Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives/May 2024

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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 (also {{copy edit section}}, {{copy edit inline}}, {{inappropriate person}}, {{cleanup tense}}, and their redirects) and those listed on the GOCE Requests page. It will begin on 1 May 2024, 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 31 May 2024, 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this drive are:

to reduce the backlog by as many articles as possible, especially the earliest-tagged articles (those tagged in January, February, and March 2023);
to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page dating from January, February, March, and April 2024.

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 January, February, and March 2023, 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 coordinators are Dhtwiki (talk), Miniapolis (talk), and Wracking (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	CosXZ (67)	SunTunnels (21)	Lfstevens (17)	Moon motif (14)	Mox Eden (13) Tenryuu (13)
Total Words^{[n 1]}	Lfstevens (78,748)	CosXZ (67,872)	Mox Eden (42,913)	Miniapolis (36,344)	Tenryuu (30,854)
5k+ Articles^{[n 2]}	Lfstevens (8)	CosXZ (6)	Mox Eden (4)	Miniapolis (3)	ZyphorianNexus (2) Dhtwiki (2) Tenryuu (2) Baffle_gab1978 (2)
Oldest Articles^{[n 3]}	SunTunnels (21)	CosXZ (17)	Tenryuu (13)	EricAMeyer (9)	Miniapolis (7) Dhtwiki (7)
Longest Article^{[n 1]}^{[n 4]}	Lfstevens (15,747)	CosXZ (12,357)	ZyphorianNexus (9,306)	Mox Eden (8,714)	Baffle_gab1978 (7,940)

[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 January, February, and March 2023.
[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 Jan–Mar 2023	Outstanding tags	Change since previous day ^{[N 1]}	Change since beginning ^{[N 1]}
30 April 2024	156	2,843	—	—
1 May 2024	155	2,839	4	4
2 May 2024	155	2,828	11	15
3 May 2024	148	2,822	6	21
4 May 2024	145	2,820	2	23
5 May 2024	141	2,826	6	17
6 May 2024	134	2,832	6	11
7 May 2024	128	2,822	10	21
8 May 2024	124	2,817	5	26
9 May 2024	121	2,820	3	23
10 May 2024	117	2,816	4	27
11 May 2024	116	2,820	4	23
12 May 2024	114	2,841	21	2
13 May 2024	113	2,846	5	3
14 May 2024	110	2,870	24	27
15 May 2024	108	2,875	5	32
16 May 2024	105	2,872	3	29
17 May 2024	96	2,829	43	14
18 May 2024	90	2,807	22	36
19 May 2024	89	2,811	4	32
20 May 2024	83	2,835	24	8
21 May 2024	80	2,826	9	17
22 May 2024	73	2,767	59	76
23 May 2024	69	2,752	15	91
24 May 2024	65	2,751	1	92
25 May 2024	62	2,752	1	91
26 May 2024	61	2,752	0	91
27 May 2024	57	2,763	11	80
28 May 2024	55	2,759	4	84
29 May 2024	55	2,761	2	82
30 May 2024	47	2,768	7	75
31 May 2024	44	2,766	2	77

[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.

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 January, February, and March 2023, 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: