Wikimedia LGBT/2024-03-28

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This online video conference is open to all participants of the LGBT+ User Group, and is intended as an opportunity to discuss shared interests, opportunities, and challenges. The meeting will include User Group administrative and governance updates, community discussion, and open presentations.

• Date: Thursday 28 March, 2024
  • Meeting time: 4:00-5:00pm GMT/UTC+0 (9:00am-10:00 PT/12:00-1:00pm ET). Find your local time here: https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1711641600
  • Chai time: 30 minutes following main meeting devoted to informal socializing and impromptu breakout discussions
• Location: Join Zoom meeting link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86443348105?pwd=QTZ4a2NMT21yeG9YeHcwMnp1NUc2dz09

The meeting will have an entry lobby, please reach out on the Telegram group if you are left waiting. The Wikimedia Universal Code of Conduct will be followed for this meeting.

Expected attendees

RSVP here!

• Hexatekin (talk) 17:32, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
• Funcrunch (talk) 05:03, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
• Vic Sfriso (WMAR) (talk) 17:03, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
• Accuracy-searcher (talk) 12:19, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
• OwenBlacker (Talk; he/him) 18:17, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
• RXerself (talk) 15:48, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
• Sign your name if you like here!

Agenda

• Events and announcements
  • Wiki Loves Pride anyone planning on organizing an event or related campaign or need help getting started?
  • Wikimania 2024 in Poland - Lane submitted the proposal for the annual LGBT+ meetup.
    • This is a closed meetup for LGBT+ people
    • It does not produce public notes; attendees do return feedback to Wikimedia LGBT+ meetups
  • Anyone have other events to promote/announce?

• Governance updates
  • The User Group submitted a 2024 Wikimedia Community Fund, General Support Fund application 8 March.
  • The User Group will be submitting a rapid fund grant to fund project coordination and editing prizes for Wiki Loves Pride
  • French Wikipedia transphobia discussion
    • One perspective: French Wikipedia editors organized a short and unrepresentative survey which ended in a decision that LGBT+ editors find to be transphobic and anti-LGBT+
    • Wikimedia LGBT+ organizers are already taking some action in response, including a conversation at the recent WMF Board Community Affairs Committee call
    • How should Wikimedia LGBT+ react?

Community discussion

• What have you been editing on Wikimedia platforms?
• What recent challenges have you faced to participating in Wikimedia projects that you'd like to discuss?
• How can the User Group help you achieve your goals?

Share + Discuss Ideas and Proposals

(please add any specific Wikimedia projects/events/activities topics you'd like to share with the group as a lightning talk or open for discussion)

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Chai Time! (After-meeting informal chats)

Tea, Turkish style

A tea cabin in Sreemangal, Bangladesh

Getting to know each other and having fun is an important part of why we exist! Following the meeting, there will be a half hour of unstructured time, where the meeting room will stay open for people to chat and form any proposed breakout rooms.