Chapter 5 Coming Out of the Closet: Librarian Advocacy to Advance LGBTQ+ Wikipedia Engagement

Wexelbaum, Rachel

doi:10.1108/s0065-283020190000045011

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“…LGBT" in sections of geographical articles to explain the situation in terms of rights or in any general topic to include the LGBT perspective is something that is already tackled and suggested in previous research (Wexelbaum, 2019). Fourthly and lastly, the creation of articles with the term "LGBT" in the title is crucial for two reasons.…”

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“…As said, LGBT+ editors are not only interested. 1 For example, Wexelbaum (2019) says that for articles about countries and cities in particular, it is important that there are mentions of LGBT+ rights or events that relate to it. Those articles dealing with scientific or medical information that impacts the LGBT+ community are especially important, and those on public figures and cultures in connection to an LGBT+ identity should also have their information added to their corresponding articles.…”

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“…Campaigns like the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums') (Wikipedia contributors, 2021a) initiative help cultural institutions in sharing their collections with the world through collaborative projects with seasoned Wikipedia editors. For the case of LGBT+ information, Wexelbaum (2019) examined the under-representation of librarians in global LGBT+ Wikipedia engagement efforts and Wikipedia initiatives in general, as well as the barriers that librarians face in becoming active Wikipedians (i.e., the volunteers who contribute to Wikipedia by editing its pages) (Wikipedia contributors, 2021b).…”

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Bridging LGBT+ Content Gaps Across Wikipedia Language Editions

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Kaltenbrunner

Keefer

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In the past several years, the Wikimedia Movement has become more aware of the lack of representation of specific communities, that is, content gaps. Next to geographical and gender-related initiatives, the LGBT+ Wikimedia community has organized to create LGBT+ content encompassing (among other topics) biographies, events, and culture. In this paper, we present a computational approach to collecting and analyzing LGBT+ articles. We selected 14 Wikipedia language editions to study the coverage of LGBT+ content in general, its visibility in the list of Featured Articles, and its overlap with the local content of the Wikipedia language editions. Results show that a considerable part of potentially LGBT+ related content exists across Wikipedia language editions; however, this relation is not evident in each language edition. In this sense, closing the LGBT+ content gap is about creating articles and making connection to the topic visible in already existing articles. We also analyze the frequency of biographies of persons with non-heterosexual sexual orientations. We find that even though they represent only a small share of all biographies, they are a bit more frequent among the Featured Articles. When taking into account all the LGBT+ biographies of the different languages, English context celebrities are the most visible. While part of the LGBT+ content is related to each language edition's local context, it tends to be less contextualized than the entire language editions. This indicates the possibility of growing LGBT+ content in each Wikipedia language edition by representing its most immediate LGBT+ local context. We propose a dashboard tool to find relevant LGBT+ articles across language editions and start bridging the gaps. Finally, we conclude this study by presenting recommendations for the next steps amongst the Wikipedia communities to fill some of these gaps.

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LGBTQ+ Books on Library Shelves: The Predicaments of Libraries in Africa

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The Wikipedia Diversity Observatory: helping communities to bridge content gaps through interactive interfaces

Miquel-Ribé

Laniado

2021

J Internet Serv Appl

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In this paper, we present the Wikipedia Diversity Observatory, a project aimed to increase diversity within Wikipedia content. The project provides dashboards with visualizations and tools which show content gaps in terms of imbalances in the coverage of topics, and of concepts that are not shared across Wikipedia language editions. The dashboards are built on datasets generated for each of the more than 300 existing language editions, with features that label each article according to geography, gender and other categories relevant to overall content diversity. Through various examples, we show how the tools encourage and help editors to bridge the gaps in Wikipedia content. Finally, we discuss the project’s impact on the communities and implications for the Wikimedia movement in a moment in which covering diversity is considered strategic.

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Chapter 5 Coming Out of the Closet: Librarian Advocacy to Advance LGBTQ+ Wikipedia Engagement

Cited by 3 publications

References 30 publications

Bridging LGBT+ Content Gaps Across Wikipedia Language Editions

Bridging LGBT+ Content Gaps Across Wikipedia Language Editions

LGBTQ+ Books on Library Shelves: The Predicaments of Libraries in Africa

The Wikipedia Diversity Observatory: helping communities to bridge content gaps through interactive interfaces

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