Wikipedia:WikiProject LGBTQ+ studies

WikiProject LGBTQ+ studies

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About WP:LGBTQ+

Welcome to WikiProject LGBTQ+ studies! We're a group of editors who aim to improve Wikipedia's coverage of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) topics, including queer studies. WP:LGBTQ+ brings together Wikipedians of all sexual orientations, gender identities, geographic locations, and personal backgrounds to collaborate on expanding and improving LGBTQ+ content across Wikipedia.

The scope of WP:LGBTQ+ includes:

1. Identifying and categorizing LGBTQ+ articles on Wikipedia
2. Developing and applying standards for assessing LGBTQ+ articles
3. Improving existing LGBTQ+ articles and ensuring they are in-line with Wikipedia's standards and policies
4. Identifying notable LGBTQ+ topics not yet included in Wikipedia and creating articles for them
5. Identifying and developing standardized tables, templates and categorization schemes for LGBTQ+ articles
6. Identifying potential material that may be transwikied — (i.e. collect information for possible high-quality LGBTQ+ textbooks for Wikibooks)
7. Maintaining Portal:LGBTQ and Portal:Transgender

This project does not extol any point of view, political or otherwise, other than that of a neutral documentarian.

Talk

Joining the discussion at WT:LGBTQ+ is a great way to get started. Ask questions, suggest articles for creation or improvement, and connect with other WP:LGBTQ+ participants. Anyone with an interest in improving LGBTQ+ content on Wikipedia is free to participate.

For Discord users, the channel #wplgbt exists on the Wikipedia:Discord community server as a place to facilitate real-time discussion and conversation.

Collaboration

At Collaboration, you can find a list of WP:LGBTQ+ participants and task groups.

• Anyone with a Wikipedia user account—regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity—is free to participate in the WikiProject. You can sign up at the participants list, but that is not a requirement to start contributing.
• If you know another language besides English, please consider adding your name to our List of Translators.
• The Person Task Force is a working group dedicated to ensuring quality and coverage of biography articles of LGBTQ persons.

Editing

Visit Editing for tools to help create, assess, and improve articles on LGBTQ+ topics.

Resources

Resources has style guides, external links, templates, and other tools that support researching and writing articles on LGBTQ+ topics.

• WP:LGBTQ+/Guidelines is a style guide for writing about LGBTQ+ topics.

Showcase

The Showcase highlights great LGBTQ+ content on Wikipedia and celebrates WP:LGBTQ+ achievements.

Current milestones

800 good articles: 75.9% complete

125 featured articles: 82.4% complete

10% of all articles rated B-Class or better: 98.8% complete

• 2.6% List-Class
• 19.3% Stub-Class
• 47.8% Start-Class
• 20.4% C-Class
• 7% B-Class
• 2.3% GA-Class
• 0.5% FA-Class
• 0.1% remaining