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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 by the {{copyedit}} tag or by a listing on the GOCE Requests page. 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—these are specially important for articles listed on the Requests page. The drives are under the purview of the Guild's coordinators. The lead coordinator is Torchiest (talk), and he is assisted by BDD (talk) and Miniapolis (talk). If you have any questions, leave a message on the drive's talk page. This drive began on January 1, 2013, 00:00 UTC and will end on January 31, 2013, 23:59 UTC.

The goals of this backlog elimination drive were 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 (January, February, and March 2012) and to complete all requests made on the GOCE Requests page in November and December 2012. 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. Articles tagged {{copyedit}} in January, February, and March 2012, and all requests, will receive a bonus score of 50% over and above the article's word count. 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

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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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  • Gold Star Award Leaderboard
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1 2 3 4 5
Total
Articles
FoCuSandLeArN (89) Lfstevens (69) Jonesey95 (34) Dianna (32)
Torchiest (32)
Tdslk (26)
Total
Words[n 1]
Lfstevens (174,087) Sesamehoneytart (56,468) Miniapolis (46,728) FoCuSandLeArN (38,426) Jonesey95 (33,491)
5k+
Articles[n 2]
Sesamehoneytart (9) Lfstevens (8) Miniapolis (4) Torchiest (2)
Freebirdthemonk (2)
Odysseus1479 (2)
Dianna (1)
Stfg (1)
Jonesey95 (1)
Rutebega (1)
Mathijsvs (1)
Oldest
Articles[n 3]
Lfstevens (41) Jonesey95 (32) Torchiest (22) FoCuSandLeArN (15) Mathijsvs (11)
Longest
Article[n 1][n 4]
Freebirdthemonk (11,247) Lfstevens (10,641) Miniapolis (9,907) Jonesey95 (7,792) Dianna (7,451)
  1. ^ a b For requests and older articles, please include only the actual word count, without the 50% bonus.
  2. ^ Number of articles of 5000 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 January, February, or March 2012.
  4. ^ The number of words in the longest article you copy edited. Only one entry for any editor.
Progress Chart
Date
  • Jan/Feb/Mar
  • 2012 articles
  • remaining
  • Outstanding
  • tags
  • Change since
  • previous day
[N 1]
  • Change since
  • beginning
[N 1]
31 December 2012 389 3,005
1 January 2013 386 3,004 Positive decrease  1 Positive decrease  1
2 January 2013 376 3,013 Negative increase  9 Negative increase  8
3 January 2013 366 2,977 Positive decrease 36 Positive decrease 28
4 January 2013 360 2,974 Positive decrease  3 Positive decrease 31
5 January 2013 356 2,973 Positive decrease  1 Positive decrease 32
6 January 2013 346 2,964 Positive decrease  9 Positive decrease 41
7 January 2013 343 2,949 Positive decrease 15 Positive decrease 56
8 January 2013 338 2,942 Positive decrease  7 Positive decrease 63
9 January 2013 323 2,932 Positive decrease 10 Positive decrease 73
10 January 2013 314 2,933 Negative increase  1 Positive decrease 72
11 January 2013 310 2,922 Positive decrease 11 Positive decrease 83
12 January 2013 300 2,921 Positive decrease  1 Positive decrease 84
13 January 2013 294 2,928 Negative increase  7 Positive decrease 77
14 January 2013 279 2,934 Negative increase  6 Positive decrease 71
15 January 2013 273 2,938 Negative increase  4 Positive decrease 67
16 January 2013 262 2,923 Positive decrease 15 Positive decrease 82
17 January 2013 258 2,927 Negative increase  4 Positive decrease 78
18 January 2013 254 2,928 Negative increase  1 Positive decrease 77
19 January 2013 250 2,929 Negative increase  1 Positive decrease 76
20 January 2013 245 2,916 Positive decrease 13 Positive decrease 89
21 January 2013 240 2,937 Negative increase  21 Positive decrease 68
22 January 2013 238 2,950 Negative increase  13 Positive decrease 55
23 January 2013 236 2,965 Negative increase  15 Positive decrease 40
24 January 2013 219 2,954 Positive decrease 11 Positive decrease 51
25 January 2013 216 2,947 Positive decrease  7 Positive decrease 58
26 January 2013 212 2,946 Positive decrease  1 Positive decrease 59
27 January 2013 191 2,926 Positive decrease 20 Positive decrease 79
28 January 2013 165 2,904 Positive decrease 22 Positive decrease 101
29 January 2013 151 2,903 Positive decrease  1 Positive decrease 102
30 January 2013 144 2,900 Positive decrease  3 Positive decrease 105
31 January 2013 121 2,894 Positive decrease  6 Positive decrease 111
  1. ^ a b Change only refers to outstanding tags.

Reviewing

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GOCE coordinators and other experienced members of the Guild will carry out random checks to ensure that copy edits are of a satisfactory standard. If you are willing to help with this, please sign up below.

10% of a participant's copy edits from the backlog should be inspected. All copy edits from the Requests page should be reviewed, time permitting. 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 (just ~~~). 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 raise any questions on the Coordinators' talk page.

Reviewers sign-up

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Signing up

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This drive has now concluded and is no longer open to sign-up.

Totals

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When recording articles completed, please remember to remove any {{copyedit}} tag from that article—if you want it checked, you can request it on the drive talk page and someone will be along to do it. Do not list articles on which you have placed {{GOCEreviewed}} instead of copy editing them, or which needed no copy editing; they don't count. Please provide the full title, not an abbreviated version, and place any comments after the article title but before the word count. If the article is from the GOCE Requests page, place *R after the word count, or if it was tagged in January–March 2012, place *O after the word count. Please do not add the 50% bonus in these cases—we will apply the bonuses after the drive is over. Here is an example of a well-completed line:

# {{Completed}} [[Dark chocolate]] (yummy!) (1234) *O
  • Total articles: 32
  • Total words: 21,764
  • Rollover words: 1087

Freebirdthemonk Howdy!

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  • Total words: 19,605
  • Rollover words: 279
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  • Total words: 10916
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  • Total words: 46,728
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  • Rollover words: 2679
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  • Rollover words: 985
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  • Total words: 646
  • Rollover words: 1692
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  • Rollover words: 1315

Dianna

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  • Total articles: 32
  • Total words: 16418
  • Rollover words: 2859

zippygirl

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  • Total words: 0
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  • Rollover words: 78
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  • Total words: 238,168
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  • Rollover words: 3697
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  • Total words: 34,075
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  • Rollover words: 2857
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  • Total words: 6601
  • Rollover words: 8279
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  • Total words: 56,468
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  • Total words: 11,881
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(opting out of totals due to late entry in drive)
  • Total articles: 30
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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.