Latest revision as of 22:20, 18 March 2026

Contribute to Artifacts of Capitalism

Artifacts of Capitalism is a collaborative, scholarly platform. We welcome contributions from registered users who wish to document artifacts and insights related to capitalism's development during the early modern period, roughly 1500-1700.

Submissions now begin with a structured intake form. This helps us build a searchable scholarly database that can later support CSV downloads, maps, timelines, and other research tools.

Step 1. Register for an account

You'll need an account to create a draft submission. Registration is free.

Create an account

Step 2. Start your draft submission

After you're logged in, begin here. This will open the full submission form and create a new draft page in the Draft namespace. Drafts are not public.

Submission Guidelines

• Write in clear academic prose and follow the Chicago Manual of Style (CMS)

• Please include a concise abstract explaining how the item records the experience of early modern economic life.

• Anyone with an account can begin drafting. All new work is created in the Draft space and reviewed by a curator before being added to the main collection.

• Structured submissions help us build a research database that can later support downloads, maps, and other scholarly tools.

This editorial process helps preserve scholarly accuracy, consistency, and future reusability of the data.

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 <div style="max-width:760px; margin:2rem auto 4rem auto; font-family:serif; color:#000; line-height:1.6; font-size:1.25rem;">
-  <!-- Intro / Purpose -->
    <h1 style="font-family:serif; font-weight:700; font-size:1.8rem; line-height:1.2; margin-bottom:1rem; text-align:left;">
      Contribute to <b>Artifacts of Capitalism</b>
@@ Line 11: / Line 11: @@
    <p style="margin-bottom:1rem;">
-     <b>Artifacts of Capitalism</b> is a collaborative scholarly platform. We invite registered contributors to
+     Artifacts of Capitalism is a collaborative, scholarly platform. We welcome contributions from registered users who wish to document artifacts and insights related to capitalism's development during the early modern period, roughly 1500-1700.
-    document objects, documents, practices, and episodes that reveal how people experienced economic life in
-    the early modern period (roughly 1500–1700).
    </p>
    <p style="margin-bottom:1rem;">
-     Each submitted artifact should include an abstract of about 500 words explaining how it records, imagines,
+     Submissions now begin with a structured intake form. This helps us build a searchable scholarly database that can later support CSV downloads, maps, timelines, and other research tools.
-    regulates, resists, or describes economic life. We’re especially interested in how early modern experiences
-    of labor, value, obligation, leisure, credit, and survival do (and do not) resemble what we call capitalism
-    today. Continuity should not be assumed; difference should not be romanticized. Treat both as historical
-    claims that need to be argued.
    </p>
-  <!-- Step 1: Create Account -->
    <div style="background-color:#f9f7f1; border:1px solid #d2c6a4; border-radius:6px; padding:1.25rem 1rem 1rem 1rem; margin:2rem 0;">
      <h2 style="font-family:serif; font-weight:700; font-size:1.3rem; line-height:1.3; margin:0 0 .75rem 0; color:#000;">
@@ Line 32: / Line 24: @@
      <p style="margin:0 0 0.75rem 0;">
-       You’ll need an account to create a draft submission. Registration is free.
+       You'll need an account to create a draft submission. Registration is free.
      </p>
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                  display:inline-block;"
           onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#e6d4aa';"
-          onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#d9c59b';"
+          onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#d9c59b';">
-      >
          Create an account
        </a>
@@ Line 49: / Line 40: @@
    </div>
-  <!-- Step 2: Submission form -->
    <div style="background-color:#f9f7f1; border:1px solid #d2c6a4; border-radius:6px; padding:1.25rem 1rem 1rem 1rem; margin:2rem 0;">
      <h2 style="font-family:serif; font-weight:700; font-size:1.3rem; line-height:1.3; margin:0 0 .75rem 0; color:#000;">
@@ Line 57: / Line 46: @@
      <p style="margin:0 0 1rem 0;">
-       After you’re logged in, use this form to create a draft page. Drafts are not public. An editor will review
+       After you're logged in, begin here. This will open the full submission form and create a new draft page in the Draft namespace. Drafts are not public.
-      and move approved work into the main collection.
      </p>
-     <form id="submit-artifact" method="get" action="/index.php"
+     <form id="submit-artifact"
            style="font-family:serif; font-size:1rem; line-height:1.4; color:#000;">
-      <input type="hidden" name="action" value="edit" />
-      <input id="preload" type="hidden" name="preload" value="Template:ArtifactPreload/Tutor" />
-      <!-- Title field -->
        <div style="margin-bottom:1rem;">
-         <label for="title" style="display:block; font-weight:600; margin-bottom:0.25rem;">
+         <label for="artifact-title" style="display:block; font-weight:600; margin-bottom:0.25rem;">
-           Title of your artifact
+           Name your artifact
          </label>
-         <input id="title"
+         <input id="artifact-title"
                 type="text"
-               name="title"
+                placeholder="Example: 'Maldon Grain Riot' or 'Petition to Regulate Alehouses'"
-                placeholder="Example: 'Grain Riots in Norwich, 1595' or 'Petition to Regulate Alehouses'"
                 required
                 style="width:100%; max-width:100%; box-sizing:border-box;
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                        border:1px solid #7b6a3a; background-color:#fff;" />
          <div style="font-size:0.85rem; color:#555; margin-top:0.4rem;">
-           This phrase will become the page title.
+           This will become the title of the new draft page.
          </div>
        </div>
-      <!-- Area / period field -->
        <div style="margin-bottom:1rem;">
-         <label for="area" style="display:block; font-weight:600; margin-bottom:0.25rem;">
+         <label for="artifact-area" style="display:block; font-weight:600; margin-bottom:0.25rem;">
-           Historical area / period
+           Historical area
