Two hours bus guided tour of Montreal and Canada LGBT+ history, a tour exploring the struggles, triumphs, and transformative moments that have shaped the city and country’s queer history.

• Pick up at the hotel : 8:45

• Drop off at the venue : 10:45

Limited capacity -- Please register yourself here.

Welcoming to QW26

Wikipedia and Wikidata are the beating heart of data online, not only for large commercial projects, but also for small community knowledge projects. This talk introduces the Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada (LGLC) project, and our intersection with Wikipedia and Wikidata in our work to make archival information broadly available online (lglc.ca). The project features 34,000 records about gay liberation organizing in Canada, starting with the 1964 launch of the first liberationist homophile group in Canada through to the 1985 expansion of custody rights to include non-birth mothers, a key moment in lesbian organizing.

The talk will touch briefly on the Wikipedia Editathons we have held in the last decade to help share reliable information about queer history in Canada and the challenges we have faced adding information about Francophone and women’s activism to French and English Wikipedia.

It will then turn to the broader stakes of these additions, not just to Wikipedia but also to Wikidata, with an outline of the centrality of Wikidata URIs in the linked data efforts of queer and cultural history projects like the LGLC, The Transgender Media Portal, and Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural (LINCS).

In this quick talk, I will introduce a number of educational Wikipedia project that I have helped organize over the years. I have partnered with classroom instructor at my community college in running semester-long Wikipedia editing assignments, up until one that ended in early June. I have also worked with archivists of the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY on numberous GLAM projects designed to increase online visibility of archival holdings as well as introduce students to the process of archival research and most ambitiously, to involve them in establishing unwritten historical narratives that are crucial towards building a more inclusive public history of activism and our cities. The work was related to the archival LGBTQ+ collections that our Archives specializes in. [NOTE FOR ORGANIZERS: I am flexible about how I share this work. If a poster or panel or something else is needed for your program, just let me know.]

Drawing on the specific threat landscape facing queer and trans contributors, this interactive training will equip LGBTQ+ Wikimedians with the knowledge and practical tools to edit safely, protect their identities, and respond effectively when faced with online harm, especially harassment and doxxing attempts. Over the course of the hour the session will move from awareness to action. Participants leave with a clear understanding of how their current Wikimedia presence may expose them to risk, a concrete set of protective practices they can implement immediately, and more confidence in navigating on-wiki and off-wiki reporting pathways. The training is designed to be accessible to editors at all technical levels. We will focus on the following themes:

• Understanding the threat landscape
• Account and identity hygiene
• Device and network security
• Harassment response
• Community and structural protections (incl. UCOC, WMF escalation pathways)

In many of our smaller-language Wikipedias, keeping an infobox up to date can feel like a mountain to climb, especially when our circles of active editors are small but mighty. But what if we could shift that weight? The Wikidata 'Databox' offers a powerful way to breathe life into our articles by automatically weaving in structured data. From population shifts to the birthdays of our icons, we can pull data straight from Wikidata into a clean, beautiful sidebar. It is a powerful tool, created by the community, for the community. This workshop is a dedicated space for editors, admins, and technical dreamers of our small- and medium-sized language editions. We’re going to roll up our sleeves and move through the technical 'how-to' of deploying Databoxes and customising them to make them dance. More importantly, we’ll focus on the heart of the matter: localising labels so they speak in your native tongue. By the time we wrap up, contributors will have a way to ease the burden of manual maintenance. This is about freeing our communities to do what we do best: focusing on our storytelling and our heritage while letting Wikidata hold the facts and figures for us.

In this proposition my goal is to tell my experience and journey in Wikimedia projects from the beginning, in 2022, to now, focusing on my actions and edits in the LGBTQ+ theme. Considering myself as a Brazilian trans-woman, and editor of Wikipedia in Portuguese. I would like to generally present the 'More Theory of History on Wiki' Project (Projeto Mais Teoria da História na Wiki). A Brazilian public history initiative dedicated to expanding the debate on topics related to gender studies, sexuality, race, and the epistemologies of the Global South, that I participate and had been an intern, after contributing a long time as a volunteer. And I also would like to present all the initiatives that this project has made with the purpose of Queering Wikimedia, notably the events called More Diversity in Theory of History on Wiki (Mais Diversidade em Teoria da História na Wiki) and Wikipedia in terms of genres (Wikipédia em Chave de Gêneros). My goal is to share how I became an editor, my contributions, difficulties, and objectives, other than present a panorama of the theme in Brazil, and inspire ways of others LGBTQ+, especially trans women, to become Wikimedia contributors, and even future leaders.

