Community Ladder for Nepal

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What do the colours mean?

Editing Skill - A demonstrated competence and experience at a Waze map editing tasks or feature.

Soft Skill - A personal or interpersonal skill that helps you communicate, work with others, and handle situations effectively. Examples include communication, teamwork, empathy, leadership, problem solving and adaptability.

Community Contribution - A demonstrated ongoing interaction, engagement, mentoring and value-adding to the Waze Nepal map editing community.

General / Other - A Waze system or unique local requirement.

Community Ladder for Nepal V1.0 [2026.09.01]

L1 → L2: Getting Started:

1. Complete Waze Academy Course: Waze Map Editor - Basics

2. Request for Mentor via mentor form: Ask for a Mentor

3. Complete A-F training mentor sheets.

4. Reaching 3K edits

5. Maintained high editing standards consistently over the past month.

6. Good knowledge of Waze app navigation and features.

L2 → L3: Becoming an Advanced Editor:

1. Complete Waze Academy Course: Waze Map Editor - Essential Edits

2. Complete G training mentor sheets.

3. Reaching 25K edits, including 1K places.

4. Maintained high editing standards consistently over the past 5 months.

5. Good knowledge of the Waze Map Editor (WME) and its features.

6. Following local and global mapping best practices.

7. Active participation and positive involvement within the Waze Nepal community (such as being active on the Waze Nepal Discord server and participating in monthly online meetups).

L3 → L4: The Reliable Contributor:

The focus is on technical proficiency and “proper etiquette.” Editors are expected to have mastered basic tools and started engaging with the community.

1. Complete Waze Academy Courses:

   • Waze Map Editor - Issues and Reports

   • Waze Map Editor - Road Closures and Traffic Events

   • Waze Map Editor - Suggest an Edit - Moderators

   • Waze Map Editor Advanced - Segment Editing

   • Waze Map Editor Advanced - Junction Boxes and Paths

2. Complete training mentor sheets.

3. Reaching 100K edits, including 2K places.

4. Maintained high editing standards consistently over the past 1 year.

5. Area Management: Frequent editing and maintenance of an AM. Expertise in the specific area.

   • Regular map maintenance to ensure all segments, places, and house numbers are accurate.

   • Promptly addressing and resolving User Reports (URs) and Map Problems (MPs) within the AM area, and communicating with users in a polite manner.

   • Proactively staying updated on local road changes, new developments, and infrastructure projects to reflect them on the map.

   • Editors who already successfully oversee an existing AM may qualify in this level progression for an expanded geographic area or a supplementary AM assignment to their local residential vicinity.

6. Closures:

   • Expertise in adding road closures and understanding the related closures of nodes and turns. Proven ability to understand statuses of closures and provide assistance to partners in adding them to the map.

   OR

   • Successful completion of the required training course, demonstrating strong proficiency in the feature and a deep understanding of its routing impact on drivers.

7. Junction Box:

   • Understands the impact of JBs in routing and guidance and uses the JBs correctly.

   OR

   • Successful completion of the required training course, demonstrating strong proficiency in the feature and a deep understanding of its routing impact on drivers.

8. Lane Guidance: Adding guidance to a segment and defining the navigation instructions for drivers.

9. Suggest an Edit: Knows how to moderate suggestions and is polite with suggesters.

   • Demonstrates technical proficiency in reviewing and moderating map suggestions.

   • Maintains professional and polite communication with all contributors, providing clear explanations for moderation decisions.

   • Strictly adheres to established regional and global moderation guidelines to ensure consistency across the map.

10. Permanent Hazards: Have an understanding and proven record of adding PHs in your country.

11. School Zones: Understanding of how to properly define a school zone polygon, including all relevant segments.

12. Be active in the Forum: Stay proactively informed about the latest news and announcements provided by the Waze staff and communities team. Contribute your knowledge and expertise to local forums or other community channels and actively participate in the development cycle by providing constructive feedback on new features, beta releases, and map editing tools to ensure they meet the needs of your local region.

13. Active in chat and local groups: Is an active part of chat groups. This involves frequently participating in discussions and staying informed about community updates and announcements.

14. Community Endorsement: Ensuring that local leadership supports the rank advancement. Active engagement within the community is vital, as obtaining the community’s approval remains an essential prerequisite.

L4 → L5: The Community Mentor:

This is the “bridge” level. The focus shifts heavily toward mentoring and retention. It is no longer enough to edit well; you must help others edit well. Focuses on becoming a “Community Mentor,” with heavy emphasis on Junction Boxes, Restricted Areas, and the success of new editors.

1. Maintained high editing standards consistently over the past 2 years.

2. Reaching 250K edits

3. Lanes on Junction Boxes: Ability to understand when and how to map lane guidance on JBs.

4. Paths (Far Lanes): Knowledge of adding a path and configuring far turns. Understanding of push and pull characteristics.

