Wikipedia:Wiki Loves Pride/2014/Results

This page is for recording the results of Wiki Loves Pride 2014.

• Wiki Loves Pride project pages, templates and categories were created at English Wikipedia
• The page Wikipedia:Wiki Loves Pride was translated for German Wikipedia (de), French Wikipedia (fr) and Italian Wikipedia (it)
• The page Wikipedia:Wiki Loves Pride/2014 was translated for French Wikipedia (fr)
• The page meta:Wiki Loves Pride was translated into German (de), Spanish (es) and French (fr)
• Wikimedia Commons hosted an LGBT photo challenge in June, in conjunction with Wiki Loves Pride
• Wikidata: Creation of the LGBT task force, which seeks to improve LGBT-related content at Wikidata
• Wikidata: A report was created which consists of people who have been identified as LGBT at English Wikipedia, but not at Wikidata. You can help by adding the sexual orientation property to their Wikidata entries (with proper sourcing). See example diff here.
• Creation of a Wiki Loves Pride 2014 events page at Meta as part of the Centre for Internet and Society's (CIS) Access to Knowledge (A2K) program, which seeks to catalyze the growth of the open knowledge movement in South Asia and in Indic languages

If an event or campaign was held in your city, please share the results of the activity here. Feel free to include venue details, the number of attendees, the number of articles created and/or improved, images uploaded or added to articles, pictures taken at the meetup, local press coverage, planned follow-up activities, and any other anecdotal information worth sharing!

Atlanta

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Houston

• Articles created: AIDS Foundation Houston, Bunnies on the Bayou, Chances Bar, LGBT culture in Houston

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  Pride (2008)
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  Pride (2013)
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  Pride (2013)

India

Wiki Loves Pride, India was held during July 2014, culminating with offline events in Bangalore, Delhi and Mangalore on July 19.

• Phadnis, Renuka (July 7, 2014). "Wikipedia edit-a-thons to add content on LGBTs". The Hindu.
• Lasrado, Svetlana (July 15, 2014). "Wikipedia does its bit for sexual minorities". The New Indian Express.

Philadelphia

As part of an all-day event, A GLAM Day Out, guest archivist Bob Skiba, LGBT archivist at the William Way LGBT Center in Philadelphia, talked about LGBT history in Philadelphia and about some very exciting initiatives. Over the next year there will be a number of LGBT-related exhibits at different galleries, libraries, and museums in the Philadelphia area including Constitution Center, the Mutter Museum, the Library Company of Philadelphia and more. The LGBT archives have also received a grant funding a substantial expansion, doubling their space and installing climate control and other features at the archives.

A dozen people attended the afternoon's "Wiki Loves Pride" editing event, creating 2 new articles and editing others. One of the new articles is for the Anna Crusis Women's Choir, the first feminist choir in the United States, which has been active in supporting LGBT rights and other social justice causes. Photographs relating to the forty-year history of the choir are being released as we obtain the appropriate permissions to cover their licensing.

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  Bob Skiba, guest archivist
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  Anna Crusis Women's Choir concert poster, June 14, 1980
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  Anna Crusis Women's Choir concert poster, 1995, with Pete Seeger and Reggie Harris

Portland, Oregon

• Date/Time: Saturday, June 21, 2014 from noon–4pm
• Venue: Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 236 (Portland State University)
• There were just a handful of us present, but we managed to create a few articles (Capitol Pride, Cascade AIDS Project, Embers Avenue, LGBT culture in Portland, Oregon, Peacock in the Park, Q Center, Second Foundation) and discuss potential projects for Reed College and/or Wikimedia Cascadia. One new contributor uploaded original photographs of Reed College (specifically Reed Canyon and fungi), and User:Another Believer and User:Blurpeace used the Flickr-to-Commons tool to upload images of Renn Fayre and Seattle Pride (2012). User:Grand'mere Eugene created LGBT culture in Eugene, Oregon remotely. Silverado was created later in the month.
• See also: Seattle Pride 2012 (331 images); Renn Fayre (11 images)
• "Pride PDX" was a month-long campaign to photograph Portland's LGBT culture and history. 145 pictures of the Pride Parade (see Portland Pride 2014) were uploaded, as were several photographs of Q Center and Portland State University's Queer Resource Center.

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  Basic Rights Oregon
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  Human Rights Campaign
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  PFLAG
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  Rose City Mortgage
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  St. Andrew Catholic Church

New York City

• Date/Time: Saturday, June 21, 2014 from 11am – 4pm
• Venue: New York Public Library, Jefferson Market Library

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  Stonewall Inn
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  Stonewall Inn
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  A condom raincoat by artist Ai Weiwei

San Francisco

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Seattle

• 331 images from Seattle Pride 2012 were uploaded at the Portland edit-a-thon using the Flickr-to-Commons tool
• Nearly 30 images from Seattle Pride 2014 were uploaded

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  Pride 2014

Seoul

In South Korea, nearly 50 images of Seoul's Korea Queer Culture Festival were uploaded. Commons photo challenge submissions include:

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South Africa

• De Waterkant

• Date/Time: Saturday, June 21, 2014
• Venue: De Waterkant, Cape Town
• South Africa's pride season takes place earlier in the year during the summer, hence a focus on LGBT culture instead of pride events. Over 60 images of De Waterkant, a gay village in Cape Town, taken on 21 June 2014 were uploaded and a Commons gallery page was created to display them. The following selection was submitted to the Commons photo challenge:

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  Crew nightclub
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  Boyztown
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  Beefcakes Burger Bar
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  Café Manhattan
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  Kos restaurant
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  Dixon Street
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  Loader Street
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  Jarvis Street

• Past Pride events

• On June 30, 2014 the following images of past Pride events were uploaded using the Flickr-to-Commons tool: 33 images from Cape Town Pride 2014, 29 images from Joburg Pride 2013 and 20 images from Soweto Pride 2012.

Vancouver

• Nearly 25 images were uploaded, illustrating Pride 2009, Pride 2013 and Davie Village

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  Pride 2009
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Vienna

• Nearly 50 images from Life Ball 2014 were uploaded

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  Kesha

Warsaw

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Washington, D.C.

Articles

Categories and Templates

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Did you know?

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• ... that Kakan Hermansson (pictured) held an art exhibition during the "West Pride", a LGBT festival in Gothenburg in 2014? (nomination)
• ... that the Equality Parade (pictured) in Warsaw, Poland, held since 2001, is the oldest pride parade in a former European Communist bloc country? (nomination)
• ... that the Swiss magazine Der Kreis was the only gay magazine that was available in Europe during World War II and the Nazi regime? (nomination)
• ... that a transgender human clone is introduced as a new character in the Orphan Black episode "Variable and Full of Perturbation"? (nomination)
• ... that the Anna Crusis Women's Choir, founded in 1975 by Cathy Roma (pictured), is the oldest feminist choir in the United States? (nomination)
• ... that the 2014 Korea Queer Culture Festival was disrupted by anti-LGBT, conservative Christian demonstrators? (nomination)

Drafts

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Policies and Proposals

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In response to calls for online privacy by a few editors who live in countries where support for LGBT issues is a cultural and political taboo, a proposal to create exemptions for open proxy editing with Tor has been developed.

• meta:Grants:IdeaLab/Partnership between Wikimedia community and Tor community

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When Wikimedia community members are targeted for harassment and cyberbullying due to their participating in Wikimedia community projects, the community should support the victims even when it is not possible or reasonable to address the attacker.

• meta:Grants:IdeaLab/Victim support services

Photography campaigns were hosted in a handful of locations around the world, including Portland (Oregon), Seoul, South Africa and Vancouver. In addition, Wikimedia Commons hosted an LGBT photo challenge during June, in conjunction with Wiki Loves Pride. Highlights:

Wikidata is a free knowledge base that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike. It is for data what Wikimedia Commons is for media files: it centralizes access to and management of structured data, such as interwiki references and statistical information. Wikidata contains data in every language supported by the MediaWiki software.

June 2014 saw the creation of the LGBT task force at Wikidata, which seeks to improve LGBT-related content. In addition to the creation of this new group, a report was created which consists of people who have been identified as LGBT at English Wikipedia, but not at Wikidata. This is one of several projects being discussed by task force members. 10 users joined the LGBT task force in June 2014.