Since 2024, Wiki Queer Camps have been organized in Massy at a local, feminist and queer-friendly library, by Léna with support from les sans pagEs.
In this presentation, we’d like to give you some elements about why these events are attracting a growing number of participants (from 8 people in 2024 to 11 in 2026), and how we are, through this events, caring for the local community in several aspects:

• being a safe space for queer contributors to discuss any topic,
• providing a timeframe to discuss Wikimedian aspects: how should this article be organised? should we split this one? which language is to be used for this specific case?
• helping contributors get access to quality sources: as part of the day, any contributor can choose and get one book from the library (no specific guidelines, but they’re often sources on feminists or queer topics),
• imagining together our next Wikimedian events,
• supporting our local library and small businesses: by buying them beverages, food, and books!

(last event even featured a wild Baby Globe!)

En 2023, la Maison MONA, un OSBL culturel, met en place une initiative de recherche-action sur les données ouvertes et liées dans le secteur de l’art public au Québec, en mettant l’accent sur certains groupes concernés par des enjeux d’équité influant directement sur leur représentativité dans l’espace numérique. Conscient·es des risques de réduction et de réification associés à l’activité prescriptive qu’est la création et la structuration de données, nous avons décidé de miser sur l’élaboration d’un processus d’auto-identification, et de collaborer avec une quarantaine d’artistes à la création de leur élément wikidata. Cette présentation revient sur cette expérience, les pistes qu’elle ouvre pour le renseignement de la diversité sexuelle et de genre sur Wikidata, notamment concernant des personnes vivantes, les enjeux et limites identifiés et les questions que nous aimerions soulever avec la communauté.

Bien que langue officielle au Canada, le français est minoritaire au pays. Ce sont seulement 22,0 % des canadiens qui ont le français comme première langue officielle parlée. Ainsi, les personnes queer francophones au Canada sont à l’intersection d'une minorité linguistique (comme francophone) et d'une minorité sociale (comme représentant de la communauté LGBT+).
Dans les projets Wikimédia, principalement Wikipédia, la représentation queer francophone au Canada est donc marquée par cette double marginalisation.

Cette courte présentation souhaite aborder les questions qui sous-tendent cet enjeux : Que se passe-t-il quand une communauté est minoritaire à la fois dans sa langue et dans sa visibilité sociale ? En quoi cette double minorité vient structurer aussi la manière dont le savoir est produit et diffusé? Et quelles pistes de solutions peut-on apporter?

The presentation explains the biggest challenges for publishing queer images, video, texts and audio on Commons. Living queer culture and history has limited presence in free publications before the 1970s and even with content creation programmes like Wiki Loves Pride, there are significant barriers to entry for how to manage complex copyright interpretation and how "educational value" is assessed by the Commons community.

Included will be examples of the most impactful projects and some of the most important queer community photographs and video that are impossible to release on Commons. Related analysis of the history of Commons file deletions and discussions will provide new evidence of whether Commons is countering anti-LGBTQ systemic bias or is a victim of it.

On English Wikipedia, featured articles are the highest-reviewed articles. Every day, one article is selected as "Today's Featured Article" which appears on the main page, garnering thousands of views. In this talk, we will discuss strategies for finding sources, formatting articles, copyediting in Wikiprose, tools and scripts that highlight article concerns (and how to fix them), and the Featured Article Candidates progress. The talk will also describe how to review featured article candidates and the featured article criteria. The speaker will outline how to maintain the article after promoted and how to nominate an article for Today's Featured Article. After the presentation and Q&A, editors can work with experienced FA editors for in-person feedback on how to improve their articles.

Get to know Wikimedia LGBT+ Board

Wikimanía 2027, to be held in Santiago, Chile, aims to be an event that brings together people from diverse backgrounds, and the LGBT community is no exception. Through a presentation outlining our plans for next year, we hope to highlight Santiago as a welcoming place for LGBT people and assure them that they will have the full support of the organizing team.

LGBTQI+ Wikimedians play an important role in strengthening LGBTQI+ movements, however, visibility, documentation and amplification are only part of the equation. Movements also need resources, relationships and people willing to use their access and privilege to open doors. This interactive participatory workshop will use all our knowledge and experience to explore how LGBTQI+ Wikimedians and allies can become more effective partners in resourcing LGBTQI+ organisations and movements, with a focus on supporting LGBTQ+ activists and community organizations in the Global South. Drawing on lessons from the Rustin Fund for Global Equality, UHAI EASHRI USA, we will examine how Wikimedians can identify potential funders/donors, make meaningful introductions, leverage professional and philanthropic networks, amplify locally led solutions, and challenge funding practices that concentrate decision-making and resources.

