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This Copy Editing Project Blitz is a one-week-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 16 April 2023, at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 22 April 2023, at 23:59 (UTC).

The themes of this blitz are:

Blitz participants can earn barnstar awards based on the number of articles—and the word counts of the articles—they copy edit. Awards will be given out once the blitz has finished.

The blitz is open to all; 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.

Blitzes are under the purview of the Guild's coordinators: Baffle gab1978 (talk), Dhtwiki (talk), Miniapolis (talk) and Zippybonzo (talk). If you have any questions, leave a message on the blitz's talk page.

For brief instructions on how to record your work, see below. For full instructions, visit the main blitz 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 blitz can be found on the main blitz page. Please read this page carefully before you begin. To sign up, please use the form in the Signing up section below.

Progress chart

Progress Chart
Date
  • Outstanding
  • April 2022 articles
  • Change since
  • previous day
  • Change since
  • beginning
April 15, 2023 36
April 16, 2023 32 Positive decrease  4 Positive decrease  4
April 17, 2023 31 Positive decrease  1 Positive decrease  5
April 18, 2023 29 Positive decrease  2 Positive decrease  7

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 word count of the reviewed article will be deducted from the editor's total. 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 blitz, click the button below. This will create a subsection in the Totals section for you to record your copy edits. Rollover totals from the previous blitz can be found here.


Totals

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. 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}}.
  • 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.
  • If you want your work checked, you can request this on the blitz talk page.

Properly completed records look like this in the edit window:

# {{Completed}} [[Dark chocolate]] (yummy!) (1,234)

and like this on the rendered page:

1.  Completed Dark chocolate (yummy!) (1,234)
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  1.  Completed Sexual Ecology (4,536)
  2.  Working Thought disorder (4,595)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 4,536
  • Rollover words: 509
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  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
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  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working Sarah Jim Mayo (1491)
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 245
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  1.  Completed Faraón Love Shady (1020)
  2.  Completed Alternative theories of Hungarian language origins (2741)
  3.  Completed Prakash Dwivedi (266)
  4.  Completed Wolfgang Dietrich (political scientist) (1283)
  5.  Completed Abades, Tenerife (761)
  6.  Completed Abdullah Khan Ahmadieh (165)
  7.  Completed Francesco Della Valle (1269)
  8.  Working GAIL (5651)
  9.  Working [[]] ()
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  • Total articles: 7
  • Total words: 7505
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  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Completed [[]] ()
  3.  Completed [[]] ()
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  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 1,824
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  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working Welcome to Video case (1368) *O
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 13
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  1.  Completed
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 42
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  1.  Completed Kayamozhi (869)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 869
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  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 3,650
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  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working Nadirah X (862)
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
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  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
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  1.  Completed Methadone maintenance (1674)*O
  2.  Working Bijon Setu massacre (1042)*O
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1647
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  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
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  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
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  1.  Completed Tower Prep (5,205)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 5,205
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  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
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  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 6