Wikipedia:Meetup/St. Louis/Wiki Loves Pride 2019

Wiki Loves Pride is a global campaign to expand and improve LGBT+ content across several Wikimedia projects. Most activities of Wiki Loves Pride take place between June and October, traditionally the months when lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities around the world celebrate LGBT culture and history. The campaign is supported by Wikimedia LGBT+, a user group that promotes the development of content on Wikimedia projects which is of interest to LGBT+ communities. When you make an edit, in the edit summary, use the hashtag #PrideSTL19 to tag your edit. This way, we know how many edits were made in relation to this great campaign!

The St. Louis Wiki Loves Pride 2019 project will run through the month of June. This meeting is about getting started to talk about the project and orient new editors. A second meeting is being planned for June 12. Anyone wishing to join may contribute to the agenda on the talk page.

Visit the Eventbrite page to reserve your free ticket. There is also a facebook event to share.

Primary project goals:
 * 1) Contribute St. Louis related content to Wiki Loves Pride Photo Campaign
 * 2) Write and publish LGBT culture in St. Louis

Activities
Contribute St. Louis related content to Wiki Loves Pride Photo Campaign
 * Identify types of photos and who has them (and the rights), who will take pictures to add into commons
 * Outreach- how to encourage people to add images to LGBT Free Media Collective

Write and publish LGBT culture in St. Louis
 * Outreach- consult on content, encourage new editors to contribute
 * Find related articles to link
 * Identify appropriate secondary sources
 * Mapping LGBTQ St. Louis
 * Gay and lesbian St. Louis
 * St. Louis LGBT History Project
 * The queerest places : a national guide to gay and lesbian historic sites

‘’’Thoughts for further development’’’ In no particular order
 * LGBT Culture in St. Louis
 * Intro
 * History (later time)
 * Pridefest
 * Activism
 * Legal protections
 * Media
 * Organizations
 * Link to Gateway Business Guild
 * Notable People
 * Community Establishments
 * Perhaps list religious organizations here
 * Gayborhoods
 * Gay bars

Also at St. Louis Public Library, check out the Print to Pixels exhibit while it lasts!

Resources for editing

 * Three things to know about editing Wikipedia
 * Intro to Wikipedia Slides
 * More: Cheatsheet, Featured Articles, Policies and guidelines, Help:Getting started, Starting an article

Results
''What Pride content have you added or improved? List here!''

Participants
Do you have a Wikipedia User Name?
 * No? Create a Wikipedia account
 * Yes? Sign here!
 * 1) Lastchapter (talk) 20:01, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
 * 2) Jackiekoerner (talk) 15:34, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

Press
Visit the Press page for coverage of Wiki Loves Pride by various media outlets.

Links

 * Wiki Loves Pride at Meta-Wiki
 * Wikimedia LGBT+ at Meta-Wiki
 * WikiProject LGBT studies at English Wikipedia