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As a reaction to disillusionment with contemporary feminist groups I envision a post-Guerrilla Girls, post-Pussy Riot and post-FEMEN media actionist movement that critically and playfully reacts on urgent problems with a focus on women. I build on the old but attempt to be radically inclusive. Therefore, I conceptualize the movement as a hashtag that can be appropriated by anybody anywhere. Instead of a website, I want to create a Wikipedia page that can also be edited by anybody anywhere. I want to popularize #RedWomenAreComing by spreading rumors on Twitter, that will ripple into other social media sites like Facebook and Pinterest. This fictional project can transform into live performances featuring costumes, bells and whistles. The #RedWomenAreComing in numbers to public spaces near you dressed in red burqas, red shawls, red hats, red masks or just red lipstick. They will define themselves through interaction with the press and public. Their goal is to occupy your imagination, the news in print and on TV.

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This talk will provide tools to build friendly communications with an LGBTT+ audience

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The speaker will discuss the potential impact of editing content about gender and LGBT+ topics on Wikimedia platforms on the output of AI-based technologies. The speaker will explore how editing content on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia platforms has an impact on AI-based technologies, and suggest that there is further room for additional discussion around these issues and how they impact Wikimedia communities. The talk will review what we know about how Wikimedia platforms used to train AIs and the demand for high-quality training data. The speaker will also discuss ethical issues around training data, including the potential impact of Wikimedia content on AI bias and representation, and the invisible labor of Wikimedians who create the training data that is in growing demand by the AI industry.

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Come and list the themes that you would like to see in WLP 2023 and discuss about events

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This panel seeks to share the experience of two independent media organisations close to the Wikimedia Movement. The session will consist of a panel discussion and collaborative strategy-creation to strengthen the relationship between small independent media outlets with the Wikimedia movement, with the objective of reducing the gaps in Internet representation of minority communities.

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In 2021, three Art+Feminism researchers and co-leads published Unreliable Guidelines, the project's inaugural qualitative research report. The year-long project leveraged an intersectional feminist methodology, including interpretative textual analysis and focus groups with Art+Feminism trainers, to unpack the intersections of reliability, sources from marginalized communities, and editor demographics in English, French, and Spanish Wikipedias. Our presentation describes the research motivations, methodology, critical findings, and implications. For Queering Wikipedia, we will discuss the relevance of enactments of reliability in relation to the inclusion of critical and marginalized sources and editors. Finally, we suggest strategies to mitigate the double-edged cut of editorial gatekeeping about reliability in an age of misinformation.

Access the report: https://artandfeminism.org/resources/research/unreliable-guidelines/

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In a country with strict measures to LGBT+; queer Nigerians still found a way to contribute and tell their story using Wikipedia. So this lecture will outline how Nigerian queers gathered to contribute to Wikipedia with hundreds of newly created articles in less than 6 months and influence non-queer Nigeria persons to contribute to LGBT related topics.

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Do you feel comfortable here? Or not? Why do you feel comfortable here? Or not comfortable here? If we want to make this place more comfortable, attracting more gay, lesbian, bi, transgender, non-binary, etc, what do we need? Imacat hopes to develop some shared knowledge and awareness on the idea of "friendliness", with skills that we can practice back in our local community.

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GALA Queer Archive and Iziko Museum from South Africa, in partnership with Whose Knowledge?, invite wikimedians and allies to a conversation space around the possibilities and challenges for African queer memory collectives in the Wikimedia landscape. In a round table, we will discuss together topics like agency, ethics and safety of open sharing practices in wiki platforms. We want to explore the relationship between African queer archives and Wikipedia from a decolonising and anti-racist approach that centers the agency, vibrancy and humanity of the marginalised communities these archives serve. In this roundtable we will explore how archives from marginalised people and Wikipedia can work together in bringing knowledge sources that otherwise are invisible and underrecognized, like oral histories; how Wikimedia platforms can be used for digital archiving (and its limitations); and the specific copyright issues and the ethics of openness that come in with this collaboration, keeping the conversation rooted in the realities of post-apartheid South Africa.

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In March 2023, the Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation published the first measurements of the Knowledge Gap Index. We expect to offer more measurements for many of the identified knowledge gaps through the index in the coming year. In this workshop we present the Knowledge Gap Index to the community and walk participants over how they can utilize it in their work. We dedicate the second part of this workshop to better understand the needs of the LGBT+ Wikimedia user group from Research.