5. Restricted Area & Segment Restrictions: Comprehensive and extensive understanding of the significance of creating a restricted area and the type of restrictions that exist in WME (for specific days, hours, days, vehicles, permits, lanes and tolls).

6. Crisis Response & Shelters: During a crisis, the editor acts as a vital link to the crisis/communities team, identifying and reporting official shelters and donation centers (when relevant). They have mastered the standardized procedures for accurately adding these locations to the map or reporting them to the communities/crisis team.

7. Mentoring:

   • Is an active community mentor and shares their knowledge with mentees. This includes providing 1:1 guidance on complex mapping scenarios, offering constructive feedback on edit quality to ensure map accuracy, and actively encouraging mentees to participate in community discussions and local groups to build their network.

   OR

   • While not serving as an official mentor, this contributor is deeply trusted by the community to resolve mapping queries, guide peers throughout their editing journey, and offer constructive feedback to support their growth.

8. New Editors Retention & Proactive Interaction: Actively identifies newcomers by monitoring local mapping activity through HVA reports, recent edits, or “suggest an edit” moderations. Sends personalized welcome messages to invite new editors into the local community. The ultimate goal is to foster long-term community integration by serving as a bridge between the map and the social community channels.

9. Welcoming Newcomers: Takes a lead role in proactive outreach by identifying and greeting new editors promptly. They provide essential initial resources, such as links to local mapping wikis and communication channels, while fostering a supportive environment that encourages questions and long-term community integration.

10. Wazeopedia & Knowledge Sharing: Acts as a local custodian of knowledge by proactively editing articles to reflect current mapping standards. They don’t just follow guides; they propose structural changes to improve clarity for others and ensure that all local documentation is kept up-to-date, serving as a reliable reference for the entire community.

11. Community Endorsement: Ensuring that local leadership supports the rank advancement. Active engagement within the community is vital, as obtaining the community’s approval remains an essential prerequisite.

L5 → L6: The Strategic & Diplomatic Leader:

At this highest stage, technical skills are assumed to be mastered. The requirements shift almost entirely to leadership, project management, and vision. Key traits include consensus building, de-escalating conflicts, and a strong partnership with Waze Staff (SCMs).

1. Maintained high editing standards consistently over the past 5 years.

2. Reaching 500K edits

3. Request Imagery (“The Button”): Knows how to identify outdated imagery by checking availability of imagery in all available layers. Correctly requesting imagery updates via “the button” and adds all needed data to fulfill the request.

4. Active in Chat: Serves as a primary initiator of community conversations within local channels. Proactively shares critical staff announcements and ensures updates are effectively disseminated to the group.

5. Leader & Consensus Builder: Demonstrates leadership through consensus building and serving as a model for peers. Actively facilitates the resolution of internal community conflicts. Embodies the qualities of a seasoned, approachable leader with extensive Waze expertise.

6. Map Raid Organizer or Project leader: Identifies areas for improvement in the map and organizes Map Raids (either local or global) and/or leads, organizes and encourages mapping initiatives such as: mapping traffic lights, mapping speed bumps, closing URs in certain areas, reviewing KoiFish open suggestions and newly launched Waze mapping features in order to unlock them for our users.

7. Relationship with your country’s coordinator: Maintains a strong, collaborative partnership with their country coordinators and demonstrates expertise in identifying when to escalate concerns to coordinators. Knows who is their staff Community Manager.

8. Holds at least one other active role besides Map Editor: is a Community Booster, Partner Coordinator, Mentoring Coordinator, WME Pirate, Beta Tester, Beta Leader, TE Marshall, First Responder, Coordinator, Local Champ, Culture Chair, Mega Mapper, Script Writer, or any other available community role.

9. Community Endorsement: Ensuring that local leadership supports the rank advancement. Active engagement within the community is vital, as obtaining the community’s approval remains an essential prerequisite.

If you think you’re ready for the next level, take a look at the guidelines above to see how your progress aligns. When you’re ready, connect with your mentor to kick off the promotion review.

Demotions

Editors may receive a level reduction, which can be initiated by Waze Staff or the Waze Nepal Leadership Team at their sole discretion. While the Waze Nepal Leadership Team .often attempt to contact editors to communicate issues or concerns before taking adverse action on an account, we are not required to do so. Level reductions may occur in instances of map abuse, failure to follow mapping guidelines, or failure to adhere to the Waze Terms of Service.

A temporary reduction in editor level can occur while an editor works to realign their editing skills with the requirements for holding their assigned editing level. For example, an editor who makes frequent and ongoing errors, is not competent in using a particular feature, or whose edits cause considerable damage to the map and impact drivers, may receive an editor level adjustment from 3 to 2 while they undertake additional training and mentoring.

As mentioned in Promotions above, if an editor no longer meets the ongoing requirements for a higher editing level (see the requirements mentioned in the Promotions Ladder section), they may be demoted. For example, a level 4 editor stops editing for 12 months or ceases engaging with the community may be subject to demotion. Each case is assessed on individual circumstances before any action is taken.