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Backlog status as of the end of this drive, 31 July 2016

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 or listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on 1 July 2016, 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 31 July 2016, 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this drive are:

to reduce the backlog by as many articles as possible, with a focus on the earliest-tagged articles (those tagged in April, May and June 2015); articles from July 2015 also count as of 24 July 2016;
to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page from June 2016.

Drive participants can earn barnstar awards based on the number of articles—and the word counts of the articles—they copy edit. Articles from the Requests page count towards your total; these are generally higher-quality articles 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 April, May and June 2015, 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 lead coordinator is Jonesey95 (talk), who is assisted by Tdslk (talk) and Corinne (talk). If you have any questions, leave a message on the drive's talk page.

For brief instructions on how to record your work, see below. For full instructions, visit the main drive 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 (63)	Lfstevens (54)	Tdslk (30)	Miniapolis (22)	Dthomsen8 (15)
Total Words^{[n 1]}	Twofingered Typist (86,500)	Lfstevens (60,609)	Miniapolis (54,169)	Omni Flames (22,418)	Leschnei (21,481)
5k+ Articles^{[n 2]}	Miniapolis (5)	Omni Flames (3) Twofingered Typist (3)	Pax85 (2)	Baffle gab1978 (1) Tdslk (1) Dhtwiki (1)
Oldest Articles^{[n 3]}	Twofingered Typist (53)	Lfstevens (40)	Miniapolis (18)	Leschnei (12)	Omni Flames (4) Pax85 (4) Dhtwiki (5)
Longest Article^{[n 1]}^{[n 4]}	Omni Flames (18,128)	Pax85 (8,230)	Miniapolis (7,886)	Twofingered Typist (6,300)	Tdslk (5,697)

[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 April, May and June 2015. As of the 24th, articles from July 2015 will also count.
[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 April, May, June, and July 2015	Outstanding tags	Change since previous day ^{[N 1]}	Change since beginning ^{[N 1]}
30 June 2016	149	1,713	—	—
1 July 2016	145	1,717	4	4
2 July 2016	141	1,715	2	2
3 July 2016	139	1,711	4	2
4 July 2016	133	1,710	1	3
5 July 2016	128	1,707	3	6
6 July 2016	127	1,706	1	7
7 July 2016	118	1,699	7	14
8 July 2016	115	1,704	5	9
9 July 2016	110	1,687	17	26
10 July 2016	103	1,682	5	31
11 July 2016	96	1,679	3	34
12 July 2016	96	1,684	5	29
13 July 2016	83	1,680	4	33
14 July 2016	77	1,684	4	29
15 July 2016	72	1,686	2	27
16 July 2016	60	1,681	5	32
17 July 2016	52	1,680	1	33
18 July 2016	48	1,678	2	35
19 July 2016	45	1,679	1	34
20 July 2016	35	1,658	21	55
21 July 2016	26	1,644	14	69
22 July 2016	17	1,647	3	66
23 July 2016	67	1,633	14	80
24 July 2016	61	1,607	26	106
25 July 2016	53	1,608	1	105
26 July 2016	48	1,612	4	101
27 July 2016	46	1,613	1	100
28 July 2016	44	1,643	30	70
29 July 2016	41	1,657	14	56
30 July 2016	29	1,667	10	46
31 July 2016	29	1,656	11	57

[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

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 {{copyedit}} 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.
- 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.
Place articles you're working on on the {{Working}} line. When you've finished your copy edit, change {{Working}} to {{Completed}}
If the article is from the GOCE Requests page, place *R after the word count. If it was tagged in April, May, June, or July 2015, place *O 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 it on the drive talk page.

Properly completed records look like this in the edit window:

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

and like this on the rendered page: