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This page is to document and explore these roles. </p><p>Anyone can contribute to Wikiversity. You can click the <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&type=signup">register</a> button to join up and start helping out. You can even edit pages without being a registered user! </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Volunteers" data-mw-thread-id="h-Volunteers"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Volunteers"></span>Volunteers<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Volunteers"></span></h2></div> <p>Wikiversity is written, edited, and staffed by volunteers. Anyone is capable of editing a page, but some people in particular devote a portion of their time to editing and maintaining Wikiversity, all these individuals are volunteers. Wikiversity owes its existence to these volunteers, and thanks the most vigilant by giving them <a href="/wiki/Wikiversity:Custodianship" title="Wikiversity:Custodianship">custodianship</a>, or sysop privileges. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Newcomers_and_experienced_participants" data-mw-thread-id="h-Newcomers_and_experienced_participants"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Newcomers_and_experienced_participants"></span>Newcomers and experienced participants<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Newcomers_and_experienced_participants"></span></h2></div> <p>Experienced users are supposed to do their best to "<a href="/wiki/Wikiversity:Please_do_not_bite_the_newcomers" title="Wikiversity:Please do not bite the newcomers">not bite newcomers</a>". That is, sometimes experienced users forget what it is like to be new to <a href="/wiki/Wikimedia" title="Wikimedia">Wikimedia</a> projects and can sometimes be less sensitive than appropriate in helping newcomers to become aware of best practices that contribute to the best possible quality of the projects. So please <a href="/wiki/Wikiversity:Be_bold" title="Wikiversity:Be bold">be bold</a>, and forge your own path! </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="More_specific_roles" data-mw-thread-id="h-More_specific_roles"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-More_specific_roles"></span>More specific roles<span data-mw-comment-end="h-More_specific_roles"></span></h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r2289424"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WV:WHO/R"></span><span id="WV:ROLE"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain plainlist noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortcut" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiversity:WHO/R&redirect=no">WV:WHO/R</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiversity:ROLE&redirect=no">WV:ROLE</a></span></li></ul></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Learners_/_Students" data-mw-thread-id="h-Learners_/_Students-More_specific_roles"><span id="Learners_.2F_Students"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Learners_/_Students-More_specific_roles"></span><span class="anchor" id="Learners"></span><span class="anchor" id="Students"></span>Learners / Students<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Learners_/_Students-More_specific_roles"></span></h3></div> <p>Primarily here to learn. Can access <a href="/wiki/Learning_resources" class="mw-disambig" title="Learning resources">learning materials/resources</a>, and join existing learning projects or form new ones. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mentors_/_Teachers" data-mw-thread-id="h-Mentors_/_Teachers-More_specific_roles"><span id="Mentors_.2F_Teachers"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Mentors_/_Teachers-More_specific_roles"></span>Mentors / <a href="/wiki/Wikiversity:Wikiversity_teachers" title="Wikiversity:Wikiversity teachers">Teachers</a><span data-mw-comment-end="h-Mentors_/_Teachers-More_specific_roles"></span></h3></div> <p>Primarily here to teach. Can write learning materials, assist learners, and <a href="/wiki/Wikiversity:Mentors" title="Wikiversity:Mentors">mentor</a> students. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Researchers" data-mw-thread-id="h-Researchers-More_specific_roles"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Researchers-More_specific_roles"></span><a href="/wiki/Wikiversity:Research" title="Wikiversity:Research">Researchers</a><span data-mw-comment-end="h-Researchers-More_specific_roles"></span></h3></div> <p>Engaged in gathering, analyzing, and presenting new information and knowledge. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Editors" data-mw-thread-id="h-Editors-More_specific_roles"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Editors-More_specific_roles"></span>Editors<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Editors-More_specific_roles"></span></h3></div> <p>Modifying and improving the content, presentation, precision, sourcing, etc. of others work. Interestingly, any effective feedback to resource creators shifts this role towards embracing aspects of the instructor and/or learning theorist. This is true without further specific participation of the editor should the originator of the material learn anything from a different comparison of the original to the edited version. