Two ways to contribute
There is no minimum commitment. You can contribute once and never return — or take on a franchise and make it yours.
Pick up a task when you have five minutes. Verify an identifier. Flag a missing entry. Confirm a publication date you happened to know. Your contribution gets recorded, credited, and becomes part of a permanent reference that fans will use for years. No ongoing commitment. Fill in the intake form and start whenever you're ready.
Take on an ongoing role — Tab Lead, Franchise Lead, Thread Steward — and become an EUA Archivist. Archivists hold their part of the record to a higher standard: accurate, consistently formatted, and maintained over time. The identity is earned, not assigned. It reflects what you actually do.
The roles
Every role contributes to the same goal: a complete, accurate record of every officially published expanded universe work across every major franchise.
Atlas Contributor
Add entries, verify identifiers, check availability, flag gaps. Start with a single microtask — two to five minutes — and contribute more whenever you have something to add. No ongoing commitment.
Read the Contributor Handbook →Tab Lead — EUA Archivist
Own one content tab within a franchise sheet. Review what Contributors submit, verify entries independently, and keep your tab accurate and consistently formatted.
Read the Tab Lead Handbook →Franchise Lead — EUA Archivist
Own a franchise sheet end-to-end. Manage Tab Leads, adjudicate classification edge cases, and ensure the whole sheet meets archivist-grade standards.
Read the Franchise Lead Handbook →Thread Steward — EUA Archivist
Keep a franchise subreddit thread productive — welcome new contributors, route useful information to the archive, and lightly moderate. No data knowledge required. Just care for the franchise and the community around it.
Get involved →What your contribution does
Expanded universe material sits scattered across formats, publishers, and decades. Some of it is region-locked. Some is out of print. Some exists in only one database, incorrectly catalogued, or not at all. The fans who want to find it have no reliable way to know what exists.
Every contribution you make changes that. A verified ISBN means a reader in another country can find the right edition. A sourced publication date means the reading order is correct. A flagged missing entry means a work that would otherwise stay invisible becomes findable — permanently.
Your contributions are credited by name in the archive. The work you do this week will be there for every fan who finds that franchise next year, and the year after that.
What every contributor follows
Five principles apply to every contribution at every level — from a first microtask to a full franchise sheet.
Every entry is supported by a verifiable source. No speculation, no memory, no assumption.
Notes describe what is there — they do not analyse, interpret, or evaluate. The EUA records; it does not judge.
The same schema, the same field definitions, the same standards — across every franchise, every tab, every contributor.
Every decision is documented. Every correction leaves a record. There are no silent fixes.
Contributors, Tab Leads, and Franchise Leads work together. When something is unclear, you escalate — that is how the system is designed to work.
Start with one task
Tell us which franchise interests you and what kind of contribution suits you. Most Atlas Contributors are making a real difference within the hour.
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