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GOCE November 2012 drive barnstars

	The Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Star
	For exceptional copyediting efforts during the Guild of Copy Editors November 2012 Backlog Elimination Drive, 27 articles with a cumulative grand total of 127,606 words, please accept this exclusive, brilliant, Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Star. Thank you for this magnificent contribution. --Stfg (talk) 13:58, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

		Leaderboard Award – Number of words edited – 2nd Place
		This Leaderboard Award is awarded to Miniapolis for copy editing articles to a total of 73,724 words during the Guild of Copy Editors November 2012 GOCE drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. Thank you for your efforts. --Stfg (talk) 13:58, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

		Leaderboard Award – Number of 5k articles edited – equal 3rd Place
		This Leaderboard Award is awarded to Miniapolis for copy editing 4 articles of 5000 words or more during the Guild of Copy Editors November 2012 GOCE drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. Thank you for your efforts. --Stfg (talk) 13:58, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

		Leaderboard Award – Number of articles edited – 4th Place
		This Leaderboard Award is awarded to Miniapolis for copy editing 27 articles during the Guild of Copy Editors November 2012 GOCE drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. Thank you for your efforts. --Stfg (talk) 13:58, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

		Leaderboard Award – Number of oldest-category articles – 4th Place
		This Leaderboard Award is awarded to Miniapolis for copy editing 14 articles from the oldest monthly copyedit categories during the Guild of Copy Editors November 2012 GOCE drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. Thank you for helping us to clear all 2011 tags from the backlog. --Stfg (talk) 13:58, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

GOCE November drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors November 2012 backlog elimination drive wrap-up

Participation: Thanks to all who participated! Out of 38 people who signed up this drive, 33 copy-edited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. All the barnstars have now been distributed.

Progress report: We achieved our primary goal of clearing November and December 2011 from the backlog. For the first time since the drives began, the backlog consists only of articles tagged in the current year. The total backlog at the end of the month was 2690 articles, down from 8323 when we started out over two years ago. We completed all 56 requests outstanding before November 2012 as well as eight of those made in November.

Copy Edit of the Month: Voting is now over for the October 2012 competition, and prizes have been issued. The November 2012 contest is closed for submissions and open for voting. The December 2012 contest is now open for submissions. Everyone is welcome to submit entries and to vote.

Coodinator election: The six-month term for our fourth tranche of Guild coordinators will expire at the end of December. Nominations are open for the fifth tranche of coordinators, who will serve from 1 January to 30 June 2013. For complete information, please have a look at the election page.

– Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest.

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A brownie for you!

For your hard copy editing work. Darkwarriorblake (talk) 14:12, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

How'd you know I love chocolate? :-) Miniapolis (talk) 14:46, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Who doesn't love chocolate? I tried to eat the monitor when I first saw the image. Darkwarriorblake (talk) 03:04, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Hi Miniapolis, quick question but are you conducting the GA review for the Watch here? I'm just asking because I don't know if it auto fails if it isn't passed so long after the review page is opened. Darkwarriorblake (talk) 03:57, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

Hi again, Dark. It's been nominated, but I'm new to GAN and didn't know I was the designated reviewer (and don't know if copyediting counts as a "significant contribution", although I don't think it does). About all that's left to do is to check the refs, which I'll start after work today. Sorry for the delay and all the best, Miniapolis (talk) 14:52, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for taking the time to do that Miniapolis. Yeah when you edit that GA page it automatically assumes you are the reviewer. Take care. Darkwarriorblake (talk) 02:57, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Feminism

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GOCE mid-December newsletter

End of Year Events from the Guild of Copy Editors

The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in its events:

The December 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is currently in the submissions stage. Submit your best December copy edit there before the end of the month. Submissions end, and discussion and voting begin, on January 1 at 00:00 (UTC).
Voting is in progress for the November 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest. Everyone is welcome to vote, whether they have entered the contest or not.
From Sunday 16 December to Saturday 22 December, we are holding a Project Blitz, in which we will copy edit articles tagged with {{copyedit}} from January 2012. The blitz works much like our bimonthly drives, but a bit simpler. Everyone is welcome to take part, and barnstars will be awarded.
January 2013 Backlog elimination drive is a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on January 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on January 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goals are to copy edit all articles tagged in January, February, and March 2012 and complete all requests placed before the end of 2012. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits at least one article, and special awards will be given to the top five in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", "Number of articles of over 5,000 words", "Number of articles tagged in January, February, and March 2012", and "Longest article". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest.

