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Backlog status as of 2018-06-01

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 {{ awkward}}, {{ copy edit section}}, {{ copy edit inline}}, and {{ spacing}}) or listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on 1 May 2018, 00:00 (UTC) and ended on 31 May 2018, 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this drive were:

  • to reduce the backlog by as many articles as possible, with a focus on the earliest-tagged articles (those tagged in September, October and November 2017);
  • to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page from April 2018.

Drive participants could earn barnstar awards based on the number of articles—and the word counts of the articles—they copy edit. Articles from the Requests page count towards your total; these are generally higher-quality articles 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 September, October and November 2017, and for articles listed on the Requests page. Awards will be given out once the drive has finished.

The drive was 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 lead coordinator is Jonesey95 ( talk), who is assisted by Miniapolis ( talk), Reidgreg ( talk) and Tdslk ( talk). If you have any questions, leave a message on the drive's talk page.

For brief instructions on how to record 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

(Please update your own figures)

Leaderboard

  • Gold Star Award Leaderboard
1 2 3 4 5
Total
Articles 		Twofingered Typist (51) Reidgreg (34) Miniapolis (19) Gog the Mild (13) Dhtwiki (11)
Total
Words [n 1] 		Twofingered Typist (72,194) Reidgreg (54,315) Miniapolis (42,163) Gog the Mild (37,492) Dhtwiki (21,835)
5k+
Articles [n 2] 		Reidgreg (4)
Gog the Mild (4) 		– Twofingered Typist (3) Dhtwiki (2) Miniapolis (1)
Oldest
Articles [n 3] 		Twofingered Typist (29)
Reidgreg (29) 		– Miniapolis (19) Dhtwiki (11) Jonesey95 (6)
Longest
Article [n 1] [n 4] 		Reidgreg (15,524) Dhtwiki (11,133) Gog the Mild (8,196) Twofingered Typist (7,305) Miniapolis (6,613)
  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 September, October and November 2017.
  4. ^ The number of words in the longest article you copy edited. Only one entry for any editor.

Progress chart

Progress Chart
Date
  • Old articles
  • Sep/Oct/Nov 2017
  • Outstanding
  • tags
  • Change since
  • previous day
[N 1]
  • Change since
  • beginning
[N 1]
30 April 2018 271 1,449 — —
1 May 2018 264 1,415 Positive decrease 34 Positive decrease 34
2 May 2018 258 1,344 Positive decrease 71 Positive decrease 105
3 May 2018 256 1,300 Positive decrease 44 Positive decrease 149
4 May 2018 255 1,279 Positive decrease 21 Positive decrease 170
5 May 2018 249 1,236 Positive decrease 43 Positive decrease 213
6 May 2018 246 1,198 Positive decrease 38 Positive decrease 251
7 May 2018 244 1,171 Positive decrease 27 Positive decrease 278
8 May 2018 243 1,138 Positive decrease 33 Positive decrease 311
9 May 2018 223 1,102 Positive decrease 36 Positive decrease 347
10 May 2018 221 1,053 Positive decrease 49 Positive decrease 396
11 May 2018 217 1,022 Positive decrease 31 Positive decrease 427
12 May 2018 210 996 Positive decrease 26 Positive decrease 453
13 May 2018 203 962 Positive decrease 34 Positive decrease 487
14 May 2018 201 980 Negative increase  18 Positive decrease 469
15 May 2018 195 956 Positive decrease 24 Positive decrease 493
16 May 2018 192 941 Positive decrease 15 Positive decrease 508
17 May 2018 189 929 Positive decrease 12 Positive decrease 520
18 May 2018 181 917 Positive decrease 12 Positive decrease 532
19 May 2018 173 882 Positive decrease 35 Positive decrease 567
20 May 2018 170 870 Positive decrease 12 Positive decrease 579
21 May 2018 169 878 Negative increase  8 Positive decrease 571
22 May 2018 165 861 Positive decrease 17 Positive decrease 588
23 May 2018 163 851 Positive decrease 10 Positive decrease 598
24 May 2018 156 825 Positive decrease 26 Positive decrease 624
25 May 2018 151 819 Positive decrease  6 Positive decrease 630
26 May 2018 139 802 Positive decrease 17 Positive decrease 647
27 May 2018 134 798 Positive decrease  4 Positive decrease 651
28 May 2018 133 789 Positive decrease  9 Positive decrease 660
29 May 2018 129 780 Positive decrease  9 Positive decrease 669
30 May 2018 115 745 Positive decrease 35 Positive decrease 704
31 May 2018 104 716 Positive decrease 29 Positive decrease 733
  1. ^ a b 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.