          </label>
-         <select id="area"
+         <select id="artifact-area"
                  required
                  style="width:100%; max-width:100%; box-sizing:border-box;
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                         padding:8px 10px; border-radius:4px;
                         border:1px solid #7b6a3a; background-color:#fff;">
-           <option value="Tutor">Tudor artifacts</option>
+           <option value="Tudor">Tudor artifacts</option>
            <option value="Elizabethan">Elizabethan artifacts</option>
            <option value="Jacobean">Jacobean artifacts</option>
-           <option value="Carolinian">Carolinian artifacts</option>
+           <option value="Caroline">Caroline artifacts</option>
            <option value="Interregnum">Interregnum artifacts</option>
+          <option value="Restoration">Restoration artifacts</option>
+          <option value="Williamite">Williamite artifacts</option>
          </select>
          <div style="font-size:0.85rem; color:#555; margin-top:0.4rem;">
-           This selection helps route your draft to the appropriate curator.
+           You'll be able to confirm and expand this information in the full intake form.
          </div>
        </div>
-      <!-- Submit button -->
        <div style="margin-top:1.5rem;">
          <input type="submit"
-                value="Create Draft Page"
+                value="Continue to Full Submission Form"
                 style="background-color:#d9c59b; color:#000; cursor:pointer;
                        font-family:serif; font-weight:600; font-size:1rem; line-height:1.2;
                        padding:10px 16px; border-radius:6px; border:1px solid #7b6a3a;"
                 onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#e6d4aa';"
-                onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#d9c59b';"
+                onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#d9c59b';" />
-        />
          <div style="font-size:0.8rem; color:#555; margin-top:0.6rem; line-height:1.4;">
-           Clicking “Create Draft Page” will open a new draft in the wiki editor. Nothing becomes public yet.
+           Nothing becomes public yet. The next page is a draft-only intake form for structured metadata.
          </div>
        </div>
      </form>
    </div>
-  <!-- Guidelines -->
    <div style="margin:2rem 0 0 0;">
      <h2 style="font-family:serif; font-weight:700; font-size:1.3rem; line-height:1.3; margin:0 0 .75rem 0; color:#000;">
@@ Line 135: / Line 114: @@
      <p style="margin-bottom:1rem;">
        • Write in clear academic prose and follow the
-    <a href="https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/book/ed18/frontmatter/toc.html"
+      <a href="https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/book/ed18/frontmatter/toc.html"
-   target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
+         target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
-   style="color:#7b6a3a; text-decoration:none; border-bottom:1px solid #7b6a3a;">
+         style="color:#7b6a3a; text-decoration:none; border-bottom:1px solid #7b6a3a;">
-   Chicago Manual of Style (CMS)
+         Chicago Manual of Style (CMS)
-</a>
+      </a>
      </p>
      <p style="margin-bottom:1rem;">
-       • While there is no strict length requirement, please aim for at least 500 words of analysis.
+       • Please include a concise abstract explaining how the item records the experience of early modern economic life.
      </p>
      <p style="margin-bottom:1rem;">
-       • Anyone with an account can begin drafting. All new work is created in the <strong>Draft:</strong> space.
+       • Anyone with an account can begin drafting. All new work is created in the Draft space and reviewed by a curator before being added to the main collection.
-      Drafts are reviewed by an editor before they are added to the main collection.
      </p>
      <p style="margin-bottom:1rem;">
-       • If your contribution is not yet visible, it may still be under review. You can track its progress on the “My Contributions” page or by contacting an editor.
+       • Structured submissions help us build a research database that can later support downloads, maps, and other scholarly tools.
      </p>
      <p style="margin-bottom:1rem; font-style:italic; color:#444;">
-       This editorial process ensures accuracy, scholarly integrity, and a consistent user experience for scholars,
+       This editorial process helps preserve scholarly accuracy, consistency, and future reusability of the data.
-      teachers, and students.
      </p>
    </div>
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 <script>
-  (function () {
+document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function () {
-    const form = document.getElementById('submit-artifact');
+  const form = document.getElementById('submit-artifact');
-    if (!form) return;
+  const titleInput = document.getElementById('artifact-title');
-    const title = document.getElementById('title');
+  const areaInput = document.getElementById('artifact-area');
-    const area  = document.getElementById('area');
-     const preload = document.getElementById('preload');
+  if (!form || !titleInput || !areaInput) {
+    return;
+  }
+  form.addEventListener('submit', function (event) {
+    event.preventDefault();
+     const rawTitle = titleInput.value.trim().replace(/^Draft:/i, '');
+    if (!rawTitle) {
+      titleInput.focus();
+      return;
+    }
-     form.addEventListener('submit', function () {
+     const draftTitle = 'Draft:' + rawTitle;
-      // Avoid double prefix if someone types "Draft:" themselves
+    const period = areaInput.value;
-      if (title && title.value) {
-        title.value = title.value.replace(/^Draft:/i, '');
+    const params = new URLSearchParams({
-        title.value = 'Draft:' + title.value;
+      title: 'Special:FormEdit',
-       }
+       form: 'Add artifact',
-       // Route to the correct area-specific preload
+       target: draftTitle,
-       if (area && preload) {
+       Period: period
-        preload.value = 'Template:ArtifactPreload/' + area.value;
-      }
      });
-   })();
+    window.location.href = '/index.php?' + params.toString();
+   });
+});
 </script>
 </html>

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Latest revision as of 22:20, 18 March 2026

Contribute to Artifacts of Capitalism

Step 1. Register for an account

Step 2. Start your draft submission

Submission Guidelines