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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 {{copyedit}} tag or listed on the GOCE Requests page. It will begin on 1 September 2015, 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 30 September 2015, 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this drive are:
- to reduce the backlog by as many articles as possible, with a focus on the earliest-tagged articles (those tagged in March, April and May 2014);
- to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page from July and August 2015.
Drive participants can 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 {{copyedit}} in March, April and May 2014, 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 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 Baffle gab1978 (talk), KieranTribe (talk), Miniapolis (talk) and Pax85 (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.
Full instructions, tips, and awards
[edit]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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Leaderboard
[edit]1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
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Total Articles |
Lfstevens (37) | Tortle (35) | Miniapolis (30) | Slon02 (13) | PubliusHadrianus (8) Jonesey95 (8) Baffle gab1978 (8) |
Total Words[n 1] |
Miniapolis (67,282) | Lfstevens (63,655) | Tortle (55,180) | PubliusHadrianus (29,610) | Baffle gab1978 (25,729) |
5k+ Articles[n 2] |
Tortle (4) | Miniapolis (3) PubliusHadrianus (3) |
Lfstevens (2) Baffle gab1978 (2) |
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Oldest Articles[n 3] |
Lfstevens (27) | Tortle (26) | Miniapolis (25) | PubliusHadrianus (2) Slon02 (2) Baffle gab1978 (2) |
Dthomsen8 (1) |
Longest Article[n 1][n 4] |
Lfstevens (16,658) | PubliusHadrianus (12,325) | Tortle (11,044) | Baffle gab1978 (9,414) | Miniapolis (8,528) |
- ^ a b For requests and older articles, please include only the actual word count, without the 50% bonus.
- ^ Number of articles of 5,000 words or more. An article of 10K+ words counts as 2, of 15K+ as 3, and so on.
- ^ Oldest articles are those tagged in March, April and May 2014.
- ^ The number of words in the longest article you copy edited. Only one entry for any editor.
Progress chart
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31 August 2015 | 145 | 2,322 | — | — |
1 September 2015 | 140 | 2,311 | ![]() |
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2 September 2015 | 131 | 2,295 | ![]() |
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3 September 2015 | 120 | 2,296 | ![]() |
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4 September 2015 | 118 | 2,305 | ![]() |
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5 September 2015 | 110 | 2,312 | ![]() |
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6 September 2015 | 100 | 2,310 | ![]() |
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7 September 2015 | 88 | 2,288 | ![]() |
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8 September 2015 | 82 | 2,291 | ![]() |
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9 September 2015 | 77 | 2,295 | ![]() |
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10 September 2015 | 75 | 2,294 | ![]() |
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11 September 2015 | 66 | 2,285 | ![]() |
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12 September 2015 | 59 | 2,298 | ![]() |
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13 September 2015 | 51 | 2,289 | ![]() |
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14 September 2015 | 50 | 2,297 | ![]() |
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15 September 2015 | 49 | 2,295 | ![]() |
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16 September 2015 | 49 | 2,297 | ![]() |
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17 September 2015 | 49 | 2,316 | ![]() |
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18 September 2015 | 45 | 2,318 | ![]() |
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19 September 2015 | 44 | 2,317 | ![]() |
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20 September 2015 | 41 | 2,317 | ![]() |
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21 September 2015 | 39 | 2,314 | ![]() |
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22 September 2015 | 38 | 2,311 | ![]() |
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23 September 2015 | 37 | 2,315 | ![]() |
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24 September 2015 | 37 | 2,319 | ![]() |
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25 September 2015 | 34 | 2,329 | ![]() |
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26 September 2015 | 31 | 2,352 | ![]() |
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27 September 2015 | 30 | 2,356 | ![]() |
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28 September 2015 | 26 | 2,334 | ![]() |
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29 September 2015 | 21 | 2,349 | ![]() |
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30 September 2015 | 19 | 2,336 | ![]() |
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Reviewing
[edit]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 deducted a penalty of 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
[edit]Signing up
[edit]To sign up for the drive, click the button below. This will create a subsection in the Totals section for you to record your copy edits. The previous drive's rollover totals are located here, if you need to add them.
Totals
[edit]How to record articles you have copy edited:
- Remove any extant {{copyedit}} 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.
- Place articles you're working on on the {{Working}} line. When you've finished your copy edit, change {{Working}} to {{Completed}}
- If the article is from the GOCE Requests page, place *R after the word count. If it was tagged in March, April and May 2014, place *O 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 it 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
Article list
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- Total articles: 8
- Total words: 2,337
- Rollover words: 3,880
Miniapolis (talk)
[edit]- Total articles: 30
- Total words: 67,282
- Rollover words: 8,105
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- Total articles: 8
- Total words: 27,529
- Rollover words: 5,955
Hampton11235 (talk)
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- Total articles: 3
- Total words: 4181
- Rollover words: 1507.5
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- Total articles: 2
- Total words: 421
Learnerktm (talk)
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- Total words: 786
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- Total articles: 1
- Total words: 2072
- Rollover words: 2192.5
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b.The Wikipedia word counter didn't pick up the text in the table that I edited so I copied and pasted the text into a online word counter. And added the bullet pointed word count in. c.I finished the copyedit on the lead section and I came back to find that Lfstevens finished the rest so I only included the word count for the lead section which I completed. |
- Total articles: 35
- Total words: 55,180
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- Total articles: 37/2/27
- Total words: 63,655
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- Total words: 1,936
- Rollover words: 4114.5
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- Total words: 5,157
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- Total words: 99
- Rollover words: 2436
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- Total articles: 8
- Total words: 29,610
Scribe4562 (talk)
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- Total words: 0
JourneySarah (talk)
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- Total articles: 3
- Total words: 13220
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