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Highlights:

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

Hello, and welcome to the December newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since September. If you'd like to be notified of upcoming drives and blitzes, and other GOCE activities, the best method is to add ourannouncements box to your watchlist.

Election news: The Guild's coordinators play an important role in the WikiProject, making surenearly everything runs smoothly and on time. Editors experienced in drives or blitzes and in good standing (unblocked and without sanctions) are invited tonominate themselves or another editor (with their permission, of course) to be a Guild coordinator until 23:59 on 15 December (UTC). The voting phase begins at 00:01 on 16 December and runs until 23:59 on 31 December. Questions may be asked of candidates at any stage in the process. Elected coordinators will serve a six-month term from 1 January through 30 June 2026.

September Drive: 43 of the 63 editors who signed up for theSeptember Backlog Elimination Drive edited 693,541 words in 265 articles. Barnstars awarded arehere.

October Blitz: 14 of the 15 editors who signed up for theOctober Copy Editing Blitz edited 75,108 words in 31 articles. Barnstars awarded arehere.

November Drive: 38 of the 65 editors who signed up for theNovember Backlog Elimination Drive edited 590,816 words in 240 articles. Barnstars awarded are postedhere.

December Blitz: The December Blitz will begin at 00:00 on 14 December (UTC) and will end on 20 December at 23:59.Sign up here. Barnstars awarded will be postedhere.

Progress report: As of 01:49, 8 December 2025 (UTC), GOCE copy editors have completed 293 requests since 1 January, and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 1,730 articles.

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