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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; those carrying the {{copyedit}} tag or listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on September 1, 2014, 00:00 (UTC) and ended on September 30, 2014, 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this drive are:

  • to reduce the backlog by as many articles as possible, with a focus on the earliest-tagged articles (June, July, and August 2013)
  • to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page from August 2014.

Drive participants can earn barnstar awards based on the number of articles—and the word counts of the articles—they copy edit. Articles from the Requests page count towards your total; these are generally higher-quality articles than those tagged with {{copy edit}}. You will receive a bonus score of 50% over the article's word count for articles that were tagged with {{copyedit}} in June, July, or August 2013, and articles listed on the Requests page. Awards will be given out once the drive has finished.

The drive 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.

Drives are under the purview of the Guild's coordinators. The drive's lead coordinator is Jonesey95 (talk), who is assisted by Baffle gab1978 (talk) and Miniapolis (talk). If you have any questions, leave a message on the drive's talk page.

For brief instructions on how to record your work, see below. For full instructions, visit the main drive page.

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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(Update your own numbers manually)

Leaderboard

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  • Gold Star Award Leaderboard
1 2 3 4 5
Total
Articles
Tdslk (46) Miniapolis (25)
Lfstevens (25)
SmileBlueJay97 (13) Dthomsen8 (12)
Dhtwiki (12)
Baffle gab1978 (12)
Total
Words[n 1]
Miniapolis (63,126) Lfstevens (53,043) Baffle gab1978 (40,246) AmritasyaPutra (25,408) Dhtwiki (21,263)
5k+
Articles[n 2]
Lfstevens (5) AmritasyaPutra (4) Baffle gab1978 (3) Miniapolis (2)
SmileBlueJay97 (2)
Demiurge1000 (1)
Vanamonde93 (1)
Oldest
Articles[n 3]
Tdslk (18) Miniapolis (13) Dhtwiki (12) Lfstevens (11) AngusWOOF (10)
Longest
Article[n 1][n 4]
AmritasyaPutra (20,687) Lfstevens (12,944) SmileBlueJay97 (12,077) Vanamonde93 (9,723) Baffle gab1978 (8,410)
  1. ^ a b For requests and older articles, please include only the actual word count, without the 50% bonus.
  2. ^ Number of articles of 5,000 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 June/July/August 2013.
  4. ^ The number of words in the longest article you copy edited. Only one entry for any editor.

Progress chart

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Graphs of daily progress
Progress Chart
Date
  • Jun/Jul/Aug
  • old articles
  • Outstanding
  • tags
  • Change since
  • previous day
[N 1]
  • Change since
  • beginning
[N 1]
31 August 2014 337 2,411 (est.)
2 September 2014 333 2,411 Steady  0 Steady  0
3 September 2014 328 2,427 Negative increase  16 Negative increase  16
4 September 2014 320 2,419 Positive decrease  8 Negative increase  8
5 September 2014 318 2,426 Negative increase  7 Negative increase  15
6 September 2014 312 2,419 Positive decrease  7 Negative increase  8
7 September 2014 305 2,412 Positive decrease  7 Negative increase  1
8 September 2014 299 2,408 Positive decrease  4 Positive decrease  3
9 September 2014 293 2,414 Negative increase  6 Negative increase  3
10 September 2014 291 2,421 Negative increase  7 Negative increase  10
11 September 2014 283 2,424 Negative increase  3 Negative increase  13
12 September 2014 281 2,418 Positive decrease  6 Negative increase  7
13 September 2014 279 2,407 Positive decrease 11 Positive decrease  4
14 September 2014 275 2,412 Negative increase  5 Negative increase  1
15 September 2014 273 2,406 Positive decrease  6 Positive decrease  5
16 September 2014 266 2,417 Negative increase  11 Negative increase  6
17 September 2014 265 2,415 Positive decrease  2 Negative increase  4
18 September 2014 259 2,410 Positive decrease  5 Positive decrease  1
19 September 2014 256 2,402 Positive decrease  8 Positive decrease  9
20 September 2014 252 2,407 Negative increase  5 Positive decrease  4
21 September 2014 249 2,405 Positive decrease  2 Positive decrease  6
22 September 2014 233 2,397 Positive decrease  8 Positive decrease 14
23 September 2014 232 2,403 Negative increase  6 Positive decrease  8
24 September 2014 226 2,403 Steady  0 Positive decrease  8
25 September 2014 224 2,414 Negative increase  11 Negative increase  3
26 September 2014 222 2,416 Negative increase  2 Negative increase  5
27 September 2014 221 2,410 Positive decrease  6 Positive decrease  1
28 September 2014 213 2,404 Positive decrease  6 Positive decrease  7
29 September 2014 206 2,403 Positive decrease  1 Positive decrease  8
30 September 2014 196 2,384 Positive decrease 19 Positive decrease 27
  1. ^ a b Change refers only to outstanding tags.

Reviewing

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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 editor will be deducted a penalty of 1,200 words plus the word count of the reviewed article. 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

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  1. I'll do some checking from mid-month onwards. Baffle gab1978 (talk)

Signing up

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

Totals

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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.
  • Place articles you're working on on the {{Working}} line. When you've finished your copy edit, change {{Working}} to {{Completed}}
  • If the article is from the GOCE Requests page, place *R after the word count. If it was tagged in June, July, or August 2013, place *O after the word count.
  • 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.
  • Do not add the 50% bonus for Requests or Oldest articles—a coordinator will apply the bonuses after the drive is over.
  • If you want your work checked, you can request it on the drive talk page.

Properly completed records look like this in the edit window:

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

and like this on the rendered page:

1. File:Symbol redirect vote.svg Completed Dark chocolate (yummy!) (1,234) *O
  • Total articles: 7
  • Total words: 5,178
  • Rollover words: 2,318
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  • Total words: 0
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  • Total words: 63,126
  • Rollover words: 4,623
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  • Total words: 7240
  • Total articles: 12
  • Total words: 21263
  • Rollover words: 5661.5
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  • Total words: 15,732
  • Rollover words: 14,338.5
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  • Total words: 500
  • Rollover words: 883
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  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 2136.5
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  • Total words: 4,482
  • Rollover words: 72,765
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  • Total words: 480
  • Total articles: 12
  • Total words: 40,246
  • Rollover words: 8,675.5
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  • Total words: 1,162
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  • Total words: 16302
  • Total articles: 25
  • Total words: 53,043
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  • Total words: 1962
  • Rollover words: 8921
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  • Total words: 25408
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  • Total words: 2,601
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  • Total words: 15,362
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  • Total words: 3,344
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  • Total words: 11982
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  • Total words: 2622
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  • Total words: 5051
  • Total articles: 0
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  • Total articles: 1
  • Rollover words: 3841
  • Total words: 616
  • Rollover words: 3,776
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  • Total words: 0
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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.