Volunteer Response Team/Volunteering

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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.
• Please also add links to help desk posts, talk pages, or other discussions you think are relevant.
• 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.
• 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-nllistswikimediaorg for the team to assess your application.

Please add your application and also send an e-mail to volunteers-vrtwikimediaorg linking to your application on this page and giving your age. Please do so each time you apply.

• User links: V0lkanic (talk • contribs • CentralAuth • global • count • blocks)
• Babel/Languages you can reply in: cs-N, sk-3, en-3, de-1
• Your most active user talk page(s): cs:Diskuse s wikipedistou:V0lkanic, sk:Diskusia s redaktorom:V0lkanic
• Queues you would like access to: info-cs
• Email sent? Yes

I have been asked by User:Martin Urbanec to consider the option of joining the VRT as I could be helpful in responding to requests in my native language, Czech. There are just a handful of users in the team fluent in Czech (and Slovak) as of today and I believe I could come in handy with some tickets. --V0lkanic (talk) 20:23, 27 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

 Support I recommended V0lkanic to request VRTS access. While the info-cs queue is relatively low-traffic, there are emails that go unanswered, and additional volunteers would certainly help. From my experience with V0lkanic on Czech Wikipedia, I trust his judgement when it comes to VRTS tickets. Sincerely, --Martin Urbanec (talk) 16:08, 28 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]