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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Date	Old articles Mar, Apr and May 2015	Outstanding tags	Change since previous day [N 1]	Change since beginning [N 1]
30 April 2016	296	2,223	—	—
1 May 2016	292	2,126	97	97
2 May 2016	289	2,124	2	99
3 May 2016	284	2,090	34	133
4 May 2016	276	2,045	45	178
5 May 2016	272	2,041	4	182
6 May 2016	270	1,995	46	228
7 May 2016	265	1,971	24	252
8 May 2016	262	1,942	29	281
9 May 2016	262	1,910	32	313
10 May 2016	261	1,905	5	318
11 May 2016	253	1,890	15	333
12 May 2016	248	1,870	20	353
13 May 2016	239	1,840	30	383
14 May 2016	233	1,741	99	482
15 May 2016	227	1,731	10	492
16 May 2016	225	1,716	15	507
17 May 2016	218	1,676	40	547
18 May 2016	208	1,660	16	563
19 May 2016	199	1,637	23	586
20 May 2016	191	1,626	11	597
21 May 2016	188	1,608	18	615
22 May 2016	180	1,596	12	627
23 May 2016	175	1,590	6	633
24 May 2016	170	1,546	44	677
25 May 2016	165	1,528	18	695
26 May 2016	161	1,510	18	713
27 May 2016	155	1,506	4	717
28 May 2016	152	1,505	1	718
29 May 2016	144	1,508	3	715
30 May 2016	132	1,511	3	712
31 May 2016	124	1,496	15	727

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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.

Signing 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.
• 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 March, April and May 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:

1.  Completed Dark chocolate (yummy!) (1,234) *O