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Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors! We have had a busy year and have made steady progress in our task of reducing the copy edit backlog. Many thanks to those who participated in our copy edit drives, helped out with requests, or participated in discussions.
The Guild's membership has grown from 503 in December 2010 to 764 in December 2011. This is an increase of 261, or 51%. This compares favorably with 2010, when there were 176 new members. We'd like to welcome all of our new members to the Guild!
Records were kept through the end of September of the number of requests received on the Requests page. 587 requests were received in that period, for an average of 65 requests per month. The busiest month for requests in 2011 was July, with 89 requests. There are currently 62 articles awaiting copy edit on the Requests page. An experimental Potential Featured Articles requests page was added in September, and it looks like it will become a permanent Guild page. The Requests page archives, begun in September 2010, were discontinued in September of this year, as maintenance was too time-consuming for the few that were managing the page. Archiving might resume in the new year.
Coordinators elections were introduced at the end of 2010 as a way to formalize the structure of the Guild and to ensure a supply of incoming new leaders and ideas. Our first tranche of coordinators served from January to June 2011, and the second from July to December. Our third tranche, elected in December 2011, is as follows:
Elections will be held again in June, so please keep the Guild in mind when looking for ways to expand your Wikipedia participation. We are open to fresh leadership and fresh input.
At the beginning of the year, there were 5,151 articles in the copy edit backlog, and we managed to eliminate some 1,000 articles from the backlog over the course of the year. There are currently about 4,100 articles in the backlog.
Category:All articles needing copy edit
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5,569 / 8,323 (67%)
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The Guild's new lead coordinator, The Utahraptor, has many new ideas and plans for the Guild for 2012. These include:
Come join us at the Guild and participate in our rewarding activities. We look forward to your company.