QW2025/Nodes

What is a local node in QW2025, and how do you organize one?

A local node is an independently organized event by a group of people, in coordination with the QW2025 organizing team, held during the Queering Wikipedia 2025 conference. These events may also take place before or after the main conference dates.

The aim of local nodes aligns with the overall mission of QW2025: to foster outreach, engage, and connect the Wikimedia Queer community. However, local nodes may focus on specific regions or themes. While a regional or city-based focus is preferred, thematic nodes can be part of the program if well-integrated.

Local node events can be hosted anywhere globally, as trans-local collaboration is encouraged, with less emphasis on representation based on nationality or ethnicity.

Organizing a local node with your community can provide a welcoming environment for people new to Wikimedia LGBT+. It helps build community in a safer space, particularly for those unable to attend international events due to physical, financial, or legal restrictions.

For detailed guidance on planning a successful event, visit the node guidelines page. It provides practical tips to help you prepare for and manage your event effectively.

Checklist to organize a local node event

Are you enthusiastic and committed to organizing a local node event?

Here’s a list of things to keep in mind:

Don’t do it all on your own! Do it with us and others.
- Reach out to us and connect your fellow Wikimedians, LGBTQ+ activists, maybe Wikimedia chapter or user group you know.
- Start discussions, create a group (3 is already a team) to work together on helping you to organize the event.
Consider how to frame the event
- Is it an informal watch party where only popcorn and internet access is needed?
- Is it a bigger group that might want to secure translation/presentation service?
- What could be your goals? What is the size and type of audience you desire?
- How will your event connect with the main event and/or other local node events?
Define the logistics aspects of the event
- Where will it take place?
- When, and for how long? How many people do you expect to show up?
- What will they need to join and contribute? What would be the content of the event?
- Would you contribute to QW2025 online?
Define and reach out to the people you will need to run the event
- Do you need people with specific skills? Speakers or facilitators?
- Helpers for the logistics aspects? Security and/or safety team?
- We encourage you to look for these people within your local community and support people looking to gather some experience in facilitation, event organization, etc.
Local partnering and/or renting?
- We strongly encourage you to find a local partner to help you with the logistics of the event — depending on the context, you can reach out to a local university, library or organization for space, but we also might be able to help you pay for rented space.
Communication about the event
- To add your node to the list, contact us and optionally create a sub-page on Meta, if you need a page to add the schedule, participants list, etc.
- Reach out to your local LGBTQ+ Wikimedian friends and wider communities on their favorite channels and general LGBTQ+ channels, to let people know that the event will be happening.

If you want to exchange with people who are interested in Queering Wikipedia or local node events organizers, feel free to use the Wikimedia LGBT+ channels. If you have specific questions for the Queering Wikipedia organizing team, feel free to write at qw2025 wmlgbt org and we can organize a coordination call with you.

List of local node events

When your local node event is ready to announce, please create a new section below.

You can copy/paste the template below.

TEMPLATE: [event type] in [city, region, country], [date], [time]

Introduce the event with something like:

The group XXX is happy to invite you to the Queering Wikipedia 2025 local Node event...

When: [date and time here]
Where: [city and country here]
Languages: [natively used, interpretation provided or improvised]
Accessibility: [wheelchair access, what are covid measures or related]
More information: [link to separate page, how to register interest...]

Describe here the scope of the event: Is it an onboarding, networking, research or social event? A parallel event to a specific online program segment? Will it involve local presentation, training, workshops?

What is the main contact point for the event (needs not to be a person, but an email address), and how to reach out and/or ask for more information.

In the context of the Month of Memory and the activity Queering Wikipedia 2025, Wikimedistas Uruguay is pleased to invite you to participate in this activity. The objective will be to discuss the memory of the LGBT community in the last civil-military dictatorship in Uruguay and the democratic transition, and those projects that seek to preserve and make available the experiences of LGBTIQ+ people in that historical period. The aim is to learn about the different strategies that have been used to collect this information and the importance of written/printed materials and oral testimonies, in order to finally reflect on how to take this information to Wikipedia.