Contribute

This site is run by a Dutch foundation that is being set up, and for now its work is done by one person. There are things one person cannot do alone — not a call for volunteers in general, but a specific list of what would actually help.

Translation

The site is written in English first. Other language editions are in progress. Most wait for a native reviewer before they go live; an edition may instead be published while its volunteer reviewers are still reading it, and then says so on every page. Which languages come next, and why, is on the translation status page: a language moves up when a native reviewer is ready.

Translation is not just linguistic. It requires cultural calibration: references that land in English may not land in Dutch; the manosphere section requires particular care across languages; legal references differ by jurisdiction.

What is needed: native speakers who are also fluent in English, with enough familiarity with the subject matter to translate argument rather than words. Academic or journalistic background useful. Roughly 45,000 words per language across the full site — every page in the sitemap — and a phased approach starting with core pages is fine.

If this is you: tell us below with your language, background, and a short note on why this project matters to you.

Review

Every factual claim links to its source on its page, every claim with a number, a date, a named study or a quotation is tracked in the claim ledger, and the result is public: the ledger lists each checked claim with its status, and the corrections log records what was wrong and what changed. That work is never finished: sources get updated, rulings are appealed, numbers go stale.

What is needed, in two roles. Native reviewers: people who read a translated page beside the English and confirm that the meaning, the hedges ("correlation", "contested", "several studies") and the sources survived. The handful of pages where that is hardest come with a brief of their own, saying what is settled, what must stay contested, and what to check line by line. A translation is not published until a native reviewer has signed it off, unless its edition is published under volunteer review and says so on every page. Fact-checkers: people who pick a page that carries a Sources block, open it, and check that each source says what the page says it says. One page is enough; a note on what does not hold up is the whole contribution.

This is not editorial input on the argument — it is checking that the argument stays honest in every language. If this is you: tell us below with your language (for review) or the page you would like to check (for fact-checking).

Research

The research evidence document is maintained and updated. What is harder to maintain alone is tracking new studies, regulatory decisions, and primary documents across multiple jurisdictions and disciplines.

What is needed: people already reading in specific areas — platform regulation, adolescent mental health research, computational propaganda, electoral integrity, EU digital policy — who would flag relevant new material when they encounter it. No schedule commitment. When you read something that belongs in the evidence map, send it: source, claim, and a note on what it adds. Five minutes when you are already reading.

If this is you: tell us below with your area and a brief note on your background.

Technical

The site runs on Astro and Cloudflare. One thing would improve it beyond current capacity:

Accessibility audit — the site has not been formally audited against WCAG 2.1 AA, the standard it is written to.

If this is you: tell us below with your background.

Promotion

The most useful thing most people can do is share specific pages with specific people at the right moment — not broadcast sharing, but considered placement. Sharing the manosphere page with an educator who has asked about it. Linking to the research evidence in a discussion where it is relevant. Mentioning the Bad News game to a teacher.

Mass sharing without context, or posting to groups where it reads as spam, does not help. The Share This page has copy for specific contexts.

What we do not need

Generic offers without a specific skill. Editorial input — the argument is not open to committee. Partnership proposals from commercial entities. If none of the above fits but you have a concrete proposal, get in touch.

Offer to help

One form for any of the kinds of help above — tick what fits. If you would rather write an email, the address is contribute@attentionmachine.org.

Your name Your email address

Only to reply to you about your offer.

The languages you read and write well

For translation or review, say which one is your first language.

Where you could help Translation Review — as a native reviewer or a fact-checker Research Technical work Promotion

Your background and skills

How much time you might have A few hours a month A few hours a week More than that

Anything else (optional)

What this form keeps, and for how long, is on the privacy page.

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Sources

This site's own sitemap — the English pages a translation covers — the current count is there, not here; the word count is measured across their text.
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) — the standard, and what its A, AA and AAA levels mean.
How translations are reviewed and when one is published is described on the site's own translation status page; the claim ledger and the corrections log are linked above.