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.
  • 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 September, October and November 2017, 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

Jonesey95 ( talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed Jason Murphey (435) *O
  2.  Completed Lilia Mai (203) *O
  3.  Completed Soup soy sauce (548) *O
  4.  Completed Ulocladium chartarum (782) *O
  5.  Completed JNR Class C63 (414) *O
  6.  Completed Karlal (834) *O
  7.  Completed [[]] ()
  8.  Completed [[]] ()
  9.  Completed [[]] ()
  10.  Completed [[]] ()
  11.  Completed [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 6
  • Total words: 3,216
  • Rollover words: 3,154

BlueMoonset ( talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed Lavr Kornilov (102)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 102
  • Rollover words: 415

— Torchiest talk edits

Article list
  1.  Completed KFDM (1126) *O
  2.  Completed Conway's Game of Life (3553)
  3.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 4679

Miniapolis ( talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed County of Holland (875) *O
  2.  Completed Firestop (1,305) *O
  3.  Completed Return of Owners of Land, 1873 (6,613) *O
  4.  Completed Nidaros (1,282) *O
  5.  Completed Cuisine of Abruzzo (1,956) *O
  6.  Completed Tyap language (2,808) *O
  7.  Completed Andhra Christian Theological College (3,213) *O
  8.  Completed Horma Ould Babana (3,041) *O
  9.  Completed Peter Hicks (1,629) *O
  10.  Completed Julian March (3,521) *O
  11.  Completed Deweni Inima (2,046) *O
  12.  Completed Manithan Maravillai (794) *O
  13.  Completed Nabakalebara (3,087) *O
  14.  Completed Roman Seleznev (677) *O
  15.  Completed Affaf Tobbala (1,142) *O
  16.  Completed Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (2,258) *O
  17.  Completed Scottish Russians (1,976) *O
  18.  Completed Gender equality in Azerbaijan (852) *O
  19.  Completed Don Det–Don Khon railway (3,088) *O
  • Total articles: 19
  • Total words: 42,163
  • Rollover words: 1,370

Reidgreg ( talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed List of The Flash characters (15524) *O
  2.  Completed Disability in Canada (1137) *O
  3.  Completed Boktai: The Sun Is in Your Hand (§Gameplay) (400) *O
  4.  Completed Jai Narain Vyas University (1382) *O
  5.  Completed Carrossel (1737) *O
  6.  Completed Modesto Seara Vázquez (1221) *O
  7.  Completed My.Kali (694) *O
  8.  Completed Mysticons (7737) *O
  9.  Completed Kayakkunn (581) *O
  10.  Completed Unguturu mandal, West Godavari district (350) *O
  11.  Completed Breeder reactor (1143) *O
  12.  Completed Abraham Van Helsing (1362) *O
  13.  Completed List of attacks in Lebanon (2693) *O
  14.  Completed WGME-TV (2931) *O
  15.  Completed New institutionalism (1746) *O
  16.  Completed Teo Spiller (400) *O
  17.  Completed I Am a Singer (Chinese TV series) (1433) *O
  18.  Completed Solar power in North Carolina (944) *O
  19.  Completed The Edge of Love (922) *O
  20.  Completed Sri Lanka national under-23 football team (730) *O
  21.  Completed Naoko Takeuchi (1320) *O
  22.  Completed List of inventions and discoveries by women (1807) *O
  23.  Completed Hair chopping incidents in South Asia (1038) *O
  24.  Completed KCBA (884) *O
  25.  Completed Blackjack (1998 film) (2044) *O
  26.  Completed Khon Kaen Wittayayon School (338) *O
  27.  Completed José Luis Narom (330) *O
  28.  Completed Sayantani Ghosh (296) *O
  29.  Completed Chandrika Tandon (273) *O
  30.  Completed Manvi (260)
  31.  Completed List of gauge conversions (227)
  32.  Completed Duleeka Marapana (197)
  33.  Completed Bigg Boss Tamil (season 1) (177)
  34.  Completed New Zealand 'A' cricket team in India in 2017 (57)
  • Total articles: 34
  • Total words: 54315
  • Rollover words: 310534.5

Tdslk ( talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed Mariotto di Nardo (977) *O
  2.  Completed Gender inequality in China (100)
  3.  Completed Donna Troy (100)
  4.  Completed Martyn Day (100)
  5.  Completed László Radványi (552) *O
  6.  Completed Sardinian–Catalan War (2061)
  7.  Completed John McLoughlin (2159)
  8.  Completed [[]] ()
  9.  Completed [[]] ()
  10.  Completed [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 7
  • Total words: 6049
  • Rollover words: 2706

Thinker78 ( talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Lilo Rage

Article list
  1.  Completed Amplitude (political party) (452) *O
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 452

Gog the Mild ( talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed State communications in the Neo-Assyrian Empire (1158) *R
  2.  Completed Tokhmaq Khan Ustajlu (431) *R
  3.  Completed Charles I of Anjou (7998) *R
  4.  Completed K2-155d (496) *R
  5.  Completed Japanese occupation of British Borneo (6218) *O
  6.  Completed Russian occupations of Beirut (2628) *R
  7.  Completed German Continental Deep Drilling Programme (822) *O
  8.  Completed Wauwilermoos internment camp (5971)
  9.  Completed Embassy of the United States, Jerusalem (259)
  10.  Completed Battle of Haifa (1948) (1622)
  11.  Completed Pune (8196)
  12.  Completed Dinosaur coloration (858)
  13.  Completed Ardeshir Tarapore(835) *R
  • Total articles: 13
  • Total words: 37492
  • Rollover words: 12181.5

