time.
Trainers' resources (for trainers only)
Example curriculums
The "long" curriculum used by most trainers. Estimated time 3 months.
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.
There is a very large articles backlog
