New Waze Editors welcome pack

Map Editors Community Ireland
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Hi guys, let’s create a “welcome pack” for new Waze Editors with links to resources, FAQs, and anything else that is important to get started! The final product will be a new pinned post/announcement.

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Just to get the ball rolling:

++David

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Something along this lines as an opener:

And I’m adjusting/adding to your list:

And closing with something like:

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Looks good - I’d just make a couple of changes:

  • Only capitalise the first word of sentences and proper nouns, so write “our map quality is at a very high level”, not “our Map Quality is at a very high level”
  • Is it really at a very high level? It is very good in many places (Dublin and Cork, for example), good in most other cities and large towns, but we still have lots of unmapped countryside and unnamed roads. Motorways and N-roads look just-about perfect, and R-roads are about 95% perfect (occasionally I find one mismapped or unmapped).
  • I think leave in the link to the Ireland section of the forum, because the welcome pack is something we might send directly to new editors, so if they’re reading the welcome pack they might not even know about the forum or realise how to get there.

++David

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Fair points, I made some adjustments - what are your thoughts? :ugeek:

Opener:

Adjusting the list further:

And closing with something like:

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Looking pretty good overall.

I’d change the opener to “Hello fellow volunteer editor!” because neither “volunteer” nor “editor” are proper nouns (the names of something).

One other change: only parts of Wicklow, Kildare (and maybe Meath) have a very high map quality level. Those parts closer to Dublin are good, but the further away from Dublin you go, the more the map quality dips. South Kildare and south Wicklow, for example, are reasonably, but not very high quality (for example: most (but not all) roads are mapped, but road naming is patchy). Maybe just say “very high level in and around Dublin, including much of Wicklow, Kildare and Meath”.

Now, that said, most of this welcome pack is pretty good: I’m mostly just picking at straws here :slight_smile:

Finally, once we’ve settled on the welcome pack, we could make a new post containing the welcome pack and make it sticky so that it appears at the top of the Ireland forum.

++David

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I think we’re ready to go - give it another eye and I can then post it in a new thread.

Opener:

Adjusting the list further:

And closing with something like:

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Looks good to me.

Just one detail: the link to WME maybe should be the one in UK English (https://www.waze.com/en-GB/editor), although I’m not sure about that because many of my WME scripts don’t seem to work directly with it.

++David

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Good catch - but what’s the difference? That link still redirects me to https://waze.com/editor/

I found 2 more very useful links in the UK wiki here - shall I throw them in before the WME link?
https://wazeopedia.waze.com/wiki/UnitedKingdom/Quick_Start
https://wazeopedia.waze.com/wiki/Global/Waze_Map_Editor

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It takes me to the UK English WME page, however it seems to default to whatever language was last selected, whatever link is used - so if we just include the basic WME link (https://www.waze.com/editor/), then it should take users to whatever is appropriate for their preferred language - so leave it as-is.

Definitely include the global WME link. As for the UK quick start page: I think add that after all the Ireland Wazeopedia links, with a note that we use UK practices for everything not covered by the Ireland Wazeopedia page, and then global practices after that - in other words, we want to tell editors to check the Ireland pages first, then the UK ones for everything not covered by the Ireland pages, and then global practices for everything after that.

++David

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[b]So, here’s the final product! https://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=119&t=282716[/b]

Can we delete/archive this post and make the new one an announcement?

Also, shall we demote these 3 since the info in the new welcome pack includes links about the topics? What do you think?
Hangout for editors in Ireland
How to contact the Ireland management team
How to apply for area manager areas

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I’ve made your final product post an announcement, so it’ll always appear at the top. I’ve also locked it, so people don’t reply to it and confuse the whole thing.

Not sure about demoting these ones: I think they’re still useful information, and so long as we don’t have too many announcement or sticky posts, they’re not causing any harm.

++David

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I think we can leave it unlocked, I see no harm for a newbie to reply there.

Can we delete or archive the present thread?

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Done.

I think there’s no need to do that: It’ll fade into the background (like all other threads) as newer threads show up.

++David