Dhtwiki ( talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed Columella (501) *O
  2.  Completed The Da Vinci Code (film) (section: Plot) (744) *O
  3.  Completed Three Gorges (2111) *O
  4.  Completed Smooth projective plane (500) *O
  5.  Completed Johannes Paulmann (330) *O
  6.  Completed Der Messias (1245) *O
  7.  Completed Firing Line (TV series) (1346) *O
  8.  Completed Graduated pipette (1737) *O
  9.  Completed Bhadrak (1216) *O
  10.  Completed Raphael Tuju (972) *O
  11.  Completed WMAQ-TV (11133) *O
  • Total articles: 11
  • Total words: 21,835
  • Rollover words: 6,117

Lfstevens ( talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed Environmental impact design (325)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 0

Twofingered Typist ( talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed Sakura Wars (video game) (5,858) *R
  2.  Completed Sex, Love & Secrets (1,825) *R
  3.  Completed U + Me (Love Lesson) (747) *R
  4.  Completed Lill-Babs (744) *R
  5.  Completed Miike Snow discography (386) *R
  6.  Completed Jonathan Scott (TV personality) (3,670) *R
  7.  Completed Donny van de Beek (1,006) *R
  8.  Completed Ven Conmigo (album) (2,508) *R
  9.  Completed Titanfall 2 (6,151) *R
  10.  Completed Ninja Theory (2,671) *R
  11.  Completed WrestleMania 2 (2,827) *R
  12.  Completed Brampton Fall Fair (715) *O
  13.  Completed Nicolas Wöhrl (709) *O
  14.  Completed Timeline of Jersey City, New Jersey-area railroads partial count (25) *O
  15.  Completed United Artists partial count (2,000) *O
  16.  Completed Adamu Sidi Ali (507) *O
  17.  Completed Presidential Communications Group (Philippines) partial count (200) *O
  18.  Completed Belgian beer culture (1,408) *O
  19.  Completed Jovan Milic (802) *O
  20.  Completed Murder of Pradyuman Thakur (1,412) *O
  21.  Completed Spratt's Complex partial count (100) *O
  22.  Completed Günter Blöschl (525) *O
  23.  Completed Coastal Corporation (3,367) *O
  24.  Completed !PAUS3 (719) *O
  25.  Completed Soo Wincci (1,346) *O
  26.  Completed Demiurge partial count (500) *O
  27.  Completed FaZe Clan (3,916) *O
  28.  Completed Gastón Ramírez (2,464) *O
  29.  Completed Dambazawa (2,938) *O
  30.  Completed Courtship display partial count (500) *O
  31.  Completed Leslie Hoffman partial count (50) *O
  32.  Completed Scared Famous (TV series) partial count (50) *O
  33.  Completed Mahanipata Jataka (2,262) *O
  34.  Completed Punjai Puliampatti (863) *O
  35.  Completed Unemployment benefits in Sweden partial count (500) *O
  36.  Completed Art film (7,305) *O
  37.  Completed Władysław Bukowiński (1,799) *O
  38.  Completed Life Partners, Inc. partial count (503) *O
  39.  Completed Micromax Informatics partial count (200) *O
  40.  Completed Nuevo Cine Mexicano (1,127) *O
  41.  Completed Field hockey at the 2018 Asian Games partial count (25)
  42.  Completed Matthew George Justice (1,077)
  43.  Completed James E. Sheridan (321)
  44.  Completed Nikolai Volodchenko (742)
  45.  Completed Pauline Elizabeth Scarborough (1,094)
  46.  Completed Dorothy Hyson (313)
  47.  Completed Anthony Trimingham (504)
  48.  Completed We Speak NYC (477)
  49.  Completed Whirligig partial count) (200)
  50.  Completed The Irregular at Magic High School The Movie: The Girl Who Calls the Stars partial count (100)
  51.  Completed C15orf39 (136)
  52.  Working
  • Total articles: 51
  • Total words: 72,200
  • Rollover words: 704,914

Red.exxes ( talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed Mémoires : fils de la nation (578) *R
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 578

Sean O'Brian ( talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Laatu ( talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed Fruit soju (504)
  2.  Completed Cally-Jo (323)
  3.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 827

Erigalle ( talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working Spratt's Complex (994)
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

etothepi 👽 (u)• (t)

Article list
  1.  Completed Teignmouth Electron (3909) *O
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 3909

Parthimurugesan ( talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed 1 ()
  2.  Working 1 ()
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 100
  • Rollover words: 20

Curdigirl ( talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Wilhelmina Will ( talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed Andrea Denver (351)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 351

Benbt16 ( talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
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