Speaker: Kent Klindera, Board Chair, Rustin Fund for Global Equality and Chief Philanthropy Officer, UHAI EASHRI US

During February 2026, Wikimedia LGBT+ and WikiAcción Perú launched “Carnivals of Diversity in Peru: Celebrating, Remembering, and Writing About Who We Are,” a collaborative campaign that sought to strengthen the memory, visibility, and representation of LGBTIQ+ individuals and communities in the country on Wikimedia’s free knowledge platforms.
Through virtual workshops, collective editing sessions, and an international campaign to edit and upload images, this initiative sought to celebrate our identities, remember the struggles and developments of LGBTIQ+ activism in Peru, and collectively document what has historically been overlooked on Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata.
The campaing was organized as the Monthly Challenge is an initiative of the LGBT WikiProject that aims to expand and improve LGBTIQ+ content in selected countries, and as part of the activities on the Gender program at WikiAcción Peru.

Barba is cute, we all know it, but unfortunately exists only on Commons and printed on tshirts… now, imagine a world with Barba plushies of every color, every pride flag represented?

This poster wants to describe all the steps to build your own: choose the colors, the right materials, maybe decide to add some accessories? Then head to Commons to have a look at the PDF pattern, or watch videos of the different stitches, and go forward with your customized Barba.

I plan to make and bring at least one plushie as an example of how it could look like, and provide explanations on how to adapt the pattern to all the different flags and colors that Barba comes in!

Las identidades queer, trans y no binarias se caracterizan por la multiplicidad, el movimiento y la resistencia a las estructuras rígidas. Sin embargo, los entornos digitales y los sistemas de identidad institucional a menudo imponen uniformidad. Este póster presenta una exploración metodológica sobre cómo el diseño visual y la tipografía pueden actuar como herramientas políticas y pedagógicas para representar la diversidad en el movimiento Wikimedia.
A través de la experiencia en el desarrollo de identidades visuales para proyectos de activismo digital y datos con perspectiva de género, se analiza cómo la elección morfologica (como el uso intencional de anchos y variables diversas como metáfora de cuerpos y saberes múltiples) y la construcción de sistemas gráficos abiertos pueden hackear la hegemonía visual. El objetivo es proponer un marco de diseño ético, colectivo y transfeminista que amplíe la representación de las comunidades LGBT+ en Wikimedia Commons y plataformas asociadas, como en el uso y el registro de fotografías libres.

This session will develop an understanding of the challenges facing Arabic Wikipedia, and use the findings of the study to reflect on the bias and marginalization affecting Arab issues, arts, and literature.

With 5 years experience of managing Wikimedia LGBTQIA groups on Telegram, along with sharing the same reports on X and mastodon, what have we learned for designing safer groups for vulnerable communities?

The presentation covers the strategy for separating public and private groups, avoiding compromizing member data, vetting, use of standard and custom bots including rejected bot tools. It briefly compares with Signal, Discord and Matrix platforms and highlights the most significant risks for Telegram users.

According to the “Rainbow Map” ranking proposed by ILGA Europe, Poland ranks near the bottom of the list of LGBTQ+-friendly European countries (especially if one takes the European Union countries under consideration). In my presentation, I will briefly discuss the situation of members of the Polish queer community over the years, highlighting the historical and social context of the current state of affairs.

In the second part of my talk, I will explain how non-heteronormative people and allies are currently organizing themselves on the Polish-language Wikipedia, the current state of the articles on this topic, and the steps taken by the Wikimedia Polska Association to ensure that queer people feel comfortable and welcome at the events we organize.

In the end, I will explore whether the Polish-language Wikipedia is, or could become, a space where the LGBTQ+ community is actively engaged, and whether the articles developed as part of the LGBT WikiProject serve as, or may become, an educational tool for both educators and individuals seeking to expand their knowledge. I will consider what needs to happen to support and accelerate such efforts, outline the opportunities and challenges, and discuss the Polish affiliate’s planned activities for the near future.

