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and many others members of the Chicago hip-hop community. Please see our [[The Chicago Hip-Hop History Project: Editors| editors]] and [[The Chicago Hip-Hop History Project: Inclusion Criteria | inclusion criteria]] pages for more information.


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✶✶ The Encyclopedia of Chicago Hip-Hop History ✶✶


This digital encyclopedia is designed to provide a comprehensive and organized overview of Chicago hip-hop history. Our pages present concise, factual information intended to be a starting point for further research.

Launched in 2024 with support from The 2024 UIC Awards for Creative Activity and in collaboration with the Chicago Hip-Hop Heritage Museum, the Chicago Hip-Hop History Project aims to provide context and connections for all elements of Chicago hip-hop history through digital resources such as timelines, maps, a blog and as this digital encyclopedia.

Currently the encyclopedia includes 1700 unique pages on emcees, DJs, producers, street dancers, graffiti artists and many others members of the Chicago hip-hop community. Please see our editors and inclusion criteria pages for more information.


✶✶ The Elements[1] ✶✶


Graffiti Writing

✶ DJing

Street Dancing

✶ Beatboxing

✶ MCing

Knowledge


✶✶ More Elements of Hip-Hop✶✶


This digital encyclopedia is a Semantic MediaWiki project. Semantic properties are used to add structured, machine-readable data to pages within this project. This allows for enhanced search capabilities, data extraction, and the creation of specialized views based on semantic information.[2]

which is built on the same platform as Wikipedia but includes semantic extensions that allow properties (variables) to be stored in a database and queried to produce information.

This wiki is administered by the CHHHP team and attempts to adhere to the five pillars of WikiEditing.