challenge:Reviewer Instructions

Welcome to the NM Supercomputing Challenge Wiki.

Note: We are in the process of revising these instructions. Please wait until this note disappears before proceeding. The new instructions will be much simpler.

To review a team's interim report, follow these instructions.

Selecting a Team to Review
Note: The time for you to choose the teams you want to review has past. Celia has assigned teams to each reviewer.

Accepting Your Teams to Review
At the bottom of the page are Categories that indicate the status of the teams' reviews. Change the status of the teams you have selected by editing the bottom section of the team page by: to
 * 1) Going to the team's page by going to the main page clicking on the needs interim review link
 * 2) Clicking on the entry for a team you want to review
 * 3) Clicking on the "edit" section tab at the top of the page.

Click Save

Submitting Your Review

 * Now we're ready to actually submit our comments.

Click on the the edit link to the right of the Interim Comments Review section.

Templates to ease creating reviews consistent with the above guidelines

 * You can use a basic template that implements the original guidelines. It's named Review.
 * You can use a template that I created extending the above guidelines. It's named Review-Drew.
 * Or, you can create your own template based on a prexisting template.
 * Or, if other folks have created their own templates, you can use one of them
 * You can see the available templates by clicking on this link.
 * Templates are an extremely powerful feature of MediaWiki. We will only scratch the surface of their capabilities.

Using Templates

 * 1) Enter a single line containing:  at the bottom of the section, then Click Save.  This expands a copy of the template in the page.
 * 2) Edit the expanded template to complete your reviews

Creating Templates

 * 1) Examine list of available templates.
 * 2) Create a page named "Template:Review-Your Name".  Search for it.  When you get a message saying it does not exist.  Click on Create Page!
 * 3) Make a copy of the template by entering the single line.
 * 4) Customize the template as you like it.  Be sure to replace my name with yours in the first section heading of the template.

Changing Status of team
Change to
 * Important: When you are done change the Category at the bottom of the page.

Click Save

Example Reviews
See the example reviews at Challenge:Example Reviews