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The Volunteer Response Team (VRT) always welcomes new volunteers to help with answering tickets. Nonetheless, to ensure the quality of service and given the confidential nature of the work, there is a selective application procedure.
The
VRTS administrators
are a group of highly-trusted and experienced volunteers who assess your application to join the VRT. When assessing an application, they familiarize themselves with your work on the Wikimedia projects to ensure that you are suitable as an addition to the VRT. It therefore takes some time before you receive a response regarding your application.
How do I volunteer?
If you are interested in volunteering, please read
VRT/Recruiting
for information about what the job entails. Feel free to join
#wikimedia-vrt
connect
to ask any questions that you might have with regard to the Wikimedia Volunteer Response Team. Before applying, please ensure that you are:
Willing to work on difficult, sensitive, and at times hostile messages
Courteous, skilled at resolving disputes, friendly – even in the face of hostility – sensitive to the needs of outsiders, and have exemplary discretion
Willing to sign the
VRTS users confidentiality agreement
, considering the
access to nonpublic personal data policy
16 years of age or older
Please review the
list of queues
prior to submitting your application, and apply for all of those queues where you think you'd be able to help.
Notes
The VRT is especially interested in users who are entrusted with any special tools on local projects (sysop, bureaucrat, checkuser, etc.), though this is
not
an absolute requirement.
Applicants are usually expected to have shown consistent activity for at least six months.
Language skills — other than English — are also highly appreciated. Additional help in language queues is greatly needed and we'd like to know if you are able to help in any other language.
If you already have access to VRTS, and you'd like to get access to additional queues, you
typically
don't need to apply here. Ask on
Administrator requests
on vrt-wiki instead.
If you currently don't have access to VRTS, but had access in the past, even under a different user name, please advise accordingly during your application.
Permissions queues: users that already have strong knowledge of and experience with copyright issues, like administrators or license reviewers on Wikimedia Commons, are highly appreciated and invited to volunteer. Users without such skills should apply for info queues instead.
German-speaking volunteers
If you'd like to volunteer for the info-de queue, please apply locally by following the instructions at
de:Wikipedia:Support-Team#Mitarbeit im Support-Team
Dutch-speaking volunteers
If you'd like to volunteer for the info-nl queue, please apply below
and
send an email to
contact-nl
lists
wikimedia
org
for the team to assess your application.
Please
add your application
and also
send an e-mail to
volunteers-vrt
wikimedia
org
linking to your application on this page and giving your age
. Please do so
each time
you apply.
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I'd like to help out on the Volunteer Response Team because I want to assist Indonesian users, and I am also a Rollbacker on Indonesian Wikipedia and Wikidata. Warm regards...
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