Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Coordination

NPR is a complex process. It requires a team of experienced editors—the coordinators—to keep it together.

Most importantly, the coordinator group avoids duplication of efforts by other users.

If you wish to help with any of the coordination activities below, please make sure you have the NPP permission without expiration and have a couple month's experience with NPP. Then make a post at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Coordination saying that you're interested in taking up a particular role. The coordination team will get back to you shortly with a decision. The lead coordinator makes the final decision on issues involving new and existing coordinators.

The coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining the internal structure and processes of NPR. They coordinate activities, maintain our pages, and organize drives and conferring of all awards other than the standard barnstar. They have no authority over article content or editor conduct and have no special powers conferred by their coordinator or patrolling/reviewing activities.

The coordinators' main role is performing the maintenance and housekeeping tasks required to keep the project and its internal processes running smoothly. These include updating Omboxes, page top and edit notices, managing and maintaining the Bugs and Features Requests page, managing backlog drives and other events, drafting newsletters, and maintaining relations with the WMF when required. Theoretically much of this could be done by any editor—the coordinators have explicit roles in only a few processes—but since experience suggests people tend to assume someone else is doing essential tasks, the most efficient route has proven to be to delegate formal responsibility for this administrative work to a specified group of coordinators.

The coordinators have several other roles. They are explicitly listed as people to whom questions can be directed in a variety of places around the project. They lead the drafting of project guidelines and policies, oversee the implementation of project decisions, and help to informally resolve disputes and keep discussions from becoming heated and unproductive.

The team of coordinators is currently a de facto body, i.e. it is not an elected office. If NPP community consensus desires an election at any time, the coordinators will organize it and appoint a non-involved commissioner.