Wikipedia:Wiki Loves Pride/2018

Wiki Loves Pride 2018

Wiki Loves Pride is a global campaign to expand and improve LGBT-related content across all Wikimedia projects, in all languages. Most activities of Wiki Loves Pride take place between June and October, traditionally the months when lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities around the world celebrate LGBT culture and history. We invite you to participate in a series of edit-a-thons and other activities to help improve Wikipedia's coverage of LGBT-related content. First-time edit-a-thon organizers may find this page helpful.

WikiLGBT is on Twitter!

Hello Wiki Loves Pride! Follow the Wikimedia LGBT user group on Twitter at @wikilgbt for news, photos, and other topics of interest to LGBT Wikipedans and allies. Use #wikiLGBT to share any Wiki Loves Pride stuff that you would like to share (whether this month or any day of the year) or to alert folks to things that the LGBT Wikipedan community should know. RachelWex (talk) For more information about Wiki Loves Pride, → click here ←.

In the past few years, organized groups on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia Foundation project-spaces have sought to increase the quality and scope of public domain information and media relating to the LGBT community. 2014 saw the first global Wiki Loves Pride campaign. The project was supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, which promotes the creation and development of LGBT-related content across all Wikimedia projects, in all languages. 2018 will see the fifth annual campaign!

One of the aims of Wiki Loves Pride will be increasing the number of people and perspectives contributing to LGBT information on the site, as well as encouraging institutions to add their authority information, research, and images to the public domain. Contributions to information about LGBT topics in politics and policy, medicine, topics in identity sexuality, and society, rights and attitudes, history, culture, and institutions will vastly affect the ways in which these topics are researched and understood internationally. In the past, Wikipedia articles on these topics have been riddled with a lack of scholarly sources and lack of perspectives, a problem which has the effect of skewing public perceptions and affecting research and decisions in public policy, science and medical practice, and community acceptance.

If you would like to host a Wikipedia edit-a-thon at your institution, or to sponsor this campaign by offering your endorsement in some other way, please contact the organizers. This campaign page will be a resource for all satellite events, and will be available to help connect institutions with experienced Wikipedians and learning resources to get you started editing.

Want to organize a meetup or volunteer to document LGBT culture and history in your city by photographing a pride event? Sign up below!

Don't see your city listed below? Be bold and create a new event page!

Wiki Loves Pride Photo Campaign

Wiki Loves Pride Photo Campaign: June 1 – July 31, 2018

North America

• Los Angeles: July 30
• Minneapolis, Minnesota: Saturday, June 30 at the Minneapolis Central Library
• Minneapolis, Minnesota: Saturday, July 28 at Quatrefoil Library
• New York City: July 12th at Jefferson Market Library
• San Francisco, California: Sunday, June 10th at the San Francisco Public Library
  • I plan to take photos at the
    Trans March on June 22, and possibly also at the Pride Parade on June 24, to contribute to Commons. Funcrunch (talk
    ) 20:58, 19 June 2018 (UTC)
• I plan to attend Seattle Pride, and will help document the event by uploading photographs to Wikimedia Commons. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 22:16, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
  • Likewise. Hope to see you there! Kiteinthewind ^{Leave a message!} 06:50, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
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South America

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Europe

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• Paris Pride Parade on June 30.
• Wikipedia at Europride Stockholm 03.08.2018-06.08.2018- 4 days event with participation in human rights summit, final parade and multi- day edit-a-thon. All international places taken. People from Sweden or the Stockholm region are welcome to come.
• Budapest, Hungary: Sunday, June 17 at the Auróra community space.
• Wikijeudis at Lestime (once in a month on LGBTIQ and feminism in Geneva, francophone wikipedia)
• LGBT edit-a-thon on Albanian Wikipedia: Sunday, May 20 at OSCAL (Open Source Conference Albania)
• Ateliers Femmes et féminisme 28 may, 13 June, 25 june with Festival Cinepride : Festival de films LGBTI+ de Nantes
• Belgrade, Serbia:

Serbian Pride Parade (June 23)

Wiki Loves Pride Edit-a-thon (September 11) and Belgrade Pride (September 16)

• Ireland Dublin Pride Parade Photowalk, 30 June

Asia

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Africa

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Oceania

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Campaign organizers have received messages from people around the world who have expressed a desire, but also an inability, to publicly organize LGBT events in their city or country. For this reason, a

has been set up. We welcome and encourage you to share your LGBT-related content and article improvements throughout the month of June.

The Tasks page has a sampling of possible articles to create or improve, among other tasks to consider.

You are encouraged to share the results of your work here. All contributions, small and large, contribute to Wikipedia's mission of providing free access to the sum of all human knowledge. We hope to share reports from all cities with organized activities and showcase a list of articles created/improved as the result of this project.

Add your name and/or organizational affiliation to this list if you are interested in participating and/or hosting an event.

Alternatively, you may add your name here to indicate your support and receive future notices related to Wiki Loves Pride.