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Guild of Copy Editors 2023 Annual Report
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).
Hello Sirdog,
Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.
Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.
Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.
It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!
2023 Awards
Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!
WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.
Recruitment: A couple of the coordinators have been inviting editors to become reviewers, via mass-messages to their talk pages. If you know someone who you'd think would make a good reviewer, then a personal invitation to them would be great. Additionally, if there are Wikiprojects that you are active on, then you can add a post there asking participants to join NPP. Please be careful not to double invite folks that have already been invited.
Reviewing tip: Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages within their most familiar subjects can use the regularly updated NPP Browser tool.
Reminders:
MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 16:27, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
thanks ~~~ Jimmygichuru40 ( talk) 17:01, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello Sirdog, thank you for you feedback on the article ( /info/en/?search=Draft:C-Net_12.0). My inspiration for creating this page was that there was next to nothing on the internet available about this software that I and many others remember so fondly. Therefore, I was not able to find many references that refer to this topic directly. I did however find a lot of sources that I thought would be sufficient.
As part of my creation process I looked at this page: /info/en/?search=C-Net_DS2. DS2 is another C-Net version from the same era. However, that Wikipedia page no citations or sources (other than names of people) whatsoever. So looking at my page, where I found several and cited them properly (I thought), I expected to be in much better shape than the page on DS-2.
Do you have any advice for me? Should I remove the sources and only leave the official manual? Keep in mind that this was from 1987 so not a lot of out there in the public space. Which is why I wanted this page.
Thanks for your time and for any advice you could give me. Jimmyzeet ( talk) 15:02, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
I appreciated it, but as I posted on the NPP discussion page just now, it was not deserved. I have very low technical skills, and stay away from the alphabet soup drama boards. I just write articles that interest me. I never even knew that I was supposed to put articles in a review queue; I just created them, and then was surprised when I got notices of reviews. Had no idea where that was coming from or why.
All of which is a long-winded way of saying that I don’t know a lot about Wiki-processes. I wanted to help, and thought NPP might be it, but that chart just turned me right off. Far too dense and bloated; just made me want to go back to my little corner and work on content.
i am concerned that “bloat” and increasing emphasis on tech tools (eg citation templates) is an entry block for Wikipedia. That chart just confirmed my concern.
Best wishes, Mr Serjeant Buzfuz ( talk) 03:08, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors April 2024 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to the April 2024 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since December. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. We extend a warm welcome to all of our new members. We wish you all happy copy-editing. Election results: In our December 2023 coordinator election, Zippybonzo stepped down as coordinator; we thank them for their service. Incumbents Dhtwiki and Miniapolis were reelected coordinators, and Wracking was newly elected coordinator, to serve through 30 June. Nominations for our mid-year Election of Coordinators will open on 1 June (UTC). Drive: 46 editors signed up for our January Backlog Elimination Drive, 32 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 289 articles totaling 626,729 words. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: 23 editors signed up for our February Copy Editing Blitz. 18 claimed at least one copy-edit and between them, they copy-edited 100,293 words in 32 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: 53 editors signed up for our March Backlog Elimination Drive, 34 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 300 articles totaling 587,828 words. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: Sign up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, which runs from 14 to 20 April. Barnstars will be awarded here. Progress report: As of 23:17, 11 April 2024 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 109 requests since 1 January 2024, and the backlog stands at 2,480 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from Baffle gab1978 and your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Wracking. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from
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Hi -- Zu-brak ( talk) 13:16, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
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For your close at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase I#Proposal 13: Admin elections! Brilliant, well written close which reflected the consensus of the community. (I am biased in that I supported the proposal, but I would say this even if I did not ). Thank you for taking the time to do the close; it is seen and appreciated. House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 19:56, 15 April 2024 (UTC) |
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MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 16:15, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi, I am trying to create an article on Australian Broadcaster, Marius Webb, the first staff elected member of the ABC and founder of Triple J. I need to add quite a bit to the article but before I do I was hoping you can let me know if I am going in the right direction. Triple J will be celebrating 50 years on Air and Marius will be interviewed quite extensively at that time. I would like to have it up and with various citations in place. -- ChrissieEWebb ( talk) 05:26, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello. Do you have tips for finding references for articles? Also any sources for basic grammar and what not, i could just google but figured i would ask -- Steven Fernandez1 ( talk) 15:11, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi. Whoever is operating this account, is this the same user managing this account? 102.156.10.192 ( talk) 10:50, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
@ Sir how to apply? Zu-brak ( talk) 04:50, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
handle" is a username. If you desire to change your username, see Wikipedia:Changing username. — Sirdog ( talk) 05:31, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
badge" is not adding much clarity as to what you are attempting to accomplish. If you refer to any of the bolded text at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions § Handled here, you would click the button that says "
view requests" to the right of the relevant badge/permission. Near the top of the next page will be a blurb describing the criteria you need to meet for an administrator to consider your account for the permission/"badge". — Sirdog ( talk) 06:33, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
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SCAM WARNING I do not review drafts or newly created pages for payment. I never have. I do not possess any special permissions - technical or procedural - that would allow me to guarantee the outcome of any article or draft. Legitimate reviewers at Articles for Creation and New Page Patrol are volunteers and will never ask for payment to get a draft into the main site, improve a draft, restore a deleted article, or mark an article as indexable by search engines. If someone contacts you with such an offer, it is a scam. To report it, send a copy of the email, including headers, to paid-en-wpwikipedia.org. |
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).
|
|
Guild of Copy Editors 2023 Annual Report
Our
2023 Annual Report is now ready for review.
Highlights:
– Your Guild coordinators:
Dhtwiki,
Miniapolis and
Wracking.
