Dbljump editor signups are open – here’s what you need to know
Summary: You can now sign up to become a Dbljump editor! You’ll need to be approved before you can start editing. The project is evolving, and some features aren’t here yet, but as an editor you can help shape them. We plan to improve support materials for editors in the coming weeks.
You can now sign up to become an editor of Dbljump!
We hope that Dbljump will grow into a friendly, active community that works together to create the world’s best video game reference. We’d love you to join.
Here are a few things to know before you do.
All registrations go through an approval process
We want to keep the Dbljump editor community small for the time being. Partly because we’re still in alpha, or early, development. And partly because we’re still figuring out how best to look after our community.
When you sign up, we’ll approve or decline your registration based on the answers you give in the questionnaire part of the form. This helps us keep numbers small and make sure editors can write confidently in English.
To improve your chance of being accepted, please answer the questions on why and how you’ll contribute to Dbljump as fully as you can. We’ll let you know by email if you’ve been successful or not.
Alpha = early in development
Dbljump only just launched and we’re calling its current state an “alpha” release.
What that means for you as an editor is that:
- Some features aren’t here yet. But if you become an editor, you can have a say on which features we develop next.
- The database design isn’t set in stone. It’s possible that things you create will be deleted as Dbljump evolves, but we’ll do our utmost to make sure that doesn’t happen. Most likely is that some metadata or past article versions will get lost at some point.
- Some features might might not work exactly as they should. Tell us about bugs you encounter, so we can fix them.
We really want to hear about your experiences, good or bad. With your help, we’ll evolve Dbljump into a service that’s useful to read and great to contribute to.
Editor support pages are coming. Your questions and feedback will help us create them.
There isn’t a lot of documentation about what to do as an editor yet.
Once your account is approved, you’ll log into your (quite-sparse-at-the-moment) dashboard and see tools for creating and editing articles about games, companies, and people. You can also upload images and add missing places.
But, how do you use these tools properly? We hope they’re intuitive enough, and you’re encouraged to simply try them out. But remember, this is an alpha test - and we’re going to use your feedback to evolve Dbljump editing tools so they’re just how you want them.
So, we’d like you to just give it a go! If you’re not sure what to do, or you want to request that we change or improve something, you can always talk to us via Twitter, Facebook, or Discord. I’m personally here to help in anyway I can.
Over the coming weeks and months, we’re going to be creating guides for editing Dbljump - first on this blog, and then on a dedicated support website. All of your experiences and feedback will help us create useful docs, so keep experimenting and keep talking to us!
Thinking of signing up?
We’d love to have you! Click below to learn more and sign up now.
