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Backlog status a few hours after the end of the drive

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 (also {{copy edit section}}, {{copy edit inline}}, {{inappropriate person}}, {{cleanup tense}}, and their redirects) and those listed on the GOCE Requests page. It will begin on 1 March 2023, 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 31 March 2023, 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this drive are:

  • to reduce the backlog by as many articles as possible, especially the earliest-tagged articles (those tagged in March, April, and May 2022);
  • to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page dating from November and December 2022.

Drive participants can earn barnstar awards based on the number of articles—and the word counts of the articles—they copy edit. Articles listed on the Requests page count towards your total; these articles are generally higher in quality 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 March, April, or May 2022, 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 coordinators are Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, and Zippybonzo . If you have any questions, leave a message on the drive's talk page.

For brief instructions on recording your work, see below. For full instructions, visit the main drive page. Further details can be found on the drive FAQ 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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(Please update your own figures)

Leaderboard

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  • Gold Star Award Leaderboard
1 2 3 4 5
Total
Articles		 Puppies937 (35) Jayowyn (33) Schminnte (25) Wracking (21)
The person who loves reading (21)
Total
Words[n 1]		 Jayowyn (74,484) The person who loves reading (73,123) Puppies937 (61,914) Fieryninja (44,893) Baffle gab1978 (44,223)
5k+
Articles[n 2]		 The person who loves reading (8) Puppies937 (6) Fieryninja (4)
Mgp28 (4)
Tenryuu (4)
Jayowyn (4)
Freedom4U (4)		 Dhtwiki (2)
Miniapolis (2)
Wracking (2)
Lfstevens (2)
Baffle gab1978 (2)
Oldest
Articles[n 3]		 Jayowyn (26) Wracking (16)
The person who loves reading (16)		 Miniapolis (12) Puppies937 (11)
Longest
Article[n 1][n 4]		 Puppies937 (21,823) Freedom4U (20,205) The person who loves reading (19,296) Fieryninja (17,882) Dhtwiki (14,701)
  1. 1 2 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 March, April, and May 2022.
  4. ↑ The number of words in the longest article you copy edited. Only one entry for any editor.

Progress chart

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Progress Chart
Date
  • Old articles
  • Mar, Apr, May
  • Outstanding
  • tags
  • Change since
  • previous day
[N 1]
  • Change since
  • beginning
[N 1]
28 February 2023 274 1,952 — —
1 March 2023 262 1,973 Negative increase  21 Negative increase  21
2 March 2023 255 1,966 Positive decrease  7 Negative increase  14
3 March 2023 250 1,955 Positive decrease 11 Negative increase  3
4 March 2023 248 1,953 Positive decrease  2 Negative increase  1
5 March 2023 244 1,923 Positive decrease 30 Positive decrease 29
6 March 2023 238 1,917 Positive decrease  6 Positive decrease 35
7 March 2023 229 1,910 Positive decrease  7 Positive decrease 42
8 March 2023 221 1,911 Negative increase  1 Positive decrease 41
9 March 2023 212 1,915 Negative increase  4 Positive decrease 37
10 March 2023 198 1,902 Positive decrease 13 Positive decrease 50
11 March 2023 193 1,902 Steady  0 Positive decrease 50
12 March 2023 187 1,894 Positive decrease  8 Positive decrease 58
13 March 2023 181 1,893 Positive decrease  1 Positive decrease 59
14 March 2023 180 1,881 Positive decrease 12 Positive decrease 71
15 March 2023 177 1,892 Negative increase  11 Positive decrease 60
16 March 2023 176 1,888 Positive decrease  4 Positive decrease 64
17 March 2023 172 1,875 Positive decrease 13 Positive decrease 77
18 March 2023 167 1,877 Negative increase  2 Positive decrease 75
19 March 2023 157 1,878 Negative increase  1 Positive decrease 74
20 March 2023 151 1,880 Negative increase  2 Positive decrease 72
21 March 2023 142 1,876 Positive decrease  4 Positive decrease 76
22 March 2023 128 1,871 Positive decrease  5 Positive decrease 81
23 March 2023 120 1,852 Positive decrease 19 Positive decrease 100
24 March 2023 114 1,841 Positive decrease 11 Positive decrease 111
25 March 2023 113 1,847 Negative increase  6 Positive decrease 105
26 March 2023 109 1,810 Positive decrease 37 Positive decrease 142
27 March 2023 107 1,792 Positive decrease 18 Positive decrease 160
28 March 2023 105 1,794 Negative increase  2 Positive decrease 158
29 March 2023 102 1,790 Positive decrease  4 Positive decrease 162
30 March 2023 101 1,772 Positive decrease 18 Positive decrease 180
31 March 2023 97 1,751 Positive decrease 21 Positive decrease 201
  1. 1 2 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 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

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  1. Baffle☿gab from mid-month

Signing up

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This drive has now concluded and is no longer open to sign-up.
Rollover totals from the previous drive are located here.

