VISION
We want every contributor/editor to be on an access level that corresponds with his/her skills and his/her commitment.
LEVELS
NB: Any higher ranked user level automatically inherits the powers of lower user levels.
Regular Users
- Submit missing covers
- Post error reports
- Add External Recordings to performances
- Youtube
- Spotify
- Apple Music
- Add missing information to artists: Identify as male/female/non-binary
Certified Contributor Level 1
Check this video on how to use your Certified Contributor powers.
- Artists
- Add missing information to artists: Identify as person or band, visual, birth date, death date, home country, and free biography details.
- Browse the list of Artists without type
- Browse the list of Artists without real name
- Browse the list of Artists without birth date
- Browse the list of Artists without death date
- Browse the list of Artists without home country
- Browse the list of Artists without bio info: Read the Guideline to know what kind of information belongs here.
- Browse the list of Artists without visual
- Add missing information to artists: Identify as person or band, visual, birth date, death date, home country, and free biography details.
- Releases
- Add missing visuals
- Browse the list of Releases without visual
- Add missing external links
- Accepted sources: 12single, 45cat, 45worlds, 78rpm, AllMusic, Amazon (CA), Amazon (DE), Amazon (ES), Amazon (FR), Amazon (IN), Amazon (JP), Amazon (UK), Amazon (US), Apple Music, Discogs, MusicBrainz, Spotify, cdalbum, cdbaby, cdsingle, vinyl
- Add attachments to releases: Most commonly used for the B-sides, inlays, back covers, etc...
- Add missing visuals
- External Recordings
- Adding them does not generate an Edit Review
- View attachments for all database objects. For example, in the case of releases you will often find the back cover scan.
- Can tag any database object
- View editor notes for all database objects. These notes contain research-related information by the editors.
- View dates of creation of all entries
- View and post in the editor boards Ideas & Suggestions and Bugs & Problems.
- View the editor board Guidelines
Certified Contributor Level 2
- Removing incorrectly attributed Youtube videos
- Removing incorrectly attributed Spotify links
- Checking or unchecking Instrumental status of a Performance
- Editing the Artist Comment Field
- Editing Web Covers
- Posting in the editor board Guidelines
- Adding Artist Relations
Trainee
- Has access to the Test database, copy of the actual database used for training and experimenting.
New editors (400)
- Can enter new performances, limited by a quota
- Can alter data by retired editors
- Can review CC edits
- Can alter text content
- Can vote for Trac tickets
- Editor access on our Facebook page
- Inline help forms shown by default
Junior editors (500)
- Can enter new performances, unlimited
- Can alter data by new and retired editors
- Can untag own tags
Editors (600)
- Can enter new performances, unlimited
- Can alter all data
- Can review CC edits
- Can untag any tag
- Can have a username@secondhandsongs email address if they wish
- Can create Trac tickets (NB: This requires the manual LDAP OU setting)
- Can alter text content
- Editor access on our Facebook page
Managing Editors (?00)
- Arbitrate discussions with respect to the application and interpretation of guidelines
- Create new release format types
- Create new tags
- Double voting weights on Trac tickets
- Delete messages on the forum (in order to quickly remove spam)
- Delete users (in order to quickly remove spammers)
- Full view on the event log
- Mass edit releases
- Change label
- Change label series
- View management statistics, currently they are:
- API calls over time
- Unanswered error reports
- User impersonation
- Upgrade users to Certified Contributors (not functional yet)
- If two managing editors vouch for a user, we will upgrade the user to CC straight away. (no management vote needed)
- Google Analytics
- Reading and analyzing
PROMOTION
Moving to another user level is based on merit, not entry stats or a related point-based system. These decisions are taken by the managers. This being said, there are few minima one should meet to be promoted:
- From CC1 to CC2:
- At least 25 accepted CC edits
- At least 250 accepted submissions
- From CC2 to Trainee: At least 100 accepted edits
- From Senior Editor to Managing Editor
- Acts and debates mainly with the general interest of the project in mind
- Regularly shares his views on discussions regarding to strategy, features, guidelines, community, etc...
- Is an example in terms of social interaction, the reference being the Code of Conduct
- Delivers data that matches a high standard of quality
- Understands the multiple technical aspects of the user interface