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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 as of 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 {{awkward}}, {{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 November 2021, 00:00 (UTC) and ended on 30 November 2021, 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 May, June, and July 2021);
  • to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page dating from September and October 2021.

Drive participants could 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 May, June, and July 2021, 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 Dhtwiki (talk), Miniapolis (talk), and Tenryuu (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 (47) Twofingered Typist (15) Baffle gab1978 (14) Miniapolis (11) Tdslk (7)
Total
Words[n 1]
Tenryuu (111,674) Twofingered Typist (65,096) Baffle gab1978 (34,232) Miniapolis (32,970) Reidgreg (25,138)
5k+
Articles[n 2]
Tenryuu (7) TwofingeredTypist (6) Reidgreg (3)
Prairie Astronomer (3)
ItsMackie (2)
Dhtwiki (2)
Miniapolis (2)
Lfstevens (2)
Oldest
Articles[n 3]
Tenryuu (47) Miniapolis (11) Tdslk (4)
Dhtwiki (4)
ItsMackie (3) Reidgreg (2)
Prairie Astronomer (2)
Longest
Article[n 1][n 4]
Prairie Astronomer (15,165) Reidgreg (14,310) Tenryuu (13,726) ItsMackie (12,597) Dhtwiki (11,776)
  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 May, June, and July 2021.
  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
  • May/Jun/Jul 2021
  • Outstanding
  • tags
  • Change since
  • previous day
[N 1]
  • Change since
  • beginning
[N 1]
31 October 2021 285 1,134
1 November 2021 282 1,131 Positive decrease  3 Positive decrease  3
2 November 2021 276 1,124 Positive decrease  7 Positive decrease 10
3 November 2021 270 1,131 Negative increase  7 Positive decrease  3
4 November 2021 265 1,113 Positive decrease 18 Positive decrease 21
5 November 2021 255 1,107 Positive decrease 24 Positive decrease 27
6 November 2021 255 1,107 Steady  0 Positive decrease 27
7 November 2021 250 1,099 Positive decrease  8 Positive decrease 35
8 November 2021 245 1,092 Positive decrease  7 Positive decrease 42
9 November 2021 236 1,084 Positive decrease  8 Positive decrease 50
10 November 2021 233 1,089 Negative increase  5 Positive decrease 45
11 November 2021 233 1,091 Negative increase  2 Positive decrease 43
12 November 2021 228 1,079 Positive decrease 12 Positive decrease 55
13 November 2021 226 1,064 Positive decrease 15 Positive decrease 70
14 November 2021 214 1,055 Positive decrease  9 Positive decrease 79
15 November 2021 212 1,053 Positive decrease  2 Positive decrease 81
16 November 2021 209 1,029 Positive decrease 24 Positive decrease 105
17 November 2021 205 1,025 Positive decrease  4 Positive decrease 109
18 November 2021 201 1,025 Steady  0 Positive decrease 109
19 November 2021 199 1,035 Negative increase  10 Positive decrease 99
20 November 2021 196 1,034 Positive decrease  1 Positive decrease 100
21 November 2021 194 1,039 Negative increase  5 Positive decrease 95
22 November 2021 192 1,050 Negative increase  11 Positive decrease 84
23 November 2021 190 1,060 Negative increase  10 Positive decrease 74
24 November 2021 185 1,043 Positive decrease 17 Positive decrease 91
25 November 2021 183 1,040 Positive decrease  3 Positive decrease 94
26 November 2021 179 1,029 Positive decrease 11 Positive decrease 105
27 November 2021 173 1,039 Negative increase  10 Positive decrease 95
28 November 2021 170 1,002 Positive decrease 37 Positive decrease 132
29 November 2021 169 981 Positive decrease 21 Positive decrease 153
30 November 2021 168 946 Positive decrease 35 Positive decrease 188
  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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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

