You haven't seen a post here in a while (And I know my last little series wasn't too productive...But no need to worry!), but that's about to change!<br><br>
Throughout this month, you'll get wikiHow like it is. What it really is, and little things people do along the way. And although I'm not starting at the very beginning, I would like to tell you a little about patrolling and one of the things we recently added to the tool. I love to patrol, and so do other users too. Many of them do it, and some are successful, some aren't. And that's why we have...The Patrol Coach!
The Patrol Coach is there to help new patrollers become better patrollers. The Patrol Coach pops up whenever a user doesn't pass the "Patrol test". It is a variety of random tests a patroller might accidentally miss. If a patroller misses the edit and doesn't pass the test, the Patrol Coach pops up and explains what the user did wrong, and what to do in the future. Pretty cool huh? Well, wikiHow just made something new.
As Krystle announced in this thread ---> http://forums.wikihow.com/discussion/comment/75572/#Comment_75572
"Late in 2011 we launched the Patrol Coach to give people valuable feedback as they're patrolling. The feature that we're launching today will undo someone's patrols based on their performance on the Patrol Coach tests. A new patroller is going to be faced with lots of easy tests when they start out. By "easy" I mean obvious acts of vandalism or spam that a new patroller should rollback. If they fail an easy test, all of their patrols since their last easy test get undone and put back into the queue, and they get an automated talk page note from me explaining that/why this happened. They will continue to be faced with easy tests (approximately every 50 patrols) and have their patrols undone every time they fail until they pass a total of 7 easy tests. From that point on they will get harder tests, but there will be no auto-unpatrolling."
It is a thing that has been with us for a few months now, and I think it's going pretty well.
The Patrol Coach hasn't gotten me with any unpatrol tests...Yet. =P Joking, I'm pretty sure I passed all of the tests. Anyway, the Patrol Coach will not pop up at you after you've passed 50 in the patrol queue. It's a neat tool, that I believe will benefit us in the long run.
Congrats to wikiHow, you've made a pretty awesome new thing!
Until tomorrow,
December
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