VocaDB - How to help
VocaDB is fully a volunteer-based organization. If you’re interested in contributing in various ways, please read ahead.
General ways to help
Editing entries
VocaDB aims to be the most accurate and complete source of voice synth content (albums, artists, songs, etc.). You can help with this by adding new and/or improving the existing entries.
It’s helpful to also send entry reports when noticing errors. Anyone can remind and educate other editors about the guidelines, as long as the tone of the message or the comment is diplomatic and appropriate.
Some shared entry lists have also been made that focus on certain tasks: -upcoming-
Improving rules and guidelines
Our guidelines and rules sharpen and evolve as edge cases emerge and new trends appear.
Guideline discussion and debate is currently mostly limited to a non-public discord channel (#mods-and-trusted), but thoughtful guideline suggestions and clarification requests are always welcome.
The wiki content (including this text) is hosted on Github, which accepts change proposals through pull requests. Rule and guideline changes should always be discussed first, but PRs that fix typos or clarify sentences for example are always accepted and quickly merged.
Promoting the website
As a collaborative project, we benefit from having a large and diverse userbase.
VocaDB api enables the development of external services.
If you’re a programmer (C#, ASP.NET Core, TypeScript, React)
See the instructions in the README.
For fixing bugs and implementing feature requests, fork and create a pull request to the main repository. Participating in a non-public discord channel (#dev-talk) is recommended.
If you’re a programmer (Mobile, Dart)
VocaDB also exists as a native Android + Apple mobile app, created by up2code. The app code repository can be found on GitHub/VocaDB/VocaDB-App.
If you’re a programmer (any language)
GitHub issues labeled with external solution possible can be implemented or workaround-ed in some form with any language.
If you manage to create/find a working solution or workaround for these issues, please mention it on the relevant github issue.
The public #api-projects -channel can be used as a relevant discussion area.
If you know non-English languages
We need people who know specific languages, especially Japanese and Chinese.
Please update your “known languages” in your profile settings and let us know if we can contact you if/when help is needed.
The relevant discussion area for translation-related topics is #translate -channel on Discord.
Website translations are managed through Crowdin, a localization management platform.
Translations for the VocaDB wiki pages are also welcome. These are currently implemented as separate wiki pages.
Donations
VocaDB is free to use for everyone and does not display any sort of ads. However, running a website is not free. VocaDB, UtaiteDB and TouhouDB are running on servers that need to be paid monthly.
Patreon is our main source of funding.
Additionally, if you want to donate to the VocaDB-App hosted by up2code, please visit the dedicated Ko-fi page.
Other
For any improvement ideas or feature requests for the website, please first search through the issue tracker before creating a new issue (=“ticket”). High-quality proposals are especially appreciated. Voting and commenting on the existing proposals can be helpful as well.
Our community is mostly gathered up in our discord server. We try to maintain a mature and friendly atmosphere.
If you think you could be of help in any other way that wasn’t mentioned in this page, please join the discord server or contact us in some other way.