Thread:Talk:New Page Patrol Zoom Interface/Please record a screencast of yourself doing New Page Patrol/reply (12)

I'm still struggling with challenge of royalty-free screencast software, but in the meantime, i'd like to expand on one or two points you made. The serious NPPer probably hasn't built him/herself a sophisticated interface - they are not all geeks - they mainly just limit themselves to Twinkle - which is perfectly adequate, is quick, and takes up no screen space. The less experienced users often don't even know what Twinkle is - which ironically is probably not a bad thing, except that users do not get notified of CSD tags. I first found out what Twinkle is when (what seems) years ago, when I stumbled on a user page that had a "I patrol pages with Twinkle" userbox on it and I wondered what Twinkle was. I probably have one of the best possible working environments for optimal Wikipedia workflow, with several Mac Minis, a MacBookPro, all with large screens in a row and all sharing, and all operated from one keyboard and one magic track pad.

You say that you can become a newbie NPPer in short order, so that research is easy to do locally. Yes, and if you already have a solid knowledge of policy, page creation, and standard editing tools already, and spent two hours reading the instructions listed at WP:NPP, WP:DP, and WP:CSD and consigned most of the notability  acronyms and around 30 CSD criteria to memoire, in  less than an hour you'll be as  proficient at NPP as our best patrollers. BUT, you are an adult, have an analytical mind, and probably a PhD - any page patrolling you do will not put you in the shoes of a 12 - 13 year old. However, you might wish to count how many pages you treat, doing all the steps required at WP:NPP, in one hour's solid patrolling without getting distracted, but you will be if you also have en.Wiki admin tools. What slows me down is that I do physical deletions too, ans sometimes salt pages and block the users when  I'm patrolling. All this can dramatically reduce the actual number of pages patrolled. A 15 minute screencast may show me getting through 15 new pages or as few as three. There is also the fact that I cherry pick: from the front of the queue the page titles that I know are going to be a challenge for the average patroller, and of course pages with any spammy sounding names, and bios. At the back of the queue, I usually go for the bios first, then the ages with Indian sounding names. To save time, I go through about 10 - 20 picked pages on the list and let them start loading in separate browser tabs while I work. I have monitors and widows open with my 'tool box' user sub pages.