Difference between revisions of "Countdown:Recap checking project"

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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.

92.4% completed
7,888 checked of 8,541 recaps

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)

You can see a list of potential errors flagged by the dumper here. Once the octochamp runs are done, fixing these is probably top priority. Soo 15:18, 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

Games featuring 15 round octochamps

Series 50 and before

Dictionary: NODE

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

David Von Geyer:

James Roberts:

Series 58

Michael MacDonald-Cooper:

David O'Donnell:

Tim Reypert

Jonathan Coles

Specials