In this presentation I show my personal journey of being a queer person interested in LGBT+ history in Poland, how I learned there were no resources in English concerning this topic and even Polish language resources were obscured from me, and came to rebuild the "LGBTQ history in Poland" article on enwiki, as well as curate several biographies of Polish LGBT+ historical figures. I will discuss it using the philosophical framework of epistemic injustice, and analyze language-bound and cultural differences affecting local Wikipedias (answering the "why not plwiki?" question). I will also share some "more practical" insights on making a niche topic less "orphaned" and more "embedded and accessible" in the interlinked wikipedia (and Wikidata+Commons) sphere.

Wikipedia projects are reasonably good at documenting the medical aspects of HIV and AIDS, but we do a much poorer job at documenting the social history — especially that of the Early AIDS Crisis — in the Global North as well as in Global Majority countries. Our articles about HIV and the AIDS pandemic are almost universally out of date and a large number of important individuals are absent from Wikipedia.

This session proposes a conversation between a handful of wikimedians interested in the HIV/AIDS Crisis from different geographic and linguistic communities to discuss how we can improve Wikimedia projects' coverage of this global pandemic we are still living through.

This presentation examines how Wikipedia’s editorial decision-making processes shape the visibility, discoverability and retrievability of gender-diverse identities. Based on our article “Editorial decision-making on Wikipedia: an analysis of gender bias and its impact on discoverability and information retrieval”, the session focuses on deliberation and voting processes in the Catalan, Italian and French Wikipedias concerning three issues: gender-based categories, inclusive language and the use of trans people’s dead names in biographical articles.
The study analyses nine decision-making processes conducted between 2014-2024. These debates addressed the inclusion or rejection of categories such as “women” and “non-binary people”, the use of inclusive language in Italian Wikipedia, and the treatment of birth names or dead names in biographies of trans people in French Wikipedia. The findings show that resistance to gender diversity is often justified through appeals to neutrality, community norms and existing policies, while arguments in favour of inclusion rely on ethical considerations, practical reasoning and precedents.
The presentation argues that Wikipedia’s gender gap is also infrastructural: categories, authority control, naming practices and language policies determine what can be searched, retrieved and recognized. It invites discussion on how Wikimedia communities can rethink metadata and editorial governance to support more inclusive knowledge organization.

You can use this space and time slot to propose a brief session—10 minutes—on a topic of your interest, in an open and collaborative manner. This is expected to be a space self-managed by the participants.

Puedes usar este espacio y horario para proponer una sesión breve -- 10 minutos -- del tema de tu interés, de manera abierta y colaborativa. Se espera que sea un espacio autogestionado por los participantes.

Vous pouvez profiter de cet espace et de ce créneau horaire pour proposer une brève session (10 minutes) sur un sujet qui vous intéresse, dans un esprit d'ouverture et de collaboration. Cet espace est censé être autogéré par les participants.

Many queer contributors join Wikimedia through a single editathon and then drift away. We rarely ask them directly what would have kept them editing, or what it would take to grow from a first edit into an organizer or leader. This session turns that question into a collective design exercise. Rather than presenting a finished training program, it gathers the lived experience in the room. Participants share, on sticky notes and in small groups, what helped them keep contributing, what stopped them, and what support they wish had existed at each stage. We cluster those ideas to sketch the rough shape of a learning pathway for queer Wikimedians, from newcomer to topic expert to community organizer. The session is part of the early Wikimedia LGBT+ Learning and Development effort, and what participants generate will feed directly into a future course and a set of reusable tools on sustaining queer editing communities. It is open to every level and designed to work across English, Spanish, and French. No prior editing experience is needed.

For years, the people behind the Wikiproyecto LGBT+ on the Spanish Wikipedia have lovingly built and cared for thousands of articles on LGBT+ history, people and culture, and yet so much of that work stayed invisible. Over the past months I set out to change that, rebuilding the project's website into a living dashboard where our community can finally see, share, and take pride in everything it has created together.

In this talk I'd love to share the results of that journey with you. The site now follows our articles month by month and year by year, lets anyone explore the full catalogue of tracked pages, and shows each editor the LGBT+ articles they personally helped bring into the world. It celebrates recent and notable entries, gathers photographs from our Commons campaigns, and maps (literally) and shines a light on our monthly Evento del Mes.

Mostly, though, I want to talk about why this matters: how seeing our own numbers lifts the people behind them, sparks new contributions, and points us toward the gaps still waiting to be filled.

How can Wikimedia projects become more than repositories of knowledge? Can they also inspire playful, engaging ways of discovering marginalized histories?

