Online events:

• New: Education (year-long initiative) | Alphabet run M & N | Temperance women

• Continuing: #1day1woman | Women who died in 2023

Announcement

• In 2024 Women in Red also has a one biography a week challenge as part
  of the #1day1woman initiative!

Tip of the month:

• Check out the new navigation on our Women in Red Project home page.

Other ways to participate:

• Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications.
• Join the conversations on our talkpage.
• Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project.
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Highlights:

• Introduction
• Membership news, obituary and election results
• Summary of Drives, Blitzes and the Requests page
• Closing words

Online events:

• New: Alphabet run S & T | Gender studies | Health

• Continuing: #1day1woman | Education (year-long initiative)

Announcements

• The second round of "One biography a week" begins in April as part of #1day1woman.

Tip of the month:

• If you run into technical problems, you might find help on our Tools and technical support page

Other ways to participate:

• Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications.
• Join the conversations on our talkpage.
• Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project.
• Follow us on social media:

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Hello and welcome to the April 2024 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since December. 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.

Election results: In our December 2023 coordinator election, Zippybonzo stepped down as coordinator; we thank them for their service. Incumbents Dhtwiki and Miniapolis were reelected coordinators, and Wracking was newly elected coordinator, to serve through 30 June. Nominations for our mid-year Election of Coordinators will open on 1 June (UTC).

Drive: 46 editors signed up for our January Backlog Elimination Drive, 32 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 289 articles totaling 626,729 words. Barnstars awarded are here.

Blitz: 23 editors signed up for our February Copy Editing Blitz. 18 claimed at least one copy-edit and between them, they copy-edited 100,293 words in 32 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

Drive: 53 editors signed up for our March Backlog Elimination Drive, 34 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 300 articles totaling 587,828 words. Barnstars awarded are here.

Blitz: Sign up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, which runs from 14 to 20 April. Barnstars will be awarded here.

Progress report: As of 23:17, 11 April 2024 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 109 requests since 1 January 2024, and the backlog stands at 2,480 articles.

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