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I know some of you have helped out on Tips Patrol since it came back, but now we’d love for any or all of you to take a fresh go at it and give us any feedback you have about it - whether good, bad, or ugly! 

Because Tips Patrol is still in an experimental phase, we’re looking at lots of different aspects to decide whether tips submissions are likely to continue. So now we’re now asking for your feedback to help with this decision. 

You might have feedback about whether you enjoy the tool and whether it’s something you’re likely to use in the future, or about the quality of the tips that are coming through, and/or how you feel it will impact current and future articles. 

We’d love to hear from you, so don’t hold back! :D 

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Honestly, I don’t see myself using this too often. But, I did do a few and I noticed that the tips were generally higher quality. There were one or two that I had to delete but I feel like it’s to be expected.

3

For a little while just after it came back, I went in once. I used for about an hour and a half, then haven’t gone back in since. From what I’ve seen, tips are still low-ball grade, though there are a select few that either need to be quick-edited or re-written entirely to be able to save and add to the article - after checking for dups within the article, that is.

4

There are a good bunch which are quite high-quality, more than before. I did delete quite a bit however.

5

I’ve used this tool … a great deal lately. I’d say there’s four categories: 

  • about 40% of the tips get rejected

  • 10% have been edited/added to the article as tips

  • 25% have been skipped because I don’t have the necessary background knowledge/time to deal with them (often because they are part of category 4)

  • and the remaining 25% have been useful information that doesn’t necessarily belong in a tips format, and have resulted in me going to the article and editing it to contain the tip information. 

I think this tool is great, but mostly because it gives readers a way to submit things to articles even when they don’t have the drive to edit the article themself. This means that it requires more energy investment on our part to decide not only whether the tip is helpful, but also where it best belongs in the article.

Adding a “quick edit” button to the tool, so I don’t need to open articles in new windows to do this, would be helpful.

6

Same here. I don’t imagine I’d use it too frequently, but I’ve noticed that the tips were of better quality than that of Tips Patrol in the past. I agree that a “quick edit” button would be quite helpful as well, but other than that, I think it looks great:slight_smile:

7

Ditto. I will not likely use this tool; quick edit button would be a big help.

8

In the past, I’ve brought up the idea to bring in a Quick Edit button to Tips Patrol.  https://forums.wikihow.com/discussion/29675/ideas-for-the-review-tech-feedback-tool-new-tips-patrol#latest So, I’m in support of this option.

9

Thanks for your feedback so far, this is all good food for thought :) 

10

so whats this artile saying really?

11

More feedback: 

While it makes sense for the tips to show up for review in order of oldest to newest, it is at this point making it harder for me - I’m getting all the ones I’ve already skipped multiple times, and because so few people are using this tool they’re not going anywhere. While some that I skipped I simply didn’t have the time/energy to deal with and so now can handle, many of them I still don’t know enough for, and it’d be nice for the tips to get randomized so I continue to see new ones.

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I’ve never used this tools or anything, but I guess we need a lot more users to use tips patrol.