This post is the second in the Wikitree's Honor Code series
We collaborate. When we share ancestors we work together on the same ancestor profiles.
- We collaborate. When we share ancestors we work together on the same ancestor profiles.
Collaboration is probably the scariest thing for new members, it was for me, but soon became my favourite thing.
If you join wikitree because you like the idea of one profile per person for every person to have ever lived then you will agree to the idea of collaboration. We need to work together on shared ancestor profiles to make them accurate, and anyone who loves family history knows every descendent has something unique to add to an ancestors profile.
Collaboration means communicating with other, responding to others who contact us, and working together to the common goal of accuracy and well sourced profiles on wikitree.
Collaboration is about joining in and becoming a member of the amazing wikitree community. It means making new friends, helping others, and learning about our ancestors lives. And this idea of collaboration means you become a volunteer.
Because helping others, adding to profiles, joining in with the community end communicating is the basis of what volunteering on wikitree is all about. At its minimum this is all that volunteering requires and means.
However, like most who join wikitree (myself included) you will find yourself volunteering more and more as you learn wikitree and begin to love the website.
Click here for the next post in the honor code series...point number 2 on the honor code!
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