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November 20211
March 20221
May 20221
June 20221
July 20221
October 202233
November 202231
December 2022103
January 2023106
February 2023104
March 202399
April 2023163
May 2023119
June 2023187
July 2023163
August 2023200
September 2023175
October 2023269
November 2023202
December 2023305
January 2024103
Undated articles0
All articles
2,367

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 began on 1 January 2024, 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 31 January 2024, 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 through November 2022);
  • to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page dating from October and November 2023.

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}} through November 2022, and for articles listed on the Requests page in October and November. 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 , who is assisted by . 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[edit]

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[edit]

(Please update your own figures)

Leaderboard[edit]

  • Gold Star Award Leaderboard
1 2 3 4 5
Total
Articles 		Reidgreg (15) Jayowyn (9) Geardona (7)
Miniapolis (7) 		That Tired Tarantula (6) Mox Eden (5)
Total
Words[n 1] 		Geardona (27606) Jayowyn (22689) Tenryuu (13857) Lfstevens (12385) Mox Eden (10001)
5k+
Articles[n 2] 		Geardona (3) Jayowyn (2) Wracking (1)
Tenryuu (1)
Mox Eden (1)
Lfstevens (1)
Oldest
Articles[n 3] 		Reidgreg (13) Jayowyn (8) Miniapolis (7) Geardona (5) Tenryuu (4)
Longest
Article[n 1][n 4] 		Lfstevens (12,384) Geardona (9800) Jayowyn (8419) Mox Eden (7426) Tenryuu (7357)
  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 through November 2022.
  4. ^ The number of words in the longest article you copy edited. Only one entry for any editor.

Progress chart[edit]

Progress Chart
Date
  • Old articles
  • Nov 2022 & earlier
  • Outstanding
  • tags
  • Change since
  • previous day
[N 1]
  • Change since
  • beginning
[N 1]
31 December 2023 117 2,419 — —
1 January 2024 111 2,412 Positive decrease  7 Positive decrease  7
2 January 2024 103 2,415 Negative increase  3 Positive decrease  4
3 January 2024 96 2,413 Positive decrease  2 Positive decrease  6
4 January 2024 88 2,406 Positive decrease  7 Positive decrease 13
5 January 2024 80 2,409 Negative increase  3 Positive decrease 10
6 January 2024 68 2,385 Positive decrease 24 Positive decrease 34
7 January 2024 68 2,370 Positive decrease 15 Positive decrease 49
8 January 2024 69 2,379 Negative increase  9 Positive decrease 40
  1. ^ a b Change refers only to outstanding tags.

Reviewing[edit]

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[edit]

Signing up[edit]

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[edit]

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 XXX and XXX, 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.  Completed Dark chocolate (1,234) *O

Miniapolis (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Vicarious traumatization (1,585) *O
  2.  Completed Banana Pi (2,038) *O
  3.  Completed Business performance management (1,043) *O
  4.  Completed Mahidol University (2,441) *O
  5.  Completed Sharmeena Begum (860) *O
  6.  Completed Guatemala Health Initiative (1,177) *O
  7.  Completed Waking Up the Neighbours (698) *O
  8.  Working Black people and Mormonism (7,414) *O
  • Total articles: 7
  • Total words: 9,842
  • Rollover words: 3,248

Mox Eden (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Sleep deprivation (7426)
  2.  Completed Embassy of Canada, Tokyo (section) (294)
  3.  Completed If There Is Light, It Will Find You (section) (631)
  4.  Completed Hydrothermal vent (section) (1489)
  5.  Completed Kerkük Sanjak (161)
  6.  Completed Japan at the Paralympics (421)
  7.  Completed Effects of divorce (1463)
  8.  Completed HomeServices of America (502)
  9.  Working Ainu people (9786)
  • Total articles: 8
  • Total words: 12387
  • Rollover words: 14227.5

That Tired Tarantula (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Oscar Aga (135)
  2.  Completed Amazonian black tyrant (484)
  3.  Completed Battle of St. Pölten (695)
  4.  Completed Tirso de Molina (1341)
  5.  Completed Henry O. Mayfield (2039)
  6.  Completed BasiGo (586)
  7.  Completed Hrid Majharey (1057)
  8.  Working Bengali traditional games (1809)
  • Total articles: 7
  • Total words: 6337
  • Rollover words: 6167

Dhtwiki (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 7414.5

Tenryuu (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Economy of Ashanti Removed unsourced content (2931) *O
  2.  Completed Bennet family Whittled down essay-like language (7357) *O
  3.  Completed Mixtec transnational migration Whittled down essay-like language (3209) *O
  4.  Completed Blade (character) Section edit (360) *O
  5.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 4
  • Total words: 13857
  • Rollover words: 9714

Slinkyco (talk)[edit]

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

Wracking (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed America COMPETES Act lots of trimming and summarizing of excessive detail from primary source (5386) *O
  2.  Completed Church of Antioch (905) *O
  3.  Working
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 6291
  • Rollover words: 26

