WikiFarmer
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Welcome to the beginning.
You are sitting at the foundation of the world's most powerful platform for aligning our immense economic impact as consumers with our deepest, most important values. With your help we can begin to move companies away from sweatshops, slavery, clear cutting, pollution, and a host of other destructive practices, and towards fair pay, safe working conditions, renewable resources, and clean energy. And it starts here. Today. With you.
The first step is compiling information, tons and tons of content about all the products and companies that we can think of. The beauty of it is, the internet makes this content really easy to come by. Every article on Wikipedia is free to copy and edit, as long as we give them credit! And there are many other sites like that, too (it's called the GNU Free Documentation License, or GFDL).
WikiChoice needs your help in finding all the products and companies that have been written about on these sites, uprooting that information, and planting it in WikiChoice, where it will grow into a targeted piece of WikiChoice content as more and more people add to and refine it. Get started by following the instructions below!
WikiFarming
Step 1: Get signed up as a WikiFarmer by clicking here. You will receive two e-mails after signing up: one with more information about becoming a WikiFarmer and one requiring you to authenticate your e-mail address. After you have completed this, you should receive a notification shorty thereafter after an administrator approves your request to become a WikiFarmer.
Step 2: Find a company or product article on Wikipedia or another GFDL site (see list below).
Step 3: Search WikiChoice to see if the product or company has already been added by someone else. (Make sure to spell the name correctly when you search!) To double check, go to All Pages and browse alphabetically. If it hasn't already been added, go to step 3 below. If it has, check to see if it's styled correctly (see below).
Step 4: Uproot articles from Wikipedia. Follow this link for easy instructions on exporting content from Wikipedia: Exporting from Wikipedia
Step 5: Plant articles in WikiChoice. Follow this link for easy instructions on importing content into WikiChoice: Importing to WikiChoice
Alternate Step 4 + 5: If there is not a Wikipedia article about a product or company you'd like to add, create a new WikiChoice article! The easiest way to do this is to search WikiChoice for the product or company. It will return a page that says, "No page title matches," and under that will be a link that says, "You can create this page." Just click there and it will open up the editor for you to create the new article! Then just format it using the WikiStylist template below!
WikiStyling
Step 6: Make your article lean, accurate, and actionable. Wikipedia's articles are great, but we're building a platform for action, not research. Follow this link for easy instructions on formatting your content to make WikiChoice as powerful as possible: Styling. See this article about gDiapers article as an example.
Tell the Community
Step 7: Go to our Google Spreadsheet and check whether you think your article is complete, or could use some more love. We figure most articles at this stage will be incomplete, but feel free to fill them out as much as you can! The more complete articles the better!
That's It!
You just finished a WikiChoice article! These articles form the core - the hot, molten core - of WikiChoice, around which the world's most powerful platform for ethical consumption will be built. We really appreciate your contribution, and would love for you to contribute again and again and again!
Questions? Ideas?
Shoot us an email at beta@wikichoice.com. We'd love to hear what you're thinking.