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Wikipedia articles needing copy edit
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Subtotals
June 20238
July 202353
August 2023103
September 2023103
October 2023162
November 2023106
December 2023128
January 2024142
February 2024101
March 2024143
April 2024253
May 2024187
June 2024145
July 2024204
August 2024188
September 2024184
October 2024186
November 2024128
Undated articles1
All articles
2,525

This Copy Editing Backlog Elimination Drive is 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 will begin on 1 November 2024, 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 30 November 2024, 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this drive are:

  • to reduce the backlog by as many articles as possible, especially the earliest-tagged articles (those tagged in June, July, and August 2023);
  • to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page dating from July, August, and September 2024.

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 June, July, and August 2023, 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 lead coordinator is Dhtwiki (talk), who is assisted by Miniapolis (talk), Mox Eden (talk), Wracking (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

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 		Saturniapavonia (9) TNM101 (7) Jwrivera (4) SilkPyjamas (3)
Tenryuu (3) 		Dhtwiki (2)
Bunnypranav (2)
KjjjKjjj (2)
Miniapolis (2)
Total
Words[n 1] 		SilkPyjamas (23,455) Saturniapavonia (13,620) Lfstevens (20,857) TNM101 (12,406) Jwrivera (8,459)
5k+
Articles[n 2] 		SilkPyjamas (3) EricXXue (1)
Saturniapavonia (1)
Lfstevens (1)
Oldest
Articles[n 3] 		TNM101(7) Jwrivera (4)
Saturniapavonia (4) 		Tenryuu (3) Dhtwiki (2)
Miniapolis (2) 		EricXXue (1)
GreenRedFlag (1)
GraziePrego (1)
KjjjKjjj (1)
Longest
Article[n 1][n 4] 		Lfstevens (20,857) SilkPyjamas (13,475) EricXXue (7,835) Saturniapavonia (7,775) Dhtwiki (4,125)
  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 June, July, and August 2023.
  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
  • Jun – Aug 2023
  • Outstanding
  • tags
  • Change since
  • previous day
[N 1]
  • Change since
  • beginning
[N 1]
31 October 2024 222 2,626 — —
1 November 2024 216 2,621    5    5
2 November 2024 213 2,593   28   33
3 November 2024 211 2,571   22   55
4 November 2024 207 2,558   13   68
5 November 2024 199 2,541   17   85
6 November 2024 194 2,537    4   89
7 November 2024 188 2,531    6   95
8 November 2024 184 2,523    8   103
  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. 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 June, July, and August 2023, 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

Miniapolis (talk)

Article list
  1.   Completed Wonder.land (2,942) *O
  2.   Completed History of Guinea-Bissau (3,748) *O
  3.   Working Donbas Battalion (4,361) *O
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 6,690
  • Rollover words: 1,639

Dhtwiki (talk)

Article list
  1.   Completed Horayot (4125) *O
  2.   Completed Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (1397) *O
  3.   Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 5,522
  • Rollover words: 10,649

Mox Eden (talk)

Article list
  1.   Completed Infostealer (1557) *R
  2.   Working Kyo Kusanagi (6527) *R
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1557
  • Rollover words: 2969

GreenRedFlag (talk)

Article list
  1.   Completed Ion Ceban (1527) *O
  2.   Completed Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (3612) *O
  3.   Completed Toyota TTC (296) *O
  4.   Completed Griffith R. Harsh (1,124) *O
  5.   Completed Feni Government College Killing field (279) *R
  6.   Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 5
  • Total words: 6,838

SilkPyjamas (talk)

Article list
  1.   Completed Ivo Frank (1,545) *R
  2.   Completed 2024 Salvadoran general election (13,475) *R
  3.   Completed Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (8,435) *R
  4.   Working [[]]
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 23,455
  • Rollover words: 279

Tenryuu (talk)

Article list
  1.   Completed Oxo-degradation (600) *O
  2.   Completed Passive house (3,685) *O
  3.   Completed Kotliarka (1,199) *O
  4.   Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 5484
  • Rollover words: 5,869.5

EricXXue (talk)

Article list
  1.   Completed Feed-in tariff (7,835) *O   Checked Miniapolis 16:47, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  2.   Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 7,835

GraziePrego (talk)