FrancAutrices is a collaborative initiative led by Wiki in Africa and Les sans pagEs that takes an unusual approach to reducing representation gaps and builds on editorial initiatives (in particular the SheSaid campaign and La Quinzaine des Autrices). The project's primary goal is the creation of an educational card game celebrating francophone women writers. Wikiquote content supports the game's content. The game was created in 2026 and revealed during Wikimania Paris.

This presentation will explore how designing a game transforms the way contributors think about knowledge production. It encourages collaboration across countries, languages or institutions, creates new incentives for documenting overlooked authors, and produces open knowledge (on Wikiquote) alongside an engaging educational resource (the cultural object, aka “the game”)

Although FrancAutrices focuses on women writers, the methodology is relevant for queer knowledge. By examining our model, participants might consider how similar approaches could be adapted to create differents card sets or different games.

This session proposes a different way of imagining Wikimedia's role: as the foundation for creative cultural experiences that extend beyond the screen while enriching the commons.

Wikipedia editors are not always receptive to the idea of events such as Wiki Loves Pride. Whatever the reason, we should prevail and keep talking about queer topics, even if it means renaming or reframing the events. In this discussion, I'd like to ask several participants about their experiences, both good and bad, in regards with organizing queer events within the Wikimedia movement.

This presentation offers a longitudinal and intersectional analysis of biographical visibility on the French Wikipedia front page between 2014 and 2024. Rather than treating the front page as a neutral entry point, the study approaches it as a powerful interface that allocates attention and shapes symbolic recognition in the Francophone knowledge ecosystem.
The research analyses 4,606 biographical entries featured over a ten-year period. Findings reveal a strong gender imbalance: men account for 84.35% of featured biographies, while women represent only 15.50%. Gender-diverse identities are almost absent, with trans women accounting for 0.07%, non-binary people for 0.04%, and other gender identities for 0.04%.
The study also examines how gender intersects with historical period, geography, occupation, language, ethnicity and religion. Featured biographies are concentrated in the Contemporary Age and dominated by France, Europe and North America, while African countries and communities remain marginally represented despite their central role in the French-speaking world. Occupational visibility is also unequal, privileging professions associated with political power, cultural authority and public exposure.
The session argues that interface-level curation, metadata structures and editorial routines jointly shape whose lives become publicly visible, and discusses strategies for more equitable front-page governance.

This presentation will showcase Wikimedia Serbia's efforts so far to organize Wiki Loves Pride events, that aim to:
- cover local pride events by taking photographs
- write LGBTQIA+ content on Wikipedia\, by partnering with local queer institutions and organizing editathons
- motivate the local community to contribute LGBTQIA+ related content on Wikimedia projects through organized drives

L'un des obstacles les plus persistants à la représentation queer sur Wikimedia n'est pas le manque de volonté de contribuer : c'est le manque de sources secondaires acceptées. Les principes fondateurs actuels de Wikipédia exigent des sources publiées, vérifiables et indépendantes. Or, les médias traditionnels ont historiquement ignoré, caricaturé ou effacé les communautés queer, en particulier les communautés francophones, racisées, autochtones ou rurales. Les archives communautaires, les témoignages oraux, les zines, les bulletins d'associations et les fonds d'archives non numérisés existent, mais ils ne répondent pas aux critères actuels de création de contenus. Le résultat est paradoxal : plus une communauté a été marginalisée, moins elle a de chances d'être documentée sur Wikimedia - peu importe l’intérêt ou la volonté des contributrices et contributeurs. Les normes censées garantir la fiabilité de l'encyclopédie deviennent, en pratique, un mécanisme de reproduction de l'effacement. Cette séance stratégique propose de s'attaquer directement à ce problème, de façon collective et pragmatique. Plutôt que de contourner les règles ou de baisser les bras, comment pouvons-nous agir sur les règles elles-mêmes, ou construire des outils qui permettent de travailler avec ce qui existe ?

• Important: les ateliers ont une capacité d'accueil limitée à 30 personnes, dans l'ordre d'arrivée.

Wikimedia has developed its own distinctive way of communication. This includes, cooperation, conflict handling, events etc. The Wiki way of communication has genuine strengths, but also genuine costs. On one hand, Wikimedia may prove to be a safe harbor for people who otherwise don't fit into society, on the other, it may be a place in which ostracisation takes place in its own way. Wikimedia is not a monolith, experiences within it vary widely. Gender, sexual identity, and, neurodiversity, all play a role in these experiences, and these experiences intersect. This session brings together different perspectives to examine where the current system falls short, especially for contributors whose experiences sit outside the usual frame.

