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How to Use the wikiHow Picture Patrol Tool

Some wikiHow articles have a "Made Recently" section at the very bottom of the page. that allows readers to upload photos of finished products of the article. This is a gallery of photos have been taken by wikiHow readers who have followed the article instructions and want to show the results of their work.


Similar to the Recent Changes Patrol feature, the wikiHow Picture Patrol tool allows users to vote on whether or not an image should be included in the "Made Recently" section. Depending on the balance of votes, a photo may be placed in that section or simply discarded. This wikiHow article will show you how to help patrol images using wikiHow's Picture Patrol tool.

Steps

  1. 1
    Open the Picture Patrol tool. Access the Community Dashboard and click the "Start >" link in the "Picture Patrol" widget.
    • You can also click here for a direct link.
  2. 2
    Look at the title of the article. At the top of the tool, the title of the article that the image was submitted to will appear. Read the title so that you understand if the image is suitable for the topic.
  3. 3
    Take a look at the image and vote on whether it is suitable for the article and helpful to readers.
    • Yes: Click Yes if the image is about the article, high-quality, appears to be the final product.
    • No: Click No to downvote any images that are unrelated (e.g. a dog drawing on an article about drawing cats), a wikiHow-produced image that has the wikiHow visual style or watermark[1], doesn't represent the final product, or an image that is low quality (e.g. not cropped properly, has distracting things included in the image like a messy background, other people, haywire objects, etc).
    • Unsure: Click I'm Not Sure if you don't know whether the image is suitable for the article.
  4. 4
    Proceed to the next image. When a notice appears that says "Fantastic! It's in!" or "That's it! It's out!", the image has been added or removed. Voting will also show you which users voted what on the image. Click the Next button to go to the next image in the queue. If there are none, you'll get a message telling you that.
    • This page won't appear if you skipped the image before. The next image will load automatically.
    • If you'd like to go back and change your vote (e.g. if you made a mistake), click the Undo button to remove your vote. You can then re-vote.
    • Three "Yes" votes approve the image and two "No" votes discard it. Administrator votes count as two votes instead of a single vote.

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    Tips

    • If you want to find out more about the topic/item the image could be applied to, scroll down to view the current article right below the image.

    Warnings

    • Make sure to carefully review images. It's not about voting for as many images as you can.
      • If you accidentally approved a bad image and didn't click Undo, go to the Picture Patrol log, filter by your username, and revisit the associated article. Scroll down to the "Made Recently" section, hover over the unsuitable image, click "Flag", and then click Submit.

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