More ideas for how you can help

The core principle for helping out at the wiki is to do what excites you, so a good place to start if you want to help make a difference is to ask yourself what could be added to the wiki that would make the biggest difference in the lives of its readers.

It can be nice to have a list to use as a starting point, though. On the main Helping Out On The Wiki page we have a bunch of nice "bite sized ideas." That list is a great place to start, but once you know more about the wiki, please consider the following list as well:

• (list under construction)
• TMS Professional Survey: Recruit new professionals to participate. Format and post their responses.
• Research Page: Create an annotated bibliography with links and summaries of relevant research.
• Formatting and editorial standards: Help create consistent look and feel across the wiki. While you do this, focus heavily on having as many cross links as possible and links at the bottom of each page.
• Call in talk show: Organize and publicize a teleconference based call in talk show for an interview with a well-known doctor.

Examples of "Doing what excites you."

Because the wiki is entirely run by volunteers, we want the process of contributing to the wiki to be as rewarding as possible. Hence, one of our mantras is, "Do what excites you!" Some examples of this philosophy are:

• HilaryN, who was giving presentations about TMS in the UK for several years before the wiki was founded realized that we needed a page on Promoting TMS Awareness, so she created it. Pages linked to from it now make up one of the main sections of the wiki. She speaks several languages and wanted to spread the word about TMS to other countries, so she also created the TMS en Français, TMS no Brasil and SMT Síndrome de Miositis Tensional pages, eventually helping to recruit LeylaLuz, who helped with the page and posted the first Spanish-language TMS Success story (at least that we are aware of).
• pandamonium09 felt like a good list of TMS books was important, so she adopted that page (enlisting help from Peghanson) and made it into one of the best pages on the wiki. Wanting the wiki to be as friendly to newcomers as possible, she also made important contributions to the An Introduction to TMS and So You Think You Might Have TMS. Wanting the wiki to be visually inviting, she chose graphics for the home page and created the banner at the top of every page.
• Peghanson felt that it was important that people who posted questions in the Q&A with an Expert section got prompt responses, so she has taken the lead in managing how the questions are sent out. She attended the first TMS conference in Ann Arbor and is the treasurer of the TMS Educational Working group that is hosting the second annual TMS Conference in LA. She also helps manage some of the email that comes into the wiki, making sure it doesn't slip through the cracks.
• MatthewNJ is a patient of Dr. Sarno's and found the alumni panels to be extremely helpful. He wanted to organize similar events for people who didn't live in LA, so he organized an online TMS Success Stories - Live Panel with help from Peghanson.
• TMSAndrew felt that research about TMS is crucial to winning people over to our approach, so he gathered information about TMS relevant researchers and wrote many of the summaries that we use in our Medical Evidence page. He also wrote many of the original blurbs in our Find a TMS Doctor or Therapist page so that readers can easily find some of the most important information about TMS practitioners without clicking through to a new page.
• ForestForTreesTMS gets excited when he sees other people doing projects that excite them, jumps in and helps out most active projects.