Please note that all submissions to the site are subject to the wiki's licence, CC 4.0 BY-SA, as found here
How to help
Welcome to the Consumer Protection Wiki!
YOUR #1 MISSION: Turn Videos into Wiki Articles!
QUICK START:
- Go to the Video Directory
- Pick a video that interests you
- Create an article following our content guidelines
WHY? We're building a wiki to document consumer protection issues, and our first major source is Louis Rossmann's YouTube channel. Each video in our directory contains valuable information about consumer rights violations that needs to be transformed into wiki articles.
WHAT YOU'LL GET: (once we get that part to work) When you click on any video in the directory, you'll find:
- ✓ Full video transcript
- ✓ AI-generated summary
- ✓ Topic tags
- ✓ Links to related content
NOT READY TO WRITE? That's okay! You can still help by:
- 🔍 Reviewing videos in the directory
- ✅ Marking irrelevant videos for review
- ➕ Adding missing relevant videos to the list
Want to learn more about our mission? Check out our full Mission Statement.
Ready to Start?
👉 Click here to browse the Video Directory 👈
- Correct our mistakes!
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.
Create an article
- 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 Editorial Guidelines on the mission statement page, as well as our content policies, 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.
Want to do even more?
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 Moderator Guidelines 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!
