User:Mono/Two-tiered review system

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The reviewing capability on Wikinews is a technical tool that allows articles to be checked before they are published. Editors can obtain the reviewer privilege to mark revisions of articles as checked. There are two levels of reviews consisting of checked revisions and reviewed revisions. Checked revisions are briefly patrolled by reviewers for common issues, while patrolled revisions are fully fact-checked. Thus, an article undergoes four stages:

1. Development—the article is written and improved
2. Check—a reviewer checks the article and publishes it
3. Review—a reviewer peer-reviews the article in preparation for archival
4. Archival—the article is protected from editing and preserved as an archive

Criteria

Before an article is complete (in the development stage), it is tagged with {{Develop}} to notify any readers that it is a work in progress. When it is completed, the {{Develop}} tag should be replaced with a {{Check}} or {{Review}} tag. It will be checked by a reviewer that was not significantly involved in writing the revision. When checking the article, reviewers must check the following:

Checked revision

1. Copyright: The reviewer should check that the text and images are not copyright infringement.
2. Newsworthiness: The reviewer should check that the article agrees with our content guide and is newsworthy.
3. Verifiability: The article is not original reporting. It must have three or more reliable sources. All sources should be check to see cited titles and dates match. The article should not be fact-checked.
4. NPOV: The reviewer should verify that the article is written generally in a neutral and unbiased manner.
5. Style: The reviewer should ensure that the article meets the general style guidelines for Wikinews articles.

Peer-reviewed revision

When reviewing the article, the reviewer must check the following:

1. Copyright: The reviewer should check that the text and images are not copyright infringement.
2. Newsworthiness: The reviewer should check that the article agrees with our content guide and is newsworthy.
3. Verifiability: The reviewer should check that all information in the article is fully sourced, (using multiple independent sources is strongly encouraged) or has adequate Original Reporting notes.
4. NPOV: The reviewer should check that all information in the article is written in a neutral and unbiased manner, with no editorial commentary/advocacy or unsourced opinion.
5. Style: The reviewer should check that all information in the article complies with our style guide (on dateline, grammar and spelling, "inverted pyramid" structure, tone, wikilinks, categories, headline... etc.)

How to review

EZPR interface.

Reviewers must use the Easy Peer Review (EZPR) gadget to review pages. It provides a checklist interface for reviewing articles.

1. Click the "Review" link from the toolbar toward the top of your screen.
2. Select whether you wish to check or peer-review the article.
3. Evaluate the article based on the criteria above.
4. Click "Submit Review" and update the main page lead articles.

Reviewers must use the EZPR gadget. It performs several important tasks not fulfilled by simply checking the page with Flagged Revisions.

Changes after publication

If the article is changed after it has been published, it must be reviewed again. Most of the time, simple technical changes (no additional content added) are made—in general, these do not require a full check or review. If substantial changes are made or content is added, reviewers must check the new content against the criteria.