Wiki Loves Pride (WLP) began in 2014 as a series of small events organized in different cities with the modest goal of improving LGBTQ+-related content across Wikimedia projects. Since then, it has grown into one of the Wikimedia movement’s most recognized global campaigns, regularly featured in the press, encompassing multilingual editing drives, photo contests, prizes, in-person events, presentations and many other activities organized or supported by numerous Wikimedia affiliates.

In this session, we will look back at the history of Wiki Loves Pride and reflect on what the campaign has achieved over the past twelve years, with a particular focus on the results of the 2026 edition, which became the most successful edition in the campaign's history. We will also look ahead to discuss what comes next: our goals for the coming years, the challenges and opportunities facing the campaign, and how we plan to engage even more communities, contributors and languages around the world.

In this session, we will take a look at Wikimedia LGBT+’s strategic guidelines for the coming years. The aim is to share with the community the work carried out by Wikimedia LGBT+ in drawing up its strategic plan, as well as the programmes that stem from it. It will also serve as an invitation to the community to get involved in the organisation’s future initiatives.

AI systems aren’t inherently neutral but where do their assumptions about queer people come from in the first place? What happens when queer identities, histories and experiences are missing or misrepresented in the knowledge these systems learn from?

This presentation dives into the intersection of AI development and Human Resources, presenting key findings from QueerTech’s research initiative. Our data reveals significant gaps, noting that many developers struggle with bias mitigation, citing barriers ranging from institutional indifference to outright prejudice concerning non-binary representation.

Building inclusive AI isn’t only about what happens when AI is developed or deployed, it also starts with whose knowledge and experiences are represented in the first place. We therefore discuss the urgent need for systemic accountability, from initial design to corporate adoption, and introduce our efforts to guide Canada toward a truly equitable digital future through QueerTech’s Inclusive AI Initiative.

How do we maintain dialogue despite different viewpoints? How do we communicate clearly and precisely without losing connection, even when we disagree? This workshop offers practical tools from Nonviolent Communication (NVC) to consciously shape conversations: active listening, clear communication, constructive engagement with emotions. We practice concretely – with real situations you bring. The goal is to enable dialogue instead of confrontation through debate. Because "words can be windows or walls" (Marshall B. Rosenberg). For everyone working in complex or difficult community spaces who wants to remain effective and connected.

• Please note: the workshops have a limited capacity of up to 30 people, on a first-come, first-served basis.

• Importante: los talleres tienen una capacidad limitada hasta 30 personas, según orden de llegada.

• Important : les ateliers ont une capacité d'accueil limitée à 30 personnes, dans l'ordre d'arrivée.

Do you want to gather Wikipedians for events? Do you want to encourage new Wikimedians in your city? Do you want the Wikimedia Foundation to pay for cake? This presentation will outline how WikiClub Toronto went from a club that went dormant from COVID-19 to a thriving community. We will showcase possible events you can organise, how to get money, how to advertise your event to target Wikimedians in your city, and give time for editors to network with others in their city. Afterwards, we will break up into small groups so that Wikimedians can network with others in their area and brainstorm creating an event together.

There are few openly Queer people at the realm of leadership within the Wikimedia movement. These people are setting inspiration examples of what it means to lead. This session will be a discussion panel with four of such people. From leading a chapter to being on the board of WMF, how are queer leaders navigating the complex world of Wikimedia and what does it mean open to be open and leading.

What motivation do they have and what is the fate of curating queer content in the age of AI and what emerging trend are they seeing that might impact both positively and negative the queer content on the internet.

This promises to be interesting, challenging and inspiring.

Wikipedia is built to resist silencing—yet for LGBTQ+ people, and trans people especially, its core policies can inflict the opposite harm: forced visibility. Verifiability and notability rules can turn a single news mention into a permanent, searchable record of someone's sexuality or birth name, while the conflict-of-interest policy bars the very person most affected from correcting it. The subject's own testimony ranks below secondary sources—so the reporter who outed someone is deemed more authoritative about their identity than they are.

This talk argues that COI policy conflates two different things: a subject's stake in their achievements, where neutrality matters, and their epistemic authority over their own identity—name, gender, disclosure—which should never be treated as a conflict.

By examining how different language editions handle gender identity and biographies of living people, this talk asks how a system built to reveal might come to recognize a person's authority over when they are seen.

Je voudrais faire une présentation sur quelques personnalités LGBT+ parmi les plus célèbres des Pays catalans (la Catalogne, le Pays valencien, les îles Baléares, la Catalogne du Nord, etc.).

