IX.A. CHIEF COPYEDITOR.

There is a Chief Copyeditor who oversees Nupedia's copyediting.  At present, you may reach the Chief Copyeditor at rose.parks@att.net.  The Chief Copyeditor is essentially a resource that those who are undergoing the copyediting process can consult.  Her main responsibilities are these:

• answer questions, advise copyeditors as to Nupedia copyediting standards (with the occasional advice of the editor-in-chief and members of copyedit-l), help resolve disputes
• guide new authors where they need to go on the website; do any necessary hand-holding of authors who do not understand our copyediting process
• find new copyeditors for the project, welcome them, and guide them; receive notices by e-mail of potential new copyeditors (based on member profile responses)
• nudge the process along here and there when it becomes stuck; advise those who need to know when a problem occurs (e.g., when an author or an assigned copyeditor is not responding)
• do some copyediting

To make the Chief Copyeditor's job easier, she will have the right to go in and make changes to articles that are at steps 5-7 (post-open review); i.e., the right to change the article's "master file."  This is necessary to resolve some copyediting issues quickly and easily.  The Chief Copyeditor also has the right to search member profiles, just as subject area editors have.