Technical review consists of reviewing the technical accuracy and completeness of an article, and correcting it if necessary. If a writer of an article wants someone else to check the technical content of an article, the writer ticks the "Technical review" checkbox while editing. Often the writer contacts a specific engineer to perform the technical review, but anyone with technical expertise in the topic can do one.
This article describes how to go about perfoming a technical review, thereby helping to ensure that MDN's content is accurate.
| Where does it need to be done? |
In specific articles that are marked as requiring a technical review. |
| What do you need to know to do the task? |
- Expert knowledge of the topic of the article you are reviewing.
- Ability to edit a wiki article on MDN.
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| What are the steps to do it? |
- Go to the list of pages that need technical reviews. This lists all the pages for which an technical review has been requested.
- Choose a page whose topic you are very familiar with.
- Click on the article link to load the page.
- Once the page has loaded, click the EDIT button near its top; this puts you into the MDN editor. Don't hesitate to switch to a different page if the first one you choose doesn't suit you.
- While reading the article, fix any technical information is not correct, and add any important information that is missing.
- Enter a comment at the bottom of the article that describes what you did, like 'Technical review completed.' If you corrected information, include that in your comment, for example 'Technical review: fixed parameter descriptions.'
- Click the SAVE CHANGES button .
- Once the corrected article appears on-screen after the editor has closed, check the Technical entry on the side (under The following reviews have been requested) and click SUBMIT REVIEW.
- You're done!
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