Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives/January 2019

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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 {{copy edit}} tag (also {{awkward}}, {{copy edit section}}, {{copy edit inline}}, and {{spacing}}) or listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on 1 January 2019, 00:00 (UTC) and ended on 31 January 2019, 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this drive were:

to reduce the backlog by as many articles as possible, especially the earliest-tagged articles (those tagged in June, July, August, and September 2018);
to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page dating from December 2018 and January 2019.

Drive participants could 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 counted towards your total; these articles are generally higher in quality than those tagged with {{copy edit}}. Participants received a bonus score of 50% over the article's word count for articles that were tagged with {{copy edit}} in June, July, and August 2018, and for articles listed on the Requests page. Awards were given out once the drive finished.

The drive was open to all Wikipedians; you didn't have to be a member of the Guild of Copy Editors to participate. You must, however, have been 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 was 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 Miniapolis (talk), who is assisted by Baffle gab1978 (talk), Jonesey95 (talk), Reidgreg (talk), and Tdslk (talk). 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

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

More information Total Articles, Total Words ...

**Gold Star Award Leaderboard**
	1	2	3	4	5
Total Articles	Twofingered Typist (58)	PopularOutcast (37)	Ben79487 (31)	Reidgreg (28)	Miniapolis (24)
Total Words^{[n 1]}	Twofingered Typist (136,743)	Reidgreg (67,857)	Miniapolis (67,093)	Ben79487 (52,719)	PopularOutcast (44,633)
5k+ Articles^{[n 2]}	Twofingered Typist (9)	Reidgreg (7)	Miniapolis (5)	Ben79487 (3)	PopularOutcast (1) AnUnnamedUser (1) Dhtwiki (1) Baffle gab1978 (1) FiveFaintFootprints (1)
Oldest Articles^{[n 3]}	Twofingered Typist (34)	Ben79487 (30)	PopularOutcast (27) Reidgreg (27)	Miniapolis (24)	Dhtwiki (10)
Longest Article^{[n 1]}^{[n 4]}	Reidgreg (22,687)	Twofingered Typist (11,672)	Ben79487 (11,174)	Miniapolis (10,204)	FiveFaintFootprints (9,343)

[1]
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, and August 2018.
[4]
The number of words in the longest article you copy edited. Only one entry for any editor.

Progress chart

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More information Date ...

Progress Chart
Date	Old articles Jun/Jul/Aug/Sept 2018	Outstanding tags	Change since previous day ^{[N 1]}	Change since beginning ^{[N 1]}
31 December 2018	187	1,112	—	—
1 January 2019	183	1,100	12	12
2 January 2019	178	1,095	5	17
3 January 2019	173	1,129	34	17
4 January 2019	161	1,106	23	6
5 January 2019	156	1,083	23	29
6 January 2019	150	1,068	15	44
7 January 2019	147	1,057	11	55
8 January 2019	141	1,046	11	66
9 January 2019	132	1,057	11	55
10 January 2019	127	1,070	13	42
11 January 2019	113	1,068	2	44
12 January 2019	105	1,057	11	55
13 January 2019	90	1,028	29	84
14 January 2019	80	1,040	12	72
15 January 2019	65	1,020	20	92
16 January 2019	49	1,006	14	106
17 January 2019	39	975	31	137
18 January 2019	37	973	2	139
19 January 2019	31	974	1	138
20 January 2019	20	943	31	169
21 January 2019	15	930	13	182
22 January 2019	12	923	7	189
23 January 2019	5	924	1	188
24 January 2019	71	895	29	217 ^{[N 2]}
25 January 2019	46	871	24	241
26 January 2019	38	860	11	252
27 January 2019	34	864	4	248
28 January 2019	25	860	4	252
29 January 2019	19	868	8	244
30 January 2019	14	875	7	237
31 January 2019	8	842	33	270

[1]
Change refers only to outstanding tags.
[2]
Added September backlog to "Old articles" count on 24 January.

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

Baffle gab1978 01:18, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
Reidgreg (talk)

Signing up

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

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) 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 June, July, and August 2018, 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: