Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Blitzes/April 2019

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 blitz can be found on the main blitz page. Please read this page carefully before you begin. To sign up, please use the form in the Signing up section below.

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Date	Outstanding Sports and entertainment articles	Change since previous day	Change since beginning
April 13, 2019	109	—	—
April 14, 2019	100	9	9
April 15, 2019	97	3	12
April 16, 2019	89	8	20
April 17, 2019	80	9	29
April 18, 2019	68	12	41
April 19, 2019	58	10	51
April 20, 2019	46	12	63

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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 word count of the reviewed article will be deducted from the editor's total. 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.

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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. 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.
• 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}}.
• 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.
• If you want your work checked, you can request this on the blitz talk page.

Properly completed records look like this in the edit window:

# {{Completed}} [[Dark chocolate]] (yummy!) (1,234)

and like this on the rendered page:

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

Miniapolis (talk)

• Total articles: 6
• Total words: 9,443
• Rollover words: 490

Ben79487 (talk)

• Total articles: 7
• Total words: 10,056
• Rollover words: 1,742

PopularOutcast (talk)

• Total articles: 2
• Total words: 423
• Rollover words: 1,927

Baffle gab1978

• Total articles: 5
• Total words: 4,774
• Rollover words: 589

Tdslk (talk)

• Total articles: 4
• Total words: 1656
• Rollover words: 1416

Gog the Mild (talk)

• Total articles: 1
• Total words: 705
• Rollover words: 1700

Reidgreg (talk)

• Total articles: 5
• Total words: 14154
• Rollover words: 1,245

FiveFaintFootprints (talk)

• Total articles: 2
• Total words: 5276
• Rollover words: 650

Twofingered Typist (talk)

• Total articles: 9
• Total words: 20,705
• Rollover words: 7,298

Ravquaza (talk)

• Total articles: 0
• Total words: 0

Dhtwiki (talk)

• Total articles: 1
• Total words: 6,063
• Rollover words: 1,787

Jonesey95 (talk)

• Total articles: 1
• Total words: 439
• Rollover words: 1,787

DannyS712 (talk)

• Total articles: 1
• Total words: 217
• Rollover words: 1,207

NMilstein (talk)

• Total articles: 0
• Total words: 0

A21sauce (talk)

• Total articles: 16
• Total words: 33,679