Queer Spore

QueerSpore aims to note and map queering approaches in wiki-making and de-norming of things taken for granted in the wiki-cultures. It is initiated here to be able to freely host experiments, as well as to register the ideas, concepts, topics and themes, but also projects, programs and discourses that challenge norms elsewhere. It is accessible via https://Queer.WikiSpore.org/

Queer Wiki work on Wikimedia

• • Queering Wikipedia - event series first envisioned as in-person LGBTIQ+ conference officially supported by WMF, in partnership with WMAT and later several other affiliates and partner organizations
    • QueeringW - media outreach developing from video project
  • Wiki Loves Pride - international campaign
    • 2024 Wiki Loves Euro Pride - outreach, networking, mentoring, photowalk and editing action in Thessaloniki supported by WM LGBT+
    • 2023 WLP (+in Sport) @Bern PRIDE and EuroGames - outreach, networking, photowalk and editing action in Bern supported by WMCH

• • #femWikiRAINBOW #checkInEditON - as an experimental intervention and extension of CEE SPRING 2020
  • LGBTIQ+ flags on Commons

    

    Inclusive Diverse Pride Flag

Queer Wiki work on other Wikis

• Diff3r3ntVversionsArePOSSIBLE?!. - from UI/UX experiments to interventions in Wikipedia ecosystem, its social and media developments (for v.2 in Di.Versions.zone)
• Not Found On - intersectional feminist queer wiki project / community .
• https://lgbta.wikia.org > https://lgbtqia.fandom.com/ re-launched 2022
• Historic, deprecated or no longer actively developed
  • https://QueerBio.com
  • https://Queer.Wiki > https://www.wikiqueer.org

2020 project LGBT - pride month on FR Wikipedia

RfC (Requests for Comment)

• wikidata.org/wiki/Talk:Q19509201 on (anti-rights and non-rights) LGBTIQ+ rights activist
• Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_LGBT#Absence_of_data_%3D_data on absence-void data
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Queer_erasure#rfc_36DD9A4 Merge of Queer Erasure
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252291 Establish a list of gray/grim Wikimedia sites

toDOne

• WikiLovesPride ideas for Europe with biggest events EuroPride and EuroGames
  • 2023 WLP @Malta EuroPride
  • 2024 WLP (+in Sport) @Vienna EuroGames
  • 2025 WLP (+in Sport) @Lyon EuroGames
    • check 2020 outputs/archives of https://www.globalpride2020.org/watch/ and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Pride

• Visual AIDS programs
  • Queer:Visual AIDS 2022 program
  • Event:Day Without Art 2020 + VisualAIDS on EN(+simple)+translations?
• Queer:Pride_Ride collect notes for future Pride Ride Wikipedia article in English

• follow-up on translation efforts and discussion for Sarah_Hegazi

• Zblace:
  • cross-polinate SEE articles (especially translations)
    • https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seksualna_orijentacija_i_vojska
• done micro tasks:
  • saving QSS and all its assets from its WikiData-Commons-Sh-Hr-Simple
  • translation to Bosnian https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Hegazi
  • first Croatian trans* individual on Wikipedia HR https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espi_Tomicic
  • started WikiData work on emerging LGBTIQ Artists-at-Risks: Queer:Grammo Suspect