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You will want to craft your reviews mindful of how they will appear in alerts, since more people are likely to see your review in an alert than in WikPik itself.

• Spread Around Your Commentary: Alerts include roughly the first 75 words of most of the commentary boxes. So don’t bunch up your commentary in the Summary box. Instead, provide detail about dialogue in the Dialogue box, violence in the Violence box, etc.

• Introduce Your Key Points Up Front: You’ll want to make sure readers are aware of your thesis at the beginning of each commentary box. A [more] link will take them to the full review in WikPik, but you need to use the first 75 words to give them strong clues about they’ll find when they click [more].
• Add Space and Emphasis: Feel free to use simple HTML tags in WikPik reviews. br in angular brackets adds a line break. Put two together to leave a blank line. b in angular brackets puts any following text in bold, while /b in angular brackets ends the bolding. u and /u does the same with underlining.
• Components Count: You can easily set Edginess to a value, forcing its components – Sex, Violence and Rudeness – to take the same numeric value. However, the movie you are reviewing might have more violence than sex, or more sex than rudeness, so leaving the components at the same value can give the wrong impression. Avoid this by setting the components first, which will automatically set Edginess. The same applies for Film, Reality, and Acting (though the acting components aren’t included in Review Alerts).
• Promote Yourself: Reviewers always get an alert of their own reviews. Feel free to send these to your friends, encouraging them to join WikPik and add you to their Trusted Reviewer list.