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GOCE Year-end Report

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GOCE drive news

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Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors ↗ January 2011 Backlog elimination drive ↗! The drive is halfway over, so here are some mid-drive stats.</br>
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So far, 43 people have signed up for this drive. Of these, 25 have participated. If you signed up for the drive but haven't participated yet, it's not too late! Try to copy edit at least a few articles. Remember, if you have rollover words from the last drive, you will lose them if you do not participate in this drive. If you haven't signed up for the drive yet, you can '''sign up now ↗'''. </br>

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We have eliminated two months from the backlog – January and February 2009. One of our goals is to eliminate as many months as possible from the 2009 backlog. Please help us reduce the size of this part of the backlog if you haven't already. Another goal is to reduce the entire backlog by 10%, or by 515 articles. Currently, we have eliminated 375 articles from the queue, so if each participant copy edits four more articles, we will reach that goal.

Thank you for participating in the January 2011 drive. We anticipate it will be another big success!

Your drive coordinators –S Masters (talk), <span style="color:teal;">Diannaa</span> <sup>(Talk)</sup>, <font color="green">The Utahraptor</font><sup>Talk to me</sup>, and Tea with toast (Talk)
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GOCE January Backlog elimination drive conclusion

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GOCE drive newsletter

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GOCE elections

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GOCE drive invitation

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WikiProject Disney ↗ Role Call

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GOCE drive newsletter

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Survey

Hi Talkingbirds!

I have put together a survey for female editors of Wikipedia (and related projects) in order to explore, in greater detail, women's experiences and roles within the Wikimedia movement. It'd be wonderful if you could participate!

It's an independent survey, done by me, as a fellow volunteer Wikimedian. It is not being done on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation. I hope you'll participate!

Just click this link to participate in this survey, via Google! ↗

Any questions or concerns, feel free to email me or stop by my user talk page. Also, feel free to share this any other female Wikimedians you may know. It is in English, but any language Wikimedia participants are encouraged to participate.
I appreciate your contributions - to the survey and to Wikipedia! Thank you! SarahStierch (talk) 05:31, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

GOCE drive newsletter

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GOCE newsletter

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GOCE 2011 Year-End Report

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GOCE March copy edit drive

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The '''Guild of Copy Editors ↗''' invites you to participate in their '''March 2012 Backlog elimination drive ↗''', a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on March 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on March 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goal for the drive will be to eliminate the remaining 2010 articles from the queue. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits more than 4,000 words, and special awards will be given to the top 5 in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa, Stfg, and Coordinator emeritus SMasters. 19:54, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
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MOTDs (This space for rent ↗)

You may have noticed over the past few days that the MOTD that you link to on your user page has simply displayed a red link. This is due to the fact that not enough people are reviewing pending MOTDs here ↗. Please help us keep the MOTD template alive and simply go and review a few of the MOTDs in the list. That way we can have a real MOTD in the future rather than re-using (This space for rent ↗). Any help would be appreciated! –p<span style="color: #802400">joe</span>f <small>(''talk'' • contribs ↗)</small> 13:56, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

GOCE March drive newsletter

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Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors ↗ March 2012 Backlog elimination drive ↗! Here's the mid-drive newsletter.</br>

'''Participation''':
We have had 58 people sign up for this drive so far, which compares favorably with our last drive, and 27 have copy-edited at least one article. If you have signed up but have not yet copy-edited any articles, please consider doing so. Every bit helps! If you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us ↗!

'''Progress report''':
Our target of completing the 2010 articles has almost been reached, with only 56 remaining of the 194 we had at the start of the drive. The last ones are always the most difficult, so thank you if you are able to help copy-edit any of the remaining articles. We have reduced the total backlog by 163 articles so far.

'''Special thanks''':
Special thanks to Stfg, who has been going through the backlog and doing some preliminary vetting of the articles—removing copyright violations, doing initial clean-up, and nominating some for deletion. This work has helped make the drive a more pleasant experience for all our volunteers.

