Generally, we do okay. Several of these articles are battlefields,
however. You can see the fallout of a current one here:
and its
talk page.
While my impression here is entirely empiric, I suspect that the various
WMF projects do a fairly good job in the LGBT topic area because so many of
our volunteers bring personal experience to the table (either being LGBT or
LGBT-friendly). Or to put it more prosaically, most of us don't care who
sleeps with whom.
Risker/Anne
On 9 May 2012 16:57, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I've found that Wikipedia handles transgender
issues fairly well. A good
example is the Chaz Bono article. This article is an example of what should
be the most problematic case on Wikipedia: A BLP of a transgender person
mostly known for being the child of a celebrity. You would expect the
article to be a horrible embarrassment, but it's actually well done and
uses the correct pronoun throughout. The article has been frequently
attacked over the years as you can see from the talk page, but it's always
been dealt with promptly and thoughtfully. In general, I find that
Wikipedia does a good job of covering gay and transgender issues and seems
to have a healthy community of editors in those demographics. In fact I
wouldn't be surprised if the percentage of such editors on Wikipedia is
higher than in the population in general, but this is just a guess based on
anecdotal evidence. I would love to hear other people's impressions.
Ryan Kaldari
On 5/9/12 12:57 PM, Tom Morris wrote:
Earlier today, I posted a thread on Reddit's
AskTransgender group asking
for feedback on how Wikipedia handles transgender issues, specifically BLP
and pronoun issues.
http://www.reddit.com/r/**asktransgender/comments/tejwl/**
is_wikipedia_handling_**transgender_identity_well/<http://www.reddit.com…
Feel free to respond here or there.
This followed discussions relating to the widely-reported announcement by
Tom Gabel, the lead vocalist and guitarist for the punk band Against Me!,
of their intention to transition, and also previous discussions I've had by
email with a UK-based transgender non-profit.
It almost feels like how we handle gender identity and transgender issues
on-wiki is a nice little litmus test for the community's wider attitudes to
inclusion (as well as handling of sensitive BLPs).
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