FAQ:Roles

Revision as of 10:18, 26 October 2012

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.