Welcome! edit

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A barnstar for you! edit

  The Original Barnstar
Thank you for cleaning up and translating the oldest entry at WP:PNT. Much appreciated. Lectonar (talk) 07:14, 24 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

Guild of Copy Editors June 2023 Newsletter edit

Guild of Copy Editors June 2023 Newsletter
 

 

Hello and welcome to the June 2023 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since March. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below.

Election news: Fancy helping out at the Guild? Nominations for our half-yearly Election of Coordinators are open until 23:59 on 15 June (UTC)*. Starting immediately after, the voting phase will run until 23:59 on 30 June. All Wikipedians in good standing are eligible and self-nominations are welcomed; it's your Guild and it doesn't organize itself!

Blitz: Of the 17 editors who signed up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, nine editors completed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 24 articles totaling 53,393 words. Barnstars awarded are here.

Drive: 51 editors signed up for the month-long May Backlog Elimination Drive, and 31 copy-edited at least one article. 180 articles were copy-edited. Barnstars awarded are posted here.

Blitz: Sign up here for our week-long June Copy Editing Blitz, which runs from 11 to 17 June. Barnstars awarded will be posted here.

Progress report: As of 03:09 on 6 June 2023, GOCE copyeditors have processed 91 requests since 1 January and the backlog stands at 1,887 articles.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybongo.

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June blitz bling edit

  The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
This barnstar is awarded to Exobiotic for copy edits totaling over 4,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE June 2023 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 20:38, 19 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

Battle of Kliszów copy edit edit

Hi Exobiotic, welcome to the Guild of Copy Editors (GOCE). I'm Baffle gab1978, a GOCE project coordinator. Thank you for your work on the copy-edit request for Battle of Kliszów; if you plan to continue your c/e, please let us know on the Requests page (REQ) here. If you don't want to continue, please mark the request {{partly done}} so we can give you joint credit credit in our archive and someone else can pick up the c/e. If you've any questions, you can ask at the Guild's Requests talk page. Thanks for your understanding. Cheers, Baffle☿gab 00:22, 25 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

Hello, thanks for the follow up! I marked it as partly done. Exobiotic 💬 ✒️ 03:09, 26 June 2023 (UTC)Reply
@Alexander Alejandro: Hi, Exobiotic, thanks for your work so far on the c/e for this article. I will be reviewing the article for GA, but don't intend to begin the process until the copy editing is done. Can you please let me know on my talk page when you have finished? Regards, Amitchell125 (talk) 07:53, 23 July 2023 (UTC)Reply
I got as far as I could with it; I would keep it on the requests page and hopefully someone else will take it up. You could try to find someone at WP:WikiProject Military history who has more subject expertise. Good work so far, and good luck! Exobiotic 💬 ✒️ 12:10, 23 July 2023 (UTC)Reply
Hi @Amitchell125:, I'm continuing this c/e, which has been straightforward so far and hopefully will continue thus. I'll be finished in a few days and I'll indicate in my edit summary when I'm done. I'm posting here to avoid splitting the discussion; Exobiotic I hope you don't mind me posting here! Cheers, Baffle☿gab 01:06, 25 July 2023 (UTC)Reply
I've now finished my copy-edit; the GA nomination can proceed. Cheers, Baffle☿gab 02:57, 26 July 2023 (UTC)Reply

July 2023 GOCE drive awards edit

  The (modern) Guild of Copy Editors Barnstar
This barnstar is awarded to Exobiotic for copy edits totaling over 40,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE July 2023 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 21:06, 3 August 2023 (UTC)Reply
  Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Articles, 4th Place
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Exobiotic for copyediting 18 articles during the GOCE July 2023 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 21:06, 3 August 2023 (UTC)Reply
  Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 3rd Place
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Exobiotic for copyediting 18 old articles during the GOCE July 2023 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 21:06, 3 August 2023 (UTC)Reply

Septermber GOCE newsletter edit

Guild of Copy Editors September 2023 Newsletter
 

 

Hello and welcome to the September 2023 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since June. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below.

David Thomsen: Prolific Wikipedian and Guild member David Thomsen (Dthomsen8) died in November 2022. He was a regular copy editor who took part in many of our Drives and Blitzes. An obituary was published in the mid-July issue of The Signpost. Tributes can be left on David's talk page.

Election news: In our mid-year Election of Coordinators, Dhtwiki was chosen as lead coordinator, Miniapolis and Zippybonzo continue as assistant coordinators, and Baffle gab1978 stepped down from the role. If you're interested in helping out at the GOCE, please consider nominating yourself for our next election in December; it's your WikiProject and it doesn't organize itself!

June Blitz: Of the 17 editors who signed up for our June Copy Editing Blitz, 12 copy-edited at least one article. 70,035 words comprising 26 articles were copy-edited. Barnstars awarded are here.

July Drive: 34 of the 51 editors who took part in our July Backlog Elimination Drive copy-edited at least one article. They edited 276 articles and 683,633 words between them. Barnstars awarded are here.

