MyWiki:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives/January 2012

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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, signified with the {{copyedit}} tag. Please make sure that you know how to copy edit and that you are familiar with the Wikipedia Manual of Style before you begin copy editing. The drives are under the purview of the Guild's coordinators. The lead coordinator is The Utahraptor, and he is assisted by Diannaa, Stfg, Dank (talk), and Sp33dyphil. If you have any questions, leave a message on the drive's talk page. This drive began on January 1, 2012, 00:00 UTC, and will end on January 31, 2012, 23:59 UTC.

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The goal of this backlog elimination drive was to reduce the overall backlog by as many articles as possible, with a focus on those that have been in the queue for the longest (July, August, and September 2010). Articles from the Requests page 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 copy editing, and another tag on the talk page when you finish. See the Templates page. 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 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.

Progress

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GOCE January 2012 Backlog Elimination progress graph (see below full Progress Chart)

• Gold Star Award Leaderboard
• (update your own numbers)

	Articles	Words	5k+ Articles
1.	Greenmaven (86)	Greenmaven (140,177)	Greenmaven (9)
2.	Lfstevens (81)	Lfstevens (128,528)	Lfstevens (8), Braincricket (8)
3.	Dianna (41)	Braincricket (88,466)	Miniapolis (6)
4.	Braincricket (38)	Miniapolis (64,786)	Stfg (3)
5.	Wilhelmina Will (34)	Stfg (38,160)	Demiurge1000 (2)

Progress Chart

Date	2010 articles remaining	Outstanding tags	Change since previous day	Change since beginning
31 December 2011	617	4,152	—	—
1 January 2012	595	4,139	Positive decrease 13	Positive decrease 13
2 January 2012	585	4,127	Positive decrease 12	Positive decrease 25
3 January 2012	577	4,127	Steady  0	Positive decrease 25
4 January 2012	566	4,123	Positive decrease  4	Positive decrease 29
5 January 2012	562	4,122	Positive decrease  1	Positive decrease 30
6 January 2012	558	4,127	Negative increase  5	Positive decrease 25
7 January 2012	552	4,123	Positive decrease  4	Positive decrease 29
8 January 2012	544	4,119	Positive decrease  4	Positive decrease 33
9 January 2012	527	4,122	Negative increase  3	Positive decrease 30
10 January 2012	530	4,131	Negative increase  9	Positive decrease 21
11 January 2012	517	4,125	Positive decrease  6	Positive decrease 27
12 January 2012	500	4,117	Positive decrease  8	Positive decrease 35
13 January 2012	494	4,113	Positive decrease  4	Positive decrease 39
14 January 2012	481	4,093	Positive decrease 20	Positive decrease 59
15 January 2012	463	4,102	Negative increase  9	Positive decrease 50
16 January 2012	458	4,102	Steady  0	Positive decrease 50
17 January 2012	441	4,104	Negative increase  2	Positive decrease 48
18 January 2012	437	4,101	Positive decrease  3	Positive decrease 51
19 January 2012	428	4,095	Positive decrease  6	Positive decrease 57
20 January 2012	416	4,103	Negative increase  8	Positive decrease 49
21 January 2012	410	4,112	Negative increase  9	Positive decrease 40
22 January 2012	408	4,124	Negative increase  12	Positive decrease 28
23 January 2012	395	4,121	Positive decrease  3	Positive decrease 31
24 January 2012	380	4,103	Positive decrease 18	Positive decrease 49
25 January 2012	368	4,092	Positive decrease 11	Positive decrease 60
26 January 2012	359	4,074	Positive decrease 18	Positive decrease 78
29 January 2012	335	4,041	Positive decrease 33	Positive decrease 111
30 January 2012	323	4,029	Positive decrease 12	Positive decrease 123
31 January 2012	297	3,983	Positive decrease 46	Positive decrease 169

Running total

Feel free to put your name down at any time. Read the directions, and then add your name:

1. in the Totals directly below.
2. 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, and filling in your rollover words, if applicable.

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{{GOCE Article list

|articles = 

# {{Completed}} [[]] ()

# {{Working}} [[]] ()

|total-articles = 0

|total-words = 0

|rollover-words = 0

}}

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Rollover: To calculate your rollover, we take your November word count, subtract the award words from it, and enter the difference in the "rollover-words" field. For example, if a user copy edited 14,503 words in November, they would have received the Cleanup Barnstar (12,000 words). Thus, we subtract 12,000 from 14,503, which yields 2,503—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.

Totals

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives/January 2012/Final numbers}}

Participants

1. The Utahraptor^Talk/_Contribs
2. Greenmaven (talk)
3. —Torchiest ^talk_edits
4. Dianna
5. Stfg (talk)
6. Braincricket (talk)
7. DThomsen8 (talk)
8. Miniapolis (talk)
9. Susruthanvesh (talk)
10. The Interior (Talk)
11. ❇Zoë Alkaia ❇
12. Wikid77 (talk)
13. Lhynard (talk)
14. Boing! said Zebedee (talk)
15. Queenmomcat (talk)
16. Lfstevens (talk)
17. Tea with toast (話)
18. stim (talk)
19. ShiningWolf (talk)
20. Cwmhiraeth (talk)
21. Echo cho oo (talk) Echo_cho_oo
22. Assassin'S creed ^{T - E - C - G}
23. --Sp33dyphil ©^hat_ontributions
24. Tarheel95 (talk)
25. Hel-hama (talk)
26. Wilhelmina Will (talk)
27. Nolelover ^{Talk·Contribs}
28. Prmcd16 (talk)
29. Kikichugirl (talk)
30. Broletto (talk)
31. Prof. Squirrel (talk)
32. Rails (talk)
33. Basalisk ^{inspect damage}⁄_berate
34. Cactusbin (talk)
35. Cynthisa (talk)
36. Demiurge1000 (talk)
37. Jacqke (talk)
38. Jay8g ^{Hi!- I am... -What I do...} _{WASH- BRIDGE- WPWA - MFIC- WPIM}
39. A. Parrot (talk)
40. Rabiddog51sb (talk)
41. Richard asr (talk)
42. Yelyzaveta (talk)
43. Southernlegacy (talk)
44. Encycloshave (talk)
45. Quill and Pen

Reviewing

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

Procedure

10% of a 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 copy edit is not of an acceptable standard, the tag will be re-added and the editor 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 penalizing the editor. Please direct any questions to Dianna ^(Talk).

Reviewers sign-up

1. Stfg (talk)
2. --Sp33dyphil ©^hat_ontributions)