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Wikipedia articles needing copy edit
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Subtotals
July 202315
August 202368
September 202393
October 2023149
November 2023100
December 2023115
January 2024127
February 202496
March 2024131
April 2024222
May 2024157
June 2024124
July 2024181
August 2024155
September 2024149
October 2024145
November 2024161
December 2024287
Undated articles0
All articles
2,475

This Copy Editing Backlog Elimination Drive is a one-month-long effort of the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy editing; those carrying the {{copy edit}} tag or listed on the GOCE Requests page. It will begin on 1 November 2016, 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 30 November 2016, 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 (those tagged in September, October, November, and December 2015);
  • to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page from October 2016.

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 {{copy edit}} in September, October, November, and December 2015, and for articles listed on the Requests page. Awards will be given out once the drive has finished.

The drive is open to all Wikipedians; 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 Corinne (talk) and Tdslk (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

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

(Please update your own figures)

Leaderboard

  • Gold Star Award Leaderboard
1 2 3 4 5
Total
Articles 		Miniapolis (5) Dhtwiki (3) Jonesey95 (1)
Total
Words[n 1] 		Miniapolis (7,158) Dhtwiki (1,475) Jonesey95 (728)
5k+
Articles[n 2]
Oldest
Articles[n 3] 		Miniapolis (5) Dhtwiki (3) Jonesey95 (1)
Longest
Article[n 1][n 4] 		Miniapolis (2,398) Jonesey95 (728)
  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 September, October, November, and December 2015.
  4. ^ The number of words in the longest article you copy edited. Only one entry for any editor.

Progress chart

Progress Chart
Date
  • Old articles
  • Sep–Dec 2015
  • Outstanding
  • tags
  • Change since
  • previous day
[N 1]
  • Change since
  • beginning
[N 1]
31 October 2016 239 1,937 — —
1 November 2016 236 1,932 Positive decrease  5 Positive decrease  5
2 November 2016 233 1,928 Positive decrease  4 Positive decrease  9
3 November 2016 229 1,926 Positive decrease  2 Positive decrease 11
4 November 2016 219 1,912 Positive decrease 14 Positive decrease 25
5 November 2016 213 1,910 Positive decrease  2 Positive decrease 27
  1. ^ a b Change refers only to outstanding tags.

Reviewing

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 penalized 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

Signing up

To sign up for the drive, click the button below. This will create a subsection in the Totals section where you will record your copy edits. Rollover totals from the previous drive are located here.


Totals

How to record articles you have copy edited:

  • Remove any extant {{copy edit}} 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. Count the words in the version of the article that existed before you started editing.
  • 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 September, October, November, or December 2015, 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.  Completed Dark chocolate (yummy!) (1,234) *O

Jonesey95 (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed Colin Butler (728) *O
  2.  Completed [[]] ()
  3.  Completed [[]] ()
  4.  Completed [[]] ()
  5.  Completed [[]] ()
  6.  Completed [[]] ()
  7.  Completed [[]] ()
  8.  Completed [[]] ()
  9.  Completed [[]] ()
  10.  Completed [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 728
  • Rollover words: 733

Miniapolis (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed Sinicization of Tibet (1,794) *O
  2.  Completed Viswanathan–Ramamoorthy (2,398) *O
  3.  Completed Vlasta Vrána (246) *O
  4.  Completed Jalgaon (2,366) *O
  5.  Completed Witchblade (anime) (354) *O
  6.  Working Super-Skrull (2,427) *O
  • Total articles: 5
  • Total words: 7,158
  • Rollover words: 14,832

Dthomsen8 (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Reidgreg (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed Roland Reid (287) *O
  2.  Completed Joke theft (1800) *O
  3.  Completed Sousa (surname) (1200) *O
  4.  Completed The Doctor (Doctor Who) (19,700) *R
  5.  Completed United States v. Belmont (995) *O
  6.  Completed "Dancing Queen" (2900) *O
  7.  Completed List of Seraph of the End chapters (1900) *O
  8.  Completed Bernardo Leighton (490) *O
  9.  Completed "Pest of the West" (§Plot summary only) (400) *O
  10.  Working Surmo (400) *O - abandoned (citation issues)
  • Total articles: 6
  • Total words: 26882

BroVic (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed Experiments and Observations on Electricity (758) *R
  2.  Completed Dresden Codex (1,020) *R
  3.  Working La Harinera (220) *R
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 1,778
  • Rollover words: 4,759

Tdslk (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed Gold Crown Tomb (531)
  2.  Completed [[]] ()
  3.  Completed [[]] ()
  4.  Completed [[]] ()
  5.  Completed [[]] ()
  6.  Completed [[]] ()
  7.  Completed [[]] ()
  8.  Completed [[]] ()
  9.  Completed [[]] ()
  10.  Completed [[]] ()
  11.  Completed [[]] ()
  12.  Completed [[]] ()
  13.  Completed [[]] ()
  14.  Completed [[]] ()
  15.  Completed [[]] ()
  16.  Completed [[]] ()
  17.  Completed [[]] ()
  18.  Completed [[]] ()
  19.  Completed [[]] ()
  20.  Completed [[]] ()
  21.  Completed [[]] ()
  22.  Completed [[]] ()
  23.  Completed [[]] ()
  24.  Completed [[]] ()
  25.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 531
  • Rollover words: 2514

Olivettilly (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

TerraCodes (talk to me)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Twofingered Typist (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed 2016 Baku GP2 Series round (2,900) *R
  2.  Completed St. Anger (1,900) *R
  3.  Completed 2015 Bahrain GP2 Series round (2,700) *R
  4.  Completed Yale Union Laundry Building (partial count) (500) *R
  5.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 4
  • Total words: 8,000
  • Rollover words: 215,994

Dhtwiki (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed María Ruiz Cruz (421) *O
  2.  Completed Proyecto ContraSIDA por Vida (669) *O
  3.  Completed Shahzada Iftikhar Uddin (385) *O
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 1475
  • Rollover words: 8385

SkittleCookie22 (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed 4ever (The Veronicas song) (1,469)
  2.  Completed List of Arrow characters (14,696)
  3.  Completed All India Institute Of Technology (139)
  4.  Completed April Fool's Day (1986 film) (535)
  5.  Completed Bad Boy Bill (496)
  6.  Completed Awagat (353)
  7.  Completed Love or Spend (199) *O
  8.  Completed Duda Yankovich (593) *O
  9.  Completed Rose Mapendo (972) *O
  10.  Completed Bilhana (film) (413)
  11.  Completed Berthe Bady (110)
  12.  Completed Trevor Coker (255)
  13.  Completed Elizabeth Catlett (2,985)
  14.  Completed Thomas Cornwallis (430)
  15.  Completed Akshat Chopra (174)
  16.  Completed Jean Ronald Cornely (316)
  17.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 16
  • Total words: 24,135

Gluons12 (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working S-400 missile system (2123) *O
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 326

Osbusss (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Bddmagic (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working Stella Voskovetskaya (263)
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Iazyges (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed Aimery of Cyprus (2,719) *R
  2.  Working Michael I of Wallachia (438) *R
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 22
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