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Rights on Saturday evening, May 7 on architecting the information of Georgia House Bill 757. I offered to facilitate a Knowledge (XXG) editathon for this event and could incorporate a lesson on finding and using wikidata to research local legislation, and am reaching out to local Wikipedians to invite participation. It seems it would be a good lead in activity to the Atlanta Wiki Loves Pride event in June. Is this something you would be interested in?

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Such a channel gives opportunity to discuss the latest happening on articles, the LGBT project itself, latest happening in your life with "wiki-friends" here, etc.. You can say things on there you normally wouldn't here on Knowledge (XXG) (keeping it civil of course) like talk about the latest hot guy/girl or tell a joke.. you get the point. Anyway, see you there - eventually!

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Knowledge (XXG) editing activity as part of the conference game night, which is usually held on Saturday night. I would love to invite Knowledge (XXG) Atlanta members to participate as facilitators. I did an introduction to Knowledge (XXG) at this event last year in Minneapolis and was happy to get assistance from three local Wikipedians.

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As long as the promise of equality for all remains unfulfilled, all Americans are affected. If we can work together to advance the principles upon which our Nation was founded, every American will benefit. During LGBT Pride Month, I call upon the LGBT community, the Congress, and the American people

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but as the original people associated with the setting up and administration of that channel have seemed to have disappeared, this new channel has been set up. Plus the new channel is inline with required naming conventions for Knowledge (XXG) related IRC channels. So, feel free to use this channel.

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I saw that you had rsvp'd to the Wiki Loves Pride event in June. Who might I talk to about hosting a mini editathon during the Information Architecture Summit, May 5-8 in Atlanta? (iasummit.org). I am a member of the NYC Wikimedia group and have been accepted to host an editathon and introduction to

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There is a possibility of an offsite meeting that is being arranged by attendees who had considered boycotting the event due to recent anti-LGBT legislation but felt a better idea might be to host an open discussion of inclusiveness and diversity. An editathon might be a good complement. I had seen

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Follow the Wikimedia LGBT user group on Twitter at @wikilgbt for news, photos, and other topics of interest to LGBT Wikipedans and allies. Use #wikiLGBT to share any Wiki Loves Pride stuff that you would like to share (whether this month or any day of the year) or to alert folks to things that the

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Hi Tdempsey, I am organizing a mini editathon as part of the Information Architecture Summit to be held May 4-8 at the Atlanta Omni Hotel. One of the hosting organizations, the Information Architecture Institute (iainstitute.org) is doing a special working session at the Center for Civil and Human

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for more information. If you are interested, you might consider creating a page for a major city (or cities!) near you, with a list of LGBT-related articles that need to be created or improved. This would be a tremendous help to Knowledge (XXG) and coverage of LGBT culture and history. Thanks for

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At the international level, I have joined efforts at the United Nations to decriminalize homosexuality around the world. Here at home, I continue to support measures to bring the full spectrum of equal rights to LGBT Americans. These measures include enhancing hate crimes laws, supporting civil

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has nearly 1,000 Wikipedian subscribers and arguably many of those folks actually read it. It came about rather quickly and my worst fears - that it was an elaborate hoax by a troll - were apparently unfounded. I hope y'all feel I did fine by the project, I did my best to avoid the phrase

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There are many well-respected LGBT leaders in all professional fields, including the arts and business communities. n both the White House and the Federal agencies -- openly LGBT employees are doing their jobs with distinction and professionalism.

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for a great Minnesota Wiki Loves Pride page. I modeled the Atlanta page after it. I was wondering if you had any training materials for workshops. I plan to do two - June for the traditional month and October for Atlanta's Pride. Cheers!

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It's a featured article hitting the mainpage this Sunday to mark the 40th anniversary of the events. So first off, wow! Clever and cool. Moni3 has been recently named hottest delegate to Obama's bookclub but that may not be official yet.

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Thanks for adding your name as a supporter/participant and updating the Wiki Loves Pride 2015 page. If you are organizing an event in Atlanta, will you be creating a Knowledge (XXG) meetup page for the event? Not required, just curious.

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need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Knowledge (XXG), plain and simple, and all are welcome! If you have any questions, please

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located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you!

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I appreciate the tip. I am trying to get much more involved with Knowledge (XXG) and the LGBT category - and I was trying to figure out some of the finer points of categorizing. Let me know how I can be better in this

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need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Knowledge (XXG), plain and simple, and all are welcome!

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at all. I think it's just a way for Wikipedians who consider themselves lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transsexual to identify themselves as such; it's no different from the categories of Wikipedians by

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I would also like to see other towns and cities in Georgia or the area get involved. Pensacola has a huge history but doesn't have the infrastructure to facilitate this project. Spread the word.

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June 2009 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month, citing the riots as a reason to "commit to achieving equal justice under law for LGBT Americans". Excerpts at the bottom.

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and would hope you use both tags. I'm not for being so separate since there is much overlap in all the communities. Of course, there is specific information to communities, too.

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The text in question is "Brand Statement & Mission Statement" from the Gulf Coast TIDE website. I am a board member of GCT and have permission to use the text and logo.

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I just noticed that you added both LGBT-stub and activist-stub to the Joe Solmonese article yesterday and I wished to make you aware that there is a recently created stub

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Why? Why do we all have to belong to the same category? I have nothing in common with transsexuals and little in common with lesbians and bisexuals. It's like grouping

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where copyright violations go to die, I thought I'd appeal to you first to see if you wanted to fix it up and make it a bit more original. Let me know here or on the

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LGBT youth should feel safe to learn without the fear of harassment, and LGBT families and seniors should be allowed to live their lives with dignity and respect.

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scheme; you should only use a pipe followed by a space when you're applying the category to the absolute topmost defines-what-the-category-is article. So for

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where I've copied this same comment. This is somebody I've never heard of, but I'd be interested in helping if you wanted. But I'll wait to hear from you.

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Hi Tdempsey. I'm excited about your Atlanta Edit-a-Thon. Have you nailed down a venue/time or will you be organizing remotely? Feel free to email me at

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Otto4711 mentioned that gee we really should swamp the DYK section with LGBT-related articles for use on the 28th as well. We have eight or so in the

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