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Welcome! We're so excited you're interested in helping make the City of Boulder the first municipality to chronicle its whole history, by highlighting historical characters who have not gotten the credit they deserve.

This page is for organizing Inclusipedia events in collaboration with the Museum of Boulder. Feel free to edit this page, add citations, and play around as much as you'd like in order to get the hang of editing.

Today, we're going to do a run-through with you of how to edit pages, add citations, and start new pages.

First, you'll want to set up a username for yourself. Once you've logged in, search for someone you know is underrepresented on Wikipedia.

You can learn a lot about editing wikipedia via the Wikipedia Adventure: "Learn to edit Wikipedia in under an hour!".'

You'll find many helpful tips, and other examples of "redlinks" for women to consider writing articles about, at Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red.

A few guidelines for adding or editing pages:

  • Bold the first time the person or organization is named.
  • Always cite your sources using reliable sources, such as newspaper articles, books, scientific journals, and more.
  • Having more than one author contribute to a draft before submitting it will increase the likelihood of publication.

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Editing existing pages

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Here are a few people we've identified whose pages need more information and citations (feel free to add and find others!):

  • Lucile Buchanan: First black woman to graduate from CU Boulder. She was born to slaves who moved West to Colorado after they were freed.
  • Mary Rippon- First female professor at CU.
  • Clela Rorex: Former Boulder County Clerk who issued the first same-sex marriage licenses in the US in 1975.
  • Penfield Tate II- Boulder's first, and only, Black Mayor.
  • Alicia Sanchez: Founded Clinica Family Health

Editing draft pages

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These are the draft pages we are working on. Feel free to use these sources to add to these draft pages or conduct more research and add to this list of potential citations:

Starting a new page

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If you're interested in the challenge of starting a new page, it's best to start with a draft. To create a draft, search for "Draft: [Name of person you'd like to add]," and then click to create the page when that option is offered to you.

Here's a helpful guide to creating new pages: Wikipedia:Article wizard

Note also the advice on the standard order of sections of an article: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout

Here are some people who don't yet have pages. Feel free to add links and resources as you find them!
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Images

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If you have an image to add to a page, see Wikipedia:Uploading images. Note that you have to be really clear that the copyright status and licensing information of the image is good, or else it may well be quickly deleted.

Info Boxes

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Informational boxes are very helpful to add to new pages. Check out this video for a quick tutorial and then try and add one to a draft page!