To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from
our mailing list.
|
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).
Hello Sirdog,
Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.
Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.
Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.
It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!
2023 Awards
Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!
WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.
Recruitment: A couple of the coordinators have been inviting editors to become reviewers, via mass-messages to their talk pages. If you know someone who you'd think would make a good reviewer, then a personal invitation to them would be great. Additionally, if there are Wikiprojects that you are active on, then you can add a post there asking participants to join NPP. Please be careful not to double invite folks that have already been invited.
Reviewing tip: Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages within their most familiar subjects can use the regularly updated NPP Browser tool.
Reminders:
MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 16:27, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
thanks ~~~ Jimmygichuru40 ( talk) 17:01, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello Sirdog, thank you for you feedback on the article ( /info/en/?search=Draft:C-Net_12.0). My inspiration for creating this page was that there was next to nothing on the internet available about this software that I and many others remember so fondly. Therefore, I was not able to find many references that refer to this topic directly. I did however find a lot of sources that I thought would be sufficient.
As part of my creation process I looked at this page: /info/en/?search=C-Net_DS2. DS2 is another C-Net version from the same era. However, that Wikipedia page no citations or sources (other than names of people) whatsoever. So looking at my page, where I found several and cited them properly (I thought), I expected to be in much better shape than the page on DS-2.
Do you have any advice for me? Should I remove the sources and only leave the official manual? Keep in mind that this was from 1987 so not a lot of out there in the public space. Which is why I wanted this page.
Thanks for your time and for any advice you could give me. Jimmyzeet ( talk) 15:02, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
I appreciated it, but as I posted on the NPP discussion page just now, it was not deserved. I have very low technical skills, and stay away from the alphabet soup drama boards. I just write articles that interest me. I never even knew that I was supposed to put articles in a review queue; I just created them, and then was surprised when I got notices of reviews. Had no idea where that was coming from or why.
All of which is a long-winded way of saying that I don’t know a lot about Wiki-processes. I wanted to help, and thought NPP might be it, but that chart just turned me right off. Far too dense and bloated; just made me want to go back to my little corner and work on content.
i am concerned that “bloat” and increasing emphasis on tech tools (eg citation templates) is an entry block for Wikipedia. That chart just confirmed my concern.
Best wishes, Mr Serjeant Buzfuz ( talk) 03:08, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors April 2024 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to the April 2024 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since December. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. We extend a warm welcome to all of our new members. We wish you all happy copy-editing. Election results: In our December 2023 coordinator election, Zippybonzo stepped down as coordinator; we thank them for their service. Incumbents Dhtwiki and Miniapolis were reelected coordinators, and Wracking was newly elected coordinator, to serve through 30 June. Nominations for our mid-year Election of Coordinators will open on 1 June (UTC). Drive: 46 editors signed up for our January Backlog Elimination Drive, 32 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 289 articles totaling 626,729 words. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: 23 editors signed up for our February Copy Editing Blitz. 18 claimed at least one copy-edit and between them, they copy-edited 100,293 words in 32 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: 53 editors signed up for our March Backlog Elimination Drive, 34 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 300 articles totaling 587,828 words. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: Sign up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, which runs from 14 to 20 April. Barnstars will be awarded here. Progress report: As of 23:17, 11 April 2024 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 109 requests since 1 January 2024, and the backlog stands at 2,480 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from Baffle gab1978 and your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Wracking. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from
our mailing list.
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Hi -- Zu-brak ( talk) 13:16, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
The Closer's Barnstar | ||
For your close at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase I#Proposal 13: Admin elections! Brilliant, well written close which reflected the consensus of the community. (I am biased in that I supported the proposal, but I would say this even if I did not ). Thank you for taking the time to do the close; it is seen and appreciated. House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 19:56, 15 April 2024 (UTC) |
New Page Patrol | May 2024 Articles Backlog Drive | |
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MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 16:15, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi, I am trying to create an article on Australian Broadcaster, Marius Webb, the first staff elected member of the ABC and founder of Triple J. I need to add quite a bit to the article but before I do I was hoping you can let me know if I am going in the right direction. Triple J will be celebrating 50 years on Air and Marius will be interviewed quite extensively at that time. I would like to have it up and with various citations in place. -- ChrissieEWebb ( talk) 05:26, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello. Do you have tips for finding references for articles? Also any sources for basic grammar and what not, i could just google but figured i would ask -- Steven Fernandez1 ( talk) 15:11, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi. Whoever is operating this account, is this the same user managing this account? 102.156.10.192 ( talk) 10:50, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
@ Sir how to apply? Zu-brak ( talk) 04:50, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
handle" is a username. If you desire to change your username, see Wikipedia:Changing username. — Sirdog ( talk) 05:31, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
badge" is not adding much clarity as to what you are attempting to accomplish. If you refer to any of the bolded text at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions § Handled here, you would click the button that says "
view requests" to the right of the relevant badge/permission. Near the top of the next page will be a blurb describing the criteria you need to meet for an administrator to consider your account for the permission/"badge". — Sirdog ( talk) 06:33, 28 April 2024 (UTC)