Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives/March 2018

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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 will begin on 1 March 2018, 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 31 March 2018, 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 June, July and August 2017);
to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page from February 2018.

Drive participants could 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 June, July and August 2017, 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 Corinne (talk), Miniapolis (talk), Reidgreg (talk) and Tdslk (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. 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	Gog the Mild (63)	Twofingered Typist (54)	Lfstevens (51)	Reidgreg (27)	Miniapolis (26)
Total Words^{[n 1]}	Lfstevens (93,049)	Twofingered Typist (90,825)	Reidgreg (67,551)	Gog the Mild (59,399)	Miniapolis (56,417)
5k+ Articles^{[n 2]}	Twofingered Typist (6) Reidgreg (6)	Gog the Mild (5)	Lfstevens (4)	Dhtwiki (3)	Miniapolis (2)
Oldest Articles^{[n 3]}	Twofingered Typist (50) Lfstevens (50)	-	Reidgreg (27)	Miniapolis (25)	JimHolden (7)
Longest Article^{[n 1]}^{[n 4]}	Gog the Mild (15,504) Reidgreg (15,504)	-	Dhtwiki (13,953)	Lfstevens (12,258)	Twofingered Typist (11,542)

[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 2017.
[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 2017	Outstanding tags	Change since previous day ^{[N 1]}	Change since beginning ^{[N 1]}
28 February 2018	202	1,326	—	—
1 March 2018	193	1,314	12	12
2 March 2018	185	1,316	2	10
3 March 2018	179	1,312	4	14
4 March 2018	170	1,289	23	37
5 March 2018	168	1,303	14	23
6 March 2018	157	1,291	12	35
7 March 2018	148	1,286	5	40
8 March 2018	139	1,285	1	41
9 March 2018	136	1,288	3	38
10 March 2018	132	1,275	13	51
11 March 2018	126	1,268	7	58
12 March 2018	117	1,271	3	55
13 March 2018	111	1,265	6	61
14 March 2018	102	1,272	7	54
15 March 2018	94	1,263	9	63
16 March 2018	92	1,270	7	56
17 March 2018	89	1,271	1	55
18 March 2018	84	1,268	3	58
19 March 2018	80	1,272	4	54
20 March 2018	77	1,274	2	52
21 March 2018	75	1,279	5	47
22 March 2018	70	1,295	16	31
23 March 2018	64	1,296	1	30
24 March 2018	55	1,295	1	31
25 March 2018	51	1,290	5	36
26 March 2018	48	1,289	1	37
27 March 2018	43	1,269	20	57
28 March 2018	35	1,253	16	73
29 March 2018	31	1,261	8	65
30 March 2018	22	1,253	8	73
31 March 2018	8	1,239	22	87

[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

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.

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.
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 2017, 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: