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Dan Tobias at 03:59, 19 March 2014

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Jason Scott: Created page with "This project needs multiple roles filled. Try out some and see what works best with your personality. Swap between them if you get bored of being one type and want to try a di..."

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Created page with "This project needs multiple roles filled. Try out some and see what works best with your personality. Swap between them if you get bored of being one type and want to try a di..."

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This project needs multiple roles filled. Try out some and see what works best with your personality. Swap between them if you get bored of being one type and want to try a different aspect.

* '''Explorers''' are on the never-ending quest to find more file formats, more obscure references to file formats, and hidden away gems and information the File Format Problem can use. They reference the [[Sources]] or even find brand new [[Sources]] to use and add them to ''that'' list.
* '''Backfillers''' go to already-extant entries and add in greater details, including summaries, links to pages others have written in the web about the format and the subject, and acquiring some select images or items to represent the format. They pull from the [[Sources]] but also just do the basic effort to make a page be something more than blank.
* '''WikiWonks''' look over a given page and fix the MediaWiki encoding so that the items is more easily readable. If you create general templates that can serve out pages better, please propose their implementation to Jason Scott and if it looks good, we'll apply them to the whole of the pages that fall under the template. The more time freed up to acquire information, the better.
* '''Essayists''' are writing or referencing sets of documents to create critical new histories or descriptions that go far beyond a technical view of a format. If there are litigation, research, or human aspects to the format that should at least get a summary, the Essayists are adding them.

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	A [http://jangosteve.com/post/380926251/no-one-knows-what-theyre-doing blog posting] claims there are three types of knowledge: what you know, what you know you don't know, and what you don't know you don't know. The last is by far the biggest category. Creating mentions of file formats (however obscure), even if they're tiny stubs here or even redlinks, helps bring formats out of the "stuff you don't know you don't know" category (the original blog used a four-letter "s" word instead of "stuff") into the "stuff you know you don't know" category, hopefully paving the way for somebody to later research it some more to bring it up to "stuff you know" (with a full-fledged informative article).		A [http://jangosteve.com/post/380926251/no-one-knows-what-theyre-doing blog posting] claims there are three types of knowledge: what you know, what you know you don't know, and what you don't know you don't know. The last is by far the biggest category. Creating mentions of file formats (however obscure), even if they're tiny stubs here or even redlinks, helps bring formats out of the "stuff you don't know you don't know" category (the original blog used a four-letter "s" word instead of "stuff") into the "stuff you know you don't know" category, hopefully paving the way for somebody to later research it some more to bring it up to "stuff you know" (with a full-fledged informative article).
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	* '''WikiWonks''' look over a given page and fix the MediaWiki encoding so that the items is more easily readable. If you create general templates that can serve out pages better, please propose their implementation to Jason Scott and if it looks good, we'll apply them to the whole of the pages that fall under the template. The more time freed up to acquire information, the better.		* '''WikiWonks''' look over a given page and fix the MediaWiki encoding so that the items is more easily readable. If you create general templates that can serve out pages better, please propose their implementation to Jason Scott and if it looks good, we'll apply them to the whole of the pages that fall under the template. The more time freed up to acquire information, the better.
	* '''Essayists''' are writing or referencing sets of documents to create critical new histories or descriptions that go far beyond a technical view of a format. If there are litigation, research, or human aspects to the format that should at least get a summary, the Essayists are adding them.		* '''Essayists''' are writing or referencing sets of documents to create critical new histories or descriptions that go far beyond a technical view of a format. If there are litigation, research, or human aspects to the format that should at least get a summary, the Essayists are adding them.
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		+	A [http://jangosteve.com/post/380926251/no-one-knows-what-theyre-doing blog posting] claims there are three types of knowledge: what you know, what you know you don't know, and what you don't know you don't know. The last is by far the biggest category. Creating mentions of file formats (however obscure), even if they're tiny stubs here or even redlinks, helps bring formats out of the "stuff you don't know you don't know" category (the original blog used a four-letter "s" word instead of "stuff") into the "stuff you know you don't know" category, hopefully paving the way for somebody to later research it some more to bring it up to "stuff you know" (with a full-fledged informative article).