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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 12 February 2023 at 00:00 (UTC), and ended on 18 February 2023 at 23:59 (UTC).

The themes of this blitz are:

Blitz participants can 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 is 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
  • Oct/Nov requests &
  • Mar/Apr backlog articles
  • Change since
  • previous day
  • Change since
  • beginning
February 11, 2023 189
February 12, 2023 181 Positive decrease  8 Positive decrease  8
February 13, 2023 181 Steady  0 Positive decrease  8
February 14, 2023 175 Positive decrease  6 Positive decrease 14
February 15, 2023 172 Positive decrease  3 Positive decrease 17
February 16, 2023 172 Steady  0 Positive decrease 17
February 17, 2023 169 Positive decrease  3 Positive decrease 20
February 18, 2023 165 Positive decrease  4 Positive decrease 24

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.
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 Independence Party of Alberta (411)
  2.  Completed Jumping the broom (2,215)
  3.  Completed Protest against the death of Anish Khan (667)
  4.  Completed Rustem Umerov (2,499)
  5.  Completed Squirt.org (697)
  6.  Completed Institute of Anthropology: Interdisciplinary Studies on Human Dignity and Care (1,031)
  • Total articles: 6
  • Total words: 7,520
  • Rollover words: 2,989
Article list
  1.  Completed Crusading movement (10315)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 10,315
  • Rollover words: 3,335
Article list
  1.  Completed KVN (1,335) *R
  2.  Completed The Golden Virgin (726) *R
  3.  Completed William D. Hoard (2,304) *R
  4.  Completed Ramesh Aravind (1,132) *R
  5.  Completed Dog Problems (3,210) *R
  6.  Completed Janko Drašković (2,235) *R
  7.  Completed Baljci, Tomislavgrad (833) *R
  • Total articles: 7
  • Total words: 11,775
  • Rollover words: 3,824
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed Antonije Orešković (1,632) Required lots of formatting, tagging, so much copy-editing...tough one!
  2.  Completed Nguyễn Tiến Linh (424)
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 2,056
  • Rollover words: 1,211
Article list
  1.  Completed History of the Quebec sovereignty movement (2849) *O
  2.  Working [[]]
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 2,849
  • Rollover words: 1,164
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed Fateme Asadi (343)
  2.  Completed Sonny with a Chance (1603)
  3.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 1946
  • Rollover words: 299
Article list
  1.  Completed Wedding anniversary (546)
  2.  Working ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 546
  • Rollover words: 3,445
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed Dopethrone (1814)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1814
  • Rollover words: 10
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed Prabhunath Singh (329)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 329
  • Rollover words: 1361
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working Edappadi (822)
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0