Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Membership/News/2023 Annual Report

Welcome to the Guild of Copy Editors' (GOCE) annual report for 2023, 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 2023, editors working with the Guild helped remove well over 1,000 articles from the {{copy edit}} backlog and responded to 360 requests for copy edit.

Because the Wikimedia graphs extension was disabled at the time of writing, we have not used any graphs in this report, aside from the manually generated image below. We hope this does not detract from its usefulness.

Outstanding tags at the end of each month 2022 2023 January 966 1,861 February 1,133 1,952 March 1,022 1,751 April 1,304 2,024 May 1,276 1,820 June 1,506 2,113 July 1,432 1,926 August 1,774 2,146 September 1,580 1,935 October 1,936 2,243 November 1,967 2,072 December 1,923 2,419

The backlog numbers greater than 2,000 articles, as each month about 300 or more articles are added to the tracking category, slightly more than the guild handles; and, as we write, there is more than two months' worth of requests.

A sudden jump in the backlog in December was caused by the addition of articles that were marked with the templates {{Repetition}}, {{Repetition inline}}, {{Repetition section}} and {{verbosity}}, which were added to Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit. Those granular templates now redirect to {{copy edit}} and {{copyedit inline}}.

Thank you all for your hard work throughout 2023; we hope you'll continue to be enthused and inspired to improve the standard of prose in Wikipedia. Happy editing!