Wiki Loves Pride 2016

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 photography campaigns to help improve Wikipedia's coverage of LGBT-related content.

First-time edit-a-thon organizers may find "How to run an edit-a-thon" helpful.

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 spearheaded by Dorothy Howard (User:Hexatekin) and Jason Moore (User:Another Believer), and supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, which promotes the creation and development of LGBT-related content across all Wikimedia projects, in all languages. 2016 will see the third 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!

• Atlanta, Georgia
• Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Friday, October 14, Bucknell University
• Minneapolis, Minnesota: Saturday, June 18, Minneapolis Central Library
• New York City: Wednesday, June 29, Museum of Modern Art
• Portland, Oregon: The Portland Pride Festival at Tom McCall Waterfront Park will be the weekend of June 18–19. I'm happy to take photographs of the festival and parade. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 02:26, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
• San Francisco:
  • San Francisco: Saturday, June 11, San Francisco Public Library
  • San Francisco: June 24: I'll be attending the San Francisco Trans March on June 24, and will take and contribute photos. Funcrunch (talk) 01:32, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
  • San Francisco: June 26: The Wikimedia Foundation, in an effort to emphasize its support of diversity and inclusion as an employer in the San Francisco Bay Area, will be participating in the San Francisco Pride's 2016 parade.
• Seattle
• Vancouver: The Pride Parade will be on Sunday, July 31. I'm happy to take photographs of the festival and parade. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 02:26, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
• Washington, D.C.: Thursday, June 16, 2016, National Archives Building

• Amsterdam (LGBT+ Dutch Theme Weeks): July 25th we'll be kicking of 2 writing weeks with an editathon at the Atria Institute on gender equality and women's history; see more information at this page
• Stockholm: July 26, see more information at sv:Wikipedia:Skrivstuga/Stockholm Pride
• Add your event here!

Following initial outreach, campaign organizers received messages from multiple people around the world who expressed a desire, but also an inability, to publicly organize LGBT events in their city or country. For this reason, a page for Remote Participation 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.

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