MyWiki:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives/September 2010

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Main article: Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives

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 coordinator for this drive was ɳorɑfʈ ^Talk! and he was assisted by S Masters (talk) and Diannaa ^(Talk) (Diannaa will be away from Sept 5 to Sept 13). If you have any questions, leave a message in the drive's talk page. This drive began on 1 September 2010 00:00 UTC and ended on 30 Sept 2010 23:59 UTC.

The goals of this backlog elimination drive were to completely wipe out 2008 from the queue and to reduce the backlog to fewer than 5,000 articles. 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 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

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GOCE September 2010 backlog elimination drive progress graphs

Gold Star Award Leaderboard
(update your own numbers)

	Articles	Words	5k+ Articles
1.	Diannaa (243)	Lfstevens (134,876)	S Masters (12)
2.	Tea with toast (100)	Macwhiz (115,921)	Lfstevens (8)
3.	YellowMonkey (63)	Diannaa (95,927)	Macwhiz (7)
4.	Queenmomcat/Macwhiz (60)	S Masters (92,968)	Richard asr/Diannaa (3)
5.	Lfstevens (54)	Queenmomcat (60,091)	Derild4921/The Utahraptor/AirplanePro (2)

Chart by ɳorɑfʈ ^Talk!

Date	2008 articles remaining	Outstanding tags	Change since previous day	Change since beginning
31 August 2010	320	6,300	—	—
1 September 2010	297	6,198	Positive decrease 102	Positive decrease 102
2 September 2010	286	6,192	Positive decrease  6	Positive decrease 108
3 September 2010	275	6,164	Positive decrease 28	Positive decrease 136
4 September 2010	243	6,128	Positive decrease 36	Positive decrease 172
5 September 2010	230	6,106	Positive decrease 22	Positive decrease 194
6 September 2010	224	6,071	Positive decrease 35	Positive decrease 229
7 September 2010	211	6,058	Positive decrease 13	Positive decrease 242
8 September 2010	207	6,048	Positive decrease 10	Positive decrease 252
9 September 2010	202	6,038	Positive decrease 10	Positive decrease 262
10 September 2010	184	6,021	Positive decrease 17	Positive decrease 279
11 September 2010	180	6,011	Positive decrease 10	Positive decrease 289
12 September 2010	177	5,998	Positive decrease 13	Positive decrease 302
13 September 2010	171	5,994	Positive decrease  4	Positive decrease 306
14 September 2010	165	5,978	Positive decrease 16	Positive decrease 322
15 September 2010	153	5,950	Positive decrease 28	Positive decrease 350
16 September 2010	142	5,911	Positive decrease 39	Positive decrease 389
17 September 2010	138	5,874	Positive decrease 37	Positive decrease 426
18 September 2010	118	5,818	Positive decrease 56	Positive decrease 482
19 September 2010	108	5,773	Positive decrease 45	Positive decrease 527
20 September 2010	98	5,761	Positive decrease 12	Positive decrease 539
21 September 2010	92	5,742	Positive decrease 19	Positive decrease 558
22 September 2010	81	5,722	Positive decrease 20	Positive decrease 578
23 September 2010	75	5,705	Positive decrease 17	Positive decrease 595
24 September 2010	63	5,689	Positive decrease 16	Positive decrease 611
25 September 2010	47	5,656	Positive decrease 33	Positive decrease 644
26 September 2010	40	5,630	Positive decrease 26	Positive decrease 670
27 September 2010	34	5,618	Positive decrease 12	Positive decrease 682
28 September 2010	32	5,609	Positive decrease  9	Positive decrease 691
29 September 2010	20	5,589	Positive decrease 20	Positive decrease 711
30 September 2010	13	5,575	Positive decrease 14	Positive decrease 725

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 a newly introduced element in this drive. To calculate your rollover, take your July 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 July, he was awarded the Cleanup Barnstar (12,000 words). Thus, he 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.

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
}}
----

Totals

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives/September 2010/Final numbers}}

Reviewing

Diannaa ^(Talk) and ɳorɑfʈ ^Talk! will co-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. Please direct any questions to Diannaa ^(Talk) or ɳorɑfʈ ^Talk!.

Sign-up

1. Derild4921☼
2. Diannaa ^(Talk)
3. Questionic (talk)
4. Bddmagic (talk)
5. Joe Gazz84 (user)•(talk)•(contribs)
6. MindfulJen (talk)
7. Buggie111 (talk)
8. The Raptor ^{You rang?}

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.