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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 May, June or July 2021, 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 Arthur Phillip (half-credit with Twofingered Typist, RIP) (2,330) *R
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 2,330
  • Rollover words: 2,255
Article list
  1.  Completed Afghan cuisine (1286) *O
  2.  Completed RS-25 ("Space Launch System" subsection) (656) *O
  3.  Completed Chhota Bheem and the Throne of Bali (382) *O
  4.  Completed Siege of Buda (1849) (11776) *O
  • Total articles: 4
  • Total words: 14,100
  • Rollover words: 9,019.5
Article list
  1.  Completed Texarkana Moonlight Murders (14310) *O
  2.  Completed Weird Years (1705)
  3.  Completed Chinook Display Team (463)
  4.  Completed Delahaye (7622) *O
  5.  Completed Islamic views on oral sex (886)
  6.  Completed Rajmata Smt. Devendra Kumari Singhdeo Government Medical College, Ambikapur (152)
  • Total articles: 6
  • Total words: 25138
  • Rollover words: 9119
Article list
  1.  Completed Malaysian Chinese (4,768) *O
  2.  Completed Zielona Góra Airport (1,666) *O
  3.  Completed Peace movement (7,458) *O
  4.  Completed Protectorate of Peru (2,106) *O
  5.  Completed National Organization of Kurdish Youth (4,091) *O
  6.  Completed Berdsk (1,422) *O
  7.  Completed Osthe (1,444) *O
  8.  Completed Music of Olympia, Washington (1,432) *O
  9.  Completed Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (1,379) *O
  10.  Completed Main Teri Parchhain Hoon (2,184) *O
  11.  Completed Aurat March (5,020) *O
  • Total articles: 11
  • Total words: 32,970
  • Rollover words: 5,593
Article list
  1.  Completed COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka (12381) *O
  2.  Completed Bawara Dil (158) *O
  3.  Completed Choking (5496) *O
  4.  Completed 2008 attack on Omdurman and Khartoum (1137) *O
  5.  Completed Rath Cycle (1745) *O
  6.  Completed Fall prevention (2399) *O
  7.  Completed Nobuhiko Takada (3906) *O
  8.  Completed Vesicular monoamine transporter (3497) *O
  9.  Completed Zitti e buoni (1369) *O
  10.  Completed Nagrakata (402) *O
  11.  Completed Le Cercle Molière (2563) *O
  12.  Completed Akira Miyawaki (3060) *O
  13.  Completed Marudi (749) *O
  14.  Completed Helidon Gjergji Removed a lot of unsourced content (1010) *O
  15.  Completed Kayamkulam Removed a lot of unsourced content (831) *O
  16.  Completed Phaltan Removed a lot of unsourced and tone-inappropriate content (981) *O
  17.  Completed Rafiath Rashid Mithila Removed a lot of unsourced content (678) *O
  18.  Completed Chandradasan Removed a lot of unsourced content (327) *O
  19.  Completed Boris Aprilov Removed a lot of unsourced content (863) *O
  20.  Completed Tyler Shough (932) *O
  21.  Completed Poraiyahat (496) *O
  22.  Completed Pindwara Removed a lot of unsourced content (923) *O
  23.  Completed Rajnagar, Bihar Removed a lot of unsourced and tone-inappropriate content (712) *O
  24.  Completed Ehelepola Nilame (807) *O
  25.  Completed Pori Moni (452) *O
  26.  Completed Social dominance theory (2399) *O
  27.  Completed Peroorkada Wholly unsourced article (546) *O
  28.  Completed Sitarampur Removed a lot of unsourced content (1280) *O
  29.  Completed George Tawengwa Completely unsourced article, removed irrelevant sections (1580) *O
  30.  Completed Punjai Puliampatti (822) *O
  31.  Completed Tonteldoos (1440) *O
  32.  Completed Delahaye 175 Other issues beyond copyediting present (6632) *O
  33.  Completed Yue Guang (2077) *O
  34.  Completed Exfoliation (701) *O
  35.  Completed S. Thaman Consolidated table (491) *O
  36.  Completed Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium (2227) *O
  37.  Completed Mabolwe Lot of unsourced content (2103) *O
  38.  Completed Sports Queen Moved page; was originally Queen of Sports (2198) *O
  39.  Completed Howard T. Odum (3641) *O
  40.  Completed The Rumjacks (1214) *O
  41.  Completed Presidency College, Chennai Removed a lot of material more appropriate for WikiVoyage (1716) *O
