Accio Help!

By now, I’m sure most of you have read Lizz’s retirement post. The Wizrocklopedia was her creation, and Dinah and I want to make sure that it continues to be something she can be happy to have been associated with.

We can’t do that without your help, though.

At the moment, we need more writers. We need writers to write in-depth articles, review albums, write up shows, and talk about wizard rock in general. If you are interested in any or all of these, we’d like to know about it! Here’s what we need you to do:

If you’d like to be a permanent staff member and contribute often to the site, email a writing sample to freya at wizrocklopedia dot com or WrockDinahSaur at gmail dot com. It can be anything that you’d like to talk about, but if you need a prompt, write about your personal experience with wizard rock – who your favorite band is and why, what made you start listening to wizard rock, how wizard rock affects your life, that sort of thing.

If you don’t feel like you have enough time to be a permanent staff member, you can also contribute write-ups about shows, albums, or general wizard rock topics. Just email Dinah or me to make sure no one else is writing about it first.

If you don’t want to write, but you often run across interesting things related to wrock, we would appreciate a heads up via our News Submission form. While we try to be on top of things, it can be hard to keep track of everything going on in the wizard rock community.

If you are in a wizard rock band, please use the News Submission form! We want to know what you are doing and to tell everyone else, too. All of the above positions are open to you as well. It would be interesting to hear about wizard rock from your point of view in prose rather than song.

If you have experience with WordPress templates and coding or know how to install databases, we could also really use a hand with that.

And most of all, we would like to know what you are thinking. What is missing from the Wizrocklopedia? What do you like? What isn’t working? This site is for you, after all. Feel free to comment on this post or email us directly. Constructive criticism is always welcome.

21 responses to “Accio Help!”

  1. Zivlok Avatar
    Zivlok

    The biggest things that should happen are:

    Make the News Submission box bigger. It’s hells of tiny.
    Bring back Underappreciated Song of the Week and Wrock Theatre and Wrock Pics and such!
    Bring back Fun and Games!
    And maybe bring back the Wrockwiki? But that should be lower on the list.

    I really like the direction the ‘pedia has taken in terms of real articles that are in-depth and interesting, but I miss that news has been all but left behind.

    For example, I miss hearing about new songs. And a lot of things have happened, like Danny Dementor coming back to MySpace, and The Butterbeer Experience is making an EP about Beedle the Bard.

  2. Shelly Avatar
    Shelly

    I really, really loved the Wrock wiki, and it would be awesome to have that back. If there’s anything I could do to help with that, let me know!

  3. Shelly Avatar
    Shelly

    By the way, a site that might be easier to use than MediaWiki is http://www.wetpaint.com/ The only downside is that you’d have to use a subdomain like wrock.wetpaint.com …

  4. Julia Avatar

    I agree with the guy above me. The articles are great and you should absolutely keep them coming, but the news coverage really needs to come back. Also, can you bring back the Pic of the Day and WRock Theatre?

  5. The Dragon Avatar

    I am ready and willing to help Full Time! I have nothing but time on my hands….

  6. Stacy Avatar
    Stacy

    I concur with zivlok.

    I rely on Wizrocklopedia to keep me updated on the latest releases from bands. I hope you guys can still post stuff like that.

  7. rebecca Avatar
    rebecca

    I liked the wiki and the lyrics!!! Thank you guys so much for doing this! I really love the wizrocklopedia!!!

  8. Molly Avatar
    Molly

    I agree with Zivlok, especially about Wrock Theater and more news updates. Also, the Wrockwiki was amazingly cool, and it’s one of the things that I miss the most. Other than that, the articles have been fantastic and interesting and the site has been wonderful.

