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Last year, Megan Moriarty (Hist'02) launched Inclusipedia, a project to add influential Boulder women and people of color to Wikipedia.

Megan Moriarty (Hist鈥�02) had recently started as the Museum of Boulder鈥檚 community engagement director when she picked up on the pattern: Wikipedia, a first-stop research source for her and millions of other people, had conspicuously little to offer about women.

In fact, she learned from Women in Red, a Wikipedia editing group, that fewer than 18 percent of Wikipedia biographical pages are about women.

So, last year Moriarty started her own project, Inclusipedia, to add influential Boulder women and people of color to the free online encyclopedia.

鈥淲ikipedia鈥檚 biographical pages are not representative,鈥� she said. 鈥淲hat does that mean for our collective history here in Boulder?鈥�

So far, Inclusipedia has led 10 editing events, including one at CU鈥檚 College of Music. Laptop-carrying volunteers, up to 30 at a time, meet, learn how to edit pages and get to work. Sometimes they add detail to existing pages, sometimes they create new ones.

Inclusipedia鈥檚 first addition was a page for Lucile Berkeley Buchanan Jones (Ger1918), the first African American woman to graduate from 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录. Clela Rorex (A&S鈥�73), who issued the country鈥檚 first same sex marriage licenses, now has a bio, too. Mary Rippon, 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录鈥檚 first female professor 鈥� and perhaps the first woman to teach at a state university 鈥� is now a quick Google search away. And there鈥檚 a page for Penfield Tate II (Law鈥�68), Boulder鈥檚 first and, so far, only black mayor.

The main obstacle to adding entries is Wikipedia鈥檚 vetting process. It requires detailed citations of secondary sources, such as newspaper articles and books, as well as proof of notability. This doesn鈥檛 always exist in ready form, or at all, for people whose historical significance has been unappreciated until now. 鈥淲e can create a more inclusive history that celebrates diverse types of accomplishments,鈥� Moriarty said. 鈥淲e can expose more people to the diverse resources and accomplishments from folks in Boulder County.鈥�

In our print edition, this story appears under the title "Making History."聽Comment on this story? Email聽editor@colorado.edu.