  42.  Completed Trams in Freiburg im Breisgau (9714) *O
  43.  Completed Data Protection Act 1998 (1865) *O
  44.  Completed Lenana School (1813) *O
  45.  Completed 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election (13726) *O
  46.  Completed Unarius Academy of Science (3518) *O
  47.  Completed Moxi Removed a lot of un(reliably)-sourced content (2097) *O
  • Total articles: 47
  • Total words: 111674
  • Rollover words: 760,963.5
Article list
  1.  Completed 2021 French labor protests (529) *O
  2.  Completed Julian of Norwich (4065) *R
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 4594
Article list
  1.  Completed The Empire Strikes Back (11,138) *R
  2.  Completed Tumbling Dice (2,643) *R
  3.  Completed Station to Station (7,636) *R
  4.  Completed Turkmen literature (2,815) *R
  5.  Completed Electoral history of Bill Clinton] (3,781) *R
  6.  Completed 1968–1969 Japanese university protests (4,173) *R
  7.  Completed Mick Jagger (6,523) *R
  8.  Completed University of Notre Dame 10,317 *R
  9.  Completed Finnish Volunteer Battalion of the Waffen-SS (4,014) *R
  10.  Completed Ayşegül Coşkun (444) *R
  11.  Completed Tokyo Babylon (3,093) *R
  12.  Completed Ronnie Rocket (1,231) *R
  13.  Completed Draft Eisenhower movement (2,438) *R
  14.  Completed Kendari (2,520) *R
  15.  Completed Arthur Phillip (half-credit with Jonesey95) (2,330) *R
  • Total articles: 15
  • Total words: 65,096
  • Rollover words: 332338.5
Article list
  1.  Completed Nauka (ISS module) (4,300) *O
  2.  Completed Venuste Nshimiyimana (736) *O
  3.  Completed Roshan Doug (776) *O
  4.  Completed Vangelis Rinas (142) *O
  5.  Completed M&M's Kart Racing (100)
  6.  Completed Root hair (965)
  7.  Completed Hichki (2971) *R
  • Total articles: 7
  • Total words: 9990
  • Rollover words: 515
Article list
  1.  Completed Hozuki's Coolheadedness (2,617) *R
  2.  Completed Hitman 2 (4,401) *R
  3.  Completed Owls (album) (1,241) *R
  4.  Completed Disappearance of Bruno Borges (2,486) *R
  5.  Completed Original Nuttah (843) *R
  6.  Completed Gentle on My Mind (1,360) *R
  7.  Completed Laundromat (song) (1,778) *R
  8.  Completed Impact events on Jupiter (3,881) *R
  9.  Completed Coloniality of knowledge (2,285) *R
  10.  Completed Sikandar Shah Miri (1,108) *R
  11.  Completed Revolt of the Fourteen (1,033) *R
  12.  Completed Your Lie in April (2,917) *R
  13.  Completed A Cruel Angel's Thesis (5,541) *R
  14.  Completed Laid (album) (2,741) *R
  • Total articles: 14
  • Total words: 34,232
  • Rollover words: 8,986
Article list

No articles.

  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list

No articles.

  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 1769.5
Article list
  1.  Completed Green recovery (1355)
  2.  Completed Traditional games in the Philippines (6,872)
  3.  Completed Effective altruism (3703)
  4.  Completed Multicultural education (5300)
  • Total articles: 4
  • Total words: 17,230
Article list

No articles.

  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list

No articles.

  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list

No articles.

  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 794
Article list
  1.  Completed Noorul Quader (723) *O
  2.  Completed Emergency contraception (3614) *O
  3.  Completed Wheat leaf rust (1745) *O
  4.  Completed Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (12597) *R
  • Total articles: 4
  • Total words: 18679
Article list
  1.  Completed Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2007 (15165) *O
  2.  Completed Viju Shah (Articles needing Copyediting from October 2018) (608) *O
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 19754
  • Rollover words: 3981
Article list

No articles.

  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 1972
  • Rollover words: 697
Article list
  1.  Completed Gamer (2458)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 2458
Article list

No articles.

  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 3342