Baffle gab1978 (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 17,118

Geardona (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Material efficiency (970) *O
  2.  CompletedDelhi Metro Rail Corporation (674) *O
  3.  Completed Nelson Torres (303) *O
  4.  Completed Lawrence, Massachusetts (4870)*O
  5.  Completed 2000 NAPA 500 (1111)*O
  6.  Partly done Bennet family (7388) *O (how do I count this)
  7.  Not done Obi (martial arts) (659) Paused, someone else is in progress
  8.  Completed Coulter counter (2189)
  9.  Completed Dakota Access Pipeline protests (9800)
  10.  Completed Aviation safety (6602) Could someone look over this Checked(Jayowyn) talk! Sure! I did another editing pass on the relevant section. Check it out!
  11.  Working Cello concertos (Kabalevsky) (1087)
  • Total articles: 7
  • Total words: 27,606

Bsoyka (talk)[edit]

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

ComplexRational (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working Parsec (930)
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 1083

Nigetastic (talk)[edit]

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

Jayowyn (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Binomial differential equation (137)
  2.  Completed National Museum of History of Azerbaijan (8419) *O
  3.  Completed Mandelli Sistemi (938) *O
  4.  Completed Ramalinga Swamigal (1673) *O
  5.  Completed Kadavumbhagam Ernakulam Synagogue (1716) *O
  6.  Completed Pavlovian-instrumental transfer (768) *O
  7.  Completed Ramesh Bidhuri (364) *O
  8.  Completed Tennis scoring system (5878) *O
  9.  Completed Garuda Purana (2896) *O
  10.  Completed [[]] ()
  11.  Completed [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 9
  • Total words: 22689
  • Rollover words: 378

Reidgreg (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Li'l Champs 2022 (101) *O
  2.  Completed Cuban Solidarity Movement in the United States (117)
  3.  Completed Johnny & Clyde (31)
  4.  Completed Muchilot Bhagavathi (380) *O
  5.  Completed Iqrit (1634) *O
  6.  Completed Loader (equipment) (80) *O
  7.  Completed Parsec (920) *O
  8.  Completed Obi (martial arts) (659) *O
  9.  Completed Coulter counter (2189) *O
  10.  Completed Theodore Rappaport (6) *O
  11.  Completed Spencer Battiest (625) *O
  12.  Completed Mirror test (333) *O
  13.  Completed Miniaturization (747) *O
  14.  Completed North Weald Airfield (8) *O
  15.  Completed Emotional contagion (45) *O
  16.  Working [[]] ()
  17.  Working [[]] ()
  18.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 15
  • Total words: 7875
  • Rollover words: 2689

EphemeralPerpetuals (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed RTV (Indonesian TV network) (566)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 566

Annwfwn (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Al-Qawalish (378)
  2.  Working Avret Pazarları (5076)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 378
  • Rollover words: 2238

Vanderwaalforces (talk)[edit]

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

Mdaniels5757 (talk)[edit]

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

Dudsud (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working History of the Otago Region (10110)
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Ecoevergreen (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Gaia, Inc. (932)
  2.  Completed Trinity Academy (Kansas) (550)
  3.  Completed Eristalis horticola (440)
  4.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 1,922

Lfstevens (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Third Macedonian War (12,384) *O
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 12,385

Grungaloo (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Dinosaur Jr. (3095)
  2.  Completed Photosensitive glass (251)
  3.  Completed Les Wallace (591)
  4.  Completed Nathaniel Rochester (2074)
  5.  Completed Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler (567)
  • Total articles: 5
  • Total words: 6,578
  • Rollover words: 4,598

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Dr vulpes (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working Carl Rinsch (842)
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Goodlucksil (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Brawl Stars (2473)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 2473

Reconrabbit (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Dunedin volcanic group (1294)
  2.  Completed Impact glue (545)
  3.  Completed Municipal mergers and dissolutions in Japan (1182)
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 3021

Kstrongholte (talk)[edit]

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

Lacanthrope (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Sakumi Yoshino (623) *O
  2.  Working Red_envelope (2001)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 632

Liu1126 (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 2169

GraziePrego (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 114.5

You-are-my-armour (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Shiva (TV series) (103) *R
  2.  Completed Here Comes The Cat! (629) *R
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 732

Sawyer-mcdonell (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 3030

Frostly (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()

Paintflakes (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Effect of World War I on children in the United States (2399) *O
  2.  Working []] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 2399

Karst (talk)[edit]

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

Rkieferbaum (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 3120.5

AndyHemmerCincinnati (talk)[edit]

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

Spinney Hill (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed [[ Nazism in Brazil ]] (1824)*O
  2.  Working [[ ]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1786

Flux55 (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Yank Levy (2279)
  2.  Completed Sitronics (368)
  3.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 2766

Contrawwftw (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Taipei Daojiang Ling An She (529)
  2.  Completed Nick Deocampo (303)
  3.  Completed Airports of Thailand (1199)
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 2032
  • Rollover words: 3185
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