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Jonathan's Diary -- Making OutHistory.org

For the Week Starting Monday, June 9, 2008 Additions last made: Thursday, June 12

Priorities for this week?

• Jonathan

finish colonial documents; contact Michael Warner?

finish Wurttemberg essay

get my photo collection back.

• Lauren should focus on getting to know the site's operation, function, codes, and content.

Jonathan thinks that in the advanced "Time era" search there are too many choices, and confusing, and that perhaps there should only be one choice for each period, and that the periods should be consecutive. What does Lauren think?

Lauren and Jonathan plan to have lunch next week?

Alphabetical notes below:

What are our priorities among the following items?

• AHA Meeting of OutHistory Advisors

JNK contact Karen Krahulik. Are we getting a meeting space at the AHA?

• Blog?

Should we set up some sort of history blog, have different guest historian bloggers?

• Categories, Categorizing

Dee Michel is looking at.

• Content

How to inform users of all content types? Dee Michel working on this. NY Times and Village Voice content pages.

• Content credibility?

Tension between anonymous public access sections, accountability, and tension between public access and credibility of evidence presented by named authors, some of whom have credentials and prestige. Recognize that a hierarchy exists, then deal with it.

• Content Needed

AIDS History (Visual AIDS has visual stuff)

Asian American LGBTQ History

Hispanic LGBTQ History (or should it be called Latina/o LGBTQ History?)

Lesbian History (Email Liz Kennedy, Lila Rupp, Estelle Freedman, Lillian Faderman, etc.)

Marriage: The History of LGBTQ Marriage. Email lawyers involved.

Military: The "Gays in the Military" Issue--History. Email Aaron Belkin

Newsworthy historical revelation for debut???? Would be great.

Outreach to get the content we want rather than writing it ourselves.

Presidents, U.S.: Buchanan. Collect evidence. Lincoln, Present all the evidence on the site.

• Content Possible

Bibliographies. Largest free on line list. Annotated. Categorized. Enlist authors and publishers?

LGBTQ History and Biological Determinism

Local LGBTQ Histories

Review the site, review and article, review a book, review a historical movie, etc.

Exhibits planning. Same-sex intimacy in U.S. advertising. Affectionate men and affectionate women photo collections. Books.

add today's popular content categories? Entertainment, Religion, Sports, Travel

John D'Emilio's piece on Allan Berube, with large collection of pictures of Allan that no one else has. Scan and upload them from my house?

• Content Promised

Tavia

John D:

JNK African American biblio on old laptop

• Contest?

Should we have contests for the best original research, photo, visual art work, etc?

• Controversial entries policy?

Child Pornography

Feminism and Pornography

Explicit sexual description

• Domain Names

Buy OutHistory.org.us ? Buy other major countries?

• Fellowships to create entries

Deadline? Put on Upcoming on News page

• Functions, site

Should we add a What's New? on the site function to the red bar? And can it operate automatically to list everything new?

• Funding of OutHistory.org?

Howard Gilman Foundation?

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation?

Andy Warhol Foundation of the Visual Arts

New York State Council on the Arts

Meeting soon?

Grass roots fundraising via the web? How does Obama do it?

Put the budget on line on the site?

• Gay TV -- Cable--History Channel

Tie ups? Study how they do history.

• Help

Write up how to do everything on Help Page. This is MAJOR.

• How to: Research LGBTQ History.

Find out what is known already. Don't reinvent the wheel.

• Integrating LGBTQ History

in the U.S. History curriculum; suggestions?

• Internships

• Legal

Email Ropes and Gray for advice schedule

• LGBTQ Art History

"Art and the Gay Revolution" entry: Start bibliography

Art inspired by history as illustrations for website. (Marget Long, Nathaniel Siegel)

• Logo Idea

The Month Is: June

The Day Is: 9

The Year Is: 2008

• Mentoring system?

Can we provide this for unexperienced researchers, writers?

• My History

Should we add a function with this name to "my" section of the red bar? The idea would be to encourage people to write little mini-histories of themselves, encouraging the idea that everyone is important. We would put a little note to that effect at the top of the section. History from the ground up. History of "ordinary" people. Memoir can be powerful. First person testimony is powerful. Is this different than blogging?