Le but de cet exposé serait, premièrement, de visibiliser une réalité linguistique peu connue internationalement, vu que la langue et la culture des Pays catalans ont été historiquement stigmatisées et même interdites, et leur projection internationale est presque nulle. Puis je voudrais présenter quelques figures clé de la communauté LGBT+ aux Pays catalans.

San Francisco, my home for over 20 years, is considered one of the most trans-friendly cities in the US. Since beginning my own gender transition in 2013, I have been documenting trans and nonbinary people and events in the San Francisco Bay Area through contributions to the English Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. In this presentation, I will share a selection of articles and photos I have worked on as part of my mission to improve the encyclopedia's representation of marginalized people.

Wikidata is structured, but the structure is very loose, which has its pros and cons. Systemic analyses of Wikidata and structured fixes sometimes cause concerns of making Wikidata rigid. Queer approaches to knowledge representation emphasize pluralistic and diversely expressive methods. There may seem to be a conflict between these two approaches, but I will argue that better formalisation will allow Wikidata to be more expressive, not less. Fixing issues in very high level structures, like class/instance mismatches, or bad subclass hierarchies, makes us much more able to represent info in detail, which allows for structured info to better reflect queer existence. Constraints in representing sexual orientation, gender, and other relevant concepts, can be very discriminatory if not done well, but in the case that they are done well, they are actually helpful in keeping data clean, and to include newcomers in knowledge representation efforts.

Many Wikimedia communities successfully attract participants through campaigns, edit-a-thons, and awareness events, but sustaining engagement beyond these activities remains a challenge. This is particularly important for communities working to improve LGBTQ+ representation on Wikimedia projects, where contributor retention, mentorship, and leadership development are essential for long-term impact.

Drawing on lessons from EduWiki Hub's work in mentorship, peer learning, community support, and capacity building, this session explores how Wikimedia communities can move beyond one-time participation and create pathways that support contributors throughout their journey. Rather than focusing solely on recruitment, the presentation examines how structured learning, mentoring relationships, resource sharing, and community networks can help contributors remain engaged and grow into community leaders.

Participants will explore practical approaches for designing more welcoming and sustainable contributor experiences, particularly for underrepresented communities. The session will invite discussion on how Wikimedia education models can support LGBTQ+ organizers, contributors, and user groups in building stronger communities, strengthening knowledge equity, and creating lasting participation beyond individual campaigns and events.

I have run a handful of editing events — especially since having had training from Wikimedia UK — and it's not scary and you can do it too. Yes you!

This paper introduces the Transgender Media Portal (TMP, https://www.transgendermediaportal.org/). Laura Horak, a Film Studies professor at Carleton University, started the project when she realized that many online LGBT film resources were very light on trans content, and often featured films that were not made by trans creators. The Transgender Media Portal, which has been live since 2024, is like a trans IMDB. It features almost 1700 films and television episodes from the early 1900s to the present day. There’s a rich and creative history of trans filmmaking in North America in every genre, and the TMP is the perfect place to find out about all the great trans-made films that are out there. 

The TMP technical team is starting to create linked data and are interested in exploring minting URIs in Wikidata and creating Wikidata pages about films listed in the site. We would be glad of the opportunity to present the project and ask after best practices for creating Wikidata entries for films of this kind, in ways that are both beneficial to the queer Wikimedia community and that foster understanding about the long history of trans-made filmmaking. 

La séance consistera en une réflexion sur les pratiques archivistiques alimentées depuis plus d'un an par des discussions entre collègues, avec d'autres centres d'archives de la diversité sexuelle et de genre et d'un projet numérique, Pièces sensibles, qui devrait paraître cette année. Les réflexions apportées tourneront autour de la description historique et du langage, de la réparation dans les exclusions du passé et finalement la diffusion des archives sensibles.

This talk will explore different ways for neurodivergent people to contribute to the Wikimedia ecosystem without having to write an entire article or translate one from scratch. From fixing typos, finding references or helping with categories and maintenance tasks, there are plenty of smaller ways to get involved and there's tools we can use to make our job easier. Contributing to Wikipedia doesn’t have to mean taking on a big, long-term project, it can also be a task we can do while we watch our favorite show.

