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Working Groups are often reluctant to make substantive changes to a mature
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document, so reviewers should get a chance to send substantive technical
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reviews as early as possible. This is especially important for [horizontal reviews](#how-to-get-horizontal-review).
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* Before a document gets advanced to [Candidate Recommendation](https://www.w3.org/policies/process/#transition-cr), gets updated as a [Candidate Recommendation Snapshot](https://www.w3.org/policies/process/#update-requests) or gets updated as a [Recommendation](https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20231103/#change-review).
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* Before a document gets advanced to [Candidate Recommendation](https://www.w3.org/policies/process/#transition-cr), gets updated as a [Candidate Recommendation Snapshot](https://www.w3.org/policies/process/#update-requests) or gets updated as a [Recommendation](https://www.w3.org/policies/process/#change-review).
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For those, the [W3C Process](https://www.w3.org/policies/process/) requires a Group to show that the specification has received wide review.
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* When a document is both reasonably stable and still flexible enough to allow changes where issues are identified.
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* When new features are added after a document has already received wide review (perhaps requesting a review limited to the new features).
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## Who to ask for wide review?
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The objective is to ensure that the entire set of stakeholders of the Web community, including the general public, have adequate notice of the progress of the Working Group and are genuinely able to perform reviews of and provide comments on the specification. When considering [requests to advance the maturity level of the document](https://www.w3.org/Guide/transitions), the Team will consider who has been explicitly offered a reasonable opportunity to review the document.
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The objective is to ensure that the entire set of stakeholders of the Web community, including the general public, have adequate notice of the progress of the Working Group and are genuinely able to perform reviews of and provide comments on the specification. When considering [requests to advance the maturity level of the document](../transitions/), the Team will consider who has been explicitly offered a reasonable opportunity to review the document.
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You **must** publish an updated technical report, with the Status of the Document indicating clearly that you're looking for *wide review*, before inviting review from other stakeholders. Our [tooling](https://github.com/w3c/transition-notifier/blob/main/notify.js) monitors publications and propagates notifications to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) automatically (for example, [Candidate Recommendation Snapshot: Payment Request API (Call for Wide Review)](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-review-announce/2021Jun/0008.html)).
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* the groups listed in the WG's charter, especially those who manage
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* the groups jointly responsible for a particular document (if any).
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* the [horizontal groups](/Guide/process/horizontal-groups.html) using the [method described below](#how_to_get_horizontal_review). *Note that sending an email to the public-review-announce list alone is not sufficient to trigger horizontal reviews. You will still need to formally request review from the Horizontal Groups, as described below*
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* the [horizontal groups](../process/horizontal-groups.md) using the [method described below](#how_to_get_horizontal_review). *Note that sending an email to the public-review-announce list alone is not sufficient to trigger horizontal reviews. You will still need to formally request review from the Horizontal Groups, as described below*
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* the general public, including Web developers, technology providers and implementers, application developers, etc. Consider:
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* sending a dedicated announcement to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) if needed (in case the default notice sent to that list is not enough).
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* using blog posts, social media, or other ways of alerting the public to your document and requesting feedback.
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* other groups, at your discretion, even if not in the WG charter, such as other W3C groups, external organizations and SSOs working on related areas, etc.
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**Tip:** consider tracking your wide review progress using a GitHub issue, such as [issue #299 of the Sensors API](https://github.com/w3c/sensors/issues/299). You can then simply point the Team to the issue.
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The reviews provided by the [horizontal groups](/Guide/process/horizontal-groups.html), a subset of a full wide review, do receive special attention and much of the rest of this document focuses on how and when to conduct horizontal reviews.
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The reviews provided by the [horizontal groups](../process/horizontal-groups.md), a subset of a full wide review, do receive special attention and much of the rest of this document focuses on how and when to conduct horizontal reviews.
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## How to get horizontal review
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When you have published a First Public Working Draft, you should work through available "self-review" materials and request review of your results in at least the following areas.
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<span class="step">If you are developing javascript APIs you may also want to ask <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>, a technical discussion list shared by W3C and ECMA's TC 39</span>.
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<ul><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/">Technical Architecture Group (TAG)</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/">www-tag</a></li></ul></li>
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<ul><li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/webcomponents-design-guidelines/">Guidelines for creating web platform compatible components</a></li>
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<li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/promises-guide">Writing Promise-Using Specifications</a></li>
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<li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.w3.org/TR/design-principles/">Client-side API Design Principles</a></li>
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<li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/capability-urls/">Good Practices for Capability URLs</a></li>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/">Technical Architecture Group (TAG)</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/">www-tag</a></li></ul></li>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/webcomponents-design-guidelines/">Guidelines for creating web platform compatible components</a></li>
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<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/promises-guide">Writing Promise-Using Specifications</a></li>
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<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.w3.org/TR/design-principles/">Client-side API Design Principles</a></li>
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<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/capability-urls/">Good Practices for Capability URLs</a></li>
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<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.w3.org/International/i18n-drafts/techniques/shortchecklist">Self-Review Questionnaire</a>.</li>
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<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.w3.org/TR/international-specs/">Internationalization Best Practices for Spec Developers</a></li>
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<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.w3.org/International/reviews/projReview.html">A brief overview of the review process</a> (with pictures)</li>
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