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Waze depends on a large and growing volunteer editor community. To foster growth, Waze encourages users to edit the maps by keeping training requirements to a minimum. This approach allows anyone who would like to try editing to join the community quickly.
Bypassing training does have consequences. New editors may feel overwhelmed by the maps' complexity and unable to make a difference. They may not recognize how to use the editing tools and may have trouble finding the information they need. They may need a great deal of interactive support in coming up to speed. And they will make mistakes.
This wiki is aimed both at new editors who have made mistakes -- that is, all of them! -- and at more advanced editors who respond to those mistakes.
What is an incorrect edit?
Incorrect edits include both functional mistakes and misunderstood conventions. Both can be serious.
Functional mistakes
A functional error introduces wrong data or faulty routing.
Misunderstood conventions
Misunderstood conventions do not necessarily involve wrong data or faulty routing, but violate editing conventions agreed upon by the local Waze editing community.
For those responding to incorrect edits
Wherever possible, resist the urge to delete and start again. Nobody enjoys seeing their work deleted, even if it was in error. To the extent possible, build and modify on the incorrect work. If deletion is required and the error is one of convention, alert the editor and give him or her an opportunity to delete the work. Functional errors that require deletion must be addressed immediately, but please at least PM the author with a link to this wiki.