HowYouCanHelp
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.
As an Anonymous Person
- Update your domain page
- Register at AboutUs (see Why create an account?)
- Nominate various WikiPages as potential AboutUs Featured Pages.
- Add an AboutUs Badge to your website
As a Registered User
- Create your Personal Page - 5 Great Reasons to Make a Personal Page
- Flag PossibleAdultContent pages - Help identify WikiPages that might have adult content in accordance with AboutUs' AdultContentPolicy.
- Participate in the feature WikiPage process - Look through potential candidates for featured pages and provide feedback and comments to nurture and enhance the page's nomination.
- 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.
- Participate in various ConsensusPolls - Gives you a voice in decisions effecting the AboutUs community.
- Become an AboutUs Content Provider - As we expand our content offerings, we need contributers 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.
- Become a student of the WikiWay Learn about and act on our four core philosophies: BeABuilder, ItsAboutUs, RealPeople, and AssumeGoodFaith.
As an AboutUs Sysop
- Become an AboutUs RC (Recent Changes) Patroller - Help us patrol each and every edit.
- Become an AboutUs Sysop (System Operator) For special people who have the expertise and the drive to help with operation of the AboutUs wiki.