Coodinator election: Nominations are open for candidates to serve as GOCE coordinators from 1 January to 30 June 2013. Nominations close on December 15 at 23:59 UTC, after which voting will run until the end of December. For complete information, please have a look at the election page.

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WikiProject Articles for creation newsletter

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Invitation to WikiProject Brands

December Blitz barnstar

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Happy Festivus

The Signpost: 24 December 2012

News and notes: Debates on Meta sparking along—grants, new entities, and conflicts of interest
As part of its new focus on core responsibilities, the Wikimedia Foundation is reforming its grant schemes so that they are more accessible to individual volunteers. The community is invited to look at proposals for a new scheme—for now called Individual engagement grants (IEGs)—which is due to kick off on January 15. On Meta, the community is once again debating the two new offline participation models—user groups (open membership groups designed to be easy to form) and thematic organizations (incorporated non-profits representing the Wikimedia movement and supporting work on a specific theme within or across countries). In a consultation process on Meta that will last until January 15, the community will be discussing WMF proposals for a new guideline on conflicts of interests concerning Wikimedia resources. The draft covers COI issues for both volunteers and organizations across the movement.

WikiProject report: A Song of Ice and Fire
This week, we spent some time with WikiProject A Song of Ice and Fire, which focuses on the eponymous series of high fantasy literature, the television series Game of Thrones, and related works by George R. R. Martin. The project was started in July 2006 and has grown to include 11 Good Articles maintained by a small yet enthusiastic band of editors.

Featured content: Battlecruiser operational
Seven articles and two lists were promoted to 'featured' status this week, including List of battlecruisers. The article covers all of the battlecruisers—which were a type of warship similar in size to a battleship but with several defining characteristics—ever planned or constructed. The last British battlecruiser built, HMS Hood, is pictured at right.

Technology report: Efforts to "normalise" Toolserver relations stepped up
Efforts were stepped up this week to sow a feeling of trust between the major parties with an interest in the future of the Toolserver. The tool- and bot-hosting server – more accurately servers – are currently operated by German chapter, Wikimedia Germany, with assistance from the Foundation and numerous volunteers, including long-time system administrator Daniel Baur (more commonly known by his pseudonym DaB). However, those parties have more recently failed to see eye-to-eye on the trajectory for the Toolserver, which is scheduled to be replaced by Wikimedia Labs in late 2013, with increasing concern about the tone of discussions.

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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject California

Rashid Girgis Semaan

SDSA entry

Hi Miniapolis,

I'm a senior biology major in college, and was required to complete a Wikipedia entry as an assignment. We simply had to submit it by the deadline and send our professor the screenshot of it, but in order to ultimately get any credit for this assignment we have to make sure it's submitted and actually uploaded onto Wikipedia. Sorry for the long preamble, but I was wondering more specifically in what ways you think I should provide more context to make it more accessible to the general reader. Should I give more of the background that is found in the entry for "Homologous Recombination"? If that's the case then I can certainly do that, but I just wanted to make sure I was making the necessary changes when I resubmit the article.

Thanks! Amber — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pillowymarshmallows (talk • contribs) 00:27, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

Hi, Amber...I came to your article as a non-scientist holder of a bachelor's degree, and had trouble understanding it. The first sentence of Homologous recombination gives the reader some idea that the article is about genetics (although the featured-article nomination discussion is interesting, with questions raised about whether that article is too technical). I think the first sentence of your article should indicate that it concerns genetics; wikilinks are very useful also in making a technical article accessible to the general reader. In the meantime, I took a second look at the article, tweaked the opening sentence and moved it into article space. At Articles for Creation we see a very broad spectrum of articles, from shameless self-promotion to...well, scientific treatises :-). While I disagree with the view that all articles should be at a 12-year-old's level, I like to understand what I read; however, that's just my opinion—Homologous recombination is a good article, and I hope Synthesis-dependent strand annealing (SDSA) will be too (the overcapitalization in the refs looks a bit shouty, but that's easily fixed). Enjoy the rest of your senior year and all the best, Miniapolis (talk) 02:58, 28 December 2012 (UTC)