Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Membership/News/2020 Annual Report

Some rough notes here while constructing the annual report

Requests completed in 2020
Here's my math/methodology for the requests completed in 2020 (I used a spreadsheet but you can do this with a text editor that can count instances of a search string). Take the 2020 requests archives, sort the Oct-Dec section by completion date, and copy everything from Robert von Lieben (the last req completed in 2020) to the top of the archives. Paste it into a text editor. Search for 2020 and you get 1419 results. Eliminate the false positives from article titles: 2020 JNU attack, 2020 Masters, 2020 European Masters, 2020 German Masters, 2020 World Grand Prix, 2020 Snooker Shoot Out, 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Iran, Timeline of the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests (April 2020), Let's Dance 2020, and 2020 24 Hours of Le Mans. 1419-11=1408. Divide by 2 is 704. Subtract the declined (26) and withdrawn (14). 704-26-14=664. Add 17 of the last 18 entries from 2019 (one was declined). 664+17=681 requests completed in 2020. I understand this doesn't jive with your monthly breakdown table.

I also had some different figures for Requests on the Annual Leaderboard. If it might be the reason, the Request page section generally talks about requests submitted in 2020, while the leaderboard looks at work completed in 2020. I used the request archive data (it's too much work for me to count each blitz/drive page and *R isn't used consistently).

Let me know if you'd like me to email my spreadsheets to you. – Reidgreg (talk) 13:55, 3 February 2021 (UTC)