MyWiki:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives/January 2011

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The following event has concluded. Please do not modify this page. Comments should be made on the talk page.

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 copyediting, signified with the {{copyedit}} tag. Please make sure that you know how to copyedit and that you are familiar with the Wikipedia Manual of Style before you begin copyediting. The drives are under the purview of the Guild's coordinators. The lead coordinator is SMasters (talk), and he is assisted by Diannaa ^(Talk), The Utahraptor^Talk, and Tea with toast (talk). If you have any questions, leave a message on the drive's talk page. This drive began on 1 January 2011 00:00 UTC and ended on 31 January 2011 23:59 UTC.

The goals of this backlog elimination drive were to eliminate as many months as possible from the 2009 articles and to reduce the overall backlog by 10%. We also want to make sure the Requests page is dealt with during the drive, but we will not be awarding double word count this month for articles from the Requests page. Articles from that source will count towards your total whether they have a copy edit tag on them or not, so please feel free to select from there when you are in the mood for a better-quality article to edit. Awards will be given out to those individuals who help reduce the size of the backlog.

The backlog elimination drive is open to all, and you do not need to be a member of the Guild of Copy Editors to participate. However, you may want to consider joining, as membership has its benefits. For example, you can place a special "page in use" tag when you are copyediting, and another tag on the talk page when you finish. Please visit the Guild or the main drive page for more information.

Full instructions, tips and awards

Full instructions for participants, tips, help for new copyeditors, 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.

Progress

GOCE January 2011 copy edit backlog elimination drive progress graphs

Gold Star Award Leaderboard
(update your own numbers)

	Articles	Words	5k+ Articles
1.	QueenMomCat (180)	Spock of Vulcan (192,096)	Chaosdruid (16)
2.	Diannaa (135)	QueenMomCat (181,009)	Spock of Vulcan (12)
3.	Spock of Vulcan (126)	Chaosdruid (157,462)	Lfstevens (9)
4.	Chaosdruid (57)	Lfstevens (103,126)	SMasters (7)
5.	Aichikawa (55)	Dianna (97,937)	Laurinavicius (5)

Progress Chart

Date	2009 articles remaining	Outstanding tags	Change since previous day	Change since beginning
31 December 2010	1807	5,151	—	—
1 January 2011	1788	5,093	58	58
2 January 2011	1763	5,054	39	97
3 January 2011	1756	5,043	11	108
4 January 2011	1731	5,016	27	135
5 January 2011	1706	4,983	33	168
6 January 2011	1695	4,978	5	173
7 January 2011	1680	4,951	27	200
8 January 2011	1642	4,920	31	231
9 January 2011	1604	4,881	39	270
10 January 2011	1583	4,862	19	289
11 January 2011	1567	4,839	23	312
12 January 2011	1529	4,815	24	336
13 January 2011	1508	4,795	20	356
14 January 2011	1498	4,794	1	357
15 January 2011	1476	4,776	18	375
16 January 2011	1435	4,756	20	395
17 January 2011	1399	4,714	42	437
18 January 2011	1377	4,694	20	457
19 January 2011	1364	4,690	4	461
20 January 2011	1325	4,660	30	491
21 January 2011	1312	4,646	14	505
22 January 2011	1304	4,642	4	509
23 January 2011	1283	4,626	16	525
24 January 2011	1266	4,609	17	542
25 January 2011	1250	4,592	17	559
26 January 2011	1231	4,582	10	569
27 January 2011	1220	4,572	10	579
28 January 2011	1199	4,555	17	596
29 January 2011	1174	4,535	20	616
30 January 2011	1157	4,533	2	618
31 January 2011	1136	4,518	15	633

Running total

You can still join! Feel free to put your name down at any time. Read the directions, and then add your name in the Totals below, and to the Participants list at the bottom of the page.

Directions

Copy and paste the following into the Totals sections below, placing your entry alphabetically.

