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This Copy Editing Project Blitz is a one-week-long effort of the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce the backlog of articles listed on the GOCE Requests page. It will begin on 18 October 2015, at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 24 October 2015, at 23:59 (UTC).

The theme of this blitz is:

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 lead coordinator is Jonesey95 (talk), who is assisted by Baffle gab1978 (talk), KieranTribe (talk), Miniapolis (talk) and Pax85 (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
  • Requests articles
  • Change since
  • previous day
  • Change since
  • beginning
  • Daily articles
  • edited
October 17, 2015 44
October 18, 2015 46 Negative increase  2 Negative increase  2 1
October 19, 2015 47 Negative increase  1 Negative increase  3 0
October 20, 2015 42 Positive decrease  5 Positive decrease  2 6
October 21, 2015 40 Positive decrease  2 Positive decrease  4 4
October 22, 2015 40 Steady  0 Positive decrease  4 3
October 23, 2015 37 Positive decrease  3 Positive decrease  7 5
October 24, 2015 34 Positive decrease  3 Positive decrease 10 6

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. The previous blitz's rollover totals are located here.

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.
  • Place articles you're working on on the {{Working}} line. 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 it 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 List of awards and nominations received by Wolfmother (671)
  2.  Completed Bernie Sanders (3,805)
  3.  Completed Lukas Hilbert (896)
  4.  Completed A Man Will Rise (501)
  5.  Completed Routine Check (283)
  6.  Completed [[]] ()
  7.  Completed [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 5
  • Total words: 6,156
  • Rollover words: 395
Article list
  1.  Completed End of Days (film) (1,795)
  2.  Completed Ganesh Chaturthi (2,388)
  3.  Completed Steroid (1,845)
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 6,028
  • Rollover words: 1,077
Article list
  1.  Completed Indian National Army (8668)
  2.  Completed Unlocked (Alexandra Stan album) (1341) (1472 words, minus 131 words of copyvio)
  3.  Completed The Living End discography (417)
  4.  Completed Hogwarts Express (Universal Orlando Resort) (2402)
  5.  Completed Alternative theories of the location of Great Moravia (3408)
  6.  Completed Tara Calico (1143)
  7.  Completed Treasure (Bruno Mars song) (2906)
  8.  Completed History of Japan (9310)
  9.  Completed Operation Sandwedge (742)
  10.  Completed Clube Atlético Mineiro (5338)
  11.  Completed 2004–05 S.L. Benfica season (3544)
  12.  Completed Don't Say You Love Me (M2M song) (1940)
  • Total articles: 12
  • Total words: 41199
Article list
  1.  Completed Belgium national football team (5,263)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 5,263
  • Rollover words: 489
Article list
  1.  Completed Far Cry 4 (added 16 words after completion) (6061)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 6077
Article list
  1.  Completed Dragon Age: Origins (5585)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 5,585
  • Rollover words: 1,953
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 Nobel Banquet (315)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 315