Editors Community Newsletter
March 2020
Hello Communities!
Welcome to sixth Editors Community Newsletter :)
In light of the constantly evolving situation with CoViD-19, we hope everyone is safe and healthy. We'd like to thank you, our busy community members for helping each other navigate to safety always, and especially at this time. Read on to find out what our communities did in recent months
Waze Communities Team.
Chief Wazer says 'Hi' on our new Community website!
The all new Wazer to Wazer website was launched with many resources and procedures for all Waze community members!
Browse the site to find which Waze Staff member manages your community, webinar materials, Beacons information and more!
The site's kickoff was especially exciting as it enclosed an interview, with none other than our very own Chief Wazer, Noam Bardin!
Take a few minutes to watch the interview where Noam answers community questions and talks about plans for 2020.
Toll Prices new launches!
Thanks to local communities, the Toll Prices feature is also now available in Mexico, France, Germany, Lithuania and Honduras! This makes a total of 40 countries which enjoy routing with the Toll Prices Feature!
Read more about the Toll Prices feature in this forum.
Want to add toll prices in your country? Reach out to your Community Manager!
Wazer Spotlight
Featuring Top Contributor - Yoav Yaacoby!
Yoav started editing the map 7 years ago and has since become a Global Champ.
Yoav is always looking to help new editors, so he created several videos and Wazeopedia pages. As one of the leaders of the Israeli community, Yoav decided it would be nice to present 3 Area Managers with a certificate of excellence each year, and this kind tradition has been going on since 2017. Yoav posts a weekly riddle, which he also shared with us here.
*Yoav's photo contains another riddle!
Can you solve Yoav's riddle?
- Waze maze (on the left). The riddle is inside the frame map comment.
- The mistakes’ park (on the right). Turn off the map comments layer and find all the editing mistakes. The mistakes are explained in the comments.
The mistakes’ park is used as the final part of mentoring level 1 editors towards level 2.
Yoav posts a weekly riddle in Hebrew in the Israeli forum and everyone is invited to enjoy them using Google translate, even though most are location specific.
Waze Cafe in Nepal
The Nepali community organized their first Waze Cafe which was top-notch!
15 members attended, most of them new editors who were just introduced to Waze editing.
The day before the Cafe there were 3 editors with 236 edits, the following day, there were 11 new editors with 455 edits! A week after the cafe, there were 15,021 new edits in Nepal!!
Congratulations to the Nepali community and a special thanks to moweez and MadanKPradhan for organizing such a great event! We welcome the community to keep growing and editing!
Help Center Raid!
The community raided Waze Help Center's 160 articles!
47 users from 18 countries reviewed our Help Center and suggested more than 1,000 content fixes! While we're working on it, why don't you check out the raid's Hall of Fame?
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