Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Membership/News/2022 Annual Report

Welcome to the Guild of Copy Editors' (GOCE) annual report for 2022, a summary of activity in our Drives and Blitzes, and our Requests page. Thank you to everyone who has helped improve the standard of Wikipedia articles by making them "say what they mean and mean what they say". In 2022, editors working with the Guild helped remove well over 1,000 articles from the {{copy edit}} backlog and responded to almost 400 requests for copy edit.

This year's report is a little shorter than usual, and some of the more intricate details and graphs have been omitted. We hope you'll still find it useful.

This is the first Annual Report we've issued in three years. You can find the reports from the previous two years in their incomplete states here (2020) and here (2021).

Outstanding tags at the end of each month numbers in green denote new record lows 2021 2022 January 52 966 February 290 1,133 March 171 1,022 April 537 1,304 May 329 1,276 June 875 1,506 July 598 1,432 August 931 1,774 September 878 1,580 October 1,134 1,936 November 946 1,967 December 1,177 1,923

The backlog is edging towards 2,000 articles because each month, about 200 or more articles are added to the tracking category and as we write, the Requests page has a five-month backlog. We hope 2023 will see more skilled copy-editors working in both areas of our WikiProject.

Thank you all for your hard work throughout 2022; we hope you'll continue to be enthused and inspired to improve the standard of prose in Wikipedia. Happy editing!