Welcome to the volunteers page, where you can find out all about h2g2's volunteer schemes.
We've got quite a few volunteers helping us out on site, and we'd like to take this opportunity to say a big, heartfelt thanks to all of them. We couldn't do it without them, and if you'd like to join their ranks, we'd love to hear from you - just pop along to the relevant recruitment page, and follow the instructions.
Here are links to all the h2g2 volunteer schemes... in alphabetical order, because all our volunteers are equally dear to us. 
We'd like to welcome all our new Researchers personally, but time zones occasionally work against us. So we've recruited a team of volunteer Assistant Community Editors, or Aces, to work alongside the Community Team and meet and greet new Researchers. The Aces are a friendly lot, and are happy to direct people around the site, answer questions and generally have a good old chat.
The AViators bring a little light to h2g2 by creating audio and visual content to accompany h2g2 Entries. Their ranks consist of a motley crew of film-makers, animators, musicians and people with rather nice voices.
This scheme was created to cope with the increasing demand for unique pictures and illustrations for h2g2 Edited Guide Entries, clubs & societies and other areas. This is also the place to find some of the smiley designers.
Curators help us maintain the Edited Guide, tidying broken links, making quick fixes and replying to postings in Editorial Feedback. As this role involves a great amount of editorial know-how and a greater degree of trust than other schemes, membership is strictly by invitation only.
There are more questions than answers, but we've got a whole bunch of volunteers who just love helping out. The Gurus have the ear of the development team and if they don't know the answer to your questions, they'll find out. You can find the Gurus by visiting the Feedback Forum.
The Scouts go out into the Guide and find all those little gems that you might otherwise miss, and then recommend them to the Sub-editors for editing. They're also responsible for running the Peer Review Page.
A few short weeks after the launch of h2g2 we sat down with a stub of pencil and a pint of real ale, and realised that we weren't going to be able to sub-edit the thousands of entries in the Guide ourselves. Instead of panicking and bouncing off the walls, we realised we needed help, and approached a few valued and friendly members of h2g2 with regard to a new scheme: the Sub-editors. You can see the type of work the Subs do on the Month of h2g2 Page.
This scheme was created to cope with the increasing demand for unique pictures and illustrations for h2g2 Edited Guide Entries.
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| The University Field Researchers |  |
The h2g2 University of Life is where research is done into producing top-quality Guide Entries, and the Field Researchers pick projects that they're interested in, and get those of similar interests to help them compile the best Entries this side of the student bar.
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| The UnderGuide Volunteers | |
The UnderGuide is the underground creative writing side of the Edited Guide, and the volunteers are called Miners and Polishers. Their role is to dig out gems from the Alternative Writing Workshop for eventual exposure on the h2g2 Front Page.
The Post is h2g2's very own community newspaper. Post Reporters are volunteers who submit regular columns to the newspaper, from poetry through to film reviews.
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