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[edit] LGBT Studies invitation
I've been thinking that the LGBT community on Wikipedia is pretty .. uninvolved. At least, from my perusing of the LGBT Studies page and the LGBT Notice Board page, there's been relatively little action lately.
So my thought was to find users that identify as LGBT through looking at:
- people that have included MiraLuka's Gay Userbox
- people that have included one of the other templates in MiraLuka's list
- people that have included themselves as members of Gay Wikipedians
- any other ways I'm missing?
With that list in hand, I was thinking of coming up with an "invitation box" - a template sort of thing that would be fairly generic, with it's main purpose being to alert the user of the existence LGBT Studies page and to invite them to participate in the activities there.
As someone who has (fairly) recently been active in the project, or the LGBT Notice Board, I thought I'd solicit your advice in the creation of said invitation. Any input?
[edit] Potential Invitation Box
 Hi SatyrTN! You may not know that Wikipedia has both an LGBT Notice Board and an LGBT Studies WikiProject. If you haven't yet done so, take a look at both of them. They sorely need attention and participation! Some things on the "To-Do List" that merit particular attention include:
Please feel free to participate in any or all of these activities! |
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| Glad you're a part of Wikipedia - and Thanks! | This invitation posted here by SatyrTN (talk | contribs) |
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[edit] Discussion / Input
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- Thanks for the invitation. However, I do not know that receiving that particular invitation box is the best way to engage people. I responded now because of the apparently personal nature of your message. But the box would have not have had the same effect. Maybe it's just me. Anyway, I appreciate your concern - this is certainly an area that could use more attention since even when information is compiled it has a tendency to erode if not monitored. Haiduc 01:55, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
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- I put the same question on 10 people's talk pages - those who had most recently made changes to the LGBT Noticeboard or to the WikiProject LGBT Studies page.
- Do you think a more personal version of the above would be better? Maybe putting their name at the top? Or the specific link for where I found their name?
- I guess my goal is to get the WikiProject LGBT Studies community more active in the LGBT pages. For instance, (as you know) we've recently gotten an InfoBox together. I'm pretty sure, though, it hasn't propogated out to the pages in Wikipedia - a quick look shows 18 pages have it transcluded, while Google shows that 127,000 pages on Wikipedia have one or more of the words "gay", "queer", "lesbian", or "lgbt". Of course, some of those are talk or user pages. But still! -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs)
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- The problem with this approach is that it devolves responsibility onto a bunch of people busy with their own edits, and does not provide direction. It is too vague. If you really want to galvanize action I think you will need to select a particular topic, identify problems, and then call upon particular people to help resolve them. A goal-oriented mini-project kind of approach, with a definite beginning, middle and end. Tough. Perhaps the reason Wikipedia is so successful is that it lends itself so well to an individual, non-directed approach to the work, which also promotes a kind of natural democracy. Good luck, let me know if you need help with anything in particular. Haiduc 16:26, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
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- The idea is good, but the project is not limited to LGBT folks, I'd hate to give that impression. Davodd 03:57, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Current Status of Invitations
I've decided to go ahead and "send out" the invitations. For my own records, the current (29 August 2006) "membership" numbers are:
| Noticeboard Members | 71 |
| WikiProject Participants | 10 |
