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Countdown:Recap checking project
I thought those of us working on this project could benefit from a centralised location to identify ourselves, discuss stuff and generally do team bonding. So here it is.
7,933 checked of 8,586 recaps
Contents
New data
The first set of Jim's data (for Series 51) has been uploaded: see Recent Changes. This data contains very few mistakes, but we should still check it carefully against the original recap. It does contain some omissions, including:
- DC's words (I've starred all words by default - remove the stars as appropriate.)
- Numbers solutions (from contestants and CV)
- Conundrum times.
- Tea-time teasers.
This should be added in, as far as the original recap allows (a lot of the TTTs are lost, which is not too tragic really.) Feel free to add questions or comments below. Series 52 - 56 should follow before the week is out. Soo 12:42, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
- Series 52 and 53 are up. Dumper 12:17, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
- Series 54, 55 and 56 are up. Dumper 14:16, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
- Series 57 (up to the end of November) is up. Dumper 21:35, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
- Uploaded lots of contestant pages. List of contestants without episode tables coming soon. Dumper 18:17, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
- Inserted lots of TTTs, although not many of the clues. Dumper 18:17, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
Overview
Our aim is complete, correct rounds for every possible episode. This is equivalent to emptying Category:Unchecked recaps and all its subcategories. Since this is 1018 articles, it is obviously a long-term project. The first priority is to clear articles in the root category, because these are mostly done already and we can make rapid progress through them.
Correcting mistakes in existing rounds is fairly straightforward, but for full details of our house style and handling of tricky points (like misdeclarations), see our style guide.
I suggest the following rough priorities. (For a complete list, see below.)
- Grand finals - done!
- CoC games - 7 to go.
- Semi-finals and quarter finals - 19 to go.
- Games featuring octochamps. - 279 to go
- Other stuff.
I also suggest working from most recent to oldest, especially because it's quite hard to check the words for the oldest ones.
People
The following people (at least) are working on the recap checking project:-
- User:Smjg - Stewart Gordon
- User:Reams - Charlie Reams
- User:Drawoh - Howard Somerset
- User:Nebagram - Ben Wilson
Points of discussion
Bug notice
Some of the episode pages are coming up blank. If you edit the page, you'll see that all the text is there but for some reason doesn't appear. The page can be edited as normal and will fix itself as soon as it is saved. Soo 15:37, 22 September 2007 (BST)
Notation for misdeclarations
How do we indicate words disallowed due to being misdeclared? The usual ☓ is likely to cause confusion. Soo 13:49, 19 September 2007 (BST)
Priority articles
CoC games
Grand finals
Done!
Other finals games
- Episode_1516
- Episode_1517
- Episode_1518
- Episode_1519
- Episode_1520
- Episode_1521
- Episode_3083
- Episode_3273
- Episode_3275
- Episode_3276
- Episode_3277
- Episode_3278
- Episode_3608
- Episode_3609
- Episode_3610
- Episode_3611
- Episode_3612
- Episode_3613
Games featuring 15 round octochamps
Series 50 and before
Dictionary: NODE
- Episode_3176
- Episode_3177
- Episode_3178
- Episode_3179
- Episode_3180
- Episode_3181
- Episode_3182
- Episode_3183
- Episode_3527
- Episode_3576
- Episode_3577
- Episode_3578
- Episode_3579
- Episode_3580
- Episode_3581
- Episode_3582
- Episode_3583
Series 51
Dictionary: ODE2
- I'm working on this. Feel free to help out but don't blame me if we get edit-conflicted. Soo 13:57, 21 September 2007 (BST)
- Finished finals and octochamp runs. Soo 19:01, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
Series 52
Dictionary: ODE2
- All octochamps completed. Soo 17:07, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
Series 53
Dictionary: ODE2 Jono - reserved by himself:
Series 54
Dictionary: ODE2 All octochamps' games done. Drawoh 11:21, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Series 55
Dictionary: ODE2r
- Howard is working on this, so I suggest working on another series to avoid edit conflicts. Soo 13:57, 21 September 2007 (BST)
- Finished Drawoh 23:23, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
Series 56
Dictionary: ODE2r
Howard started working on this one, from the back. Anyone else joining in, go from the front so we don't clash.
- Sorry I've not done much on this recently. Hopefully, I'll be able to do more after Christmas. H
- No need to apologise, all your help is hugely appreciated. Soo 00:07, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
Aaron Webber
- Episode_4339 needs dumper running
Series 57
Howard starting this series, working from the front
- Episode 4397
- Episode 4398
- Episode 4399
- Episode 4400
- Episode 4401
- Episode 4402
- Episode 4403
- Episode 4404
- Episode 4439
- Episode 4440
- Episode 4441
- Episode 4442
- Episode 4443
- Episode 4444
- Episode 4445
- Episode 4446
- Episode 4486
- Episode 4487
- Episode 4488
- Episode 4489
- Episode 4490
- Episode 4491
- Episode 4492
- Episode 4493
Series 58
- Episode 4513
- Episode 4514
- Episode 4515
- Episode 4516
- Episode 4517
- Episode 4518
- Episode 4519
- Episode 4520
- Episode 4525
- Episode 4526
- Episode 4527
- Episode 4528
- Episode 4529
- Episode 4530
- Episode 4531
- Episode 4532
- Episode 4536
- Episode 4537
- Episode 4538
- Episode 4539
- Episode 4540
- Episode 4541
- Episode 4542
- Episode 4543
Specials
Dictionary: NODE
- Episode S1
- Episode S2
- Episode S3
- Episode S4
- Episode S5
- Episode S6
- Episode S7
- Episode S8
- Episode S9
- Episode S10
- Episode S11
- Episode S12
- Episode S13
- Episode S14
- Episode S15
- Episode S16
- Episode S17
- Episode S18
- Episode S19
- Episode S20
- Episode S21
- Episode S22
- Episode S23
Useful template
For recaps which are completely broken, the following template layout may be useful:
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