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The following event is now closed. Please do not modify this page, unless you are a participant adding your final statistics within 24 hours of the closure. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate talk page.

Backlog status at the end of the drive

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 {{copy edit section}}, {{copy edit inline}}, {{inappropriate person}}, {{cleanup tense}}, and their redirects) and those listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on 1 July 2022, 00:00 (UTC) and ended on 31 July 2022, 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 September, October, and November 2021);
  • to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page dating from April and May 2022.

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 Add target months here, 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 Baffle gab1978 (talk), Dhtwiki (talk), Miniapolis (talk), Reidgreg (talk), Tenryuu (talk), and Zippybonzo (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

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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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(Please update your own figures)

Leaderboard

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  • Gold Star Award Leaderboard
1 2 3 4 5
Total
Articles
Tenryuu (32) Lfstevens (31) Baffle gab1978 (12) Miniapolis (11) JML1148 (5)
Total
Words[n 1]
Lfstevens (120,379) Tenryuu (61,610) Bddmagic (39,372) Baffle gab1978 (34,672) Miniapolis (32,816)
5k+
Articles[n 2]
Lfstevens (14) Bddmagic (7) Tenryuu (2)
Baffle gab1978 (2)
Lindsey40186 (2)
Miniapolis (1)
Gog the Mild (1)
Reidgreg (1)
Oldest
Articles[n 3]
Tenryuu (32) Lfstevens (29) Miniapolis (11) JML1148 (2)
Dhtwiki (2)
Longest
Article[n 1][n 4]
Bddmagic (36,002) Lfstevens (19,462) Tenryuu (13,816) Miniapolis (9,486) Lindsey40186 (7,873)
  1. ^ a b 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 Add target months here.
  4. ^ The number of words in the longest article you copy edited. Only one entry for any editor.

Progress chart

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Progress Chart
Date
  • Old articles
  • Sept–Nov 2021
  • Outstanding
  • tags
  • Change since
  • previous day
[N 1]
  • Change since
  • beginning
[N 1]
30 June 2022 185 1,506
1 July 2022 180 1,508 Negative increase  2 Negative increase  2
2 July 2022 178 1,526 Negative increase  18 Negative increase  20
3 July 2022 176 1,490 Positive decrease 36 Positive decrease 16
4 July 2022 173 1,455 Positive decrease 35 Positive decrease 51
5 July 2022 167 1,447 Positive decrease  8 Positive decrease 59
6 July 2022 165 1,440 Positive decrease  7 Positive decrease 66
7 July 2022 161 1,434 Positive decrease  6 Positive decrease 72
8 July 2022 157 1,404 Positive decrease 30 Positive decrease 102
9 July 2022 157 1,394 Positive decrease 10 Positive decrease 112
10 July 2022 154 1,400 Negative increase  6 Positive decrease 106
11 July 2022 153 1,408 Negative increase  8 Positive decrease 98
12 July 2022 147 1,411 Negative increase  3 Positive decrease 95
13 July 2022 147 1,418 Negative increase  7 Positive decrease 88
14 July 2022 145 1,428 Negative increase  10 Positive decrease 78
15 July 2022 144 1,437 Negative increase  9 Positive decrease 69
16 July 2022 137 1,431 Positive decrease  6 Positive decrease 75
17 July 2022 133 1,438 Negative increase  7 Positive decrease 68
18 July 2022 131 1,448 Negative increase  10 Positive decrease 58
19 July 2022 125 1,440 Positive decrease  8 Positive decrease 66
20 July 2022 124 1,443 Negative increase  3 Positive decrease 63
21 July 2022 124 1,443 Steady  0 Positive decrease 63
22 July 2022 122 1,452 Negative increase  9 Positive decrease 54
23 July 2022 114 1,454 Negative increase  2 Positive decrease 52
24 July 2022 111 1,464 Negative increase  10 Positive decrease 42
25 July 2022 109 1,473 Negative increase  9 Positive decrease 33
26 July 2022 104 1,477 Negative increase  4 Positive decrease 29
27 July 2022 104 1,476 Positive decrease  1 Positive decrease 30
28 July 2022 104 1,445 Positive decrease 31 Positive decrease 61
29 July 2022 101 1,428 Positive decrease 17 Positive decrease 78
30 July 2022 91 1,424 Positive decrease  4 Positive decrease 82
31 July 2022 87 1,432 Negative increase  8 Positive decrease 74
  1. ^ a b Change refers only to outstanding tags.

