Users may make suggested edits to problems. This makes it easy for problem authors and site editors to improve the site. Any user may make a suggestion.
Good things to suggest:
- Missing correct variation
- Missing wrong variation that would be helpful
- Removing or truncating an existing variation
- Improving text -- fixing mistakes, increasing clarity, etc.
- Anything else that improves a problem's quality
Note: currently only the problem itself (SGF) can take suggestions -- not meta information like the genre, collections, etc.
Making a suggestion
1. First, go to a problem. Click the Suggest Edit button below the fold.
2. A board editor opens. You can make changes to the problem using the standard editing tools. (Currently the tree doesn't distinguish suggestion changes graphically, but we will improve this later.) Note that you can make multiple changes at the same time: ie multiple new paths, text changes, etc.
3. When you are done, click the Preview & Submit button:
4. A Suggested Edits Preview pops up
The top section will be a "diff" of your changes. It will show you everything that has changed in your suggestion from the original problem graphically. (Note: it's rather confusing right now. We will improve the UI later.) Text changes, new sequences, deleted moves, etc will all be shown here. This lets you verify your suggested change is what you want to submit.
Below this is a "Suggestion comment" textbox. Enter a short description of what you have changed and why. Then click the Submit button.
5. Problem author gets a notification
It will look like this:
They click this and see the suggestion graphically, along with the suggestion comment. (Showing what changed in the tree will come later.) They can click the "Preview & Resolve" button to see the same diff of what changed. They may either accept or reject this suggestion, and optionally enter a "Resolution comment".
6. Suggestion overview
All past and present suggestions are viewable on the suggestion overview page.
7. Reviewing your own suggestions
You can see a list of the suggestions you have made (including past ones already processed) at: suggestions
8. Suggestions on your problems
You should get notifications if someone makes a suggestion on one of your problems, but you can also check here