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| <br><p style='font-size: 35px; text-align: center;'>How Can I Help?</p><br> | | <br><p style='font-size: 35px; text-align: center;'>WWII Archives</p><br> |
| {{LandingMessage|content1=<p style="text-indent:30px;">Welcome! We are glad that you were willing to join us in the cause of the WWII Archives. Below are some of the major ways that you or anyone else could contribute. In order to do any of these, and the most important way to start contributing, is to sign up and make an account. Through this you will be required to read the [[WWII Archives:WWII Archives Manual of Style|WAMoS (WWII archives Manual of Style)]], since signing up will give you the permission to create and edit articles. See the section about editing below. You will also be given permission to upload multimedia, so read the section about that as well. </p>|}} | | {{LandingMessage|content1=<div style="text-align:center;"> |
| {{MainPage|content1=<big style="font-size: 20px; text-align: center;">'''Creating, Editing, and Writing Articles'''</big>
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| This is one of the main ways that anyone with an account could contribute to the WWII Archives. As mentioned in the front page, you can write about anything you want as long as it pertains to something within or relating to something within the WWII era. You can write everything about your grandparents or great-grandparents, maybe someone in your hometown that was a WWII veteran, or even about your hometown itself during the war. If you have a particular passion about some event in the war or something else, it is encouraged that you write and research about it! As mentioned above, you must sign up before you are given ability to write. While signing up, you must read the WAMoS, or the WWII Archives Manual of Style (In the sign up process it shows the short version of the WAMoS. It is recommended that you also see the [[WWII Archives:WWII Archives Manual of Style|full version]]) for more information and details). This lays out the basic rules of the historical process, what is expected, and how to research, write, edit, and cite articles.
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| | <p style="text-indent:30px;">Welcome! We are glad that you were willing to join us in the cause of the WWII Archives. Here you may search for whatever is on the Archives that suits your needs. If there isn't content that you are looking for and/or would like to contribute, please see [https://wwii-archives.org/wp/#how-to-help-anchor this part of the front page] for the list of different ways that you could contribute. </p>|}} |
| One of the other major ways of contributing is by uploading and managing Multimedia (computer files) of documents, photographs, items, film, etc. As mentioned, the ability to upload and edit is given when you sign up, however in the sign up process you do not need to read the [https://wwii-archives.org/index.php/WWII_Archives:Multimedia_Guide Multimedia Guide], which is the managing and uploading Multimedia counterpart of the WAMoS. Therefore if you have the intention of uploading or managing any multimedia, or digitizing any item, document, photograph, etc, it is important to go there. Once you are done with that, you may proceed to uploading files, using the [https://wwii-archives.org/index.php/Special:UploadWizard Upload file] link to the left. You will finally be able to upload those photos and documents of your ancestors or anyone else that you know from the war era that you and others will be able to use to contribute to the scholarship of the subject. Another great benefit is that your family members (close and distant) will be able to freely access the family files forever and wherever. Distance and borders will no longer be a problem of accessibility. If you're researching, files from archives to make the collaboration easier and better. When you are uploading anything however, you will need to describe as much in detail about the file and its context}}
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| Here will be the opportunity for you and others to interview any of your family members, anyone you know around, or upload any interviews that you are in possession of. It is important that this is done before all of them are lost! Every time that that a WWII veteran (254 in the US each day alone according to the National WWII Museum) or survivor dies, the story of an individual, people around that individual, and so much more of around a century, vanishes, sadly with not much information to recover from other sources. Interviews can be conducted normally such as a one on one (can be more person interviewing someone) with a camera, or if it isn't possible, and with permission, to upload an emailed, texted, or telephoned interview. One other thing that is important to do (especially if the WWII veteran, survivor, or other, has passed away) is to interview people that knew the veteran or survivor, to whom their story was told. In that case, at least some of an individual's story can be saved. Everything about uploading interviews will be detailed in the Multimedia Guide. An upcoming guide about how to conduct interviews will be published soon. If you want a guide however, you can for now consult the [https://rememberww2.org/interview Interview Guide] by the RememberWW2 organization.
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| | The following is a list of articles that a visitor can view if you're looking around: |
| | # [[Raymond Auguste Traumann]] |
| | # [[A Company, 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment (United States)|A Company, 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment]] |
| | # [[29th Quartermaster Company, 29th Infantry Division (United States)|29th Quartermaster Company, 29th Infantry Division]] |
| | # [[101st Airborne Division (United States)|101st Airborne Division]] |
| | # [[Paul Henry Blackman]] His interview here: https://archive.org/details/img-1476_202307 |
| | # [[Special:Random|Or pick a random article]] |
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| The most simple way anyone could contribute is just by spreading the word! Tell your neighbor about the cause, tell your friends and family about it, anyone interested in genealogy, their family history, or history in general! Tell anyone who might be interested. Or tell just about anyone, since WWII has had an effect on us in some way, whether through the modern political, social, cultural, and economic climate, or through your family who lived through it.}}
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