Reviewing

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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

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Signing up

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This drive has now concluded and is no longer open to sign-up.

Totals

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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 the target month(s), 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:

1.  Completed Dark chocolate (1,234) *O
Article list
  1.  Completed Protectorate (1243) *O
  2.  Completed Tanmatras (1505) *O
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 2,748
  • Rollover words: 1,654.5
Article list
  1.  Completed List of first generation home video game consoles Removed unsourced content and stripped some table content (897) *O
  2.  Completed Republican Rally for Democracy in Rwanda Removed unsourced content (1288) *O
  3.  Completed List of entertainment affected by the September 11 attacks Removed unsourced content (13816) *O
  4.  Completed Traffic (conservation programme) Removed unsourced/self-sourced content (3162) *O
  5.  Completed Kamen Rider W Forever A to Z The Gaia Memories of Fate (1247) *O
  6.  Completed Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider W & Decade: Movie War 2010 (1279) *O
  7.  Completed Shruti (music) Removed unsourced and contentious content (4848) *O
  8.  Completed Imamia Students Organization Removed promotional and unsourced content (1217) *O
  9.  Completed Yisrael Mordecai Safeek Removed promotional and unsourced content, marked problematic references (1249) *O
  10.  Completed Namak Issk Ka (1270) *O
  11.  Completed Religion and ritual of the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture (1529) *O
  12.  Completed University of Phoenix (3610) *O
  13.  Completed Budhana Removed directory-like listing (432) *O
  14.  Completed Khadi (1879) *O
  15.  Completed Bhawaiya (590) *O
  16.  Completed Bagdad, Tamaulipas Removed unsourced content (1424) *O
  17.  Completed Thirunellai Removed unsourced content (878) *O
  18.  Completed Zastava M55 (1252) *O
  19.  Completed Georges Stein (339) *O
  20.  Completed Frederick Mathushek (2308) *O
  21.  Completed Hulu Kelang (state constituency) (216) *O
  22.  Completed Thiruvangad Sree Ramaswami Temple Removed unsourced content (1179) *O
  23.  Completed The DemonWars Saga (3148) *O
  24.  Completed Royal Never Give Up (744) *O
  25.  Completed Bengali Hindu wedding Removed unsourced content (273) *O
  26.  Completed Sri Lanka National Guard Removed content that was primarily sourced (1842) *O
  27.  Completed The Dinner (2017 film) (1328) *O
  28.  Completed Internet Water Army Renamed to Internet water army (2073) *O
  29.  Completed Hitomi Nabatame (230) *O
  30.  Completed Thirukkattuthurai Removed unsourced content (1627) *O
  31.  Completed Lai Autonomous District Council Removed unsourced content (3534) *O
  32.  Completed Saber Porto (902) *O
  33.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 32
  • Total words: 61610
  • Rollover words: 979,204
Article list
  1.  Completed The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia (7254) *R
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 7254
Article list
  1.  Completed 1990s (2,655)  Partly done Giving partial credit of ~1/2 5309 words, count of version previous to editor's three, which did some good, although incomplete. Dhtwiki (talk) 01:46, 3 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 2,655
Article list
  1.  Completed 2020–2021 Slovenian protests (2,004) *O
  2.  Completed Hockey Night in Canada (9,486 ) *O
  3.  Completed Constitutional Court of Armenia (3,185) *O
  4.  Completed Feast of All Saints of Russia (2,058) *O
  5.  Completed Sizang people (1,357) *O
  6.  Completed Korean language and computers (1,486) *O
  7.  Completed False advertising (4,293) *O
  8.  Completed Noah's Ark (2007 film) (3,201) *O
  9.  Completed Missile Technology Control Regime (930) *O
  10.  Completed The Twins (Albanian tale) (3,346) *O
  11.  Completed Dosti... Yaariyan... Manmarziyan (1,470) *O
  • Total articles: 11
  • Total words: 32,816
  • Rollover words: 16,750
Article list
  1.  Completed Siege of Bukhara (1739) *R
  2.  Completed Climate change in Uganda (1147) *R
  3.  Completed Regional power (1245) *O
  4.  Completed China–Cyprus relations (1763) *O
  5.  Completed Gulf Cooperation Council (2966)
