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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 require copy editing; those carrying the {{copyedit}} tag or listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on 11 February 2024, at 00:00 (UTC) and ended on 17 February 2024, at 23:59 (UTC).

The themes of this blitz were:

  • The articles from our backlog: November and December 2022
    • New Wikipedia copy editors (welcome!) are advised to focus their efforts on these backlog articles.
  • All requests; GANs and FACs should be copyedited by experienced editors.
    • Please note: it is very important that articles listed on the Request page are skillfully and fully copy-edited; many of these will be reviewed for Good Article or Featured Article status. If you have any questions or comments about the article you're copy-editing, please ask on the blitz's talk page.

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 lead coordinator is Dhtwiki (talk), who is assisted by Miniapolis (talk) and Wracking (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
  • Nov–Dec 2022
  • backlog
  • Change since
  • previous day
  • Change since
  • beginning
February 10, 2024 79
February 11, 2024 75 Positive decrease  4 Positive decrease  4
February 12, 2024 74 Positive decrease  1 Positive decrease  5
February 13, 2024 74 Steady  0 Positive decrease  5
February 14, 2024 74 Steady  0 Positive decrease  5
February 15, 2024 73 Positive decrease  1 Positive decrease  6
February 16, 2024 71 Positive decrease  2 Positive decrease  8
February 17, 2024 68 Positive decrease  3 Positive decrease 11

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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To sign up for the blitz, click the button below. This will create a subsection in the Totals section for you to record your copy edits. Rollover totals from the previous blitz can be found here.

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 Masashi Tashiro (2,637)
  2.  Completed United Nations Operation in the Congo (7,012)
  3.  Completed Ethnic minorities in Poland (2,525)
  4.  Completed Thiruvananthapuram Central railway station (669)
  • Total articles: 4
  • Total words: 12,843
  • Rollover words: 317
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed (United Front (India) (347)
  2.  Completed (Thiruvananthapuram Central railway station) (672)
  3.  Completed (History of retail) (4573)
  4.  Completed (Miraj) (1488)
  5.  Completed (Social media in education) (5302)
  6.  Completed (The Holocaust in Belarus) (935)
  7.  Completed (Rocket Gang) (375)
  8.  Working [()] ()
  • Total articles: 7
  • Total words: 13692
Article list
  1.  Completed Cyberdemon (section) (332)
  2.  Completed Midnights (5506)
  3.  Completed 2022 Optus data breach (2207)
  4.  Completed Bummed (4438)
  5.  Completed A Northern Soul (10243)
  6.  Completed Deltarune (3023)
  7.  Completed 330 West 42nd Street (5003)
  8.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 7
  • Total words: 30752
  • Rollover words: 1,421
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed Battle of Kherson (1623)
  2.  Completed January 6 United States Capitol attack (14,426)
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 16,049
  • Rollover words: 3,054
Article list
  1.  Completed Anglophone problem (1680)
  2.  Completed Koriukivka (only §Infrastructure) (226)
  3.  Completed Braintree, Essex (only §Toponym) (220)
  1.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 2126
  • Rollover words: 1386
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed Red River Rivalry (4539)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 4539
Article list
  1.  Completed Tom Scavo (3255)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 3255
Article list
  1.  Completed Tony Costa (711)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 711
  • Rollover words: 1978
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 Raising_(linguistics) (899)
  2.  Completed Story_9_Months_Ki (2390)
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 3289
Article list
  1.  Completed Saubhagyavati Bhava: * Niyam Aur Shartein Laagu (372)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 372
Article list
  1.  Completed Bruton Smith (6303)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 6303
  • Rollover words: 893
Article list
  1.  Completed Manila Cathedral (2,746) *R
  2.  Completed 2002 Van Wert–Roselms tornado (700) *R
  3.  Completed Eros International plc (657) *R
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 4,103
  • Rollover words: 1,928
Article list
  1.  Completed Ewan Morrison (1511)
  2.  Completed Michael W. Wooley (748)
  3.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 2259
  • Rollover words: 794