- As of January 31, 2022, Vanguard is no longer available.
Vanguard membership was by invitation only. In order to maintain a good mentoring relationship between staff and Vanguard members, the team was kept necessarily small.
What we were looking for on the portability team[]
That said, there were qualities that successful candidates could share. Obviously, we couldn't list every single thing we were looking for, but here are a few that could rock your name to the top of the list.
Knowledge of:
- Portable infoboxes (including proper syntax)
- CSS (preferably with some notion of flex-box layout)
- Basic parser functions like
#if,#ifeq, and#switch
Good interpersonal skills, demonstrating your ability to:
- Work with communities beyond your home wiki(s)
- Respond appropriately to trolls
- Be involved in challenging discussions without losing your cool
- Know the difference between constructive criticism and personal attacks
Linguistic ability was important in two key ways:
- At least conversational English was desired, but not strictly required
- Bilingual and multilingual skills were even better
Personal discretion
- You must be willing to sign a non-disclosure agreement, and be legally bound by it.
- Though not an absolute requirement, we'd like to see some evidence that you had been around for a while on Fandom, and that you had a history of affecting some positive change.
- We want to know what you really think about new or existing Fandom products. But tell us directly – via Discord or directed e-mails – not in public-facing forums or comment sections. Remember, it was far more effective to pass negative comments directly to those who could change the product than to have your feedback buried in a public forum thread or comments section.