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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 {{copy edit}} tag (also {{awkward}}, {{copy edit section}}, {{copy edit inline}}, and {{spacing}}) or listed on the GOCE Requests page. It will begin on 1 July 2018, 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 31 July 2018, 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 October, November, and December 2017);
  • to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page from June 2018.

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 {{copy edit}} in October, November, and December 2017, 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 Reidgreg (talk), who is assisted by Baffle gab1978 (talk), Jonesey95 (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

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

  • Gold Star Award Leaderboard
1 2 3 4 5
Total
Articles
Twofingered Typist (12) Lfstevens (10) Reidgreg (5) Gog the Mild (3)
Miniapolis (3)
Total
Words[n 1]
Twofingered Typist (27,182) Lfstevens (21,648) Miniapolis (14,599) Reidgreg (12,155) Dhtwiki (4,472) Gog the Mild (3,630)
5k+
Articles[n 2]
Miniapolis (2) Reidgreg (1)
Twofingered Typist (1)
Lfstevens (1)
Oldest
Articles[n 3]
Lfstevens (9) Twofingered Typist (7) Reidgreg (5) Miniapolis (3) Dhtwiki (2)
Longest
Article[n 1][n 4]
Lfstevens (11,880) Twofingered Typist (10,956) Miniapolis (7,509) Reidgreg (6,814) Gog the Mild (4,190)
  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 October, November, and December 2017.
  4. ^ The number of words in the longest article you copy edited. Only one entry for any editor.

Progress chart

Progress Chart
Date
  • Old articles
  • Oct/Nov/Dec 2017
  • Outstanding
  • tags
  • Change since
  • previous day
[N 1]
  • Change since
  • beginning
[N 1]
30 June 2018 162 1,024
1 July 2018 158 1,010 Positive decrease 14 Positive decrease 14
2 July 2018 156 1,003 Positive decrease  7 Positive decrease 21
3 July 2018 152 1,003 Steady  0 Positive decrease 21
4 July 2018 148 1,000 Positive decrease  3 Positive decrease 24
5 July 2018 148 1,008 Negative increase  8 Positive decrease 16
6 July 2018 145 1,010 Negative increase  2 Positive decrease 14
7 July 2018 136 994 Positive decrease 16 Positive decrease 30
  1. ^ a b 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 October, November, and December 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]] (1,234) *O

and like this on the rendered page:

1.  Completed Dark chocolate (1,234) *O
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Completed [[]] ()
  3.  Completed [[]] ()
  4.  Completed [[]] ()
  5.  Completed [[]] ()
  6.  Completed [[]] ()
  7.  Completed [[]] ()
  8.  Completed [[]] ()
  9.  Completed [[]] ()
  10.  Completed [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 3,978
Article list
  1.  Completed Buddy Williams (country musician) (6814) *O
  2.  Completed Problem of Hell (492) *O
  3.  Completed Snack culture (1000) *O
  4.  Completed Names of Bengal (1777) *O
  5.  Completed Sports table football (2072) *O
  6.  Completed Pink Dot SG (4032) *O
  7.  Working [[]] ()
  8.  Working [[]] ()
  9.  Working [[]] ()
  10.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 6
  • Total words: 16187
  • Rollover words: 291547.5
Article list
  1.  Completed List of bus rapid transit systems (7,509) *O
  2.  Completed VP-26 (5,023) *O
  3.  Completed Barasat (2,067) *O
  4.  Working Çalık Holding (1,077) *O
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 14,599
  • Rollover words: 4,614
Article list
  1.  Completed Battle of Kerlés (1274) *R
  2.  Completed European Fund for the Balkans (261) *R
  3.  Completed Carlton le Willows Academy Claiming 50% (2095) *R
  4.  Working Economy of the Egyptian Armed Forces (1865) *O
  5.  Working [[]] ()
  6.  Working [[]] ()
  7.  Working [[]] ()
  8.  Working [[]] ()
  9.  Working [[]] ()
  10.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 3630
  • Rollover words: 19967
Article list
  1.  Completed Cream with a K (162)
  2.  Completed Suman Shah (1320)
  3.  Completed Sayapaneni Nayaks (125)
  4.  Completed Border Guard Service Institute of Belarus (222)
  5.  Completed [[]] ()
  6.  Completed [[]] ()
  7.  Completed [[]] ()
  8.  Completed [[]] ()
  9.  Completed [[]] ()
  10.  Completed [[]] ()
  11.  Completed [[]] ()
  12.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 4
  • Total words: 1829
  • Rollover words: 1519.5
Article list
  1.  Completed David Macaulay (1,012) *R
  2.  Completed Chroma (album) (1,671) *R
  3.  Completed When You Get a Little Lonely (1,139) *R
  4.  Completed Charles Manson (4,028) *R
  5.  Working 2018 24 Hours of Daytona (7,275) *R
  6.  Completed Visa requirements for Emirati citizens (1,275) *R
  7.  Completed Joss Labadie (2,059) *O
  8.  Completed Manju Warrier (1,688) *0
  9.  Completed KSBW (1,400) *O
  10.  Completed Jocelyn Bioh (1,094) *O
  11.  Completed Iambakey Okuk (10,956) *O
  12.  Completed Manuel Lozada (860) *O
  • Total articles: 12
  • Total words: 27,182
  • Rollover words: 710710.5
Article list
  1.  Completed List of automated urban metro subway systems (3768) *O
  2.  Completed Yury Zhelyabovskiy (704) *O
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 4,472
  • Rollover words: 8,869.5
Article list
  1.  Completed List of monorail systems (148)
  2.  Completed List of Masters world records in swimming (54)
  3.  Completed Foreign relations of Taiwan (11,880)
  4.  Completed Wladimir Wertelecki (432)
  5.  Completed Safiatou Thiam (790)
  6.  Completed Reliant Motors (2845)
  7.  Completed Noucome (510)
  8.  Completed Guptipara (956)
  9.  Completed Yaroslav Levchenko (638)
  10.  Completed Collaboration (3595)
  • Total articles: 10
  • Total words: 21,648
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 15
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 517
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

BrantleyIzMe (talk) 17:12, 7 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Article list
  1.  Completed KMVU-DT(704 words)*O
  2.  Working [[]]
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 704
Article list
  1.  Completed Graaff-Reinet ()
  2.  Working Battle of Harasta (2017–18) ()
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working Cyborg 009 (1859)
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0