42623219|The h2g2 Volunteers
Created | Updated Sep 28, 2011
Welcome to the volunteers page, where you can find out all about h2g2's volunteer schemes.
We've got quite a few volunteers helping us out on site, and we'd like to take this opportunity to say a big, heartfelt thanks to all of them. We couldn't do it without them, and if you'd like to join their ranks, we'd love to hear from you - just pop along to the relevant recruitment page, and follow the instructions. Becoming a volunteer means you'll also receive a nice shiny badge of the relevant type on your own Personal Space too!
Here are links to all the h2g2 volunteer schemes... in alphabetical order, because all our volunteers are equally dear to us. 
Aces
We'd like to welcome all our new Researchers personally, but time zones occasionally work against us. So we've recruited a team of volunteer Assistant Community Editors, or Aces, to work alongside the Community Team and meet and greet new Researchers. The Aces are a friendly lot, and are happy to direct people around the site, answer questions and generally have a good old chat.
Aviators
The Aviators bring a little light to h2g2 by creating audio and visual content to accompany h2g2 Entries. Their ranks consist of a motley crew of film-makers, animators, musicians and people with rather nice voices.
Community Artists
This scheme was created to cope with the increasing demand for unique pictures and illustrations for Approved entries for h2g2, clubs & societies and other areas. This is also the place to find some of the smiley designers.
- Community Artists' Home Page
- Why be a Community Artist?
- What do the Community Artists do?
- Community Artists' Code of Conduct
- Volunteer to be a Community Artist
Curators
Curators help us maintain the Edited Guide, tidying broken links, making quick fixes and replying to postings in Editorial Feedback. As this role involves a great amount of editorial know-how and a greater degree of trust than other schemes, membership is strictly by invitation only.
Gurus
There are more questions than answers, but we've got a whole bunch of volunteers who just love helping out. The Gurus have the ear of the development team and if they don't know the answer to your questions, they'll find out. You can find the Gurus by visiting the Feedback Forum.
Photographers
This scheme was created to cope with the increasing demand for unique pictures and illustrations for Approved entries for h2g2, and while some Entries are just right for the Community Artists to deal with, some just need that special photo.
Post Reporters
The Post is h2g2's very own community newspaper. Post Reporters are volunteers who submit regular columns to the newspaper, from poetry through to film reviews.
Scavengers
Scavengers are volunteers who have rescued Entries from the Flea Market, thus giving abandoned Entries a home in the Edited Guide. Scavengers also scour h2g2 in general, on the look out for Entries that could get another lease of life in the Flea Market. In fact the Flea Market is their responsibility - keeping it clean and tidy, or indeed adding to it!
Scouts
The Scouts recommend high quality Entries from Peer Review for inclusion in the Edited Guide. They are also responsible for the general upkeep of Peer Review, and assisting Researchers who make their way there.
- Scouts' Home Page
- Why be a Scout?
- What do the Scouts do?
- Scouts' Code of Conduct
- Volunteer to be a Scout
Sub-editors
A few short weeks after the launch of h2g2 we sat down with a stub of pencil and a pint of real ale, and realised that we weren't going to be able to sub-edit the thousands of Entries in the Guide ourselves. Instead of panicking and bouncing off the walls, we realised we needed help, and approached a few valued and friendly members of h2g2 with regard to a new scheme: the Sub-editors. You can see the type of work the Subs do all throughout the Edited Guide.
- Sub-editors' Home Page
- Why be a Sub-editor?
- What do the Sub-editors do?
- Sub-editors' Code of Conduct
- Volunteer to be a Sub-editor
University Field Researchers
The h2g2 University is where research is done into producing top-quality Edited Guide Entries, and the Field Researchers pick projects that they're interested in, and get those of similar interests to help them compile the best Entries this side of the student bar.
UnderGuide Volunteers
The UnderGuide is the underground creative writing side of the Edited Guide, and the volunteers are called Miners and Polishers. Their role is to dig out gems from the Alternative Writing Workshop for eventual exposure on the h2g2 Front Page.
This replaces the original help page at A541027.
