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Dashboard Spotlight: Picture Patrol

Ready to broaden your horizons and try out a new editing tool from the Community Dashboard? During this edition of The wikiHow Herald we'll take a deeper dive into Picture Patrol — a tool that allows people to vote on whether or not an image should be included in the "Made Recently" section of an article.

Picture Patrol is a great tool to try out if you only have a few minutes and want to be able to contribute without committing a lot of time.

Not quite sure precisely what you're patrolling when you participate in Picture Patrol? You may have noticed that many articles on wikiHow have a Recently Made section near the bottom of the article that allows readers to submit photos of their finished product related to the article. The types of photos can vary based on what the article is about. A sampling of examples is shown below of recently submitted photos from readers who just learned How to Draw a Cat:

wikiHow:HeraldMade Recently Sample.png

Occasionally, readers will upload images that don't match with the subject of the article. Sometimes this is an honest mistake, and sometimes it's just people trolling. Either way, it's important that we screen the images before they're shown live to the world in the Recently Made section — that's where Picture Patrol comes in!

Getting Started

  1. Browse to the Community Dashboard and locate Picture Patrol, then click Start >.

    Pro Tip: Remember, you can rearrange what editing tools are displayed on the Community Dashboard, and what order they appear in. You can also add links to your favorite editing tools in your MyLinks!

  2. Review the title of the article, then review the image shown to determine if the image is suitable for the article.
    Picture_Patrol_Sample.png
    • Click No to downvote the image if it is unrelated (e.g. a dog drawing on an article about drawing cats), is a wikiHow-produced image that has the wikiHow visual style or watermark, doesn't represent the final product, or is low quality (e.g. not cropped properly, has distracting things included in the image like a messy background, other people, haywire objects, etc).
    • Click I'm Not Sure if you don't know whether the image is suitable for the article.
    • Click Yes if the image is about the article, is high-quality, and appears to be the final product.


As with all things on wikiHow, it's about the quality of your patrols rather than the quantity of how many pictures you can patrol. Make sure to carefully review images. 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.


Still have questions on Picture Patrol? Check out How to Use the wikiHow Picture Patrol Tool or leave a note for the Help Team. Patrolling pictures is just one of many different ways to help ensure that we're putting our best foot forward and showing only the highest quality content for readers. Want to try out other editing tools? Check out the Community Dashboard and try a new tool today!

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