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== Guild of Copy Editors April 2024September Newsletter ==

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Hello and welcome to the April 2024September newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Newsletters/December 2023|December]]June. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. We extend a warm welcome to all of our new members. We wish you all happy copy-editing.

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'''DriveBlitz:''' 4613 of the 24 editors who signed up for ourthe [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drivesBlitzes/JanuaryJune 2024|'''JanuaryJune Backlog2024 Copy EliminationEditing Drive'''Blitz]], 32copy of whom claimededited at least one copy-editarticle. Between them, they copy- edited 289169,404 articleswords totalingcomprising 626,72941 wordsarticles. Barnstars awarded are [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drivesBlitzes/JanuaryJune 2024/Barnstars|'''here''']].

'''BlitzDrive:''' 2338 of the 59 editors who signed up for ourthe [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/BlitzesBacklog elimination drives/FebruaryJuly_2024|July 2024|'''February CopyBacklog EditingElimination Blitz'''Drive]]. 18copy claimededited at least one copy-editarticle. and betweenBetween them, they copy- edited 100482,293133 words incomprising 32293 articles. Barnstars awarded are [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Blitzes/FebruaryBacklog 2024elimination drives/July_2024/Barnstars|'''here''']].

'''DriveBlitz:''' 5310 of the 15 editors who signed up for ourthe [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drivesBlitzes/MarchAugust 2024|'''MarchAugust Backlog2024 Copy EliminationEditing Drive'''Blitz]], 34copy of whom claimededited at least one copy-editarticle. Between them, they copy- edited 30071,294 articleswords totalingcomprising 587,82831 wordsarticles. Barnstars awarded are [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drivesBlitzes/MarchAugust 2024/Barnstars|'''here''']].

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'''Progress report:''' As of 23 05:1714, 11 AprilSeptember 2024 (UTC)<!-- ~~~~~ Upadate before sending-->, GOCE copyeditors have processed 109233 [[WP:GOCER|requests]] since 1 January 2024, and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 2,480824 articles.