Event:World AIDS Day 2025 online/id
Wikimedia LGBT+ invites you to participate in a panel discussion and editathon to commemorate Hari AIDS Sedunia and celebrate 30 years of the Penghambat protease (farmakologi) revolution.
Join us if you are interested in improving and expanding the history of HIV/AIDS on Wikimedia!
Panel
On 29 November 2025, come join Wikimedia LGBT+ for an online presentation and opening. We will have a panel with speakers from AIDS and HIV organizations on Saturday, 29 November, from 5 to 6pm UTC.
We will share the link to the Zoom call from the panel the day before with those who have registered for this event. And we will have simultaneous translation between English and Spanish; other languages may be added on request. If you wish to request another language, please write us to community
wmlgbt
org
Speakers
- Gregg Gonsalves – Associate Professor at Yale School of Public Health and founder of ACT UP NYC Treatment Action Group
- Ash Kotak - Founder AIDS Memorial UK
- Owen Blacker - Chair WMLGBT+
Editathon
From 29 November to 6 December, we will be editing articles about HIV/AIDS on Wikipedia, Commons, and Wikidata. To contribute your edits, simply register for this event or do so on this Dashboard.
On Thursday, 4 December, we will be sharing a synchronous online edit-a-thon. We will start at 4:30pm UTC and end at 9:45pm UTC. This space is for peer learning and resolving questions by working together. We will share concerns and edit as a community. You can join whenever you want!
Schedule
| SFO | MEX | NYC | EZE | UTC | BER | CPT | IST | DEL | KUL | AKL | Schedule |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:30 | 10:30 | 11:30 | 13:30 | 16:30 | 17:30 | 18:30 | 19:30 | 22:00 | 00:30 | 04:30 | Intro and welcome (15 mins) |
| 08:45 | 10:45 | 11:45 | 13:45 | 16:45 | 17:45 | 18:45 | 19:45 | 22:15 | 00:45 | 04:45 | Keynote speech from Gregg Gonsalves (15 mins) |
| 09:00 | 11:00 | 12:00 | 14:00 | 17:00 | 18:00 | 19:00 | 20:00 | 22:30 | 01:00 | 05:00 | Bisi Alimi interviews Ash Kotar (1 hour, including Q&A) |
| 10:00 | 12:00 | 13:00 | 15:00 | 18:00 | 19:00 | 20:00 | 21:00 | 23:30 | 02:00 | 06:00 | Break (15 mins) |
| 10:15 | 12:15 | 13:15 | 15:15 | 18:15 | 19:15 | 20:15 | 21:15 | 23:45 | 02:15 | 06:15 | Introduction to resources, worklist and getting help (15 mins) |
| 10:30 | 12:30 | 13:30 | 15:30 | 18:30 | 19:30 | 20:30 | 21:30 | 00:00 | 02:30 | 06:30 | Editing 1 (1h15m) |
| 11:45 | 13:45 | 14:45 | 16:45 | 19:45 | 20:45 | 21:45 | 22:45 | 01:15 | 03:45 | 07:45 | Optional social break (15 mins) |
| 12:00 | 14:00 | 15:00 | 17:00 | 20:00 | 21:00 | 22:00 | 23:00 | 01:30 | 04:00 | 08:00 | Editing 2 (1h20m) |
| 13:20 | 15:20 | 16:20 | 18:20 | 21:20 | 22:20 | 23:20 | 00:20 | 02:50 | 05:20 | 09:20 | Round up and sharing our work (25 mins) |
| 13:45 | 15:45 | 16:45 | 18:45 | 21:45 | 22:45 | 23:45 | 00:45 | 03:15 | 05:45 | 09:45 | End |
How to participate
To participate in our World AIDS Day activities, please follow these steps:
- Log in to Meta Wikipedia (this website) with your Wikimedia username. If you don’t yet have one, you can create an account here.
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For English Wikipedia articles to create or improve, please see this list.
Spanish Wikipedia articles to create
- Prevención combinada del VIH
- Tratamiento como prevención, it can be translated from the English article Treatment as prevention.
- Servicios de prevención combinada
- GayLatino, organization working with HIV/AIDS in Latin America
- Red Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Personas Trans (RedLACTrans)
- VIH/SIDA en Chile
- VIH/SIDA en Uruguay
- VIH/SIDA en Paraguay
- Rodrigo Pascal Ureta, LGBT activists in response to AIDS
- Javier Hourcade Bellocq, LGBT activists in response to AIDS
- Marcela Romero, LGBT activists in response to AIDS
- Arely Cano, LGBT activists in response to AIDS
- Gracia Violeta Ross, LGBT activists in response to AIDS
- The Seroproject Latinoamérica
- RedLa, organisation working on HIV
- Vida de Carlos Jauregui, film
- De querer así, book from Gustavo Pecoraro
Spanish Wikipedia articles to improve
- Primeros casos de VIH/sida - More references required
- Contagio intencionado de agentes infecciosos - It required a deep improvement
- Cronología del VIH/Sida - To be updated
- Pandemia de VIH/Sida - To be improved and updated
- VIH/Sida en Argentina - To be updated
- Serofobia - To be updated and improved
- Controversia sobre la donación de sangre de hombres que tienen sexo con hombres - To be updated
- Prevención de la infección por VIH - Deep improvement needed
- Bugchasing - To be updated considering U=U
- Barebacking - To be updated considering U=U
- Profilaxis post-exposición para el VIH - To be improved
- El amigo que no me salvó la vida - To be improved
Supporting organisations