  9. Jayen Avatar
    Jayen

    It’s good to see you two are going to keep this site going! I have missed the Pics and the short news bits ever since the format changed. The longer articles are fine (especially if you have something you really want to say) and the show reviews are good too, but they are an investment in time to read them. Actually I used to stop by Wizrocklopedia a lot more when it was the earlier format, every day sometimes or if my schedule was crazy busy at least a couple times a week, just to get a smile from the photos.
    So, let’s see some pics (even really old ones would be OK – no hurry – how about tomorrow! Oh, and aside from clever captions, it would be helpful to have the name of the band, date of photo any anything else important to identify what’g going on. It will help new visitors learn the difference between the Parselmouths and the Moaning Myrtles right away.

  10. Heather Avatar
    Heather

    Hmm…to keep up to date with the big Wizard Rock events like Azkatraz and Wrockstock maybe you could ask for volunteers to cover these events. Maybe ask for one or two photographers and reporters for each event depending on the size of th event like actual newspapers do. I’d be more than willing to photograph LeakyCon this May!

  11. maggie Avatar

    I’d like to know when a wizard rock event will happen in my city, or close to my city, perhaps an event finder would be useful in that case…
    I would help full time as well, but I’m unsure what I could possibly help you with. I’m am available for contact whenever though if you need someone to do something, if I can do it I will.

  12. Kjetil Avatar
    Kjetil

    List!
    I loved the wrock wiki
    I miss the old news, new songs, new bands, new albums etc.
    Album reviews 😉
    Under appreciated song of the week
    Wrock theatre (By the way, I really hope someone taped “Cedric Had It Coming” from CBGB this weekend)
    I DO enjoy the articles

  13. Alatarielle Avatar
    Alatarielle

    I really love the in depth articles, but I miss the picture of the day and the wrock theater.

    it would be awesome if you could update the lyrics section. I know I’m not the only wrock fan who is not a native english speaker and sometimes misunderstands things. Actually some of my US friends dont always understand all the words either. so that would be really awesome!

  14. milesje Avatar
    milesje

    I do not have a lot of time I can devote to the site, but I am a software engineer and I am willing to help with any programming the site might need. I have some knowlegde of databases, but I have never done anything with WordPress templates but I am willing to learn.

  15. Marauder Avatar
    Marauder

    I don’t have the time to do reviews and writeups and stuff, but I’ll help with news and updating the band list if somebody tells me how to do it.

  16. Heather Avatar
    Heather

    I just had an idea! I’m sure that there are other people like maggie that are not always sure when and where there is a Wizard Rock event in their area. This could be a job from somebody in each region of the country. They would go around looking for new shows in their area at end of each week and then at the beginning of the next one post which shows are coming up.
    Starting in February I’ll be able to work full time most weekends so I’m willing to do whatever is needed.

  17. Sarah Paperclipz Avatar
    Sarah Paperclipz

    I pretty much agree with what everyone else has said:

    The pic of the day, wrock theater, and under-appreciated song type things are all awesome and you should bring them back.
    It’d be nice for the ‘pedia to have more wrock news (about new songs, cds, upcoming shows and stuff) again. It’s quite handy to have a central place to find out all the news in the wizard rock world.
    And I miss the WRock Wiki!

    Also, I really hope you still do the WRPCAs this year. They are always fun.

    I would love to help on the site, but I really don’t think I have the time right now.

  18. Jayen Avatar
    Jayen

    I just spent some time checking out parts of the site I haven’t been to in a while. I saw that the HISTORY button links to the wiki, which is no longer available. The history page here was my intro to Wizard Rock. Eventually, this page (or better, an improved, updated history) really needs to be added. Regular visitors won’t need it after a while, but it could open the door to the Wrock universe for a lot of new people.

  19. Jake Niffler Avatar

    Picture of the day was really fun. Even if there wasn’t news there was a fun picture everyone could comment on.

  20. Georgia Riddle Avatar

    I think that there definitely needs to be better coverage of live shows and concerts, and PLEASE bring back under-appreciated songs and other news things!!

    I am very interested in taking part in some writing, so I’ll probably be dropping you an email 🙂

  21. Victoria Riddle Avatar

    Also the Wiki! Don’t forget the Wiki! Perhaps if we get a team together we can fill out all the pages and make it a really rocking wizard Wizard Rock reference site!

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