OutHistory:Volunteers

Volunteer to Help OutHistory Make History

OutHistory needs volunteers to help administer the site, to deal with technical problems, and spam, and to provide editing, proof-reading, research, content, and a variety of other tasks..

The administration of OutHistory.org is provided by a paid Project Coordinator, Lauren Gutterman, and by unpaid volunteers. If interested, contact Gutterman at: outhistory@gc.cuny.edu

All users can discuss the site or discuss a particular entry.

The content of OutHistory.org is volunteered and created by historically oriented users, researchers, and historians or solicited from them.

In addition, inspired by Wikipedia, anyone with data, reference citations, historical information, or editing or other skills to share can help to create unsigned, collaborative entries that she or he, and others can improve.

Such collectively produced entries are marked as such by an "Open Entry" notice within a yellow box like this:

OPEN ENTRY: This entry is open to collaborative creation by anyone with evidence, citations, and analysis to share, so no particular, named creator is responsible for the accuracy and cogency of its content. Please use this entry's Discuss section to suggest improvements about which you are unsure. Thanks.

Entries by named writers, editors, curators or site administrators can only be edited by them, and by site administrators, and are marked by a "Protected Entry" notice within a gray box, like this:

PROTECTED ENTRY: This entry by a named creator or site administrator can be changed only by that creator and site administrators, so they are responsible for its accuracy, coverage, evidence, and clarity. Please do use this entry's Discuss section to suggest improvements. Thanks.