Display "last checked by" and "last edited by" on Community guides?

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Discourse allows to set up an automatic “last checked by” and “last edited by” field at the end of the documentation topic.

I’m not really convinced, but it could be a way to remove the High Quality Guides category? (See High quality guides - #34 by parulin). There are still a lot of questions:

  • How is one supposed to perform a check of a guide?
  • Who can do that? Feedback from new users would be great but are they really competent to perform a “check”?
  • Is there any kind of proof?

The “last edited by” field is not really useful alone but providing it along with “last checked by” field can help a user determine the current status of a guide.

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So you suggest that people should estimate quality of the guide by the reviewer?

I don’t get it right now, and I bet you I wouldn’t be able to as a new user

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Depending on the solution, yes. But some detailed review from a new user might be useful as well. A recent community guide, that has been moved since, makes me think that this proposal would not be that useful.

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It can go either way. If the guide is high quality after a thorough review, then the subcategory can become useful for curation, whereas if the guide is poor quality, then the subcategory is not necessary.

Simply following the guide itself until the instructions end. Regardless if it literally checks out or not, the reviewer can edit the guide if there are any errors and may optionally provide a (detailed) commit comment at the bottom of the topic, acting like a changelog/ledger for future reviewers.

Any interested Qubes OS user against the guide’s requirements. If you want a more conservative and explicit suggestion, @trust_level_3 and up.

Evidence can optionally be provided using screenshots.

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