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Wikidata holds data about over 100 Million concepts and the relations between them. The Wikidata Query Service is your power tool to explore all these connections, find new interesting insights and visualize relevant data. In this workshop we will show you some of the cool things you can do with the Wikidata Query Service (e.g. finding gaps in our content, creating work lists for your next editathon or making a beautiful visualisation of the history of a topic you care about), how to write your own SPARQL queries and how to use all this to supercharge your editing on Wikipedia.

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The LGBT+ WikiProject on the Spanish-language Wikipedia, a project founded in 2007, went through a stage in which its activity dwindled to nothing. After this period of inactivity, a group of users who saw the need to have a space to coordinate different actions and editing projects, reactivated the WikiProject and established an editing community that is maintained through planning common objectives and goals.

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As Wikimedia LGBT+ transitions from a volunteer organization to one with paid administrative staff, we present a list of services which the staff may offer. Services considered include support for the following: writing annual reports, hosting meetups, organizational documentation, giving thanks to contributors, publishing the budget, being the central point of contact, responding to harassment, maintaining the membership list, practicing democracy, checking diversity, keeping relationships with the press, doing partner communications, organizing position statements, hiring other staff and consultants, and writing grants.

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Moderator: Mehrdad Pourzaki, Lead Movement Communications Specialist, Wikimedia Foundation.

Panelists: Benjamin Xue, Singapore; Maciej Nadzikiewicz from Wikimedia Polska and Wikimedia Europe; Ndahiro Derrick from Wikimedia CUG Rwanda; Freddy Veloz from Wikimedistas de Ecuador; Nina Gabryś, Plenipotentiary of the Mayor of Kraków for Equality Policy; Rima H, Wikimedia Indonesia community.

As the Wikimedia movement returns to in-person gatherings, how do we balance the desire to meet equitably around the world with the need to ensure Wikimedians feel safe. Please join panelists from Singapore and Poland, the host cities of Wikimania in 2023 and 2024, and Wikimedia organizers from Ecuador and Rwanda for an important discussion about safety and our community in a changing world.

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Queer history is complex. Over the centuries, the LGBTIQ+ community has gone through several ups and downs. From distinguished places in royal courts to being forced to hide their true identities and live their complete selves, the queer community around the world is still undergoing countless hardships. In certain places, queer individuals due to a lack of openly out and visible individuals in media often ask themselves, “Why am I different? Am I the only one?” Undoubtedly, progress in LGBTIQ+ rights around the world is not uniform, yet the solidarity among the queer community is unique. This strong sense of community has helped many of us to stay strong in difficult times. Wikipedia and Wikidata can play an important role in making queer faces and voices visible and audible online, even in remote places, where queer rights are still wishful dreams. The factual information on Wikipedia may help queer individuals to find strength, solace, and powerful lessons from the numerous historical narratives. When queer individuals search for information online, we, as a community, must ensure that online users come across relevant and empowering content capable of opening doors to other LGBTQ+ communities and stories around them. This talk explains how Wikipedia and Wikidata community document local queer histories from around the world and explores how this can be improved further.

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Tricky Terminology (Norena Shopland): As modern society becomes more aware of diversity within sexual orientations and gender identity, how do we avoid inflicting terminology on individuals from the past who would have had no knowledge of what these terms meant, and who may not have chosen those terms for themselves. This session provides advice on how editors and writers can incorporate more nuanced ways of using terminology.

Wikipedia and the Biographies of LGBTQ+ People (Vic Sfriso, WMAR; Sofia Stancioff, Art+Feminism; Owen Blacker, WMLGBT; An Millet; Kit Heyam): Launching the English localisation of our guide with insights and tools for writing on transgender, travesti and LGBQ+ people in the free encyclopedia.
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Wikidata Gender Diversity (WiGeDi) is a one-year project funded through the Wikimedia Research Fund, aiming to study gender diversity in Wikidata in a wide and comprehensive way. In the project, we adopt an intersectional feminist and queer approach, viewing gender as a social construct and centering marginalized gender identities such as trans and non-binary people. To study gender diversity in Wikidata, we are adopting three complementary perspectives: model, data, and community. First, we are investigating how the current Wikidata ontology model represents gender, attempting to understand the extent to which this representation is fair and inclusive, and looking at how the Wikidata ontology has evolved over time to support the representation of a wider spectrum of identities. We are analysing the data stored in the knowledge base in a quantitative way, to gather insights and identify gaps. Finally, we are looking at how the community has handled the move towards the inclusion of a wider spectrum of gender identities, by analysing user discussions about the topic with computational linguistics methods; indeed, gender representation is often intrinsically connected to language, and this is especially relevant in a multilingual project such as Wikidata. We believe that only by answering all three questions it will be possible to obtain a comprehensive overview of gender diversity in Wikidata. In the presentation, we will discuss early results from the project and show a preview of the tools that we are building to explore and analyze the data.

