User:DrD CPP

WELCOME to DrD CPP's USER PAGE!

Abiquiu New Mexico c. 1920 -- One of the places Dr D collaborates with on archaeological research

I am an assistant professor of Anthropology at Cal Poly Pomona, helping my students improve Wikipedia!

Together, we bring scholarly knowledge about archaeology, heritage, and cultural resource management to wikipedia -- to benefit everyone!

What We're Doing Here

Wikipedia acknowledges systemic bias in its platform. Editors are largely white and male, leaving the insights and skills of Black, Indigenous, Asian, female, and queer editors out. This systemic bias in who edits wikipedia means that the content is also biased towards people and issues that matter the most to white men.

In the classes where we edit wikipedia, we highlight topics and scholars that add complexity and visibility to this issue. See some examples below!

California Archaeology (ANT 3250)

Portrait of Jose de Gracia Cruz, a San Juan Capistrano Mission Indian bell ringer, ca. June 1909. Found on Ajachemen page.

Students edited Wikipedia pages related to California Archaeology to update them with knowledge from more up-to-date and diverse bodies of scholarship. Some students focused on specific Native Californian nations and cultural groups. They also edit pages about general topics, using examples from California archaeology, heritage, and history to increase the representation of Californians of all ethnicities and genders.

Spring 2023 Pages

Native Nations and Cultural Groups

• Acjachemen
• Patayan
• Serrano People
• Quechan (tribe)

Painted Cave rock art, painted in a shallow sandstone cave near Santa Barbara California, taken 1/4/09. Found on Chumash Rock Art page.

Archaeology Related Pages

• Blade (archaeology)
• California Genocide
• Cal NAGPRA
• Cave Painting
• Coso Rock Art District
• Funerary Archaeology
• History of Los Angeles
• Rock Art
• Rock Art of the Chumash People
• Settlement of the Americas
• Salton Butte

A winter dish of food of the Ohlone American Indian tribe, served at Cafe Ohlone. Found on the Indigenous Cuisine page.

General Pages

• Channel Islands (California)
• Funeral
• Indigenous Cuisine
• Obsidian
• Traditional Chinese Medicine
• Visual Arts

DrD CPP's user page is also here to help you get started with editing YOUR OWN user page.

1. FIRST, complete this WIKIEDU tutorial on the different kinds of pages on Wikipedia.
2. THEN, find your own user page by clicking the tab that says "User Page" at the top of your homepage (the one you see when you login).
3. Choose "visual editor" for a more user-friendly editing experience like Word or Google Docs. Start typing, formatting, and adding images!
4. FINALLY, make sure to hit the PUBLISH PAGE button in the upper right hand corner.

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