Wikipedia:Backlog drive schedule

This is a centralized place to list upcoming backlog drives, serving two purposes:

1. It allows editors to find what drives are going on in the current month
2. It helps those scheduling backlog drives to minimize overlap, which will hopefully increase participation and decrease burnout

The "shortcut drive" is the drive with the month's shortcut (such as WP:JUN25). Generally, this goes to the first drive to claim it.

If you are scheduling overlapping backlog drives, give special consideration to the editors likely to participate in each drive. Overlapping new page patrol and articles for creation drives is a bad idea; simultaneous new page patrol and Guild of Copy Editors drives would not be the end of the world.

2026

Month	Drives
January	Guild of Copy Editors New page patrol
February	Good article nominations (the big one) New page patrol
March	Guild of Copy Editors Unreferenced articles
April	No backlog drive
May	Guild of Copy Editors New page patrol
June	Good article nominations (newbie-focused)
July	Guild of Copy Editors
August	Unreferenced articles Articles for creation
September	Guild of Copy Editors New page patrol
October	Good article nominations (theme TBA)
November	Guild of Copy Editors Unreferenced articles
December

2027

Month	Drives
January	Guild of Copy Editors
February	Good article nominations Unreferenced articles
March	Guild of Copy Editors
April	Unreferenced articles
May	Unreferenced articles Guild of Copy Editors
June	Good article nominations
July	Guild of Copy Editors
August
September	Guild of Copy Editors
October	Good article nominations
November	Guild of Copy Editors
December

Archived years

2025

Month	Drives
January	New page patrol Guild of Copy Editors Good article nominations
February	No backlog drive
March	Guild of Copy Editors
April	No backlog drive
May	New page patrol Guild of Copy Editors Good article nominations
June	Unreferenced articles Articles for creation World Destubathon
July	Guild of Copy Editors
August	No backlog drive
September	Guild of Copy Editors New page patrol
October	Good article nominations (Old nominations) Women in Green's 9th edit-a-thon
November	Unreferenced articles Guild of Copy Editors
December	Articles for creation