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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.


This Copy Editing Project Blitz was a one-week-long effort of the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce the backlog of articles that required copy editing; those carrying the {{copyedit}} tag or listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on 11 June 2023, at 00:00 (UTC) and ended on 17 June 2023, at 23:59 (UTC).

The themes of this blitz were:

  • articles tagged for copy-editing in May and June 2022, and
  • requests for copy-editing from March and April 2023.

Blitz participants could earn barnstar awards based on the number of articles—and the word counts of the articles—they copy edit. Awards will be given out once the blitz has finished.

The blitz was open to all; 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.

Blitzes are under the purview of the Guild's coordinators. The blitz's coordinators are Baffle gab1978 (talk), Dhtwiki (talk), Miniapolis (talk) and Zippybonzo (talk). If you have any questions, leave a message on the blitz's talk page.

For brief instructions on how to record your work, see below. For full instructions, visit the main blitz 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 blitz can be found on the main blitz page. Please read this page carefully before you begin. To sign up, please use the form in the Signing up section below.

Progress chart

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Progress Chart
Date
  • Outstanding Mar/Apr 2023 requests
  • and May/June 2022 backlogs
  • Change since
  • previous day
  • Change since
  • beginning
June 10, 2023 52
June 11, 2023 45 Positive decrease  7 Positive decrease  7
June 12, 2023 41 Positive decrease 14 Positive decrease 11
June 13, 2023 33 Positive decrease  8 Positive decrease 19
June 14, 2023 33 Steady  0 Positive decrease 19
June 15, 2023 29 Positive decrease  4 Positive decrease 23
June 16, 2023 26 Positive decrease  3 Positive decrease 26
June 17, 2023 30 Negative increase  4 Positive decrease 22

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 word count of the reviewed article will be deducted from the editor's total. 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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This blitz 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 {{copyedit}} 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.
    • 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.
  • 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}}.
  • 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.
  • If you want your work checked, you can request this on the blitz talk page.

Properly completed records look like this in the edit window:

# {{Completed}} [[Dark chocolate]] (yummy!) (1,234)

and like this on the rendered page:

1.  Completed Dark chocolate (yummy!) (1,234)
Article list
  1.  Completed Dario Franchitti (5,935)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 5,935
  • Rollover words: 839
Article list
  1.  Completed 2022 Italian referendum (1615)
  2.  Completed Saath Nibhaana Saathiya (3111)
  3.  Completed ODDO BHF (784)
  4.  Completed Ministry of Gender Equality and Family (993)
  5.  Completed Nakuru (1634)
  6.  Completed Simone Kennedy (politician) (requested for copyediting in April 2023) (2896)
  7.  Completed Basiliscus (Caesar) (copyedit request for April 2023) (2407)
  8.  Completed Religious education in Kerala (864)
  9.  Completed Nelson F.C. (2854)
  10.  Working List of The Karate Kid and Cobra Kai characters (29572)
  • Total articles: 9
  • Total words: 17,158
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1236
  • Rollover words: 1537
Article list
  1.  Completed King James Version (album) (3780)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  3.  Working [[]] ()
  4.  Working [[]] ()
  5.  Working [[]] ()
  6.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 3780
Article list
  1.  Completed Intellectual property policy (678)
  2.  Working The Man with the Golden Touch (3744)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 678
Article list
  1.  Completed Yuanlingshan (2552)
  2.  Completed Tết Trung Thu (2566)
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 5118
Article list
  1.  Completed Catholic social teaching (6,671)
  2.  Completed The Man with the Golden Touch (3,622)
  3.  Completed 2021–2022 Luzon sabungeros disappearances (1,126)
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 11,419
  • Rollover words: 1,045
Article list
  1.  Completed Norraphat Vilaiphan (259)
  2.  Completed List of Old Worthians (1423)
  3.  Completed Yeh Zindagi Hai (1323)
  4.  Completed Hassan Golestaneh (641)
  5.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 4
  • Total words: 3646
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Completed 2022 Philippine general election (4,276)
  3.  Working Premiership of Abiy Ahmed (3,790)
  4.  Working List of villages in Benue State (19,404) (left reviewed tag on talk page)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 4,276
Article list
  1.  Completed Kurt Angle (13,009)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 13,009
  • Rollover words: 1,448
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed Jan Janszoon van Hoorn's expedition of 1633 (2080) *O
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 2080
  • Rollover words: 1381
Article list
  1.  Completed Dražen Kutleša (1700)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1700
  • Rollover words: 1,767
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy (4798)
  3.  Working 2021-2022 Luzon sabungeros disappearance (1156) (left reviewed tag on talk page, was not able to summarize adequately)
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0