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Revision as of 23:24, 30 September 2021

This Copy Editing Backlog Elimination Drive is a one-month-long effort of the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy editing: those carrying the {{copy edit}} tag (also {{awkward}}, {{copy edit section}}, {{copy edit inline}}, {{inappropriate person}}, {{cleanup tense}}, and their redirects) and those listed on the GOCE Requests page. It will begin on 1 September 2021, 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 30 September 2021, 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this drive are:

• to reduce the backlog by as many articles as possible, especially the earliest-tagged articles (those tagged in April, May, and June 2021);
• to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page dating from July 2021. Done

Drive participants can earn barnstar awards based on the number of articles—and the word counts of the articles—they copy edit. Articles listed on the Requests page count towards your total; these articles are generally higher in quality than those tagged with {{copy edit}}. You will receive a bonus score of 50% over the article's word count for articles that were tagged with {{copy edit}} in April, May, and June 2021, and for articles listed on the Requests page. Awards will be given out once the drive has finished.

The drive is open to all Wikipedians; you don't have to be a member of the Guild of Copy Editors to participate. You must, however, be competent in your use of English grammar, spelling and punctuation. We strongly advise you to read Misplaced Pages's guide to basic copy editing before you begin working. If you're unsure about spelling, grammar or punctuation, consult the Misplaced Pages Manual of Style. Skilled use of English is especially important for articles listed on the Requests page.

Drives are under the purview of the Guild's coordinators. The drive's lead coordinator is Jonesey95 (talk), who is assisted by Dhtwiki (talk), Miniapolis (talk), and Tenryuu (talk). If you have any questions, leave a message on the drive's talk page.

For brief instructions on recording your work, see below. For full instructions, visit the main drive page. Further details can be found on the drive FAQ page.

Full instructions, tips, and awards

Full instructions for participants, tips, help for new copy editors, useful tags, and details of the many barnstars available for the drive can be found on the main drive page. Please read this page carefully before you begin. To sign up, please use the form in the Signing up section below.

Progress

(Please update your own figures)

Leaderboard

1. ^ For requests and older articles, please include only the actual word count, without the 50% bonus.
2. Number of articles of 5,000 words or more. An article of 10K+ words counts as 2, of 15K+ as 3, and so on.
3. Oldest articles are those tagged in April, May, and June 2021.
4. The number of words in the longest article you copy edited. Only one entry for any editor.

Progress chart

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.

Progress Chart

Date	Old articles April, May, and June 2021	Outstanding tags	Change since previous day	Change since beginning
31 August 2021	299	931	—	—
1 September 2021	293	941	10	10
2 September 2021	288	924	17	7
3 September 2021	287	910	14	21
4 September 2021	284	906	4	25
5 September 2021	279	897	9	34
6 September 2021	273	897	0	34
7 September 2021	272	901	4	30
8 September 2021	269	904	3	27
9 September 2021	264	899	5	32
10 September 2021	259	897	2	34
11 September 2021	255	895	2	36
12 September 2021	253	895	0	36
13 September 2021	249	905	10	26
14 September 2021	246	910	5	21
15 September 2021	237	910	0	21
16 September 2021	236	911	1	20
17 September 2021	233	915	4	16
18 September 2021	229	913	2	18
19 September 2021	226	911	2	20
20 September 2021	222	910	1	21
21 September 2021	217	909	1	22
22 September 2021	216	921	12	10
23 September 2021	210	918	3	13
24 September 2021	208	926	8	5
25 September 2021	207	930	4	1
26 September 2021	202	932	2	1
27 September 2021	187	922	10	9
28 September 2021	180	903	19	28
29 September 2021	176	900	3	31

1. ^ Change refers only to outstanding tags.

Reviewing

GOCE coordinators and other experienced Guild members will carry out random checks to ensure that copy edits are of a satisfactory standard. If you are willing to help with reviewing, please sign up below.

10% of each participant's copy edits from the backlog should be checked, and all copy edits from the Requests page should be reviewed, time permitting. Please choose articles at random and do not inspect your own copy edits. After checking articles, place a {{checked}} template after the article on the listing and sign your username with four tildes (~~~~). If a rough consensus finds that a copy edit is not of an acceptable standard, the tag will be re-added and the editor will be penalized 1,200 words plus the word count of the reviewed article. The reviewer may give advice on how the edit could have been improved without penalizing the editor. Please raise any questions on the Coordinators' talk page.

