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Wikimedia LGBT+ editathon and digitization workshop at Bishopsgate Library · Saturday 18 October 2014

Would you like to help to ensure that Wikipedia has great articles about LGBT+ history, is illustrated with photographs of LGBT related events, people and places, is up to date on LGBT rights and current events and really is neutral and accurate on articles about sexual orientation? When the world searches the internet for LGBT information, Wikipedia is always the top match, so come along and find out how we can keep Wikipedia neutral and improve it.

We can provide help in starting editing if you have never tried (though we recommend setting up a Wikipedia account in advance). If you have a collection you would like to bring along to be digitized, such as photographs or video of LGBT related events, please drop a note to Fæ or click here to send an email so that we can aim to have the right facilities available.

Please bring your own laptop, there will be free wifi in the library. You do not need to be a "Wikipedian" but please have a go at setting up your account and try some simple edits before coming along.

The Bishopsgate Library is keen to collect more material for the LGBT+ archives, so this could be the chance you have been waiting for to donate Pride march photographs from the 1980s through to original meeting minutes from a gay society.

• 18 October 2014 · Bishopsgate Library · 51°31′07″N 0°04′46″W / 51.518724°N 0.079350°W / 51.518724; -0.079350 · Google Map
• 12:30 pm through to 5 pm (building closes at 5.30)

The Library is part of the Bishopsgate Institute, which is literally just around the corner from Liverpool Street Station.

• 12:30 Introduction to LGBT+ at Bishopsgate, including the Hall-Carpenter Archives, Stonewall and OutRage!—Stefan Dickers, Library and Archives Manager
• 12:55 What is Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons and what can we achieve in an afternoon?—Fæ, co-founder of Wikimedia LGBT+
• 13:15 Split into interest groups and coaching session for newbies.
• 16:30 Group discussion and review (including ideas for LGBT History Month in February 2015)
• 17:00 Close

Please sign up, here, so we can plan for numbers attending:-

• Fæ (talk) 14:47, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
• Tim riley - this is going to be cosy unless there's a last minute rush!
• Gordo (talk) Here to help....
• CT Cooper · talk
• viagege Happy to assist but new to Wikipedia.... 18:04, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
• Tom Morris

• LGBT slang lacks slang from lesbian or trans specific communities.
• Lisa Power (Stonewall founder, MBE and author of No Bath, But Plenty of Bubbles) has no article.
  •  Done —Tom Morris (talk) 14:42, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
• AARGH_(Artists_Against_Rampant_Government_Homophobia) article stub
• Releases for AIDS education posters at c:Category:Files_from_Wellcome_Images_(copyright_check_needed)
• Finding photographs for LGBT biographies—try using the automated analysis at /LGBT BLP images

• Lisa Power started.
• Cultural depictions of Matthew Shepard expanded. Ground work laid for starting the Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine film article.

This event is supported by the Bishopsgate Library and the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group. Please contact Fæ for more information.

Experienced helpers/trainers for the editathon will be: Fæ, Gordo, CT Cooper

• A huge report of LGBT+ related articles on Wikipedia needing clean-up.
• LGBTlists.wikimedia.org email discussion list, join here!
• Wikipedia:Geonotice#Wikipedia:WikiProject_LGBT_studies/Editathons/Bishopsgate_Library,_London
• Email to Wikimedia lists, 9 September
• Facebook post you can share