How to help

The Consumer Advocacy Wiki guide to getting stuck in

Welcome, and thank you very much for coming! This page is here to give you guidance on how you can get started on making contributions.

To briefly summarise where we are right now, our initial aim is to get the Wiki going as quickly as possible, through the creation of articles based on situations discussed on Louis' Youtube channel. To see the full (much less brief) summary of what we want to do, and where we want to go, you can read the Wiki's Mission Statement.

The first order of business for the Wiki is creating articles based on our most readily available repository of information - Louis Rossmann's Youtube channel. To do this, we've used AI to filter and create a list[link] of Louis' videos which have a good chance of containing information which can be used to write articles aligned with the Wiki's mission. Clicking on the page links from these videos will take you to a page with a full transcript of the video (pulled from the Youtube subtitles), an AI summary of the transcript, and some tags.

If you have only a little time, or are not inclined towards writing, it would be a great help if you could take Santa's job, and check our list twice! It is almost certain that there will be videos in there that don't really fit the bill of being about a situation relevant to the Wiki, and there will probably be examples of videos not included on the list which do have relevance to the Wiki. If a video's page does not contain information useful to the Wiki, then feel free to mark it for deletion [?]. Conversely, if you find a video which is not on the list, but should be included, then adding it to the list would be a great help.

As with any Wiki project, reviewing the pages of others is another great help that won't take up too much of your time - checking for grammatical and formatting issues, ensuring that people are sourcing things properly, adding relevant information, and so on are all essential to the integrity of the Wiki.

If you have a little more time, there are plenty of articles that need to be written! Take a look at our Article Types and familiarise yourself with the Style Guide[link], then pick a topic from the video list and get to it! We don't expect there to be a clean '1 video = 1 article' translation. Instead, the information from the videos should be combined with outside sources to contribute to articles about the incidents, entities, and themes discussed in the video. Please remember to update the video page with links to any articles you write, in order to help us avoid duplication. At this early stage of the Wiki, don't worry about creating stubs, or starting an article with the intention to allow yourself or someone else to finish it at a later date. Right now our main focus is on putting pen to paper, and getting the Wiki populated.

If you're really looking to dig in and get your hands dirty, we are also looking for those willing to help moderate the platform. For a whole litany of reasons, we need to be able to enforce a high standard of quality, and be very quick to strike down misinformation or vandalism. Please see the moderation guidelines[link], as well as the Mission Statement in order to get an idea of what's involved.

Again, we're delighted to see you here, and we hope you enjoy working with us to build something special!