YWAMKnowledgeBase:How to help

• Send Kevin, Steve and Arnoud chocolate and nice notes of appreciation
• Send a little money (we need about 16 euro's a year minimum but funds above that we can use for promotional materials and physical meetings)
• Tell everyone you know
• Nag a leader to write about their key subjects

• Write about your self in your User page (see little person top right of page!)
• Make sure your email address is correct and you have agreed to be contacted by other users from the KB site.
• Watch some Help:Instructional Videos
• Ask for help for your day job - YWAMKnowledgeBase:My_Question
• Try out some Janitorial tasks here
• Try to take on some roles here

• Write about your pet subject - Search the KB to see if there is something there and improve that or start a new article
• Write about the experiences you made in a project you were on - Category:Case Study
• Write about how you joined YWAM - Why I joined YWAM
• Write about what is working for you in evangelism - What Have I Learned About Evangelism
• Write about your centre's/base's history
• Add useful conference notes you have made
• Add the notes you have made in YWAM DNA Infusion meetings
• Research and Write a page that hasn't been written yet but someone wants - Special:Wantedpages, YWAMKnowledgeBase:My_Question and gaps
• Research and Write a "thread" that systematically ties together the articles to help with one specific topic - Example thread YWAMKnowledgeBase:How to start a New Team Thread (check history for how we did it) and list of threads we want YWAMKnowledgeBase:Knowledge Threads
• Write about ANYTHING that a YWAMer may like to know !

• Review articles as they are posted - Special:RecentChanges and http://www.planetywam.net
• Assist with articles as they are being written - add structure, suggest changes and clarifications
• Check for bias or sloppy style
• Rename (Move) articles to be more relevant
• Remove irrelevant articles (by first asking the original writer to expand the article and finally deleting if no progress. Measured in months)
• Categorise un-categorised pages - Special:Uncategorizedpages
• Correct over categorisation of pages and create categories to add structure. Add sub-categories in as the KB grows.

• Resolve any disputes - Category:Conflict Resolution
• Check that the KB is sticking to its policies - YWAMKnowledgeBase:Policy
• Make sure it keeps running!
• Report bugs and problems speedily
• Help develop the strategy of the KB - YWAMKnowledgeBase:Strategy

• Improve spelling and grammar of pages
• Properly wiki-format pages - Category:Page_Needs_Much_Tidying_Up
• Harmonise style of writing
• Mark pages for deletion {{delete}} or needing attention {{stub}}
• Categorise uncategorised pages - Special:Uncategorizedpages
• Cross-referencing - examine articles for useful place to cross reference and link them, helping users find helpful routes through the mass of ideas
• Check Special:Wantedpages for pages that might be errors rather than genuine desires/intentions

• Presenting the KB to an audience - Category:Presentation
• Talk to all your friends about it and give them a card
• Tell all your friends to join the Facebook group
• Teach someone how to use it
• Suggest schools/teams write articles as part of their training

• Flyers - YWAMKnowledgeBase:Promo flyers
• Cards - YWAMKnowledgeBase:Promo business cards
• Promo videos - Help:Promotional Videos
• Screencasts and How to videos - Help:Instructional Videos
• A really nice KnowledgeBase theme song

Pretty Articles

• Beautifying ugly articles and wikifiying them - Category:Page_Needs_Much_Tidying_Up
• Creating and adding relevant diagrams and pictures and movie clips

• Replication of KB in case of disaster
• Domain renewal and maintenance
• Documentation of modifications to Mediawiki code
• Documentation of Extensions used and modifications for them
• Software upgrade
• Caching and proxy software working
• Take the little Robots for a wolk
• Server love and care!