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Hello! I was using the Knowledge Guardian tool today and decided to do a little more reading on it to make sure I was using it correctly. I found the article on wikiHow on how to use it, and it mentioned that it reviews submissions from the Knowledge Box.

This may be a silly question, but what is that?

Also, where does the information in the Knowledge Guardian go if it is approved? Is it sent to the author(s) of the article, added directly to the article, or does it go somewhere else?

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Not a silly question at all - This info has been scattered over various forum posts and gets tricky to find! I tried to incorporate some of it into the KB article itself, here:  http://www.wikihow.com/Use-the-Knowledge-Guardian-on-wikiHow

The gist is that the submissions are gathered from readers on article pages, who submit through a prompt that’s visible logged out, and looks like this:

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Many submissions are gathered for each topic, and then they’re reviewed and voted on in the KB Guardian. Once there are enough submissions and enough votes to help prioritize them, an editor (usually one of our editing fellows, but others are welcome to give it a go, too) does a big overhaul of the article, using the reader submissions as their basis. That way, the best advice gets edited, weaved together, and rewritten as necessary - and hopefully the result is a much improved article:slight_smile:

Does that answer your questions? If you have more, let me know!

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Thanks for all the info – it makes a lot more sense now. However, there is one part that still confuses me a little: where do they get ordered and ready for the “big overhaul”? For example, once they’ve been voted on and prioritized, where do they go to wait to be used? I can’t seem to find a place that you can edit the article and see all the new knowledge bits, or where they’re all gathered up into one group.

Does that make sense?

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Sorry, that was covered in some of the forum posts I linked in the sources, but my bad for not specifying here. Most of these edits are done by our editing fellow team as part of their regular editing assignments - they get the output from the Knowledge Guardian votes (in an Excel file, I believe) and use them to do edits for completeness and accuracy. If anyone else wants to give it a go, you can shoot me an email, though, like I talked about in this post: http://forums.wikihow.com/discussion/12330/does-anyone-want-to-try-editing-an-article-with-reader-submissions-from-the-knowledge-box/p1 :slight_smile:

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PS Since the examples in that post are a little outdated, here are some more recent ones, if you want to check them out! http://www.wikihow.com/index.php?title=Fly-in-World-of-Warcraft&diff=18433422&oldid=17992984 http://www.wikihow.com/index.php?title=Test-for-CO2&diff=18398280&oldid=17943835

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Oh, I understand now. Thanks for the help!:slight_smile:

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Sure, no prob Kenna - thanks for asking! It was good to know that article could use some more detail- cheers for bringing it up:slight_smile: