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News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2018).
Guild of Copy Editors June 2018 News
Welcome to the June 2018 GOCE newsletter, in which you will find Guild updates since the February edition. Progress continues to be made on the copyediting backlog, which has been reduced to 7 months and reached a new all-time low. Requests continue to be handled efficiently this year, with 272 completed by the end of May (an average completion time of 10.5 days). Fewer than 10% of these waited longer than 20 days, and the longest wait time was 29 days. Wikipedia in general, and the Guild in particular, experienced a deep loss with the death on 20 March of Corinne. Corinne (a GOCE coordinator since 1 July 2016) was a tireless aide on the requests page, and her peerless copyediting is a part of innumerable GAs and FAs. Her good cheer, courtesy and tact are very much missed. March drive: The goal was to remove June, July and August 2017 from our backlog and all February 2018 Requests (a total of 219 articles). This drive was an outstanding success, and by the end of the month all but eight of these articles were cleared. Of the 33 editors who signed up, 19 recorded 277 copy edits (425,758 words). April blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 15 through 21 April, focusing on Requests and the last eight articles tagged in August 2017. At the end of the week there were only 17 pending requests, with none older than 17 days. Of the nine editors who signed up, eight editors completed 22 copy edits (62,412 words). May drive: We set out to remove September, October and November 2017 from our backlog and all April 2018 Requests (a total of 298 articles). There was great success this month with the backlog more than halved from 1,449 articles at the beginning of the month to a record low of 716 articles. Officially, of the 20 who signed up, 15 editors recorded 151 copy edits (248,813 words). Coordinator elections: It's election time again. Nominations for Guild coordinators (who will serve a six-month term for the second half of 2018) have begun, and will close at 23:59 UTC on 15 June. All Wikipedia editors in good standing are eligible, and self-nominations are encouraged. Voting will take place between 00:01 UTC on 16 June and 23:59 UTC on 30 June. June blitz: Stay tuned for this one-week copy-editing blitz, which will take place in mid-June. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Corinne, Jonesey95, Miniapolis, Reidgreg and Tdslk. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:26, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
Hello,
I know the message I left on the Guild of Copy-Editors/Requests was abrupt and vague. To be brief, I nominated the article because I felt it had enough information to pass the review. I did some editing but the article was already complete by the time I got to it. Unfortunately, the user who reviewed the article provided no revision points and it left me puzzled as I knew this article needed a lot of work. During the time I requested this peer review, I was working on the Melodrama article which just passed its review a few days ago. Now, I am focusing my attention on Pure Heroine and its flawed edits. I will try my best to fill in the sections that need work, but for the meantime, I ask for a day, at most two days of waiting so I can give this article a more polished face. Regardless, I know my edits will not be the best so I want another person's opinion on them as well.De88 (talk) 00:44, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for ce! Hidden text: What if the translator has "Cross" capital, as she has "God" capital? (probably because it's not some cross, but the Cross?) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:28, 29 June 2018 (UTC)