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Hey ya’ll, Just wanted to give a heads-up on a change that Scott has made to the flow of tips additions: All new tips go through multiple levels of review on wikiHow – until now, new tips have been reviewed first in Tips Patrol and then in Quality Guardian, before going live to an article. However, because Quality Guardian doesn’t allow for a Quick Edit feature, whereas Tips Patrol does, the order of double-checks has now been reversed, to make sure the tip can be edited last thing before it goes live to an article. This review order makes a little more sense, and will definitely help ensure that tips reviewers get to edit the good tips right before they are published. So now, if a mobile reader adds a tip, it first goes to Quality Guardian. There, each tip is voted on so that it either gets removed from the queue (if it’s unhelpful) or gets approved and pushed on to Tips Patrol. In the Tips Patrol tool, approved tips are reviewed a second time - and there, any issues with grammar and spelling can be fixed up, before the tip goes live to the article (and goes through RCP). There may be a few glitches in the logs right at the moment (down to the switch of the order), and the Dashboard/in-tool counts haven’t yet been updated to reflect the change, but this should all be temporary. After the tips that are currently in the system are all cleared out or approved, everything will log in the right place and we’ll have smooth sailing going forward:slight_smile:Let us know if you guys see issues, outside of the counts and logs being temporarily off. Scott and I have done a lot of testing, so hopefully it’s all good to go, but if not, let me know what you see!

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When I went on tips patrol, it actually said there is no tips to patrol at this time. Is that really true?

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This is because most of the backlog will now be in Quality Guardian – so there are lots of tips to review there, and then only the fewer good ones should get to the Tips Patrol tool. Scott will be working on updating the counts to be accurate, though, so hold tight for those changes, and it’ll all be a bit clearer:slight_smile:

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I think this method makes much more sense.

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I agree.