Wikimedia LGBT+/Safe space

Wikimedia LGBT+

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Wikimedia LGBT+
Communications
Talk page Telegram: @wmlgbt LGBTlists.wikimedia.org Twitter: @WikiLGBT Mastodon: @wmlgbt@tech.lgbt Bluesky: @wmlgbt.org Wiki99: Wiki99/LGBT+
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Post any ideas and information on efforts to make Wikimedia projects safer spaces for LGBT+ editors and readers.

Possible activities

• Update / rewrite Friends of gays should not be allowed to edit articles.

  There is a discussion on this happening on Meta.

• Homophobic content cleanup drive

  As in the content projects (which would be wikiprojects' duty) or in Meta etc.?

• Best practices or guides to responding to anti-LGBT+ efforts on Wikimedia projects

Policies

1. Better LGBT+ inclusion in employment and volunteer polices:
   • Addition of "gender identity / expression" or "gender identity, and gender expression" to:
     • Pluralism, internationalism, and diversity policy
     • Code of conduct policy
     • Non discrimination policy
   • Support and help advance existing and already fully inclusive policies:
     • Friendly space policy
2. Expand on ways to build safe spaces for all minorities - not just LGBT+:
   • Pluralism, internationalism, and diversity policy
   • Code of conduct policy
3. Passage of a LGBT safe spaces resolution
   • Request for WMF board resolution on homophobia