August Blitz: In our August Copy Editing Blitz, 13 of the 16 editors who signed up worked on at least one article. Between them, they copy-edited 79,608 words comprising 57 articles. Barnstars awarded are available here.

September Drive: Sign up here for our month-long September Backlog Elimination Drive, which is now underway. Barnstars awarded will be posted here.

Progress report: As of 14:29, 9 September 2023 (UTC), GOCE copy editors have processed 245 requests since 1 January. The backlog of tagged articles stands at 2,066.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybonzo.

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September 2023 GOCE drive awards edit

  The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
This barnstar is awarded to Exobiotic for copy edits totaling over 20,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE September 2023 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 09:58, 7 October 2023 (UTC)Reply
  Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 3rd Place
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Exobiotic for copyediting 11 old articles during the GOCE September 2023 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 09:58, 7 October 2023 (UTC)Reply

Chart making tools edit

 
Enter data and options into spreadsheet, copy the automatically generated XML code, and paste into SVG file.

From c:Commons:Chart and graph resources#Convert data to SVG charts and graphs is this:

Convert data to SVG charts and graphs:

I can see uses for a single chart of deaths both on and off Wikipedia. --Timeshifter (talk) 05:01, 14 October 2023 (UTC)Reply

Thanks! I'm busy today and won't be able to get to it for at least 6 hours. I made a chart without the numbers on top of the bars in Canva and was going to add them using gimp, but this looks like a much better solution. Exobiotic 💬 ✒️ 14:22, 14 October 2023 (UTC)Reply
Great! The charts keep being deleted by one person with the same bogus reason. See diff. I think some people just don't want people to see that far more Palestinian civilians have been killed over time than Israeli civilians. Removing the charts for that reason violates WP:NPOV and is an example of WP:Systemic bias. See:
2023 Israel–Hamas war#Context of the Israeli occupation
--Timeshifter (talk) 06:16, 15 October 2023 (UTC)Reply

Someone made a combined chart, and put it in the article. See diff. See:

--Timeshifter (talk) 16:28, 15 October 2023 (UTC)Reply

October blitz bling edit

  The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
This barnstar is awarded to Exobiotic for copy edits totaling over 4,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE October 2023 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 13:12, 24 October 2023 (UTC)Reply

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Spelling edit

Hi! I saw you had added the Meitei transliteration of Kangleipak in the article Manipur. The spelling is actually wrong. The correct spelling is ꯀꯪꯂꯩꯄꯥꯛ. If you had relied on Google Translate, then please be aware that Google Translate for Meitei language is good only in translation, but not in transliteration. And there's a wikipedia rule called WP:NOINDIC, suggesting not to add Indian scripts in lead as much as possible. In case if you want to remove the text, please do not remove the entire information but make sure to restore the previous Latin alphabet spelling version. Thank you! Haoreima (talk) 13:08, 25 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for correcting that! My main concern was removing the unusual Latin formatting; I can revert to that. Exobiotic 💬 ✒️ 13:38, 25 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

ArbCom 2023 Elections voter message edit

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November 2023 GOCE drive award edit

  The Modest Barnstar
This barnstar is awarded to Exobiotic for copy edits totaling over 4,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE November 2023 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 09:46, 7 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

Guild of Copy Editors December 2023 Newsletter edit

Guild of Copy Editors December 2023 Newsletter
 

 

Hello, and welcome to the December 2023 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since September. Don't forget that you can unsubscribe at any time; see below.

Election news: The Guild needs coordinators! If you'd like to help out, you may nominate yourself or any suitable editor—with their permission—for the Election of Coordinators for the first half of 2024. Nominations will close at 23:59 on 15 December (UTC). Voting begins immediately after the close of nominations and closes at 23:59 on 31 December. All editors in good standing (not under current sanctions) are eligible, and self-nominations are welcome. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term that ends at 23:59 on 30 June.

Drive: Of the 69 editors who signed up for the September Backlog Elimination Drive, 40 copy-edited at least one article. Between them, they copy-edited 661,214 words in 290 articles. Barnstars awarded are listed here.

Blitz: Of the 22 editors who signed up for the October Copy Editing Blitz, 13 copy-edited at least one article. Between them, they copy-edited 109,327 words in 52 articles. Barnstars awarded are listed here.

Drive: During the November Backlog Elimination Drive, 38 of the 58 editors who signed up copy-edited at least one article. Between them, they copy-edited 458,620 words in 234 articles. Barnstars awarded are listed here.

Blitz: Our December Copy Editing Blitz will run from 10 to 16 December. Barnstars awarded will be posted here.

Progress report: As of 20:33, 10 December 2023 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 344 requests since 1 January, and the backlog stands at 2,191 articles.

Other news: Our Annual Report for 2023 is planned for release in the new year.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybonzo.

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Guild of Copy Editors 2023 Annual Report edit

Guild of Copy Editors 2023 Annual Report
 

Our 2023 Annual Report is now ready for review.

Highlights:

  • Introduction
  • Membership news, obituary and election results
  • Summary of Drives, Blitzes and the Requests page
  • Closing words
– Your Guild coordinators: Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Wracking.
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