Reviewers sign-up

Signing up

To sign up for the drive, click the button below. This will create a subsection in the Totals section where you will record your copy edits. Rollover totals from the previous drive are located here.

Totals

How to record articles you have copy edited:

• Remove any extant {{copy edit}} tags from the article.
• When you sign up, your section is automatically populated with # {{Working}} ] () and # {{Completed}} ] ():
  • Article titles go in wikilinks ]. List the article's full title (not an abbreviated version) and avoid piped links, quotation marks and italics.
  • Article word counts go in round brackets (): use this script to get the page's word count. Count the words in the version of the article that existed before you started editing. These brackets should not contain anything other than this number; do not use additional brackets for comments. Avoid long calculation strings (more than one line) in your word total.
• Place the article you are editing on the {{Working}} line. Only work on one article at a time. When you've finished your copy edit, change {{Working}} to {{Completed}}.
• If the article is from the GOCE Requests page, place *R (using plain text) after the word count. If it was tagged in April, May, and June 2021, place *O (using plain text) after the word count.
• Place any comments between the article title and the word count.
• Do not list articles on which you have placed {{GOCEreviewed}} instead of copy editing them, or which needed no copy editing.
• Do not add the 50% bonus for Requests or Oldest articles—a coordinator will apply the bonuses after the drive is over.
• If you want your work checked, you can request this on the drive talk page.

Properly completed records look like this in the edit window:

# {{Completed}} ] (1,234) *O

and like this on the rendered page:

1.  Completed Dark chocolate (1,234) *O

Jonesey95 (talk)

• Total articles: 1
• Total words: 2,014
• Rollover words: 3,234

Lfstevens (talk)

• Total articles: 5
• Total words: 7432

Tenryuu (talk)

• Total articles: 28
• Total words: 79542
• Rollover words: 739,810.5

Dhtwiki (talk)

• Total articles: 2
• Total words: 12,192
• Rollover words: 2,160.5

Slon02 (talk)

• Total articles: 3
• Total words: 1040

Tamptonato (talk)

• Total articles: 3
• Total words: 3615

Miniapolis (talk)

• Total articles: 12
• Total words: 45,749
• Rollover words: 15,387

Double Plus Ungood (talk)

• Total articles: 0
• Total words: 0

Pax85 (talk)

• Total articles: 22
• Total words: 41513

Twofingered Typist (talk)

• Total articles: 25
• Total words: 95,170
• Rollover words: 290,085.5

Prairie Astronomer (talk)

• Total articles: 1
• Total words: 2654

BlueMoonset (talk)

• Total articles: 1
• Total words: 261
• Rollover words: 3081

Aerin17 (talk)

• Total articles: 1
• Total words: 783
• Rollover words: 3,241.5

Tdslk (talk)

• Total articles: 4
• Total words: 604
• Rollover words: 7,911.5

DomesticatedCryptid (talk)

• Total articles: 0
• Total words: 0

Reidgreg (talk)

• Total articles: 8
• Total words: 29,826
• Rollover words: 1980

Overthrows (talk)

• Total articles: 2
• Total words: 3789

BroVic (talk)

• Total articles: 5
• Total words: 20,794

Beetricks (talk)

• Total articles: 0
• Total words: 0

Lenny Marks (talk)

• Total articles: 4
• Total words: 5355

Baffle gab1978 (talk)

• Total articles: 9
• Total words: 21,352
• Rollover words: 6,958

Jarmihi (talk)

• Total articles: 0
• Total words: 0

Bogger (talk)

• Total articles: 2
• Total words: 3,447

Contrawwftw (talk)

• Total articles: 2
• Total words: 2317
• Rollover words: 6,380.5

CactusRoy (talk)

• Total articles: 0
• Total words: 0

AryKun (talk)

• Total articles: 0
• Total words: 0

Wilhelmina Will (talk)

• Total articles: 1
• Total words: 2,992

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