Tom asked a great question - what specifically is most useful for alpha testers to do in making the site better? So, here's your answer!

Get Familiar
Many of you have done this already, but the first thing to do's just to play around the site, and see what we have where. Your feedback of what you see and think during this part is critical - it's the only time we get truly fresh eyes looking at the site. So please give us feedback of what you like, dislike, and find across the site.

Help make the content amazing
One of our key goals for the Wasabi release (Feb 1) is to have every page in the big picture fit with the editing guide. There's a lot to do, and your expertise, experience, and perspective are critical to getting it done! As noted, go ahead and edit the content wiki at will. We're hoping that everyone will have worked to fill out and transform at least one page of the big picture.

Do one fix
The core mission of SixLinks is to enable and motivate people to make actual changes in the world around them. This, of course, includes all of us. So, we'd like each of you to take on one fix - something you're not already doing, and do it. This has the added benefit of testing out the guides and fixes with real people, and telling us how to improve. Your feedback is critical to making these tools easy and fun for everyone to use.

Favorite a news feed, and submit a story
One of our biggest, easiest content sources is news. We hope that SixLinks turns into a great place to read news from a variety of sources on any of the broad issues the links cover. To that end, we need your feedback as to how to turn our news section into that place. So, at some point this month, please find the link you care about most, hop over to the news page, and click the 'favorite' star on the left. This will put any new stories for that link in your updates feed. (Pretty sweet, eh?).

It'd also be great if people submit at least one story. We count on user submissions to keep great stories in front of the SixLinks community, and it'd be great to have you try this feature, and suggest ways to make it better.

So that's a broad look at the sorts of things that would help us out the most. You're of course free to do whatever you want on the site, but if you're wondering where to start, here you go!