Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives/July 2021

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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}}, {{inappropriate person}}, {{cleanup tense}}, and their redirects) and those listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on 1 July 2021, 00:00 (UTC) and ended on 31 July 2021, 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 May 2021 and earlier);
to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page dating from May and June 2021.

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}} in May 2021 and earlier, 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 Dhtwiki (talk), Miniapolis (talk), and Tenryuu (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

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Leaderboard

More information Total Articles, Total Words ...

**Gold Star Award Leaderboard**
	1	2	3	4	5
Total Articles	Tenryuu (65)	Twofingered Typist (36)	Tdslk (17) Contrawwftw (17)	Miniapolis (14)
Total Words^{[n 1]}	Tenryuu (205,935)	Twofingered Typist (134,874)	Miniapolis (57,006)	Contrawwftw (50,341)	Lfstevens (33,161)
5k+ Articles^{[n 2]}	Tenryuu (20)	Twofingered Typist (16)	Miniapolis (8)	Contrawwftw (5)	Lfstevens (2)
Oldest Articles^{[n 3]}	Tenryuu (65)	Miniapolis (14)	Tdslk (12)	Twofingered Typist (11)	Contrawwftw (10)
Longest Article^{[n 1]}^{[n 4]}	Miniapolis (32,668)	Tenryuu (24,601)	Twofingered Typist (15,029)	Contrawwftw (12,262)	Lfstevens (9,633)

[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 May 2021 and earlier.
[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 May 2021 and earlier	Outstanding tags	Change since previous day ^{[N 1]}	Change since beginning ^{[N 1]}
30 June 2021	430	875	—	—
1 July 2021	408	851	24	24
2 July 2021	398	831	20	44
3 July 2021	393	832	1	43
4 July 2021	380	820	12	55
5 July 2021	360	795	25	80
6 July 2021	342	769	26	106
7 July 2021	323	757	12	118
8 July 2021	312	738	19	137
9 July 2021	297	747	9	128
10 July 2021	297	747	0	128
11 July 2021	280	736	11	139
12 July 2021	269	707	29	168
13 July 2021	260	704	3	171
14 July 2021	247	699	5	176
15 July 2021	237	683	16	192
16 July 2021	227	670	13	205
17 July 2021	220	662	8	213
18 July 2021	207	640	22	235
19 July 2021	201	634	6	241
20 July 2021	193	615	19	260
21 July 2021	187	618	3	257
22 July 2021	185	623	5	252
23 July 2021	179	617	6	258
24 July 2021	163	597	20	278
25 July 2021	156	597	0	278
26 July 2021	151	594	3	281
27 July 2021	149	600	6	275
28 July 2021	144	601	1	274
29 July 2021	141	604	3	271
30 July 2021	137	599	5	276
31 July 2021	132	598	1	277

[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 {{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 May 2021 and earlier, 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: