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Snapshot of copyediting backlog at end of September GOCE drive

This Copy Editing Backlog Elimination Drive was 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}}, and {{spacing}}) or listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on 1 September 2017, 00:00 (UTC) and ended on 30 September 2017, 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this drive were:

  • to reduce the backlog by as many articles as possible, with a focus on the earliest-tagged articles (those tagged in January, February, and March 2017);
  • to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page from August 2017.

Drive participants could earn barnstar awards based on the number of articles—and the word counts of the articles—they copy edit. Articles from the Requests page count towards your total; these are generally higher-quality articles 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 January, February, and March 2017, and for articles listed on the Requests page. Awards will be given out once the drive has finished.

The drive was 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 Wikipedia's guide to basic copy editing before you begin working. If you're unsure about spelling, grammar or punctuation, consult the Wikipedia 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 Corinne (talk), Keira1996 (talk), Miniapolis (talk) and Tdslk (talk). If you have any questions, leave a message on the drive's talk page.

For brief instructions on how to record 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

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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

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(Please update your own figures)

Leaderboard

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  • Gold Star Award Leaderboard
1 2 3 4 5
Total
Articles 		Reidgreg (41) Miniapolis (19) Jonesey95 (14)
RajkGuj (14) 		Tdslk (9) BroVic (6)
Total
Words[n 1] 		Reidgreg (107,000) Lfstevens (46,128) Miniapolis (40,363) BroVic (20,311) RajkGuj (10,321)
5k+
Articles[n 2] 		Reidgreg (8)
Lfstevens (8) 		BroVic (2) Dhtwiki (1)
Miniapolis (1)
Oldest
Articles[n 3] 		Reidgreg (41) Miniapolis (17) Jonesey95 (14)
RajkGuj (14) 		Dhtwiki (2) AmericanAir88 (1)
Lfstevens (1)
David Thibault (1)
BroVic (1)
Longest
Article[n 1][n 4] 		Reidgreg (23,000) Lfstevens (20,217) BroVic (6,522) Miniapolis (6,398) Dhtwiki (5,906)
  1. ^ a b 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 January, February, and March 2017.
  4. ^ The number of words in the longest article you copy edited. Only one entry for any editor.

Progress chart

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Progress Chart
Date
  • Old articles
  • Jan–Mar 2017
  • Outstanding
  • tags
  • Change since
  • previous day
[N 1]
  • Change since
  • beginning
[N 1]
31 August 2017 306 1,462 — —
1 September 2017 296 1,461 Positive decrease  1 Positive decrease  1
2 September 2017 292 1,488 Negative increase  27 Negative increase  26
3 September 2017 292 1,484 Positive decrease  4 Negative increase  22
4 September 2017 292 1,486 Negative increase  2 Negative increase  24
5 September 2017 287 1,484 Positive decrease  2 Negative increase  22
6 September 2017 287 1,494 Negative increase  10 Negative increase  32
7 September 2017 284 1,498 Negative increase  4 Negative increase  36
8 September 2017 280 1,498 Steady  0 Negative increase  36
9 September 2017 275 1,519 Negative increase  21 Negative increase  57
10 September 2017 273 1,541 Negative increase  22 Negative increase  79
11 September 2017 270 1,543 Negative increase  2 Negative increase  81
12 September 2017 267 1,562 Negative increase  19 Negative increase  100
13 September 2017 264 1,576 Negative increase  14 Negative increase  114
14 September 2017 260 1,598 Negative increase  22 Negative increase  136
15 September 2017 256 1,599 Negative increase  1 Negative increase  137
16 September 2017 253 1,593 Positive decrease  6 Negative increase  131
17 September 2017 248 1,538 Positive decrease 55 Negative increase  76
18 September 2017 239 1,492 Positive decrease 46 Negative increase  30
19 September 2017 233 1,481 Positive decrease 11 Negative increase  19
20 September 2017 229 1,455 Positive decrease 26 Positive decrease  7
21 September 2017 226 1,456 Negative increase  1 Positive decrease  6
22 September 2017 218 1,455 Positive decrease  1 Positive decrease  7
23 September 2017 218 1,475 Negative increase  20 Negative increase  13
24 September 2017 213 1,439 Positive decrease 36 Positive decrease 23
25 September 2017 208 1,442 Negative increase  3 Positive decrease 20
26 September 2017 209 1,439 Positive decrease  3 Positive decrease 23
27 September 2017 206 1,433 Positive decrease  6 Positive decrease 29
28 September 2017 205 1,433 Steady  0 Positive decrease 29
29 September 2017 204 1,436 Negative increase  3 Positive decrease 26
30 September 2017 198 1,432 Positive decrease  4 Positive decrease 30
  1. ^ a b Change refers only to outstanding tags.

Reviewing

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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

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Signing up

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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

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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.
    • 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.
  • 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 January, February, and March 2017, 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}} [[Dark chocolate]] (yummy!) (1,234) *O

and like this on the rendered page:

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

Noah Kastin (talk) (🖋)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Cyborg 009(lede and Plot sections only) (171)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 171
  • Rollover words: 1576

Jonesey95 (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Martin Sellner (110) *O
  2.  Completed Lindsay France (278) *O
  3.  Completed Eric Enge (397) *O
  4.  Completed Denk (political party) (579) *O
  5.  Completed De Mazenod College (406) *O
  6.  Completed Konkomba language (830) *O
  7.  Completed Kraina Mriy (festival) (195) *O
  8.  Completed Khajuraha Saharsa (239) *O
  9.  Completed Ali Asghar Khan (politician) (495) *O
  10.  Completed Ward Meachum (674) *O
  11.  Completed Karni Mata (702) *O
  12.  Completed Max Life Insurance (427) *O
  13.  Completed Waldorf Warriors football (535) *O
  14.  Completed Lake Roland (Maryland) (1197) *O
  • Total articles: 14
  • Total words: 7,064
  • Rollover words: 3,142

Tdslk (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Warakar (129)
  2.  Completed brown pelican (3587) *R
  3.  Completed Liberal Party of Chile (2013) (840)
  4.  Completed Aam Aadmi Party (Pakistan) (354)
  5.  Completed Waseem Akhtar (603)
  6.  Completed Prionus laticollis (328)
  7.  Completed Bhandara, Maharashtra (832)
  8.  Completed Bhandara district (1507)
  9.  Completed Yulu language (895)
  10.  Completed [[]] ()
  11.  Completed [[]] ()
  12.  Completed [[]] ()
  13.  Completed [[]] ()
  14.  Completed [[]] ()
  15.  Completed [[]] ()
  16.  Completed [[]] ()
  17.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 9
  • Total words: 9075
  • Rollover words: 2435

Dhtwiki (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Deconstruction (includes numbered, bulleted lists) (5906) *O
  2.  Completed Keswick Dam (2097) *O
  3.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 8003
  • Rollover words: 4,124

Reidgreg (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed List of The Vampire Diaries characters (23000) *O
  2.  Completed Casshan: Robot Hunter (§Release) (750) *O
  3.  Completed Max Headroom (TV series) (§pop culture) (250) *O
  4.  Completed Los Angeles bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics (§Bid history) (1200) *O
  5.  Completed GroenLinks (§Proposals) (850) *O
  6.  Completed Peat (3450) *O
  7.  Completed Touchscreen (4600) *O
  8.  Completed Cream of Comedy (700) *O
  9.  Completed Space opera (1700) *O
  10.  Completed Shooting of Johnny Robinson (600) *O
  11.  Completed Bukovica massacre (1100) *O
  12.  Completed Lindbergh kidnapping (4600) *O
  13.  Completed Tekkaman Blade (1600) *O
  14.  Completed Samurai Pizza Cats (1000) *O
  15.  Completed Drug lord (2700) *O
  16.  Completed The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (7900) *O
  17.  Completed List of Arrow characters (17000) *O
  18.  Completed Super Street Fighter II (1700) *O
  19.  Completed Street Fighter II: Champion Edition (1900) *O
  20.  Completed Super Street Fighter II Turbo (3100) *O
  21.  Completed Japanese idol (§Culture) (600) *O
  22.  Completed Paranja (900) *O
  23.  Completed Best of Luck Nikki (§Plot) (400) *O
  24.  Completed Cilnidipine (350) *O
  25.  Completed Big Brother Slavnih (650) *O
  26.  Completed Dewas (2400) *O
  27.  Completed The Spirit (film) (3400) *O
  28.  Completed T3 tanker (1200) *O
  29.  Completed SS Hagerstown Victory (600) *O
  30.  Completed SS Frontenac Victory (700) *O
  31.  Completed SS Rushville Victory (500) *O
  32.  Completed SS St. Lawrence Victory (500) *O
  33.  Completed SS Pratt Victory (1000) *O
  34.  Completed SS Luxembourg Victory (900) *O
  35.  Completed SS Oshkosh Victory (400) *O
  36.  Completed SS Sapulpa Victory (500) *O
  37.  Completed Dak-galbi (200) *O
  38.  Completed Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov (disputed bio) (1600) *O
  39.  Completed Institute of Technology of Cambodia (900) *O
  40.  Completed Timeline of the Kashmir conflict (partial count) (4900) *O
  41.  Completed The New 52 (partial count) (4700) *O
  • Total articles: 41
  • Total words: 107,000
  • Rollover words: 281,500

