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Sounds like a lot of work but also a lot of fun! DMOZ and Wikipedia have done well with their editors so this may work just as good.
Unable to dedicate a lot of time but would love to help some. Is hour a day or two enough? My location is sydney, australia.
Dear Alpha team,
I would like to a volunteer curator, kindly guide me.
I have experience in market research & television research, along with servicing experience in media sectors.
I have been working for teh past 9 years, and now want to do something of my own initiation.
Thanks for this wonderful platform called Wolfram.
Best regards,
Padma
Padma,
We are happy to learn of your interest in becoming a Wolfram|Alpha volunteer curator! By clicking here, you can complete a volunteer data curator application which allows you to tell us about your areas of expertise and background. Once you submit the application, a member of our team will contact you with more information.
Thank you!
I submitted an application about 24 hours ago, and have not yet received an e-mail. Does this mean I wasn’t picked, or am I just too impatient 🙂 ?
Sure there will be plenty of people interested in contributing in such a great project. Are volunteers going to receive any kind of credit for their contribution?
Can you guys give us a list of data domains that have the greatest need for volunteers?
Thanks for this ofer, it would be great if I had better Internet connection… But, maybe, in a couple of months…
Looking over your website that my principal sent to me. Noticed that K2CO3 was named dipotassium carbonate under IUPAC rules. I think the di- prefix is not necessary with an inorganic ternary ionic compound such as this. Should be potassium carbonate. Prefixes are generally used in naming binary molecular compounds. I may be wrong buy you may want to check it out. thanks jacki kyle