Totals

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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) and avoid piped links, quotation marks and italics.
    • 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. These brackets should not contain anything other than this number; do not use additional brackets for comments. Avoid long calculation strings (more than one line) in your word total.
  • Place the article you are editing on the {{Working}} line. Only work on one article at a time. When you've finished your copy edit, change {{Working}} to {{Completed}}.
  • If the article is from the GOCE Requests page, place *R (using plain text) after the word count. If it was tagged in March, April, or May 2022, place *O (using plain text) 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 this on the drive talk page.

Properly completed records look like this in the edit window:

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

and like this on the rendered page:

1. BERJAYA Completed Dark chocolate (1,234) *O

Torchiest (talk)

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  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 6460

Dhtwiki (talk)

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  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 17,804
  • Rollover words: 7,283.5

Miniapolis (talk)

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  • Total articles: 12
  • Total words: 32,402
  • Rollover words: 1,883

Tenryuu (talk)

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  • Total articles: 10
  • Total words: 33240
  • Rollover words: 1506

WikiNarco (talk)

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  • Total articles: 5
  • Total words: 9176

Reidgreg (talk)

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  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 459
  • Rollover words: 823

Francophile124 (talk)

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  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Jonesey95 (talk)

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  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 207
  • Rollover words: 1863

Wracking (talk)

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  • Total articles: 21
  • Total words: 40096

Lfstevens (talk)

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  • Total articles: 5
  • Total words: 15,925

Tails Wx (talk)

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  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 2,205
  • Rollover words: 3,820

GenQuest (talk)

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  • Total articles: 1 1/2
  • Total words: 5250

Schminnte (talk)

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  • Total articles: 25
  • Total words: 13071

Spida-tarbell (talk)

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  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Baffle gab1978 (talk)

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  • Total articles: 17
  • Total words: 47,329
  • Rollover words: 17,316

Jayowyn (talk)

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  • Total articles: 33
  • Total words: 74,484
  • Rollover words: 125,472

Wombat140 (talk)

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  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Contrawwftw (talk)

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  • Total articles: 7
  • Total words: 13,113

Arado Ar 196 (talk)

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  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Chanelle821 (talk)

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  • Total articles: 5
  • Total words: 10339

Firefangledfeathers (talk)

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  • Total articles: 4
  • Total words: 6003
  • Rollover words: 1609

Emplexis (talk)

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  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Comitialbulb561 (talk)

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  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Freedom4U (talk)

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  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 24,231

Mgp28 (talk)

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  • Total articles: 6
  • Total words: 27711

Fieryninja (talk)

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  • Total articles: 15
  • Total words: 44893

FormalDude (talk)

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  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 7,988

Monhiroe (talk)

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  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 0

Rachelmesser149214 (talk)

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  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Peter Flass (talk)

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  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Bzbzteams (talk)

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  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

25Means (talk)

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  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Praseodymium-141 (talk)

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  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 1641

Newimpartial (talk)

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  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Nmarshall25 (talk)

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  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 1500

NikhilBhisikar (talk)

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  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Gaonsarpanch (talk)

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  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

CrowEater (talk)

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  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1117

Jadedhippo (talk)

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  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 5348

Deshmukh.3851 (talk)

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  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Moriwen (talk)

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  • Total articles: 7
  • Total words: 14933

Ashimrudrapaul (talk)

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  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

HelenDegenerate (talk)

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  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 8048

SKAG123 (talk)

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  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Mltg404 (talk)

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  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 3075

Mcgrohow (talk)

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  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

PenangLion (talk)

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  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

MrBauer24 (talk)

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  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1873

SpookyTwenty (talk)

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  • Total articles: 7
  • Total words: 9312

Spaceeditor123 (talk)

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  • Total articles: 7
  • Total words: 10642

Remsense (talk)

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  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1872

33ABGirl (talk)

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  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Puppies937 (talk)

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  • Total articles: 37
  • Total words: 63,504

Zorblin (talk)

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  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Snowmanonahoe (talk)

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  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Knot Lad (talk)

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  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Armstrong3066 (talk)

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  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Sphenic wedge (talk)

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  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Kevinionic Captcha (talk)

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  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

多多123 (talk)

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  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 7,248

The person who loves reading (talk)

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  • Total articles: 21
  • Total words: 73123

KoolKidz112 (talk)

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  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 4,407

Rublamb (talk)

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  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1686
  • Rollover words: 61555.5

Bedasomjk4 (talk)

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  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Olympian (talk)

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  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
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