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Thank you for considering helping us out!

There are many ways you can get involved.

Contribute photos

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

Contribute a little time

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

Become a bearchivist

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.

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-* Upload photos to the Wiki
+* [[Special:Upload|Upload photos to the Wiki]]
-* Send photos to our bearchivists
+* [[Help:Contacting_our_bearchivists|Send photos to our bearchivists]]
 * '''Community photos:''' (AKA "IRL pics")
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-* Get in touch with our bearchivists to report a personal experience
+* [[Help:Contacting_our_bearchivists|Get in touch with our bearchivists to report a personal experience]]
 * [[:Category:Bears missing birth certificate data|Check which bears are missing birth certificate data]]
 * [[:Category:Bears missing hangtag data|Check which bears are missing hangtag information]]
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-* Add descriptions of your favorite bears
+* [[Help:Making a page for a furry friend#Lead section|Add descriptions of your favorite bears]]
-* Convert pages to new layouts
+* [[:Category:Pages using old layouts|Convert pages to new layouts]]
-* Add maintenance categories to pages that need updating
+* [[Help:Build-A-Bear Wiki maintenance|Add maintenance categories to pages that need updating]]
-* Remove backgrounds from found photos or community photos
+* [[:Category:Images_needing_backgrounds_removed|Remove backgrounds from found photos or community photos]]
-* Re-crop photos with irregular aspect ratios to be square
+* [[:Category:Images_to_re-crop_to_square|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
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-* Bears missing product photos
+* [[:Category:Bears missing stock photos|Find missing stock photos]]
-* Bears missing SKUs
+* [[:Category:Bears missing SKUs‎|Uncover unknown SKUs]]
-* Bears missing product descriptions
+* [[:Category:Bears missing product descriptions|Look for missing official product descriptions]]
-* Bears missing birth certificate data
+* [[:Category:Bears missing birth certificate data|Research birth certificate stats]]
-* Bears missing tag data
+* [[:Category:Bears missing hangtag data|Find hangtag data]]
+* [[:Category:Articles with unsourced statements|Fact-check unsourced claims]]</p>
-* Pages missing sources</p>
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+[[File:Bear mag 1.png|frameless|right]]<p style="text-align:justify;">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.<br><br>To learn more about being a bearchivist, check out [[Help:Getting started as a bearchivist]].</p>
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