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 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.[WIP - here soon]

Open Tasks

• 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 to be reviewed. 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.

• 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!

Need a team to design a web browser extension and mobile app tool! (BrianHG.Ocean.Fitness addition)

We require a team of developers to design a universal web-browser extension and mobile app for everyone so that whenever users go to purchase or sign up for anything anywhere online, our web-browser extension will scan your product withing our wiki 'roofie' database generate a pop-up warning you of all the hidden contract pitfalls you are about to agree to. The web extension/app will also keep an optional record of the user's purchase history and will occasionally scan this wiki for the updates, warning users of contract changes on any of their historic purchases as they arise. This 'Watch-Dog' tool will operate interactively with the user online activities letting them know how they are being manipulated into bad contracts instead or relying on word of mouth for a consumer to seek out this wiki and search for their purchase history. This app will get the recognition from poor acting corporations out there where a wiki page alone might only be seen by the dedicated few.

Again, this is a massive project to get just right. The dev team will need to go beyond just app/software developers. We will need those who specialize in catering the interface and how we report infringing messages to the use, keep everything tiny, small and offer the option for further full engagement. (More to come as I refine this idea.)