User:Ebe123/MtC/Reviewing

This page is for reviewers.

The process of reviewing the transferred files was invented for the first drive, in September 2011, and has evolved since then through drive member input and reviewer experience. Reviewing is important because information is often lost in transfers, and files that shouldn't be transferred occasionally do get moved to Commons. Reviewers catch these problems early, preventing a mistake from being made over and over, and allowing for things to be fixed quickly. Administrators make the most ideal reviewers because they are able to view deleted contributions, and because they have the ability to delete local files once they have determined that the transfers have gone smoothly. Nonetheless, the original reviewers were drive organizer Ebe123, and Sven Manguard, neither of whom were admins at the time. Other users later joined on as reviewers. Reviewers are, apart from checking the transfers, also responsible for housekeeping and the administration of the drive.

Reviewing
Ten percent of a participant's transfers should be inspected. Reviewers should choose images at random, and cannot inspect their own transfers.

To review transfers, go to the logs page and choose an entry. Make sure that the information that was on the local Wikipedia page, including source information, description information, and an upload history (if the file had more than one local version) all made it to the Commons page. Also make sure that the file should have been transferred, i.e. that it is free use by Commons' definition (which is stricter than Wikipedia's definition).

If the transfer is acceptable, mark it down using. If the transfer is not acceptable, denote that with. Please make sure you explain why it isn't acceptable. This dosen't have to very long, 'didn't transfer over description' or 'image isn't free use' should usually be enough. If the transfer can be fixed, the participant should be given the opportunity to fix it. After all, the objective of this drive is to get the files to Commons, so there's no point in bringing it back unless it shouldn't be on Commons. Reviewers, upon determining that a transfer is unacceptable, have the right to a) check over additional transfers made by the same participant, b) levy a penalty (the size of which is at the reviewer's discretion) from the participant's "score" in the rankings, or c) bar them from the drive. Obviously the first option is preferable to the second, which is preferable to the third, however if someone is doing a great deal of bad work, it is best for the project if they are politely asked not to perform transfers anymore. Any baring should be referred to the other reviewers for discussion. Remember that continually uploading non-free files to Commons is a blockable offense.

Because files are deleted locally after being transferred to Commons, non-admin reviewers should note that most local files are deleted sometime between 24 and 48 hours after being tagged with NowCommons (CSD F8), but could be deleted within minutes.

Housekeeping
Housekeeping is necessary since the size of the logs page has historically reached over 450,000 bytes. According to WP:SPLIT, pages over 100,000 bytes in size should be broken into smaller pages, because larger pages have long load times and are more difficult to edit.

There are two steps to managing the size of the page:

Sectioning
This will be the most common minimizing task. Once a user has logged 500 or more files, the first 500 files should be put into a collapse box. Follow the following steps:


 * 1) Add the template   to the user's section within the logs page.
 * 2) Put the name of the user whose files you are collapsing in the  field.
 * 3) Put the number of the first file that is going to be in the collapse box in the  field. So if a user has transferred 507 files, then you would put in the number 1. If the user had transferred 1007 files, and this is the second collapse box, you would use the number 501.
 * 4) Cut and paste all 500 items into the  paramater. Do not remove the   tag that is already present, move it in as well.
 * 5) Add in a new  tag right below the end of the template (not inside the template). For the li value, use the last number of the archived 500, plus 1 (so in the case of the user with 507 transferred files, the first 500 would be in the template, and the li value field number would be 501).

Subpaging
When the user has transferred 1000 or more files (2 subsections), it is time to make that user a subpage. The page should take the form of Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media/Commons/Drives/ /Logs/. For the January 2012 drive, the drive month code would be Jan 2012. If User:ExampleAwesomeMover performed over 1000 moves in the January 2012 move, her subpage would be Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media/Commons/Drives/Jan 2012/Logs/ExampleAwesomeMover. No matter how many files a person transfers, they only get one subpage per drive, although that subpage could have as many collapsed sections as needed.

Thank you for assisting in this month's drive!