A rebuilt workspace for Kasem contributors

Invited Kasem contributors do careful work, and they deserve a workspace that keeps up with it. We have rebuilt the TribeStudio contributor portal around three questions: what should I work on next, where does my work stand, and what is still needed from me?

A workspace instead of a single page

The portal used to open straight into one assignment. It now has a navigation bar that stays on screen with seven areas: Overview, Assignments, My contributions, Activity, Platform guide, Kawuri Intelligence and Account & settings. On a phone the same areas sit in a bar at the bottom of the screen, which steps aside while you write.

The invitation links we have already sent keep working. Each one still opens its assignment directly.

Know where every expression stands

The Overview opens with your current assignment, its due date and its progress, plus a button that takes you to the next thing to do. Work that a reviewer has returned always comes first.

Your contributions are counted in four clear ways:

• Submitted — everything you have sent for review.
• Awaiting review — sent, with no decision yet.
• Approved — accepted by a reviewer.
• Returned for revision — sent back with feedback for you to revise.

Submitting is not the same as being approved, and the workspace never counts it that way. My contributions lists every expression you have worked on, with filters for drafts, submitted, awaiting review, approved and needs revision. Activity keeps a timeline of your submissions, reviewers' decisions, new assignments and payment updates.

Revise with the feedback in view

When a reviewer returns an expression, their feedback appears above your answer, so you can revise and resubmit in one place. Your earlier version and the reviewer's decision stay on record. The editor keeps the Kasem letter buttons and alternative translations, and adds an optional usage note, where you can say who you would say an expression to and when. Reviewers see the note first.

See the community at work, on your terms

The Community today panel shows how many expressions contributors have sent for review and had approved today. The numbers come only from real submissions and reviewers' real decisions. Nothing is estimated, and a quiet day looks quiet.

You decide how you appear there. By default you are shown as “A contributor”. Under Account & settings → Notifications & visibility you can show your display name instead, or leave the panel altogether. If you leave it, your work still counts in the day's totals.

Guidance where you need it

The new Platform guide gathers what contributors need to know: how assignments work, what makes a good Kasem contribution, when to add alternatives and context, how review works, how payment details are checked, and who can see what. The editor links each field to the part of the guide that explains it.

Some questions do not have a published answer yet, including how long review normally takes and the rates and schedules for invited contributors. The guide marks these as not yet published instead of guessing.

Kawuri Intelligence: suggestions, clearly labelled

Kawuri can now help with the English side of your work. Ask it to explain an assignment's instructions, to say what context an expression needs, or to check your saved draft for gaps before you submit it. Examples of gaps are a missing usage note or feedback you haven't addressed yet.

Kawuri never writes Kasem for you and never judges your Kasem. Its suggestions are marked as AI that no one has reviewed, and you can dismiss any of them. It lists the reviewed material it drew on separately: the assignment's instructions, published dictionary entries and the relevant guide sections. Nothing Kawuri says is saved to your work, and only reviewers decide what is correct.

Payment details, checked by a person

Payments go only to a bank account or MoMo wallet that a finance reviewer has verified. You can add or update your details under Account & settings → Payment details.

• Bank account: enter your bank, branch, account holder and account number, and upload a recent statement or bank letter (PDF, JPEG or PNG, up to 10 MB) showing your name, the bank and the account number. A finance reviewer compares them.
• MoMo wallet: a six-digit code sent by SMS confirms that you control the phone number. It does not prove the wallet is registered in your name, so a finance reviewer checks that separately.

Every method shows its status: not started, pending, verified, needs action or rejected. If a reviewer needs something, you will see what it is and what to do next. After you save your details, the workspace shows them masked. If you change verified details, they go back for review before they can be used.

Only authorised finance reviewers can see your statement and your full account or wallet number. They open a statement through a link that expires after five minutes, and every opening is recorded. A statement is deleted when you replace it or remove your bank details. We may later switch on an automated check that compares a statement with what you typed. It is off for now, and when it is on, it only gives the reviewer evidence. It never approves anything by itself.

Adding payment details does not by itself create a payment. Rates and payment schedules for invited contributors have not been published yet.

Clearer messages when something goes wrong

Saving payment details could fail with nothing more than the word “internal”. Errors now explain what happened and what you can do. When something unexpected goes wrong, the message includes a short reference, such as IW-1A2B3C4D, that you can quote to the team.

Getting started

If you have been invited, use your private activation link to set up your account. Returning contributors sign in to the contributor workspace as usual; the new workspace opens once you are signed in.

Thank you to every contributor and reviewer building a record of Kasem as people actually speak it.