Wiki Loves Pride 2019

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 other activities to help improve Wikipedia's coverage of LGBT-related content. First-time edit-a-thon organizers may find this page helpful.

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Hello Wiki Loves Pride! Follow the Wikimedia LGBT user group on Twitter at @wikilgbt for news, photos, and other topics of interest to LGBT Wikipedans and allies. Use #wikiLGBT to share any Wiki Loves Pride stuff that you would like to share (whether this month or any day of the year) or to alert folks to things that the LGBT Wikipedan community should know. RachelWex ( talk) For more information about Wiki Loves Pride, → click here ←.

See also: Wiki Loves (50 Years of) Pride

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 supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, which promotes the creation and development of LGBT-related content across all Wikimedia projects, in all languages. 2019 will see the sixth 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.

This year, you can participate in the online campaign in the following ways:

• A photography contest, hosted on Wikimedia Commons, running from 19 June 2019 (00:01 UTC) - 31 July 2019 (23:59 UTC). The photography contest at Wikimedia Commons is an opportunity to document and visually showcase LGBTQ⁺ culture around the globe.

• Holding "edit-a-thons" for specific LGBTQ⁺ articles on Wikipedia.

• An Art Writing Contest (writing about LGBTQ⁺-related works of art), hosted on Meta-Wiki (Meta-Wiki is "the global community site for the Wikimedia Foundation's projects and related projects, from coordination and documentation to planning and analysis.")

• A Health Writing Contest (writing about LGBTQ⁺-related health concerns), also hosted on Meta-Wiki.

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!

North America

• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City - June 23, 2019
• St. Louis Public Library, St. Louis, MO - May 29 & June 12, 2019
• Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC - June 15, 2019

South America

• Add your event here!

Europe

• 25 February - LGBT in STEM Wikipedia Edit-a-thon (Brighton, UK)
• 11-16 June - Wikipedia for Peace at Europride 2019 in Vienna, Austria
• Belgrade, Serbia:

Pride Serbia 2019 (June 29)

Wiki Loves Pride Edit-a-thon (September 10) and Belgrade Pride (September 15)

• 24 July - Wiki Loves Pride Edit-a-thon in Berlin, Germany
• Add your event here!

Asia

• Add your event here!

Africa

• Write for the rights - Tunis from the 22nd to the 24th of March.

Oceania

• Add your event here!

Wikimedia Commons

Add links to galleries and images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons!

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  Queer May 2019 in Kraków. See others at Wikimedia Commons

Campaign organizers have received messages from people around the world who have 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.