A Conversation for A Response to the Updating System Proposal
To scout or submit?
Frankie Roberto Started conversation Jul 9, 2002
Can I put this question from the summary to the group:
"One question with this process is how entries would get moved out of the review forum (once the updates have been settled). Would it be picked by a Scout, or sent off by the original updater?"
To scout or submit?
World Service Memoryshare team Posted Jul 9, 2002
I think we'd have to reconsider the role of the updater. Originally the role was going to be two-fold: to work on updates and to pick updates. It appears we're moving towards a more Scout-like role, nurturing and picking updates to go up on the front page (five a week, say). But, we still need these updates to come in via some sort of subbing process (let's say that the Updaters do this too).
How about that?
To scout or submit?
Frankie Roberto Posted Jul 9, 2002
So, to summarise, any member of h2g2 can update a version of an edited entry, which they then submit to the new review forum. Volunteers then pick a certain number of updates to 'go live', the updates are then subbed (perhaps using the comparison tools), before being checked by the in-house team.
So do we use the existing scouts to do the scouting and subs to do the subbing, or create a new volunteer group to do one of, or both, of the jobs?
To scout or submit?
World Service Memoryshare team Posted Jul 9, 2002
To keep it simple we could combine the roles into one new volunteer scheme.
Am about to dash off - more discussion tomorrow!
Anna 
To scout or submit?
Frankie Roberto Posted Jul 9, 2002
Ok. I think I'll go out and do the shopping...
To scout or submit?
Jimi X Posted Jul 9, 2002
I had kind of envisioned that Updaters will be both Scout and Sub in one. And I reckon it would be really fab to be able to Sub the entry you Scouted (more chance of somebody finding an entry that they're going to be interested in).
To scout or submit?
Frankie Roberto Posted Jul 9, 2002
Well, it looks like that's a happy consensus then. I had thought some people might suggest adding the jobs on to the existing volunteers.
To scout or submit?
Martin Harper Posted Jul 10, 2002
> "it would be really fab to be able to Sub the entry you Scouted"
Perhaps that's something we should consider for Peer Review then? Just for those Researchers who are both Scouts *and* Sub-eds, of course.
-Martin
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World Service Memoryshare team Posted Jul 11, 2002
Okay, but couldn't updaters volunteer fresh, without having been a sub and a scout?
To scout or submit?
Martin Harper Posted Jul 11, 2002
Certainly. It was just an off-topic thought about the Peer Review system.
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- 5: Frankie Roberto (Jul 9, 2002)
- 6: Jimi X (Jul 9, 2002)
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- 8: World Service Memoryshare team (Jul 10, 2002)
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