Your drive coordinators – Dianna (talk), Stfg (talk), and Dank (talk){{center|1=<p><small>To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list ↗.</small></p>}}
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GOCE March drive wrap-up

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Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors ↗ March 2012 Backlog elimination drive ↗! This is the most successful drive we have had for quite a while. Here is your end-of-drive wrap-up newsletter.</br>

'''Participation'''

Of the 70 people who signed up for this drive, 40 copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Special acknowledgement goes out to '''Lfstevens''', who did over 200 articles, most of them in the last third of the drive, and topped all three leaderboard categories. You're a superstar! Stfg and others have been pre-checking the articles for quality and conformance to Wikipedia guidelines; some have been nominated for deletion or had some preliminary clean-up done to help make the copy-edit process more fun and appealing. Thanks to all who helped get those nasty last few articles out of the target months.

'''Progress report'''

During this drive we were successful in eliminating our target months—October, November, and December 2010—from the queue, and have now eliminated all the 2010 articles from our list. We were able to complete 500 articles this month! End-of-drive results and barnstar information can be found here ↗.

When working on the backlog, please keep in mind that there are options other than copy-editing available; some articles may be candidates for deletion, or may not be suitable for copy-editing at this time for other reasons. The {{tp|GOCEreviewed}} tag can be placed on any article you find to be totally uneditable, and you can nominate for deletion any that you discover to be copyright violations or completely unintelligible. If you need help deciding what to do, please contact any of the coordinators.

Thank you for participating in the March 2012 drive! All contributions are appreciated. Our next copy-edit drive will be in May.

Your drive coordinators – {{teal|Dianna}} <sup>(Talk)</sup>, Stfg (Talk), and Dank (talk){{center|1=<p><small>To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list ↗.</small></p>}}

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GOCE May copy edit drive

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The '''Guild of Copy Editors ↗''' invites you to participate in their '''May 2012 Backlog elimination drive ↗''', a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on May 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on May 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goal for the drive will be to eliminate January, February, and March 2011 from the queue. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits more than 4,000 words, and special awards will be given to the top 5 in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa, and Stfg.
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GOCE May mid-drive newsletter

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'''Participation''': Out of 49 people signed up for this drive so far, 26 have copy-edited at least one article. It's a smaller group than last drive, but we're making good progress. If you've signed up but haven't yet copy-edited any articles, please consider doing so. Every bit helps! If you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. {{nowrap|Join us ↗!}}

'''Progress report''': We're on track to meet our targets for the drive, largely due to the efforts of Lfstevens and the others on the leaderboard. Thanks to all. We have reduced our target group of articles—January, February, and March 2011—by over half, and it looks like we will achieve that goal. Good progress is being made on the overall backlog as well, with over 500 articles copy-edited during the drive so far. The total backlog currently sits at around 3200 articles.

'''Hall of Fame''': GOCE coordinator {{teal|Diannaa}} was awarded a spot in the GOCE Hall of Fame ↗ this month! She has copy-edited over 1567 articles during these drives, and surpassed the 1,000,000-word mark on May 5. On to the second million! – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa and Stfg
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WikiWomen's Collaborative

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| style="text-align: left;" | Hi '''{{ {{{|safesubst:}}}ROOTPAGENAME}}'''! Women around the world who edit and contribute to Wikipedia are coming together to celebrate each other's work, support one another, and engage new women to also join in on the empowering experience of shaping the sum of all the world's knowledge - through the '''WikiWomen's Collaborative'''.<br/>
As a WikiWoman, we'd love to have you involved! You can do this by:

Liking the WikiWomen's Collaborative on Facebook ↗ and share your tips, projects, and connect with other WikiWomen

Join the conversation on our Twitter feed ↗

Reading and writing for our blog channel ↗

Feel free to drop by our meta page ↗ (under construction) to see how else you can participate!<Br/>
<br/>Can't wait to have you involved! SarahStierch (talk) 21:32, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
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