01-18-2016, 01:59 PM
There's clearly a problem with their process.
Ever since things were locked down after the Great Vandalism, it's Google's intent that it never happens again.
While it used to be that, after getting a certain number of edits reviewed and approved the old fashioned way, you became "trusted" to some degree, and could make similar types of edits with abandon.
Now, a large number of edits need approval by a "Regional Lead", a person who Google has nominated from the community and considers to be reasonably trustworthy. In our case, our "Region" is Canada, so there are a handful of RLs that are approving edits across the whole country. It is clearly going to be a very big job for volunteers. And to compound that, the mechanism that presents edits for approval to RLs appears to have a distinct bias toward newer edits. Meaning if you don't get approved in a short amount of time, you are not likely to get approved ever.
Google does have in-house reviewers, but I don't believe having a Google office will make an impact there. They appear to be fairly on top of edit reviews. When something needs Google moderation, it tends to be dealt with quite fast already.
Ever since things were locked down after the Great Vandalism, it's Google's intent that it never happens again.
While it used to be that, after getting a certain number of edits reviewed and approved the old fashioned way, you became "trusted" to some degree, and could make similar types of edits with abandon.
Now, a large number of edits need approval by a "Regional Lead", a person who Google has nominated from the community and considers to be reasonably trustworthy. In our case, our "Region" is Canada, so there are a handful of RLs that are approving edits across the whole country. It is clearly going to be a very big job for volunteers. And to compound that, the mechanism that presents edits for approval to RLs appears to have a distinct bias toward newer edits. Meaning if you don't get approved in a short amount of time, you are not likely to get approved ever.
Google does have in-house reviewers, but I don't believe having a Google office will make an impact there. They appear to be fairly on top of edit reviews. When something needs Google moderation, it tends to be dealt with quite fast already.