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Wikimedia LGBT/2019-11-09

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This online meetup is open to all members of the LGBT+ User Group, and is intended as an opportunity to discuss shared opportunities, challenges, and issues.

  • Date: Tuesday, November 19, at 11:00am EST / 4:00pm GMT (see timezone calendar here).
  • Live Online Location: Zoom (link is here). Please download and install the Zoom player on a computer or mobile device for the best experience. Contact FULBERT if you prefer to be emailed an actual calendar invite.
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Agenda

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  1. Welcome, Introductions, and Agenda Review (FULBERT)
    1. Minutes will be taken here - Wikimedia LGBT etherpad
  2. Wikimedia LGBT+ Conference
    1. Grants:Conference/Kawayashu/Queering Wikipedia
    2. possible to invite guest: Samaritans (Q7408851)
      1. This organization reached out to WMF; WMF is offering to support their engagement with wiki community
      2. their offer: 2-hour presentation
      3. topic: discussing crisis in media, and peer-to-peer crisis support
      4. objective: mutual exchange - they offer crisis support, they want Wikipedia as an educational partner in media
      5. Question: if they joined, and if they presented, they have a version of presentation with direct and possibly disturbing suicide data, and a version for general public. Which would be a better fit for us?
      6. How does Wikimedia LGBT+ feel about having an elevated expert partnership with this organization?
  3. User Group compliance reporting update and compliance (FULBERT)
    1. Current reports are here.
    2. Need to discuss related to the Wikimedia Summit.
  4. Social media team for Wikimedia LGBT+ update (RachelWex)
    1. Wiki LGBT+ Social Media Policy (draft)
  5. New logo for Wikimedia LGBT+ (Amir)
  6. LGBT+ Wikimedian at large - available here (Josie)

Planning to attend

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  1. FULBERT (talk) 20:23, 29 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Ɱ (talk) 14:12, 30 October 2019 (UTC) Will be at work[reply]
  3. Blue Rasberry (talk) 21:42, 4 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Sorry all...under the weather and can't make it...RachelWex (RachelWex)
  5. Thsmi002 (talk) 04:44, 10 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Kaizenify (talk)
  7. Fæ (talk)

Actually attended

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Notes

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attendees
  1. Lane (taking notes)
  2. Fae

3Jeffrey

  1. TJ
    I have been editing Wikipedia for a few years. I mostly participate in the Women in Red project but I also edit biographies based on other underrepresented groups, including LGBT+ people.
  2. Richard
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  1. For Queeting Wikipedia conference, what will scholarship process be?

Fae: regarding the LGBT+ conference, Fae is examing the scholarship award process.

  1. Fae advocates for publishing the scholarship call sooner to invite community comment and review.
    This is the first time presenting a conference so the organizers may be unfamiliar with the many issues which arise in Wikipedia scholarships. For example, how does the wiki community feel about individuals who receive scholarships also tying a vacation to it? Some attendees who need the travel funding cannot make a choice to pay for their own tourism with their conference attendance, and some would like to do this. The Wikimedia community has a culture of precedent around this and we for our conference would do well to point to the Wikimedia Foundation's infrasturture rather than handling this or other issues on our own.
    1. We have not developed policy on privacy
      the scholarship team knows everyone's name, might have their passport numbers, etc
      ideally, the Wiki LGBT+ organizations should avoid handling sensitive data and instead
    2. Wikimedia Austria as host
      they are handling visa letters
      they are booking flights for scholarship recipients, or working with WMF travel coordinators
    3. Draft program
      Jeffrey presented the draft program
      the program planning document describes what sort of proposals we will invite
      while Wikipedia is in the name of the project, this conference actually invites all Wikimedia contributions
    4. Thursday 21 November 2019 meeting to prepare for the conference
      4pm EST meeting in Zoom
      https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wUn3pbyyiAiyhm3XVjkXFOwC2v6Rpr5Jl302RzgY-rI/edit
    5. Partners
      Samaritans
      Credibility Coalition? This organization was at WikiConference North America and expressed an interest in ongoing Wikipedia partnership
    6. video
      Fae proposed having a videographer at Queering Wikipedia to get oral history from who attends, why they care about LGBT+ on wiki, etc
      need to arrange for video at this event
      desire to get video at all kinds of events, such as Wiki World AIDS Day events, but it is challenging to leverage these kinds of things
  2. annual report
    Jeffrey has drafted reports based on what other orgs did
    two reports needed - this year's and last years
    1. what to add
      1. Wiki Loves Pride 2019 photo contest
      2. World AIDS Day, add to both 2018 and 2019
      3. TJ and Fae shared LGBT+ stem
        https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Pride_in_STEM/Pride_in_STEM_LGBTQ_Wikipedia_edit-a-thon_(July_2019)/home
    2. seeking approval
    3. pinged AffCom - no response yet
      when we get an approval, then we should get an invitation to the Wikimedia Summit
    4. question - how does the review process work?
      it has changed year to year
      right now, we have a red X and not a green check
      unclear about who has authority to make green checks
      Richard recommends asking Dumi, our contact with Affiliations committee
      Jeffrey said that he has emailed Dumi and AffCom, no reply
      Richard says to change X to check
      Fae said that AffCom is overburdened with administration and that after informing them and making submission, we change it also
  3. After annual report accepted, we should solicit for volunteers to the Wikimedia Summit
    Lane has done this in the past, will do again in the same way this year
  4. (Rachel absent to present social media team, passed)
  5. (Community Wikimedian position - Josie asbent, passed)
    perhaps no updates in public channels since Wikimania 2019
    no changes on the public document since 8 September 2019
    1. Scoping the position
      still unclear of focus - no lack of things to do, but one person cannot do everything
      1. "trust and safety liaison"
      2. documentation and reporting
      3. program management
      4. central communications
      5. etc
  6. Wiki Loves Pride 2019
    seeking jurors
    need to select best images
    Jeffrey: Richard, can you put this into the annual report?



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