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This presentation will provide a brief overview of a proposed model for personal pronouns and an exploration of issues related to privacy and consent of living people, problematic or missing policies, and issues regarding bot overreach as they relate to P21. Presenters will identify areas of concern, outline potential best practices, and share plans for implementing changes. While there are general policies in place regarding the privacy of living people and resource types that may be used to record personal demographic information, these policies are generally very loose and do not always apply to demographic information such as pronouns, sex, or gender, even though these pieces of information may violate consent and privacy of living people. Lack of firm policy and documented best practices can lead to harm toward living people through deadnaming and mislabeling of a person’s pronouns and sex or gender. At the end of the presentation, viewers will have a solid understanding of ongoing work in pronouns in Wikidata, and of recommendations for tackling ethical issues surrounding P21, and be prepared to collaborate in this work if they choose. This presentation will also set the stage for a 90-minute Roundtable discussion on P21 in which viewers are invited to participate.

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While data recorded in Wikidata using the P21 property may serve some benefit, such as contributing to increased representation in underrepresented gender communities, recording sex or gender in P21 can also harm living individuals in a myriad of ways. This roundtable will serve as a means to outline issues presented by P21 in relation to living humans, ethical implications of recording of sex or gender in P21, and Wikidata policies about personal demographic information particularly with respect to consent and privacy of individuals. Facilitators will talk through and crowdsource ideas for best practices for and changes to P21 rooted in the ethical treatment of living people and respect for their personal demographic information. Due to linguistic and cultural differences within the global Wikidata community, a one size fits all approach is not likely to be proposed as a solution. It is our hope that we might activate diverse groups of editors to consider issues regarding P21 in their respective languages with the goal of cooperative international implementation of harm-reducing solutions.

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How to celebrate editors before time is up.

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As part of the QW2023 conference, this set of AI created artistic postcards has been published to illustrate "The queer history of Bagoas the Younger". Produced along with descriptive prose in iambic pentameter created by AI. Apart from starting prompts, there is only weak influence of human choice of variations, so this also helps as a case study of the biases built in to the current versions of public AI tools.

Content warning! References to being enslaved and the role of eunuchs. However there are no images of excessive violence or “gore”.

Bagoas is most famous for being the slave and lover of Alexander the Great and as a eunuch lover has been reframed in modern LGBTQ and artistic contexts as a historical transgender or non-binary figure.

Images created by Midjourney version 5 AI in mostly “Caravaggio” style. Text created by Google Bard version 1 AI in mostly iambic pentameter style. Neither Midjourney, nor Google retain any copyright in these images or texts.

Untouched by human creativity. Prompt engineering by Anonymous. Warning: this AI created framing of the history of Alexander the Great and the Bagoas the Younger has little, and sometimes no connection to published research.

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People who participate in the presentation will be able to learn a little more about the strategies of the Portuguese-language project "Projeto Mais Teoria da História na Wiki" ('More Theory of History on Wiki') to encourage the engagement of a specific audience — composed of academics, activists and sympathizers — in the event "Mais LGBTQIAP+ em Teoria da História na Wiki" ('More LGBTQIAP+ in Theory of History on Wiki'). In 2022, this event promoted activities related to the themes of gender, sexuality and epistemologies of the Global South on Wikipedia, Wikidata, Commons and Wikiquote. Our focus will be on the strategy of building a safe dialogue environment on WhatsApp and on training workshops through Google Meet. In addition, based on the results of these experiments, we will talk about what has changed for the event "Mais Diversidade em Teoria da História na Wiki" ('More Diversity in Theory of History on Wiki'), with a similar scope to Mais LGBTQIAP+ and which will take place in October 2023.