=====~~~=====
{{GOCE Article list
|articles = 
# {{Completed}}
# {{Working}}
|total-articles = 0
|total-words = 0
|rollover-words = 0
}}
----

Rollover is an element introduced in the September 2010 drive. To calculate your rollover, take your November word count, subtract the award words from it, and enter the difference in the "rollover-words" field. For example, if User A copy-edits 14,503 words in November, they would be awarded the Cleanup Barnstar (12,000 words). Thus, they should subtract 12,000 from 14,503, which yields 2,503. That would be the rollover number. Please do not add rollover into the "total-words" field. We'll do the calculating for you. You can obtain your current rollover word count from this document.

Save the page, and add all your copy-editing totals directly to that new section. Here is an example of how to post your articles to your tally:

=====[[User:Example|Example]] ([[User talk:Example|talk]])=====
{{GOCE Article list
|articles = 
# {{Completed}} [[Example]] (546)
# {{Working}}
|total-articles = 1
|total-words = 546
|rollover-words = 0
}}
----

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives/January 2011/Final numbers}}

Participants

1. Derild4921Review Me!
2. Diannaa ^(Talk)
3. The Utahraptor^Talk/_Contribs
4. SMasters (talk)
5. —Torchiest ^talk/_edits
6. WAYNESLAM
7. NielsenGW
8. Reaper Eternal (talk)
9. Lfstevens (talk)
10. Ocean Shores
11. fds^Talk
12. MakingTheMark •^Talk
13. Nolelover ^{It's football season!}
14. Laurinavicius (talk)
15. Aichi (talk)
16. Chaosdruid - Yaay ! pc fixed after 6 weeks of @#!*%
17. Wi2g (talk)
18. Aaron north (T/C)
19. Wilhelmina Will Wilhelmina Will (talk) Getting in now so I'm not late.
20. TCO (talk) 12:50, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
21. Queenmomcat (talk)
22. Beehhh Tofutwitch11 ^(TALK)
23. Boing! said Zebedee (talk)
24. WikiCopter (radio • sorties • images • simplicity • lost • defense • attack)
25. Slon02 (talk)
26. Webmaster961 (talk)
27. Snowman304 (talk)
28. Moralis (talk)
29. Tdslk (talk)
30. A. Parrot (talk)
31. —MathMaven (talk | edits)
32. Qizix (talk)
33. Tea with toast (talk)
34. jjron (talk)
35. —focus
36. Bobnorwal (talk)
37. Spock of Vulcan (talk)
38. Grahamwest (talk)
39. I am a violinist ♫ talk to me here!
40. dtgriffith ^[talk]
41. TalhaMian (talk)
42. Archolman (talk)
43. Mario777Zelda (talk)
44. Keithbob • Talk
45. ⌘macwhiz (talk)
46. Anhydrobiosis
47. PEACHY^poh 09:03, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
48. Bunnyrock (talk)
49. Ute in DC (talk)
50. jsfouche ☽☾Talk
51. • GenQuest • ^Talk/_Edits
52. Yourstruly42 (talk)
53. Sophus Bie ^(talk)
54. Mûĸĸâĸûĸâĸû _(blah?) 17:50, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

Reviewing

Diannaa ^(Talk) will chair this group. The committee aims to inspect articles at random for quality control purposes. If you are interested in participating, please sign up below.

Procedure

10% of a copy-editing participant's copy-edits should be inspected. Please choose articles at random, and do not inspect articles you have copy-edited yourself. After checking an article, place a {{checked}} mark after the article on the listing and sign your username. If a rough consensus finds a copyedit is not of an acceptable standard, the tag will be re-added and the reviewer will be assessed a penalty of 1,200 words plus the length of the article reviewed. The reviewer may also give advice on how the edit could have been better, without penalising the editor. Please direct any questions to Diannaa ^(Talk).

Reviewers sign-up

1. Diannaa ^(Talk)
2. Reaper Eternal (talk)
3. Pol430 talk to me
4. The Utahraptor^Talk/_Contribs
5. Tea with toast (talk)
6. Bobnorwal (talk)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.