As you probably remember, in June 2023 we experienced a spam issue on Wazeopedia. Following that incident, we needed to block most users from editing, only allowing GCs and Coordinators access.
The good news is that we took this as an opportunity to make some changes in the editing process for Wazeopedia, and to give a bit more freedom in editing while keeping it secure.
Our new Wazeopedia editor controls will be rolled out in 3 phases:
Phase one - Going live today:
Every editor will be able to edit the Wazeopedia according to their level and country rules. As a default we used level 4 and above, but Community Coordinators can contact their Staff Community Manager to request changes.
The updated access list of editor level by country can be found here.
Phase two - By the end of 2023:
We will grant access to Wazeopedia Moderators to have full control over their country’s Wazeopedia permissions.
3) Phase three - Q1 2024
Edit Suggestions - yes, exactly like what’s coming for WME!
Any editor that can’t edit will be able to submit a suggestion and the moderators will be able to approve or reject it.
We understand that L1, L2, and L3 editors are using Wazeopedia a lot, and while reading and going over the pages they may find mistakes. With Edit Suggestions they will be able to help keep Wazeopedia updated.
Thanks for your help and guidance in making this update happen!
Quick question: Do the users who are eligible in Phase 1 (Level 4+) have different rights than the users who are appointed as Wiki Masters in Phase 2?
Or does it mean that you can appoint individual editors with levels 1-3 as wiki editors, who then don’t have to submit suggestions that need to be approved?
Thanks for the very informative post! I take the quoted passage to mean that coordinators can request changes to the general level needed to edit the Wazeopedia. Is that correct? Or will you also be allowing for exceptions to be made for individual editors, so the required level could remain on L4+, with special editing rights for those editors the coordinators deem sufficiently capable and trustworthy?
Wiki Masters will be able to approve suggestions edits added by users/editors that can’t edit the Wazeopedia according to the level rules.
Example, your country anyone that is level 4 can edit the Wazeopedia, someone that was level 3 saw a mistake, he/she can suggest an edit and only masters/moderators will be able to approve it.
The editors will be able to edit the Wazeopedia in their local country only per level, it will not be by request anymore. It will not be by individuals anymore. The coordinator can choose to change the minimum level for editing contacting the CM. Maybe we will add a different solution on phase 2 but still not sure if we will be able to do it (give the moderators the permissions to add editors from different levels).
I think I get the gist of what you’re saying, @nickyaug, at the moment I’ve got only one question left.
Some of us edit the map in several nations / communities. Do I understand correctly that we will all also be able to edit the Wazopedia of those communities, each according to their own national lock-level? So, if, for instance, I were a L3-Editor, active in Nation A (with L3+ for Wiki changes) and Nation B (with the standard L4+ in place), I would be able to edit the Wiki in Nation A, but in Nation B I’d be limited to phase 3-suggestions. Is that correct?
Or will there also be some national safeguards in place, to protect the Wiki of a hypothetical small community C, which was naive enough to lower the bar to L1+, against roaming rogue rascals from outside their community?
2 usually is better than 1 so we are ok
You will be able to edit only in your country (where you are located) according to the local rules.
In the phase 2 we are planning to give to moderators to open to specific editors, it still in tests and we are not sure if we will be able to make it happen, for that reason I still didn’t add it to the plan.
This answer, of course, leads to the next question…
When you say “your country” and “where you are located” does this refer to physical presence? So, if an editor were to be in Canada on Tuesday and in Greenland on Wednesday, he’d not be able to edit the Canadian Wiki on Wednesday?
I’m sorry if my questions are perhaps getting on your nerves, @nickyaug, but this one wasn’t posed in jest. I don’t know where you live, but we here in Europe are quite used to passing national borders. I, for one, have been in one country in the morning, another in the afternoon, and back again in the first on several days this week alone.
So could we please have an answer to the question, whether wiki editing rights are contingent on actual physical presence in the nation in question? And do the editing rights then “follow” the editor? In other words: will I be able to edit, let’s say, the French Wazeopedia once I cross the German-French border?
Point taken. I didn’t mean to sound impatient, but @nickyaug was so quick to respond to my previous questions, I was under the impression that she already had all the answers. A downside to being quick, knowledgeable, and competent, would seem to be that one runs the risk of being viewed as omniscient. In other words: I didn’t see the possibility that an answer would have to be acquired somewhere else. I did see the possibility that my questions might give the impression of asking them for their own sake. To prevent irritation on that front, I seem to have caused irritation on another. Sorry about that.
Thanks again for your answer, @nickyaug ! Just to make sure I understand it correctly: The goal is to make it possible to edit the wiki for those countries in which the editor has map editing rights and meets the minimum level required according to that nation’s rules. Did I get that right?
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