Wikipedia:WikiProject LGBT studies/Editathons/Bishopsgate Library, London

'Wikimedia LGBT+ editathon and digitization workshop at Bishopsgate Library &middot; Saturday 18 October 2014''

Date and location

 * 18 October 2014 &middot; Bishopsgate Library &middot; &middot; Google Map
 * 12:30 pm through to 5 pm (building closes at 5.30)
 * The Library is part of the Bishopsgate Institute, which is literally just around the corner from Liverpool Street Station.

Format

 * 12:30 Introduction to LGBT+ at Bishopsgate, including the Hall-Carpenter Archives, Stonewall and OutRage!&mdash;Stefan Dickers, Library and Archives Manager
 * 12:55 What is Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons and what can we achieve in an afternoon?&mdash;Fæ, co-founder of Wikimedia LGBT+
 * 13:15 Split into interest groups and coaching session for newbies.
 * 16:30 Group discussion and review (including ideas for LGBT History Month in February 2015)
 * 17:00 Close

Registration
Please sign up, here, so we can plan for numbers attending:-
 * Fæ (talk) 14:47, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Tim riley - this is going to be cosy unless there's a last minute rush!
 * Gordo (talk) Here to help....
 * CT Cooper · &#32;talk
 * viagege Happy to assist but new to Wikipedia.... 18:04, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Tom Morris

Suggested topics to work on

 * LGBT slang lacks slang from lesbian or trans specific communities.
 * Lisa Power (Stonewall founder, MBE and author of No Bath, But Plenty of Bubbles) has no article.
 * ✅ —Tom Morris (talk) 14:42, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
 * AARGH_(Artists_Against_Rampant_Government_Homophobia) article stub
 * Releases for AIDS education posters at c:Category:Files_from_Wellcome_Images_(copyright_check_needed)
 * Finding photographs for LGBT biographies&mdash;try using the automated analysis at /LGBT BLP images

Work done

 * Lisa Power started.
 * Cultural depictions of Matthew Shepard expanded. Ground work laid for starting the Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine film article.

Contacts
This event is supported by the Bishopsgate Library and the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group. Please contact Fæ for more information.

Experienced helpers/trainers for the editathon will be: Fæ, Gordo, CT Cooper

Links

 * A huge report of LGBT+ related articles on Wikipedia needing clean-up.
 * LGBT@undefinedlists.wikimedia.org email discussion list, join here!
 * Geonotice
 * Email to Wikimedia lists, 9 September
 * Facebook post you can share