• Networking

Should we establish specific easy ways that researchers interested in particular topics can network with each other? If so, how? This could turn out to be very popular, JNK thinks.

• OutHistory's Character

Accesibility principle: Making data and ideas freely and readily accessible even though they are "accessible" if you know where and what to look for, have time, access to a major library, etc.

Collaborative

Participatory

Open

Digitable Democracy

History from the Community Up

Changeable

Transparent

Prototype should provide an exciting sampling suggesting the site's diverse, vast possibilities

Community-based history and historians

Interactive? How to make it more interactive?

Freely accessible

Educational (but this is such a deadly word); Public Education function of site

Institutionally-based in order to assure continuity over the long term.

Popular and Scholarly!

Two parts: content by named authors and content provided by anyone with data, documents, and citations to share.

Present site is a PROTOTYPE with a sampling of the wide variety of content and types of written, audio, and visual materials that can eventually go on it.

What defines an LGBTQ history site as opposed to an LGBTQ encyclopedia? or an LGBTQ archive? JNK thinks we need to keep stressing this and figuring out how to actively, creatively make the site historical.

Repurposing old historical work for a new web audience. Taking out of print articles and books that no one else will make as readily accessible and making them readily accessible.

• Publicity Volunteer?

JNK email Sarah

• Red Bar Listings

Rearrange the listings within each section alphabetically unless there is a pressing reason not to.

Are all the functions listed necessary? Could some be placed elsewhere on the site? For instance, some of the one's to do with the operation of the site: Block User

Should some red bar functions be renamed?

What's the dif between Links and What Links Here?

Should the sections be titled as in Wikipedia to say what each of them represents?

• Save Page, etc. placement is awk

• Sites to Learn From

New York Historical Society

blog sites David recommended (find his list)

• Stub

Urge users to create stub categories if they want to know about a subject/topic and there is no entry for it. "If you don't see something, write something."

• Uploads

Do we have the capacity now to upload audio and video or movies? We should have at least one sample of each on the site by the time we go on line. By the way, what happened to the Evelyn Hooker video?

• Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Netowrks. (A manifesto for online collaboration mentioned in the NYT recently)

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MERRYMOUNT About 1626, according to William Bradford, Thomas Morton and the other male settlers at Merrymount were guilty of "great licentiousness." The men's consorting with Indian women is mentioned, along with "worse practices" associated with ancient Roman feasts. Bradford said that Morton and his men "set up a maypole,drinking and dancing about it many days together, inviting the Indian women for their consorts, dancing and frisking together like so many fairies, or furies, rather; and worse practices. As if they had anew revived and celebrated the feasts of the Roman goddess Flora, or the beastly practices of the mad Bac-' chanalians." Subject for research: It would be interesting to know just what feasts and "beastly practices" Bradford had in mind; see his Of Plymouth Plantation, pp. 204-06; Oaks, 'Things Fearful,' " p. 269.

Alphabetize category entries by last name You simply add this snippet of text above the category: {{DEFAULTSORT:Kolbe, Jim}}

Let me just mention that the link text donesn't necessarily need to be the same as the article title. I can link to Jim Kolbe's article for example by typing [[Jim Kolbe|Jim Kolbe's article]] (text before vertical bar is what it links to, text after the vertical bar is what it says on the page). You can also automatically sign your name when you write something on the discussion pages (like I did below) by typing four tilde characters (~~~~). The will turn into a signature stamp when you save or preview.

Ebukva 12:30, 8 November 2007 (PST)

I was here. JNK Jnk 12:58, 19 November 2007 (PST)

Hello and welcome to OutHistory.org.

Thank you signing up and contributing to the project. Here are a couple of things you may find helpful as you navigate your way through the site:

• First, we suggest that you set up the correct time zone for yourself by visiting the preferences page. This will allow you see when articles have been posted and edited according to your local time, rather than Greenwich Mean Time. Click on the "Date and time" tab and simply click on the "Fill in from the browser" button to determine your time zone automatically. You can also set other useful defaults on the preferences page.
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Ebukva 14:31, 10 January 2008 (PST)