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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 13

GOCE March newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors March 2020 Newsletter
 

 

Hello and welcome to the March newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since December 2019. All being well, we're planning to issue these quarterly in 2020, balancing the need to communicate widely with the avoidance of filling up talk pages. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below.

Election results: There was little changeover in the roster of Guild Coordinators, with Miniapolis stepping down with distinction as a coordinator emeritus while Jonesey95 returned as lead coordinator. The next election is scheduled for June 2020 and all Wikipedians in good standing may participate.

January Drive: Thanks to everyone for the splendid work, completing 215 copy edits including 56 articles from the Requests page and 116 backlog articles from the target months of June to August 2019. At the conclusion of the drive there was a record low of 323 articles in the copy editing backlog. Of the 27 editors who signed up for the drive, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

February Blitz: Of the 15 editors who signed up for this one-week blitz, 13 completed at least one copy edit. A total of 32 articles were copy edited, evenly split between the twin goals of requests and the oldest articles from the copy-editing backlog. Full results are here.

March Drive: Currently underway, this event is targeting requests and backlog articles from September to November 2019. As of 18 March, the backlog stands at a record low of 253 articles and is expected to drop further as the drive progresses. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one article from the backlog. Help set a new record and sign up now!

Progress report: As of 18 March, GOCE copyeditors have completed 161 requests in 2020 and there was a net reduction of 385 articles from the copy-editing backlog – a 60% decrease from the beginning of the year. Well done and thank you everyone!

Election reminder: It may only be March but don't forget our mid-year Election of Coordinators opens for nominations on 1 June. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Reidgreg, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist

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GOCE June newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2020 Newsletter
 

 

Hello and welcome to the June newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since March 2020. You can unsubscribe from our mailings at any time; see below. All times and dates stated are in UTC.

Current events

Election time: Nomination of candidates in our mid-year Election of Coordinators opened on 1 June, and voting will take place from 00:01 on 16 June. GOCE coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought about helping out at the Guild, or you know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here.

June Blitz: This blitz begins at 00:01 on 14 June and ends at 23:59 on 20 June, with themes of articles tagged for copyedit in May 2020 and requests.

Drive and blitz reports

March Drive: Self-isolation from coronavirus may have played a hand in making this one of our most successful backlog elimination drives. The copy-editing backlog was reduced from 477 to a record low of 118 articles, a 75% reduction. The last four months of 2019 were cleared, reducing the backlog to three months. Fifty requests were also completed, and the total word count of copy-edited articles was 759,945. Of the 29 editors who signed up, 22 completed at least one copy edit. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

April Blitz: This blitz ran from 12 to 18 April with a theme of Indian military history. Of the 18 people who signed up, 14 copyedited at least one article. Participants claimed a total of 60 copyedits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

May Drive: This event marked the 10th anniversary of the GOCE's copy-editing drives, and set a goal of diminishing the backlog to just one month of articles, as close to zero articles as possible. We achieved the goal of eliminating all articles that had been tagged prior to the start of the drive, for the first time in our history! Of the 51 editors who signed up, 43 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Other news

Progress report: as of 2 June, GOCE participants had processed 328 requests since 1 January, which puts us on pace to exceed any previous year's number of requests. As of the end of the May drive, the backlog stood at just 156 articles, all tagged in May 2020.

Outreach: To mark the 10th anniversary of our first Backlog Elimination Drive, The Signpost contributor and GOCE participant Puddleglum2.0 interviewed project coordinators and copy-editors for the journal's April WikiProject Report. The Drive and the current Election of Coordinators have also been covered in The Signpost's May News and Notes page.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Reidgreg, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist.

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TradingView

Hi Alpha3031 – you recently declined my TradingView article and I'd like to ask for your help. We haven't had much press at TradingView so there's not many traditional sources to quote for the piece. However, as I noted in the comments, we're a massive internet presence: any tool like SimilarWeb or Alexa rankings will show we have tens of millions of visitors each month, we've raised over $37 million dollars in investment, our tech also powers famous websites, such as Investopedia (see the ticker on their homepage) and we're quoted in top start up shortlists like this one: https://www.seedtable.com/startups-london We've got our own scripting language used by people worldwide: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pine+script Surely this must constitute being notable for entry? Is there anything you can recommend, or help with here? I'm just looking to put into record the objective details of a platform used by millions across the planet. Hope you can help, Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by TradingGeek (talkcontribs) 10:43, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

TradingGeek, I'm afraid there's very little I can do if the required organic press coverage doesn't exist. AfC isn't even the real test, as much as we are supposed to try and accurately reflect the real thing—I could, technically speaking, publish the article right now, but as it stands, I wouldn't be able to convince the community that it should be kept, so all that would happen is the article getting deleted, and a lot of people upset at me for wasting their time (possibly you included).
Our primary inclusion criteria is Notability in the Wikipedia sense of the word, which is very closely tied to "We need to match what reliable sources say." and "We can't just write things ourselves! None of us are reliable, independent experts!" Those are core content policies, meaning they're really non-negotiable. Notability is very strict criteria, especially for companies, but there's no magic-sauce way around it unless you can convince the entire community we can still meet the core content policy. Then we can ignore those guidelines. Otherwise, we have to work within those guidelines, and that means independent press coverage and (usually only for publicly listed companies) independent analyst reports. Maybe encourage TradingView to make an IPO and then wait a few months? Alpha3031 (tc) 11:35, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

Okay, understood. Thank you for your feedback – much appreciated. TradingGeek (talk) 12:05, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

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