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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 ((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 July 2022, 00:00 (UTC) and ended on 31 July 2022, 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 September, October, and November 2021);
• to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page dating from April and May 2022.

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 Add target months here, 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 coordinators are Baffle gab1978 (talk), Dhtwiki (talk), Miniapolis (talk), Reidgreg (talk), Tenryuu (talk), and Zippybonzo (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 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.

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Leaderboard[edit]

• Gold Star Award Leaderboard

	1	2	3	4	5
Total Articles	Tenryuu (32)	Lfstevens (31)	Baffle gab1978 (12)	Miniapolis (11)	JML1148 (5)
Total Words[n 1]	Lfstevens (120,379)	Tenryuu (61,610)	Bddmagic (39,372)	Baffle gab1978 (34,672)	Miniapolis (32,816)
5k+ Articles[n 2]	Lfstevens (14)	Bddmagic (7)	Tenryuu (2) Baffle gab1978 (2) Lindsey40186 (2)	Miniapolis (1) Gog the Mild (1) Reidgreg (1)
Oldest Articles[n 3]	Tenryuu (32)	Lfstevens (29)	Miniapolis (11)	JML1148 (2) Dhtwiki (2)
Longest Article[n 1][n 4]	Bddmagic (36,002)	Lfstevens (19,462)	Tenryuu (13,816)	Miniapolis (9,486)	Lindsey40186 (7,873)

Progress chart[edit]

Progress Chart

Date	Old articles Sept–Nov 2021	Outstanding tags	Change since previous day [N 1]	Change since beginning [N 1]
30 June 2022	185	1,506	—	—
1 July 2022	180	1,508	2	2
2 July 2022	178	1,526	18	20
3 July 2022	176	1,490	36	16
4 July 2022	173	1,455	35	51
5 July 2022	167	1,447	8	59
6 July 2022	165	1,440	7	66
7 July 2022	161	1,434	6	72
8 July 2022	157	1,404	30	102
9 July 2022	157	1,394	10	112
10 July 2022	154	1,400	6	106
11 July 2022	153	1,408	8	98
12 July 2022	147	1,411	3	95
13 July 2022	147	1,418	7	88
14 July 2022	145	1,428	10	78
15 July 2022	144	1,437	9	69
16 July 2022	137	1,431	6	75
17 July 2022	133	1,438	7	68
18 July 2022	131	1,448	10	58
19 July 2022	125	1,440	8	66
20 July 2022	124	1,443	3	63
21 July 2022	124	1,443	0	63
22 July 2022	122	1,452	9	54
23 July 2022	114	1,454	2	52
24 July 2022	111	1,464	10	42
25 July 2022	109	1,473	9	33
26 July 2022	104	1,477	4	29
27 July 2022	104	1,476	1	30
28 July 2022	104	1,445	31	61
29 July 2022	101	1,428	17	78
30 July 2022	91	1,424	4	82
31 July 2022	87	1,432	8	74

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[edit]

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 the target month(s), 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

• Total articles: 2
• Total words: 2,748
• Rollover words: 1,654.5

• Total articles: 32
• Total words: 61610
• Rollover words: 979,204

• Total articles: 1
• Total words: 7254

• Total articles: 1
• Total words: 2,655

• Total articles: 11
• Total words: 32,816
• Rollover words: 16,750

• Total articles: 5
• Total words: 8,860
• Rollover words: 1530

• Total articles: 31
• Total words: 120,379

• Total articles: 12
• Total words: 34,672
• Rollover words: 19,399.5

• Total articles: 2
• Total words: 2437
• Rollover words: 2,752

• Total articles: 4
• Total words: 14370

• Total articles: 5
• Total words: 2378
• Rollover words: 129

• Total articles: 2
• Total words: 2488

• Total articles: 1
• Total words: 980

• Total articles: 0
• Total words: 0

• Total articles: 0
• Total words: 0

• Total articles: 2
• Total words: 39,372

• Total articles: 1
• Total words: 1229
• Rollover words: 1032

• Total articles: 1
• Total words: 654
• Rollover words: 8,566

• Total articles: 0
• Total words: 0

• Total articles: 1
• Total words: 7,700
• Rollover words: 3,858

• Total articles: 2
• Total words: 882