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 Welcome
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  Panel discussion: Meeting folks where they are at – equity and safety for Wikimedia events |
[ English video to come] · [ Spanish video to come]
Moderator: Mehrdad Pourzaki, Lead Movement Communications Specialist, Wikimedia Foundation.
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.
Due to technical problems, this session is not included in the YouTube stream.
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Lecture: Making Queer Faces and Voices Visible and Audible Online: The role of Wikipedia and Wikidata (John Samuel)
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Diapositives en anglais (version 1) · Diapositives en anglais (version 2) · Diapositives en espagnol
[ Vidéo en anglais souhaité] · [ Vidéo en espagnol souhaité]
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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Break
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Lectures and workshop on gender in Wikidata
Lecture: Queering Wikidata: Early Insights from the Wikidata Gender Diversity Project (Daniele Metilli, Beatrice Melis, Marta Fioravanti, Chiara Paolini)
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[ English video to come] · [ Spanish video to come]
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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 Lecture: Ethical and Inclusive Data Modeling for Gender Representation in Wikidata: Lessons and Recommendations from the Personal Pronouns Project (Arielle Rodriguez, Crystal Yragui, Alex Jung) |
English slides · Spanish slides
[ English video to come] · [ Spanish video to come]
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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 Community Engagement / Strategizing: “But what about representation?”: Finding Ethical Solutions and Best Practices for Gender Information in Wikidata (Arielle Rodriguez, Crystal Yragui) |
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[ English video to come] · [ Spanish video to come]
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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Creative programme: The queer history of Bagoas the Younger
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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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Lecture: Diversity and Collaboration: an account of the actions of the Portuguese-language project "Projeto Mais Teoria da História na Wiki" (Bruna Grando, Projeto Mais+)
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[ English slides to come] · [ Spanish slides to come]
[ English video to come] · [ Spanish video to come]
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.
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Keynote panel: LGBTQ Social Media Safety — Strategies for Advocacy & Activism (Jenni Olson, GLAAD, en:User:JenniOlson)
Everyone deserves to feel safe on social media. LGBTQ people are disproportionately targeted with hate and harassment on social media — acts which have very real offline impacts and harms. We are also vulnerable to censorship and disproportionate limitations of free expression related to our identities. As the major platforms continue to fail to adequately protect LGBTQ users from anti-LGBTQ hate, while also continuing to too often suppress our legitimate speech and engagement, what new strategic approaches can we enlist to try to advocate for change? Join GLAAD Senior Director of Social Media Safety, Jenni Olson; Meedan Digital Health Lab Program Manager, Kat Lo; Kairos Program Director of Campaigns, Jelani Drew-Davi for a panel discussion moderated by GLAAD Social Media Safety Program Manager, Leanna Garfield.
Panelists will discuss:
- Key findings from the 2022 GLAAD Social Media Safety Index (SMSI) report — and a sneak peek at the new report to be released in June 2023
- Thought leadership in the field of tech and platform advocacy, including current approaches to platform accountability and new strategies for change and advocacy such as the Kairos campaign, The Facebook Logout
- Ways that individual LGBTQ users can report violative content as a strategy for activism, while also staying mindful of self-care (and remembering that this burden — of mitigating harmful content and maintaining safe products — rightfully belongs with the platforms).
- Strategies for coalition-building, and what everyday users can do to help move toward safer online spaces.
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Closing remarks
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