The backlog has dropped dramatically since the start of the drive, and yet there are only a few articles that have been recorded on the actual drive page. I think there was a similar discrepancy in the last two drives I participated in.
After a bit of digging around, I took a look at @Lfstevens's contribs, and I think they are the primary culprit. They also have a table on their userpage titled "Off-book copy edits", and each month links to a subpage by month. They seem to be single-handedly responsible for hundreds of copy edits every drive, which is absolutely insane plays a big role in reducing the total backlog, yet are not recording them on the drive pages. With all due respect, as they are the first GOCE Hall of Fame inductee, I want to know why they're doing huge amounts of work off-book. Unless there's a good reason for keeping them off-book, I think these copy edits should be recorded so reviewers have an easier time finding them. Bobbychan193 (talk) 06:22, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
Hello, everyone. I don't record these articles here because they are so short. I select the shortest articles in the backlog and gradually work my way up to longer ones as I run out of the shortest ones. When I began doing this some years back, the backlog of trivial articles was immense. I was killing the guild page by doing so many updates and making it huge. It used to take me the entire month to get through the 5k-byte articles, and that could involve 800 or more. Now the backlog is much shorter, so getting to 5k is now a matter of a day or two. Last drive I reached 11k or so and this time I expect to go even further, given the few articles that remain from September. Given my strategy it also seemed unseemly (heh) to win contests just by picking the lowest-hanging fruit. This year I have typically hit a single non-shortest article and log that one on the main page. Of course, all are welcome to edit as many shorties as you like, without regard to what I'm doing. Cheers and thanks for all your efforts! Lfstevens (talk) 01:18, 5 November 2019 (UTC)