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Guild of Copy Editors May 2011 backlog elimination drive report
Greetings from the
Guild of Copy Editors
May 2011 Backlog elimination drive. Thank you for participating!
![]() There were 63 signups for the drive; of these, 45 participated. Although we did not award a bonus for articles from the Requests page this drive, we are not experiencing lengthy delays in getting the articles processed. Many thanks to editors who have been helping out at the Requests page and by copy editing articles from the backlog.
During the month of May we reduced the backlog by approximately 10%, and made remarkable progress on eliminating articles tagged from 2009. There are now only 15 articles left, down from the 415 that were present when the drive started. Since our backlog drives began in May 2010 with 8,323 articles, we have cleared more than 54% of the backlog. A complete list of results and barnstars awarded can be found here. Barnstars will be distributed over the next week. If you enjoyed participating in our event, you may also like to join the Wikification drives, which are held on alternate months to our drives. Their June drive has started.
The six-month term for our first tranche of Guild coordinators will be expiring at the end of June. We will be accepting nominations for the second tranche of coordinators, who will also serve a six-month term. Nominations will open starting on June 5. For complete information, please have a look at the election page. Please feel free to contact any coordinator if you have any questions or need assistance. Your project coordinators are S Masters ( talk), Diannaa ( Talk), Tea with toast ( Talk), Chaosdruid ( talk), and Torchiest ( talk). |
Sent on behalf of the
Guild of Copy Editors using
AWB on 08:24, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
Re: removal of flags, I think you are right about that. I based all of the changes so far (a couple of hundred I think) on the sandbox example that Dr. Blofeld had provided. It wasn't really a conscious choice on my part. I don't want to remove the flags in all boxes I have done so far as a chore; I would rather concentrate on continuing to update the remaining articles. So, if you see any others trust that I am in agreement with the removal. I am removing the "settlement_type = County" parameter from the ones which have "County" in the title, as redundant. You will probably want to look at County Down et al., I have just now updated the six counties of NI en masse. Sswonk ( talk) 17:01, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
Apologies. I hadn't seen your addition to the conversation made some minutes before your article changes. We've been playing ping pong with this nationality question for months if not years. It seems necessary to find a consensus by discussion and stick to it. It have no strong feeling one way or another - only an agreement is sensibly found and held. Best wishes Span ( talk) 23:45, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
![]() | This page is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Guild of Copy Editors May 2011 backlog elimination drive report
Greetings from the
Guild of Copy Editors
May 2011 Backlog elimination drive. Thank you for participating!
![]() There were 63 signups for the drive; of these, 45 participated. Although we did not award a bonus for articles from the Requests page this drive, we are not experiencing lengthy delays in getting the articles processed. Many thanks to editors who have been helping out at the Requests page and by copy editing articles from the backlog.
During the month of May we reduced the backlog by approximately 10%, and made remarkable progress on eliminating articles tagged from 2009. There are now only 15 articles left, down from the 415 that were present when the drive started. Since our backlog drives began in May 2010 with 8,323 articles, we have cleared more than 54% of the backlog. A complete list of results and barnstars awarded can be found here. Barnstars will be distributed over the next week. If you enjoyed participating in our event, you may also like to join the Wikification drives, which are held on alternate months to our drives. Their June drive has started.
The six-month term for our first tranche of Guild coordinators will be expiring at the end of June. We will be accepting nominations for the second tranche of coordinators, who will also serve a six-month term. Nominations will open starting on June 5. For complete information, please have a look at the election page. Please feel free to contact any coordinator if you have any questions or need assistance. Your project coordinators are S Masters ( talk), Diannaa ( Talk), Tea with toast ( Talk), Chaosdruid ( talk), and Torchiest ( talk). |
Sent on behalf of the
Guild of Copy Editors using
AWB on 08:24, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
Re: removal of flags, I think you are right about that. I based all of the changes so far (a couple of hundred I think) on the sandbox example that Dr. Blofeld had provided. It wasn't really a conscious choice on my part. I don't want to remove the flags in all boxes I have done so far as a chore; I would rather concentrate on continuing to update the remaining articles. So, if you see any others trust that I am in agreement with the removal. I am removing the "settlement_type = County" parameter from the ones which have "County" in the title, as redundant. You will probably want to look at County Down et al., I have just now updated the six counties of NI en masse. Sswonk ( talk) 17:01, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
Apologies. I hadn't seen your addition to the conversation made some minutes before your article changes. We've been playing ping pong with this nationality question for months if not years. It seems necessary to find a consensus by discussion and stick to it. It have no strong feeling one way or another - only an agreement is sensibly found and held. Best wishes Span ( talk) 23:45, 27 June 2011 (UTC)