Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives/March 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 March 2019, 00:00 (UTC) and ended on 31 March 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 October and November 2018);
to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page dating from February 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 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 October and November 2018, 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 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

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Leaderboard

More information Total Articles, Total Words ...

**Gold Star Award Leaderboard**
	1	2	3	4	5
Total Articles	Twofingered Typist (50)	Ben79487 (29)	Reidgreg (26)	Miniapolis (22)	Gog the Mild (21)
Total Words^{[n 1]}	Twofingered Typist (122,820)	Miniapolis (57,430)	Reidgreg (52,566)	Ben79487 (33,807)	Dhtwiki (33,742)
5k+ Articles^{[n 2]}	Twofingered Typist (7)	Reidgreg (5)	Gog the Mild (3)	Ben79487 (2) Miniapolis (2) Dhtwiki (2)	JimHolden (1) Baffle gab1978 (1)
Oldest Articles^{[n 3]}	Twofingered Typist (35)	Ben79487 (29)	Reidgreg (26)	Miniapolis (22)	JimHolden (17)
Longest Article^{[n 1]}^{[n 4]}	Reidgreg (16,875)	Dhtwiki (11,802)	Ben79487 (11,756)	Miniapolis (7,151)	Twofingered Typist (6,763)

[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 October and November 2018.
[4]
The number of words in the longest article you copy edited. Only one entry for each editor.

Progress chart

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More information Date ...

Progress Chart
Date	Old articles Oct and Nov 2018	Outstanding tags	Change since previous day ^{[N 1]}	Change since beginning ^{[N 1]}
28 February 2019	274	1,039	—	—
1 March 2019	262	1,033	6	6
2 March 2019	257	998	35	41
3 March 2019	249	950	48	89
4 March 2019	239	959	9	80
5 March 2019	233	929	30	110
6 March 2019	224	916	13	123
7 March 2019	213	906	10	133
8 March 2019	207	894	12	145
9 March 2019	194	899	5	140
10 March 2019	190	872	27	167
11 March 2019	187	881	9	158
12 March 2019	185	887	6	152
13 March 2019	180	879	8	160
14 March 2019	176	872	7	167
15 March 2019	170	871	1	168
16 March 2019	166	859	12	180
17 March 2019	161	843	16	196
18 March 2019	157	853	10	186
19 March 2019	151	843	10	196
20 March 2019	145	846	3	193
21 March 2019	137	838	8	201
22 March 2019	127	832	6	207
23 March 2019	121	862	30	177
24 March 2019	115	840	22	199
25 March 2019	106	854	14	185
26 March 2019	95	860	6	179
27 March 2019	93	869	9	170
28 March 2019	88	876	7	163
29 March 2019	80	868	8	171
30 March 2019	76	850	18	189
31 March 2019	64	811	39	228

[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 a few reviews. Baffle☿gab 02:31, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

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 October and November 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: