Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2019-03-31/Special report
Wiki Loves (50 Years of) Pride
Wiki Loves Pride 2019 prepares to commemorate 50 years of LGBT+ activism
The Wikimedia community invites friendly people everywhere to participate in
2019 is special as the 50th anniversary of the
The Signpost invites diversity
The Signpost published a misguided humor column in the
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Participate in Wiki Loves Pride by editing Wikipedia, submitting photos of your local pride parade, or improving the scope and quality of Wikipedia's LGBT+ coverage in whatever way is most interesting to you.
Discuss articles at WikiProject LGBT Studies
Anyone with questions about editing Wikipedia's LGBT+ articles can find peer to peer assistance at
Anyone can organize your own outreach!
Consider organizing a wiki editing event at your local
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Aside from being an encyclopedia which people read, Wikipedia is also a place where writers, researchers, experts, and readers meet to collaborate in producing that encyclopedia. Part of making the encyclopedia is establishing the culture and guidelines that enable everyone to enjoy creating articles together. Just as anyone can edit Wikipedia articles, anyone can also participate in community organization and edit Wikipedia's rules and guidelines. Consider joining a Wikimedia community organization for developing outreach plans, strategies, writing guidelines, and policies of interest to the LGBT+ community!
Our major challenge is not countering abuse, but rather providing better educational resources and guidance to people for constructive collaboration on Wikipedia. One part of making things better is showcasing projects in the theme of the gender nonbinary through Wiki Loves Pride and other community groups that have positive things to offer. But just as everyone is invited to write Wikipedia's articles, so is everyone able to write policies which teach a culture through which we show respect to each other and foster diversity and inclusion. If you do not see yourself represented, then please speak up and represent yourself.
Community conduct
Everyone agrees that Wikipedia should be a place for friendly collaboration. On occasion, the great diversity of Wikipedia matches together people of different understanding and culture. Although they mean well, the conduct and interaction policies we establish either resolve or prevent anyone from causing or feeling offense or attack. Some people have behavior which is incompatible with community collaboration and Wikipedia best serves this demographic by encouraging them off-wiki and where they can find outlets where their contributions are a better fit.
Many projects have a non-discrimination policy or a code of conduct. English Wikipedia has neither of these. Should it? Share your thoughts on these experimental proposals which could use your feedback.
- Develop the proposal for an English Wikipedia non-discrimination policy
- Develop the Wikimedia Code of Conduct
- Comment on Wikmedia New York City Code of Conduct, just published in January 2019!
- Respond to the Wikimedia Foundation call for comments in the Community health initiative's prototype system for reporting user misconduct.
Manual of style
The
Develop English Wikipedia's gender identity guideline at
Increasingly, Wikipedia relies on structured data to categorize and report its content. Off-wiki devices, including personal assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Google products, use Wikipedia and Wikidata content as the foundation of the general reference information which they provide in response to user requests. Learn about the issue and share your opinion with others in developing the Wikidata policy for gender tagging with structured data.
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BlueRasberry - thanks for this. Smallbones(smalltalk) 15:34, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @Bluerasberry:. With regard to your words that make it appear that Signpost will officially "encourage our diverse contributor base to better respect all parts of our community", could you confirm whether the Signpost community still includes or has excluded the two people that just a few days ago wrote the following, and have never made an apology for these and other deliberately offensive and derogatory comments about those brave enough to stand up to them and object to what you now reframe as a "misguided humor column"?
Note that "TG" above is being used as an abbreviation for "Transgender" and "NB" for "Non-Binary".
If no lessons have been learned, then using the names of WikiProject LGBT Studies and the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group as if those communities are part of, or should be seen as supporting the Signpost immediately after the "misguided humor column", is empty political spin and a misuse of the reputation of these long established LGBT+ communities. LGBT+ Wikipedians and our allies should not be expected to be derided as "Sheeple", "Gender Warriors", "TG-obsessed", "extremist activists" or degraded as "Ticks".
Thanks --Fæ (talk) 18:00, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Aditionally, great ideas and input from the LGBT+ User Group at the 2019 strategy summit! T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 13:53, 2 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]