Article list
  1.   Completed Virarajendra (2337) *O
  2.   Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 2337

Tdslk (talk)

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

Readingpro256 (talk)

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

Saturniapavonia (talk)

Article list
  1.   Completed Vladimir Zhirinovsky (7,775)
  2.   Completed Low-rise high-density (534)
  3.   Completed Nelson Aluya (647)
  4.   Completed PSA PF3 platform (109)
  5.   Completed Gorontalese cuisine (615)
  6.   Completed Paskuhan Village (1019)
  7.   Completed James Phillips (kickboxer) (103)
  8.   Completed Gupta Brothers (1939)
  9.   Completed Binod Bihari Mahato (879)
  10.   Working Women in music (21037)
  11.   Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 9
  • Total words: 13,620
  • Rollover words: 2,902

SheriffIsInTown (talk)

Article list
  1.   Completed [[]] ()
  2.   Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 83352.5

Jwrivera (talk)

Article list
  1.   Completed Battle of Los Yébenes (2468) *O
  2.   Completed Cavite City (4084) *O
  3.   Completed Kampong (1089) *O
  4.   Completed Cilicia (ship) (818) *O
  5.   Completed 18 Warriors of Sui-Tang Period (7007) *O
  6.   Completed Stanisław Kostka Starowieyski (1372) *O
  • Total articles: 6
  • Total words: 16,838
  • Rollover words: 3,261.5

TNM101 (talk)

Article list
  1.   Completed Abbas Akbar (408) *O
  2.   Completed Delwar Hossain Sayeedi (1704) *O
  3.   Completed Rallapalli Ananta Krishna Sharma (671) *O
  4.   Completed Erlan Stambekov (1062) *O
  5.   Completed Laljibhai Patel (1309) *O
  6.   Completed Welfare in South Korea (3186) *O   Checked Miniapolis 20:34, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  7.   Completed Vaishnavism in Ancient Tamilakam (4066) *O
  8.   Completed Murder of Muhammad Naufal Zidan (727) *O
  9.   Completed Bargaon, Odisha (564) *O
  10.   Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 9
  • Total words: 13967

Mwwv (talk)

Article list
  1.   Completed O mark (324)
  2.   Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 324

Reidgreg (talk)

Article list
  1.   Completed [[]] ()
  2.   Working [[]] ()
  3.   Working [[]] ()
  4.   Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 1292

Lfstevens (talk)

Article list
  1.   Completed Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (20,857)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 20,857

Bunnypranav (talk)

Article list
  1.   Completed Samved (284)
  2.   Completed Code review (675)
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 959

That Tired Tarantula (talk)

Article list
  1.   Completed Hrazdan (1251)
  2.   Completed Shivalik Enclave (116)
  3.   Working Local-loop unbundling (2020)
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 1362

KilimAnnejaro (talk)

Article list
  1.   Completed Economy_of_Ethiopia (3126)
  2.   Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

CosXZ (talk)

Article list
  1.   Completed Blainsburg, Pennsylvania (382)
  2.   Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 382
  • Rollover words: 5,261.5

Avienby (talk)

Article list
  1.   Completed [[]] ()
  2.   Working From First to Last ()
  3.   Working GNU General Public License ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Frostly (talk)

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

Tvfunhouse (talk)

Article list
  1.   Completed Singapore media mergers of 2004 and 2017 (549)
  2.   Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 549
  • Rollover words: 9,718

Nythar (talk)

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

Nsophiay (talk)

Article list
  1.   Completed [[]] ()
  2.   Working Korolenko Chernihiv Regional Universal Scientific Library (1007) *O
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

HKRailEnthusiast (talk)

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

TheWikipede (talk)

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

Anupamdutta73 (talk)

Article list
  1.   Completed [[]] ()
  2.   Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 5318

TheNuggeteer (talk)

Article list
  1.   Completed Pagalil Pournami (766)
  2.   Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 766

Thx56 (talk)

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

NightWolf1223 (talk)

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

KjjjKjjj (talk)

Article list
  1.   Completed Bekaboo (1,638)*O
  2.   Completed Fifth inauguration of Sheikh Hasina (354)
  3.   Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 1,992
  • Rollover words: 27530

WikiEditor5678910 (talk)

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

PSmith998 (talk)

Article list
  1.   Completed [[]] ()
  2.   Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 285
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