Networthwiki:Community Portal
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Now recruiting subject experts to act as volunteer Section Managers to help monitor entries into the NetWorthwiki.
The additions have been very useful and factual. A few thoughts as we move forward:
- We need to provide more documentation for entries. Whenever you can quote a specific document or provide a footnote, it makes all the information here more accurate and trustworthy.
- If you are willing to "adopt" a section, please let us know. It would be great to have content experts in various fields monitoring specific pages to make sure that inaccurate or inappropriate content isn't slipping in.
- Community involvement is key to a successful wiki. We are well underway!
--LifeLongSuccess
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[edit] Background
The NetWorthwiki was started October of 2007 as a place to look up anyone's net worth. Then the idea of a new Forbes list and a blending of Wikipedia was born. of I was frustrated with how many different places you had to search just to find out how much someone was earning or had amassed. The user base, and content, quickly grew. The user base spiked significantly in December, 2007, and a decision was made to officially launch the site.
The Site was started by David Leath aka LifeLongSuccess. ??? was recruited to be the acting site director and spokesperson. (See their details below.)
[edit] Contact
Our contact email is: leathcorp@yahoo.com
[edit] Main Contributors So Far
LifeLongSuccess - Founder of NetWorthwiki. Continues to be involved in the day-to-day operations.
Darius - Loves to type and search for wealth facts.
Data base - Adds the pictures
Jason Cangialosi- Adds biographical data
Other Contributors
wikiexpert WikiSysop - Installed this place and fixes the problems
CONTRIBUTORS: If you added anything to this NetWorthwiki site, please say hello and leave us a note on the discussion page (see Tab above).
-- Who Can Contribute? ==
The NetWorthwiki wants you! Working together, government employees, contractors, technology journalists, industry analysts and more can build a powerful government IT encyclopedia and interactive community. You can edit and create articles on NetWorthwiki right now.
Learn how to contribute by reading this Tutorial. For a quick start, this Editing Cheatsheet introduced the basics of creating or editing a NetWorthwiki article.
[edit] Things You Can Do
- Don't be afraid to blow your own horn. If you have an interesting NetWorthwiki project, make sure that it is represented here. In most cases you can just branch off of an existing category.
- Help us copy edit: Many of the articles need improvement, this can range from additional detail to correcting spelling or grammar mistakes.
- Categorize: (Very important) make sure articles are associated with the correct categories. This makes it much easier for visitors and researchers to browse the wiki and find relevant information.
- Wikify across the encyclopedia: Articles sometimes can be improved by adding links to other articles on a similar topic. This allows people to navigate more easily while building richer content for all.
- Update: Update articles to reflect the current situation in the government. If you know that a contract has changed, a standard has been updated, or a new person is in charge of a project, please bring appropriate articles and references up to date.
- Merge or disambiguate: Help combine articles that cover the same topic, or create disambiguation lists (with pointers) when you find terms that could have more than one meaning.
- Requests: Is there a link that ends in a blank article? Go on, write a piece for it. Is there something that you think is missing? Feel free to add it, or mention it here and maybe someone else will help create the article/reference entry. Visited our Wanted Pages section to see a list of topics that our visitors have told us they'd like to see. Special:Wantedpages.
- Borrow from government sources: It's okay to re-post most documents relating to income tax or divorce settlements revealing a person's net worth. But please take the time to learn the document's copyright rules before posting it here. If you do report net worth information, please include a reference comment and a link to the original source.
- Look for the red links: These are topics that we'd like to include, but no one has yet created a page for them. Can you provide information for any of these?
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