Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives/January 2020

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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 required copy editing; those carrying the {{copy edit}} tag (also {{awkward}}, {{copy edit section}}, and {{copy edit inline}}) or listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on 1 January 2020, 00:00 (UTC) and ended on 31 January 2020, 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, and August 2019);
to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page dating from December 2019 and January 2020.

Drive participants could earn barnstar awards based on the number of articles—and the word counts of the articles—they copy edited. Articles listed on the Requests page counted towards your total; these articles are generally higher in quality than those tagged with {{copy edit}}. Editors 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 2019, and for articles listed on the Requests page. Awards will be given out once the drive has finished.

The drive was 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 Baffle gab1978 (talk), Reidgreg (talk), Tdslk (talk) and Twofingered Typist (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 (57)	Tdslk (41)	Reidgreg (27)	Thatoneweirdwikier (21)	Miniapolis (17)
Total Words^{[n 1]}	Twofingered Typist (138,054)	Thatoneweirdwikier (81,513)	Reidgreg (73,208)	Miniapolis (39,997)	Baffle gab1978 (30,059)
5k+ Articles^{[n 2]}	Thatoneweirdwikier (7) Reidgreg (7)	Twofingered Typist (6)	Miniapolis (1) RetroCraft314 (1)
Oldest Articles^{[n 3]}	Twofingereed Typist (26) Reidgreg (26)	Thatoneweirdwikier (21)	Miniapolis (17)	Tdslk (6)	Nlahovski (5)
Longest Article^{[n 1]}^{[n 4]}	Reidgreg (18,689)	Thatoneweirdwikier (11,100)	Twofingered Typist (9,553)	RetroCraft314 (8,665)	Miniapolis (6,228)

[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 2019.
[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 June, July, and August 2019	Outstanding tags	Change since previous day ^{[N 1]}	Change since beginning ^{[N 1]}
31 December 2019	164	638	—	—
1 January 2020	159	620	18	18
2 January 2020	155	594	26	44
3 January 2020	152	569	25	69
4 January 2020	145	545	24	93
5 January 2020	143	514	31	124
6 January 2020	137	509	5	129
7 January 2020	134	513	4	125
8 January 2020	133	517	4	121
9 January 2020	130	489	28	149
10 January 2020	127	492	3	146
11 January 2020	127	482	10	156
12 January 2020	117	472	10	166
13 January 2020	108	458	14	180
14 January 2020	100	452	6	186
15 January 2020	99	445	7	193
16 January 2020	96	443	2	195
17 January 2020	92	428	15	210
18 January 2020	89	424	4	214
19 January 2020	85	432	8	206
20 January 2020	82	429	3	209
21 January 2020	76	407	22	231
22 January 2020	71	405	2	233
23 January 2020	65	391	14	247
24 January 2020	63	385	6	253
25 January 2020	58	373	12	265
26 January 2020	54	365	8	273
27 January 2020	49	346	19	292
28 January 2020	44	343	3	295
29 January 2020	38	338	5	300
30 January 2020	33	337	1	301
31 January 2020	25	323	14	315

[1]
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

I'll do some reviewing. Baffle☿gab

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.

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 2019, 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: