I.E. OVERVIEW: OPEN REVIEW.

The open review of an article is a public discussion/critique of an article on a special, automatically-created web page.  The purpose of open review is to provide the author with further feedback on how the article should be improved and thereby prepare the article for final inclusion in Nupedia.  In particular, the peer reviewers of the category are tasked with explaining whatever requirements they might have before they are willing to give their approval to the article.  The general public, too, is strongly encouraged to comment.  In order to pass the open review stage, three people--the editor, the article's lead reviewer, and at least one category peer reviewer--must approve the article.  When the editor and lead reviewer are the same, a second peer reviewer must approve the article.  In either case, the article is approved by three experts before it moves on to the copyediting stages.  If the article concerns a topic that is "multidisciplinary," it might then be sent on for an exactly similar open "secondary review" process by a secondary review group.  For example, an article on the subject "God" might begin life in the religion group but require comment and approval by the philosophy group as well.