# Are there any prizes for posting to the Knowledgebase?

*This article is posted for historical purposes.*

Here’s our first contest:

**“We Want Your Questions” raffle**  
Date: May 10, 2006 11:23:36 AM <span class="caps">PDT</span>

Dear Help Desk Consortium members: Please take advantage of this fun  
and valuable opportunity. Also please share this email with all your  
student workers (they are also eligible and our first raffle will take  
place before the end of the school year). If you can think of others in  
your area who might have Q&amp;As for the KnowledgeBase, feel free to  
include them as well. Good luck to all of you. Help make our  
KnowledgeBase a terrific tool for yourselves and the entire campus!!  
Thanks. Jackie Reynolds

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We Want Your Questions (and Answers)!!

(Sorry if you’ve seen this more than once.)

The <span class="caps">UCLA</span> Knowledgebase ( [https://kb.ucla.edu](https://kb.ucla.edu) ) is up and running (in beta).  
If you aren’t familiar with the <span class="caps">UCLA</span> Knowledgebase, see this  
introduction.  
[https://kb.ucla.edu/link/7](https://kb.ucla.edu/link/7).

The good news is that 155 answers have been posted so far, by 29 people.  
The bad news is that most of those people have only submitted one or two  
questions. Since we want you to get in the habit of posting questions  
and answers all the time, we came up with the idea of a raffle.

Starting with the initial announcement of the KB (April 12th) until May  
30th, we will enter your name into our raffle for <span class="caps">EACH</span> question/answer  
you submit to the KB. If you submit 10 entries to the KB by 5/30/06, you  
will have 10 chances to win our raffle. And what will you win? A brand  
new iPod Nano (1GB)courtesy of BruinTech!!

So start thinking about the questions that pop up with any regularity  
from your clients. When a person calls with a question, make it a habit  
to submit that question and your answer to the KB while it’s fresh in  
your mind. If you have a particular strength in an area, write up a  
related procedure for us. Or, if you just want to bookmark a  
particularly good resource, add it to the knowledgebase. Help us build  
our Knowledgebase!

We’ll do another raffle for summer submissions. But don’t miss out on  
this one. The more you submit, the better your chances.

If you have any suggestions, there is a link to a Forum, after you login  
to [https://kb.ucla.edu](https://kb.ucla.edu) where we can all discuss strategies, request  
features and generally talk about the knowledgebase. We’re particularly  
interested in how to make this more useful, and how we can get more  
people to contribute answers.

If you have any questions, contact Jackie Reynolds or Mike Franks.

Notes:

- Jackie and Mike are disqualifying themselves from the raffle.

- In this contest, we’re focusing on new questions with answers. So editing other people’s answers doesn’t get you points for the raffle. Although please fix things if you find a mistake.

Thanks,

Mike Franks, Social Sciences Computing  
Jackie Reynolds, <span class="caps">AIS</span>/BruinTech