  6.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 5
  • Total words: 8,860
  • Rollover words: 1530
Article list
  1.  Completed SpaceX Starship development (8,500)
  2.  Completed Falcon 9 (6,111)
  3.  Completed Short-term memory (3145) *O
  4.  Completed Russo-Ukrainian War (6,308) *O
  5.  Completed Kalanamak rice (800) *O
  6.  Completed Computer Age Management Services (583) *O
  7.  Completed Imbewu: The Seed (449) *O
  8.  Completed Phaans (965) *O
  9.  Completed Qiao Feng (1151) *O
  10.  Completed José Rodrigues (548) *O
  11.  Completed Eric Smidt (896) *O
  12.  Completed Top Gear challenges (19,462) *O
  13.  Completed 2020s in fashion (4479) *O
  14.  Completed 2016–2017 Kashmir unrest (10,115) *O
  15.  Completed Chinese architecture (5,465) *O
  16.  Completed GSC Game World (1219) *O
  17.  Completed Judiciary of India (5,732) *O
  18.  Completed Mangoplah Football Club (1733) *O
  19.  Completed Denis Sassou Nguesso (3171) *O
  20.  Completed Colonia Tovar (2275) *O
  21.  Completed Hellfire Gala (525) *O
  22.  Completed Pensions in Ukraine (928) *O
  23.  Completed Odia literature (5,398) *O
  24.  Completed List of Silent Hill series characters (12,838) *O
  25.  Completed The Face Vietnam (season 3) (837) *O
  26.  Completed People's Defence Force (Myanmar) (1519) *O
  27.  Completed Inclusive wealth (4669) *O
  28.  Completed List of The Amazing World of Gumball characters 7,487) *O
  29.  Completed Madras High Court (1363) *O
  30.  Completed Anshu Gupta (550) *O
  31.  Completed Nakai Misl (1158) *O
  • Total articles: 31
  • Total words: 120,379
Article list
  1.  Completed Como la Flor (5,448) *R
  2.  Completed Atmanirbhar Bharat (4,222) *R
  3.  Completed Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash (3,096) *R
  4.  Completed Federico Gatti (1,358) *R
  5.  Completed Anarkali (2,153) *R
  6.  Completed Ashok Mahto gang (983) *R
  7.  Completed Dead Space 3 (5,470) *R
  8.  Completed Gilwell Park (4,498) *R
  9.  Completed Asisguard Songar (629) *R
  10.  Completed Final Cut of Director (1,546) *R
  11.  Completed Vanitas (The Case Study of Vanitas) (2,624) *R
  12.  Completed Thevar Magan (2,645) *R
  • Total articles: 12
  • Total words: 34,672
  • Rollover words: 19,399.5
Article list
  1.  Completed Aladdin – Naam Toh Suna Hoga (1472) *O
  2.  Completed London Live (TV channel) (965) *O
  3.  Completed [[]]()
  4.  Working [[]]()
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 2437
  • Rollover words: 2,752
Article list
  1.  Completed 2016 Buffalo Bills season (886) *R
  2.  Completed Vaccination policy (7873) *R
  3.  Completed Cross of Saint James (283) *R
  4.  Completed Bad Romance (5328) *R
  5.  Working MLS Cup 1996 (3121) *R
  • Total articles: 4
  • Total words: 14370
Article list
  1.  Completed Albania men's national volleyball team (504) *O
  2.  Completed WTSJ-LD (1078) *O
  3.  Completed Shakti Singh (actor) (122) *O
  4.  Completed Por Tor Thor Petchrungruang (272) *O
  5.  Completed Alikhan Bukeikhanov (402) *O  Partly done Giving partial credit (~1/2 of 803 words) Dhtwiki (talk) 05:01, 3 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Total articles: 5
  • Total words: 2378
  • Rollover words: 129
Article list
  1.  Completed Jane Salvage (1486) *O
  2.  Completed Phil DiStefano (1002) *O
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 2488
Article list
  1.  Completed Alternative Theory of Organization and Management (980) *O  Done Giving full credit for words claimed, as text had lists that were worked on. Dhtwiki (talk) 05:14, 3 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 980
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 39,372
Article list
  1.  Completed Kurt-Werner Wichmann (1229) *O
  2.  Completed [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1229
  • Rollover words: 1032
Article list
  1.  Completed Juanita Christensen (654) *R  Done Giving credit according to page size previous to editing, as per usual, starting in June, but not including table added in July. Dhtwiki (talk) 05:48, 3 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 654
  • Rollover words: 8,566
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed Survivor: Micronesia (7700) *R
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 7,700
  • Rollover words: 3,858
Article list
  1.  Completed Hydrocotyle sibthorpioides (707)
  2.  Completed Pance River (175)
  3.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 882