Role Spotlight: Peer Reviewer

How do I become a Peer Reviewer? 

The Peer Reviewer role is awarded to volunteers with the Standard Editor role who have edited at least 25 unique structure points and have passed a quality check on a sample of 20 of those points. If you’ve edited at least 25 points, we will initiate a quality check on your points. If you pass the check, we’ll offer you the Peer Reviewer role, and you have the choice to accept it or continue editing as a Standard Editor. Peer Reviewers can continue editing points as a Standard Editor when not doing Peer Review. If you’re interested in becoming a Peer Reviewer, have edited at least 25 unique points, and haven’t yet gotten any feedback from us, feel free to reach out! We’d be happy to add you to our QC queue. 

What does a Peer Reviewer do? 

The main purpose of the Peer Reviewer is to review edits submitted by Standard Editors. This is an important step in the data quality assurance process because it ensures that data being submitted by new volunteers is getting checked, and if necessary, updated by more experienced volunteers.  

This isn’t to say that we don’t have lots of high-quality Standard Editors, but we all miss details from time to time, so having extra eyes on data points helps us catch anything that might slip through the cracks. And since TNMCorps is run by a very small group of people, we rely heavily on our volunteers to ensure that the data is being collected or updated using authoritative resources according to our collection criteria and formatting guidelines.