Contributing to this site
From WWR
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Thanks for taking part in building a top-notch resource for independent artists and listeners. 
Higher priority needs
(Note that there are other ways to contribute at the bottom of the page.)
| Click on the item to help | Description |
| Artists who need bios | We need every artist to have a minimum of their bio taken from their website/MySpace, etc. and pasted either in whole or in part on the bio section of their artist page. |
| Artists who need email addresses | Help give us a way to get in touch with these artists |
| Artists who have NO email address | These artists are likely to be removed from the library because there's no way to get in touch with them. Help find an email address for them! |
| Artists who need genders | Help give these musicians a sex!  |
| Artists who need locations | Help give a musician a home |
| Artists with no official website | Help find the official website for these artists |
- We need people to give their opinions on songs they feel strongly about. Click the song title of any song playing that you feel strongly about and add your opinion under "Listener Opinions". Or, if you want to give an opinion of the artist, click their name and put your opinion there. Same with the album. Bottom line is this: musicians love feedback. Give it to them - especially if it is positive.
- Whenever an artist is playing and the "click here to add the artist image" comes up, find an image (personal looking, not a CD cover if possible) and upload it. This is the image that shows in What's playing, Last played and the like.
- Artist bio images - the images that go in the body of the artists' page. For these use the naming convention, name of artist-bio.jpg. Basically, the name used by WWR for the artist with -bio.jpg appended to the end. Note: There are many already on file, but not showing on the page right now.
- Embed videos in artist pages from YouTube. You can go to an artist's page, click the YouTube link, see if there are any videos, if so, copy the embed code, put it in the Video template (as many videos as you want but a max of four is usually a good idea) and save.
- If you love lyrics, every song page has an area for lyrics. Find the lyrics and paste them in. Imagine a system where, when a song came on, you could click and immediately see the lyrics for every song playing. Now, instead of imagining it, help make it happen. (Please credit the songwriter and don't paste lyrics when the artist asks that they not be reproduced!) Here are some artists who provide lyrics on their websites - you might want to check their all their songs to see if they have lyrics cut and pasted in yet.
- Add descriptions for the tags. Wikipedia often has a page on the tag subject. You can copy a line or two and link to the page for reference. See Category:Scat for an example. If the tag meaning isn't clear, start a discussion about it on the song tag talk page.
- We need people to generally take an interest in areas of the site having to do with the core mission of providing a non-commercial non-hyped place where people can discover independent music in the singer-songwriter, folk, jazz and blues genres. Anything you can do in order to help with that core mission is much appreciated.
Note: THERE ARE A TON OF "HOW TOs" here
Other very useful ways to contribute
There are an unlimited number of ways to contribute to the content of this site. Just use the edit tab at the top of most pages. Don't be afraid to mess up. Someone more experienced will help out if you do. And thanks for being a part of the community by contributing useful content.
- Update tags for songs.
- Keep the Featured Today items fresh by updating them.
- Think of and ask for needed features to make the site better.
- Add photos.
- Create photo galleries.
- Welcome new users on their talk page and in the Live collaboration.
- Edit articles/pages. Edit pages for spelling, grammar, clarity and the like.
- Create pages. Pages can be about anything, WWR related or not. Music, interests, humor, photos, etc. But it's always a good idea to help with the music stuff occasionally.
- Report bugs and make feature requests.
- Help maintain the music library by adding Problem_Tags to artists, albums and songs with problems.
- Help find information on obscure artists if any are listed.
- Help categorize emoticons.
Why contribute to this site?
The foremost reason to contribute to the Whole Wheat Radio website is because you want to. But the bottom line is that this site depends entirely on your content contributions to remain vibrant and succeed in it's mission to bring attention to independent music. Some people need to be reminded that in order to chat, they are required to contribute meaningful content to this site.
You can create and comfortably make mistakes, because no one will scold you for doing something wrong. It's not the WWR way, and it's not the wiki way.
Who can contribute?
Any WWR listener with a website account. (Click the 'Create account / log in' link at the top of the page. You only need to provide a username and password. Provide an email address, if you ever want to recover a forgotten password. Email addresses are never revealed to users, and WWR will never give, or sell, your email address to anyone.)
