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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.)

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:-

Can I join in please? Countdown Kid 21:01, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

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

  1. Episode_1588
  2. Episode_1589
  3. Episode_1590
  4. Episode_1591
  5. Episode_1592
  6. Episode_1593
  7. Episode_1594

Grand finals

Done!

Other finals games

Series 27

  1. Episode_1516
  2. Episode_1517
  3. Episode_1518
  4. Episode_1519
  5. Episode_1520
  6. Episode_1521

Series 45

  1. Episode_3083

Series 47

  1. Episode_3273
  2. Episode_3275
  3. Episode_3276
  4. Episode_3277
  5. Episode_3278

Series 50

  1. Episode_3608
  2. Episode_3609
  3. Episode_3610
  4. Episode_3611
  5. Episode_3612
  6. Episode_3613

Series 57

  1. Episode_4502
  2. Episode_4503
  3. Episode_4504
  4. Episode_4505
  5. Episode_4506
  6. Episode_4507

Games featuring 15 round octochamps

Series 50 and before

Dictionary: NODE

  1. Episode_3176
  2. Episode_3177
  3. Episode_3178
  4. Episode_3179
  5. Episode_3180
  6. Episode_3181
  7. Episode_3182
  8. Episode_3183
  9. Episode_3527
  10. Episode_3576
  11. Episode_3577
  12. Episode_3578
  13. Episode_3579
  14. Episode_3580
  15. Episode_3581
  16. Episode_3582
  17. 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:

I checked these but he's free to reread them. Mglovesfun 19:08, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

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)

Series 56 octochamps now complete. Drawoh 23:55, 10 June 2008 (BST)

Series 57

Howard starting this series, working from the front.

Happy for others to work on these, as I've not yet watched the programmes, and don't want to look at recaps before seeing them. Drawoh 20:12, 10 June 2008 (BST)

David Von Geyer:

  1. Episode 4439
  2. Episode 4440
  3. Episode 4441
  4. Episode 4442
  5. Episode 4443
  6. Episode 4444
  7. Episode 4445
  8. Episode 4446

James Roberts:

  1. Episode 4486
  2. Episode 4487
  3. Episode 4488
  4. Episode 4489
  5. Episode 4490
  6. Episode 4491
  7. Episode 4492
  8. Episode 4493

Series 58

Michael MacDonald-Cooper:

  1. Episode 4513
  2. Episode 4514
  3. Episode 4515
  4. Episode 4516
  5. Episode 4517
  6. Episode 4518
  7. Episode 4519
  8. Episode 4520

David O'Donnell:

  1. Episode 4525
  2. Episode 4526
  3. Episode 4527
  4. Episode 4528
  5. Episode 4529
  6. Episode 4530
  7. Episode 4531
  8. Episode 4532

Tim Reypert

  1. Episode 4536
  2. Episode 4537
  3. Episode 4538
  4. Episode 4539
  5. Episode 4540
  6. Episode 4541
  7. Episode 4542
  8. Episode 4543

Jonathan Coles

  1. Episode 4612
  2. Episode 4613

Specials

Dictionary: NODE

H's new recap priority

  • Since start of S59, I've been trying to keep the latest series up to date. At present, there are only three recaps outstanding from S59.
  • After those are done, I intend to have all games of the COC13 contestants completely recapped on the Wiki by the time the COC13 starts on 12th Jan.
  • Another priority is to update the Style Guide, to reflect recent usage. drawoh 14:42, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

Useful template

For recaps which are completely broken, the following template layout may be useful. However in most cases it's easier to use "Make wiki recap" feature of the the Recap Writer. 

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{{R-numbers  |10| |||||| 
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{{R-TTT      |||}}
{{R-letters  |11|||||||}}
{{R-letters  |12|||||||}}
{{R-letters  |13|||||||}}
{{R-numbers  |14| |||||| 
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{{R-conundrum|15||c1time=|c1sol=|||}}
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