CoolieCoolster (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Miniapolis (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Bangladesh (6,398) *R
  2.  Completed Monkey D. Luffy (3,465) *R
  3.  Completed Kazakh clothing (1,243) *O
  4.  Completed Telugu Wikipedia (472) *O
  5.  Completed International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (3,035) *O
  6.  Completed SS Bratstvo (1963) (1,397) *O
  7.  Completed Popular Committees (Yemen) (993) *O
  8.  Completed House of the National Assembly of Serbia (1,843) *O
  9.  Completed SS Fizik Kurchatov (611) *O
  10.  Completed SS Metallurg Baykov (1,217) *O
  11.  Completed Mana (3,832) *O
  12.  Completed Hispanics and Latinos in Washington, D.C. (1,300) *O
  13.  Completed Oogonial stem cells (435) *O
  14.  Completed History of Velbert (4,152) *O
  15.  Completed Donatism (2,275) *O
  16.  Completed Satish (criminal) (2,379) *O
  17.  Completed Mongolian People's Party (3,115) *O
  18.  Completed Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (2010) (441) *O
  19.  Completed Vacuum interrupter (1,760) *O
  • Total articles: 19
  • Total words: 40,363
  • Rollover words: 17,705

RajkGuj (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Handwara (986) *O
  2.  Completed JLA: The Nail series (§Plot: Another Nail) (666) *O
  3.  Completed Kathri, Sindh (142) *O
  4.  Completed Chorachiwadi (477) *O
  5.  Completed Cow Television (516) *O
  6.  Completed Kaskikot (615) *O
  7.  Completed Gauri Pathare (323) *O
  8.  Completed Alaroye (597) *O
  9.  Completed Jagatpur Village, Delhi (481) *O
  10.  Completed IFTTT (396) *O
  11.  Completed Chittaranjan (726) *O
  12.  Completed Ekadashi (835) *O
  13.  Completed Kundalini (3212) *O
  14.  Completed Kavisekhara Dr Umar Alisha (349) *O
  • Total articles: 14
  • Total words: 10,321

RADICAL SODA(FORCE)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari (496)
  2.  Working Anjaana Anjaani (3095)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 496

Cglife.trummler (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

JarmihiGOCE (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 748.5

Twofingered Typist (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Ugly (Fantasia song) (1,508) *R
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1,508
  • Rollover words: 656,818

A21sauce (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Ghana-Nigeria football rivalry (989) *R
  2.  Completed Eleanor K. Baum (619)
  3.  Completed The Boy Is Mine (Brandy and Monica song) (1740)
  4.  Completed C'mon Billy (339)
  • Total articles: 4
  • Total words: 3687

AmericanAir88 (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Criticism of Family Guy (2437) *O
  2.  Completed Luxair Flight 9642 (1159)
  3.  Completed Tropical Storm Pakhar (2017) (1466)
  4.  Working Oak Island mystery
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 5062

Lfstevens (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Social history of the United Kingdom (1945–present) (12,135) *O
  2.  Completed Greek austerity packages (13,776)
  3.  Completed Electric car use by country (20,217)
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 46,128

David Thibault (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Intensive farming (3930) *O
  2.  Completed The Art Teacher (1033) *R
  3.  Completed Captain Midnight broadcast signal intrusion (CE completed. Waiting for author to respond to queries.) (3074) *R
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 8037
  • Rollover words: 578.5

BroVic (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Great white pelican (2,469) *R
  2.  Completed The Fountainhead (5,183) *R
  3.  Completed Germ theory of disease (2,620) *R
  4.  Completed Achelousaurus (6,522) *R
  5.  Completed Japanese craft (2,628) *R
  6.  Completed Purely functional data structure (889) *O
  • Total articles: 6
  • Total words: 20,311

Karthanitesh (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Curdigirl (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
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