OutHistory:Volunteers
Volunteer to Help OutHistory Make History
The administration of OutHistory.org is provided by a paid part-time Project Coordinator, Lauren Gutterman, and by unpaid volunteers. If interested, contact Gutterman at: outhistory@gc.cuny.edu
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.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED BY OutHistory:
- Artists
- Category Organizers
- Copy Editors
- Financial Consultants/Strategists
- Fundraisers
- Graphic Designers
- Historians
- Illustrators
- Photographers
- Proof Readers
- Publicists
- Researchers
- Spam Removers
- Techies (especially those with knowledge of MediaWiki software)
- Writers
If you can volunteer, email: outhistory@gc.cuny.edu and tell us about your interest and experience.
Provide Content
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.
Content by Volunteers
OutHistory.org provides the structure. Community members with data, documents, and citations provide the content.
Entries You Can Create:
History of LGBT Organizations
- Create an entry for your organization's history. Here's the format for the title:
- Organization's Full Present Name: day, month, year of founding
- Write the title of the entry in the search box.
- Click on the title.
- Add content and save.
For examples, see:
LGBT Employee Groups: A History
LGBT Professional Groups: A History
Local LGBT Histories
- Create an open, collaborative entry recording the local LGBT history of your village, town, or city. The title form for such entries is: Wasilla, Alaska: 1983-present [the earliest year of recorded LGBT history-present].
Bibliographic Entries
- Authors or publishers of books and articles, create an entry for your book or article. Here's the format for the title:
- Author's Full Name: "Title of Book or Article in Quotations," day, month, year of publication
- Write the title of the entry in the search box.
- Click on the title.
- Add content and save.
Therapy with Anti-Homosexual Therapists
- Clients of Anti-homosexual Therapists Testify about Their Experiences
Open Entries and Protected Entries
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.
OutHistory.org: The free website to which anyone with data, documents, and citations can contribute.
