User:Wholecanesugar/Help:How to help out

Thank you for considering helping us out!

There are many ways you can get involved.

Contribute photos

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• Upload photos to the Wiki
• Send photos to our bearchivists
• Community photos: (AKA "IRL pics")
  • Check which bears we've tagged as being sorely in need of community photos
  • Check which photos we've tagged to replace with community photos
• Stock photos:
  • Check which bears we're missing stock photos of altogether
  • Check which bears could use higher quality stock photos

Contribute information

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• Get in touch with our bearchivists to report a personal experience
• Check which bears are missing birth certificate data
• Check which bears are missing hangtag information
• Check which bears are missing SKUs

Contribute a little time

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• Add descriptions of your favorite bears
• Convert pages to new layouts
• Add maintenance categories to pages that need updating
• Remove backgrounds from found photos or community photos
• Re-crop photos with irregular aspect ratios to be square
• Write essays about your favorite niche Build-A-Bear topic
• Save Build-A-Bear website pages on the Wayback Machine

Research obscure information

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• Find missing stock photos
• Uncover unknown SKUs
• Look for missing official product descriptions
• Research birth certificate stats
• Find hangtag data
• Fact-check unsourced claims

Become a bearchivist

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If all of the above sound like they might be fun for you, or you'd really like to dedicate some time to helping out with this huge project, consider joining our bearchivist team! You can be a bearchivist without ever leaving the Wiki, or you can also join some of our external community spaces to chat more directly with the rest of us.

To learn more about being a bearchivist, check out Help:Getting started as a bearchivist.