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Speaker: Sam (User:Ceaseless Watcher)

Esta sesión hace un recorrido por los debates de la comunidad LGBT hispanoparlante para contrarrestar el deadnaming en Wikipedia en español, desde una perspectiva de intersección de derechos digitales en los últimos años.El objetivo es mostrar cómo los marcos legislativos les permiten a los editores defender la identidad de género y los derechos de la comunidad trans-travesti en eswiki. --- This session explores the debates within the Spanish-speaking LGBT community aimed at combating deadnaming on the Spanish Wikipedia, from the perspective of the intersection of digital rights in recent years. The aim is to show how legislative frameworks enable editors to defend the gender identity and rights of the trans and drag community on eswiki.

You can use this space and time slot to propose a brief session—10 minutes—on a topic of your interest, in an open and collaborative manner. This is expected to be a space self-managed by the participants.

Puedes usar este espacio y horario para proponer una sesión breve -- 10 minutos -- del tema de tu interés, de manera abierta y colaborativa. Se espera que sea un espacio autogestionado por los participantes.

Vous pouvez profiter de cet espace et de ce créneau horaire pour proposer une brève session (10 minutes) sur un sujet qui vous intéresse, dans un esprit d'ouverture et de collaboration. Cet espace est censé être autogéré par les participants.

On English Wikipedia, writing about a non-binary person can be as simple as choosing "they." In Czech it cannot. Czech grammar marks gender on verbs, adjectives, participles, and even on the form of a surname, so there is no single switch to flip, and the most portable English fix gets you only part of the way.

This talk follows three places where Czech Wikipedia has had to work gender out from scratch: the -ová suffix traditionally attached to women's surnames and whether to impose it on foreign names, how to decline the names of women who reject -ová, and how to write the biography of a non-binary person when the grammar forces a gendered choice in almost every sentence.
None of it is governed by a single settled rulebook. The conventions formed piecemeal, case by case, through RfCs, talk-page arguments, and the occasional edit war. The session is a case study in how a community working in a grammatically gendered language reinvents inclusive practice locally, and it speaks directly to anyone editing in Polish, German, Spanish, French, or any other gendered language.

In this session. the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees will give a brief introduction to what the Board does, discuss how the trustees' work both impacts and is shaped by communities. They will then open the floor for questions and discussion with the audience.

Although Irish holds official and national status in Ireland, it occupies a minoritised position, with relatively few active, habitual speakers alongside a broader base of passive competence shaped by language policy. Since the foundation of the Irish state (Republic of Ireland), terminology development has largely been undertaken by official bodies; however, systematic work on LGBTQ+ terminology has only emerged in recent years. The first part of this paper situates Irish within its sociolinguistic context and examines early, informal efforts to develop LGBTQ+ terminology. It also engages critically with ongoing discussions and the importance of sustained, reciprocal collaboration between grassroots communities and institutional authorities, such as the Irish-language Terminology Committee.

The second part focuses on the grassroots methodologies adopted by the Terminology Working Group of the queer arts collective AerachAiteachGaelach (‘GayQueerIrish’). These approaches are contrasted with more traditional top-down institutional models of term creation and dissemination. The paper outlines the group’s processes, including the creation of a tailored Irish-language corpus for term identification, community-wide consultation, and subsequent collaboration with the Terminology Committee to facilitate authoritative uptake and dissemination across the wider Irish-speaking community.

Over the years, LGBTQ content on the Spanish Wikipedia has rapidly increased and its community of queer editors has become one of the biggest and most active groups focused on these topics across Wikimedia projects. Most of this work has been driven by the Spanish LGBT WikiProject, whose members went from creating 7 new LGBT-related articles in 2017 to more than 1,000 new articles per year today. This talk presents the history of the Spanish LGBT WikiProject and explores how its members transformed it into the most successful Wikiproject on the Spanish Wikipedia. It explains the strategies applied to grow and sustain its community of editors, and, more crucially, it focuses on why they believe that queer content from the Global South belongs on Wikimedia projects, the importance of preserving queer collective memory, and how this vision continues to motivate the group's work.

Closing ceremony

QW26 is wrapping up with a party – of course it is! If you’d like to attend, you’ll need to register for the party on Pretix using this link: https://pretix.eu/wikimedia-events/QW2026/

Le QW26 se termine par une fête, bien sûr. Si tu souhaites y participer, tu dois t'inscrire à la fête sur Pretix, en utilisant ce lien : https://pretix.eu/wikimedia-events/QW2026/

QW26 cierra con una fiesta, claro que sí. Si quieres participar, debes inscribirte a la fiesta en Pretix, usando este enlace: https://pretix.eu/wikimedia-events/QW2026/