[Wikimedia-l] How gay friendly is Wikimedia and where do LGBT Wikimedians hang out?

[Fae]

The answer is we have real idea how gay friendly the projects are, but
LGBT Wikimedians have been doing a lot more outreach recently and we
think this is great evidence for our increasing diversity.

>From a few chats over tea at the GLAMwiki conference last weekend, I
realised that most folks with an interest in LGBT matters were either
unaware that anything had changed in the last year, or just had not
got around to finding out where to go for more information (apart from
asking me). So, here are 4 new global resources created in the last 12
months for you to investigate, share with friends or bookmark for
later:

* http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_LGBT
If you are interested in discussing and helping with LGBT related open
knowledge content, projects, partnerships, issues or events then you
can find out more about what's going on and contribute new proposals
here.

* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:LGBT_Free_Media_Collective
This is a Commons wikiproject to encourage more LGBT friendly photos
and other media for use on all projects. So if you have an archive of
photos from LGBT events, or are part of an organization with
educational media to release, this might be a good place to find out
how to share them with the world.

* https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/lgbt
This is a managed email list for any LGBT interested Wikimedians to
safely bounce around new ideas, raise questions, discuss ways of
increasing LGBT participation in Wikimedia projects and general
coordination. It is low volume, with around 3 threads a month at the
moment. Drop an email to one of the list admins if you want to know
more about how it is managed before joining up.

* irc://irc.wikimedia.org/wikimedia-lgbt
Our friendly open IRC channel. Good for chat about LGBT projects and
recent news, though you may need a lot of patience and wait a few
hours for replies - others logged in might be asleep, the other side
of the planet, or working and will not see your message until home
time. But it's not a dating line, other sites are available for that
:-)

Cheers,
Fae
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