Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Membership/News/2015 Annual Report

Welcome to the Guild of Copy Editors' annual report for 2015. It's been another successful backlog-busting year at the Guild; our Blitzes and Drives have been popular, as has our Requests page. Your coordinators have also been active behind the scenes, helping the Guild to run smoothly.

Our regular backlog reduction drives and blitzes continue to keep the backlog trending downwards (see graph to right); albeit with a pronounced yo-yo pattern reflecting the every-other-month schedule of our drives. Much progress has been made this year; we started 2015 at 2,198. According to our monthly records, the level peaked at 2,627 in April, fell to 2,022 in May, bounced to 2,557 and plummeted to a new all-time low of 1,849 at the end of November. Hopefully our regular assaults on this Mount Analogue will help keep the backlog to a reasonable size.

Our week-long blitzes focused primarily (and successfully) on reducing the backlog on our copy-editing Requests page, with an occasional diverting excursion into topic-based groups of articles, including biographies and food and drink.

Behind the scenes, we have completed work to restructure the archives of the Guild's various talk pages. The archives had been organized using different systems across our pages; some were in monthly archives and some were archived ad hoc into numbered archives. We've consolidated these pages into annual digests, making finding specific conversations—including those that occurred over multiple months—easier and presenting a more contextually complete record of Guild history. We will continue using bots to archive talk pages, reducing manual intervention and easing future maintenance tasks.