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Custodians" data-mw-thread-id="h-Custodians-More_specific_roles"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Custodians-More_specific_roles"></span><a href="/wiki/Wikiversity:Support_staff" title="Wikiversity:Support staff">Custodians</a><span data-mw-comment-end="h-Custodians-More_specific_roles"></span></h3></div> <p>Sometimes called "admins", "administrators" or "sysops" on other projects, custodians have some extra tools to facilitate maintenance work on Wikiversity, including deleting pages, and blocking people who vandalise Wikiversity or engage in destructive activity. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Curators" data-mw-thread-id="h-Curators-More_specific_roles"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Curators-More_specific_roles"></span><a href="/wiki/Wikiversity:Curators" title="Wikiversity:Curators">Curators</a><span data-mw-comment-end="h-Curators-More_specific_roles"></span></h3></div> <p>Curators have some extra tools to manage content on Wikiversity, including moving and deleting pages and rolling back vandalism. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id=""Gardeners"" data-mw-thread-id="h-"Gardeners"-More_specific_roles"><span id=".22Gardeners.22"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-"Gardeners"-More_specific_roles"></span><span class="anchor" id="Gardeners"></span>"Gardeners"<span data-mw-comment-end="h-"Gardeners"-More_specific_roles"></span></h3></div> <p>Quite a lot of wiki work is in linking pages, creating structuring resources (such as navigation templates), adding <a href="/wiki/Wikiversity:Categories" title="Wikiversity:Categories">categories</a>, etc. in order to aid others in their navigation of Wikiversity. This is sometimes called "gardening" to indicate the "hidden" jobs that make the whole thing (i.e. wiki/garden) work and look better. Most of this work does not require custodian tools. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Community_builders" data-mw-thread-id="h-Community_builders-More_specific_roles"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Community_builders-More_specific_roles"></span>Community builders<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Community_builders-More_specific_roles"></span></h3></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Wikiversity:Welcoming_committee" title="Wikiversity:Welcoming committee">Welcoming new participants</a>, pointing people in appropriate directions, creating, developing, and sustaining community spaces (have a peek at <a href="/wiki/Category:Wikiversity" title="Category:Wikiversity">Category:Wikiversity</a>) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Learning_theorists" data-mw-thread-id="h-Learning_theorists-More_specific_roles"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Learning_theorists-More_specific_roles"></span>Learning theorists<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Learning_theorists-More_specific_roles"></span></h3></div> <p>Discussing how learning works on Wikiversity, and helping orientate learning projects and resources around pedagogical theories and practice. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Facilitators" data-mw-thread-id="h-Facilitators-More_specific_roles"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Facilitators-More_specific_roles"></span>Facilitators<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Facilitators-More_specific_roles"></span></h3></div> <p>Help things happen—pointing people to appropriate pages or people, asking questions, raising suggestions, etc. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mediators" data-mw-thread-id="h-Mediators-More_specific_roles"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Mediators-More_specific_roles"></span>Mediators<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Mediators-More_specific_roles"></span></h3></div> <p>Help ease conflicts, or move them from destructive towards productive conflict. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Catalysts" data-mw-thread-id="h-Catalysts-More_specific_roles"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Catalysts-More_specific_roles"></span><a href="/wiki/Wikiversity:Catalyst" title="Wikiversity:Catalyst">Catalysts</a><span data-mw-comment-end="h-Catalysts-More_specific_roles"></span></h3></div> <p>Catalysts are "movers and shakers" who work as custodians but don't want or need the sysop tools. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_roles" data-mw-thread-id="h-Other_roles-More_specific_roles"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Other_roles-More_specific_roles"></span>Other roles<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Other_roles-More_specific_roles"></span></h3></div> <p>Please add further roles here as they arise. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="User_pages" data-mw-thread-id="h-User_pages"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-User_pages"></span>User pages<span data-mw-comment-end="h-User_pages"></span></h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r2661592">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Help:User_page" title="Help:User page">Help:User page</a></div> <p>Many people detail some of their interests and/or activities on their user pages. 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