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* '''Update your [[DomainPage|domain page]]''' | * '''Update your [[DomainPage|domain page]]''' | ||
* '''Create your [[PersonalPage|Personal Page]]''' - [[AboutUs:5 Great Reasons to Make a Personal Page|5 Great Reasons to Make a Personal Page]] | * '''Create your [[PersonalPage|Personal Page]]''' - [[AboutUs:5 Great Reasons to Make a Personal Page|5 Great Reasons to Make a Personal Page]] | ||
| − | * '''Become an [[AboutUs]] Content Provider''' - As we expand our content offerings, we need | + | * '''Become an [[AboutUs]] Content Provider''' - As we expand our content offerings, we need contributors who know their subject areas and want to build them out. |
* '''Become an [[AboutUs]] Portal Master''' - The next step in content contributions is the creation of a content Portal, a window into a content area like [[Portal:Photographers|Photographers]]. Create a Portal and help nurture it to maturity. | * '''Become an [[AboutUs]] Portal Master''' - The next step in content contributions is the creation of a content Portal, a window into a content area like [[Portal:Photographers|Photographers]]. Create a Portal and help nurture it to maturity. | ||
Revision as of 02:08, 4 October 2007
A wiki is only as strong as the community that surrounds it. In addition to reading and editing pages that you care about on AboutUs, there are any number of ways you can contribute to making AboutUs a vibrant community.
Learn
- Take a WikiTour
- Become a student of the WikiWay -- Read about and act on our four core philosophies: BeABuilder, ItsAboutUs, RealPeople, and AssumeGoodFaith.
- Learn about the Consensus Polling process
- Read more about our licensing and copyright policies
Create
- Update your domain page
- Create your Personal Page - 5 Great Reasons to Make a Personal Page
- Become an AboutUs Content Provider - As we expand our content offerings, we need contributors who know their subject areas and want to build them out.
- Become an AboutUs Portal Master - The next step in content contributions is the creation of a content Portal, a window into a content area like Photographers. Create a Portal and help nurture it to maturity.
Collaborate
- Participate in the feature WikiPage process - Look through and nominate potential candidates for featured pages and provide feedback and comments to nurture and enhance the page's nomination.
- Participate in various ConsensusPolls - Gives you a voice in decisions effecting the AboutUs community.
- Flag PossibleAdultContent pages - Help identify WikiPages that might have adult content in accordance with AboutUs' AdultContentPolicy.
- Become an AboutUs Welcomer - Help with efforts to personally welcome each and everyone who registers an account on AboutUs.
- Tutor New People - Most new folks need help with wiki editing and as you learn there is a great opportunity to help others.
- Edit Spammed or Vandalized Pages - Finding and correcting spam and vandalized pages is an important and never ending task, you can help here.
- Become a RecentChanges Patroller or Sysop -- For special people who have the expertise and the drive to help with operation of AboutUs.
Other Ways You Can Participate
- Register at AboutUs (see Why create an account?)
- Add an AboutUs Badge to your website
